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| Profile type: | Museum/Exhibition Space |
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California Center for the Arts Museum |
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Meg (760) 839-4120 |
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As a proponent of the visual arts, the Center Museum strives to deepen the public’s understanding of the importance, depth, and breadth of the visual arts in the 21st Century. Focusing on the art of this region, coupled with internationally and nationally known artists, the Museum aims to integrate the visual arts into our daily lives through public programs, exhibitions, and educational outreach.
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As a proponent of the visual arts, the Center Museum strives to deepen the public’s understanding of the importance, depth, and breadth of the visual arts in the 21st Century. Focusing on the art of this region, coupled with internationally and nationally known artists, the Museum aims to integrate the visual arts into our daily lives through public programs, exhibitions, and educational outreach. On average, the Museum curates and presents 12 original and traveling exhibitions annually, which include thematic and historical shows, as well as solo artist and group exhibitions. The Museum is committed to make its holdings, exhibitions, and programs accessible and meaningful to its increasingly diverse audiences. Approximately 10,000 individuals visit the Museum every year.
The Museum has three main galleries and an outdoor sculpture court totaling approximately 10,000 square feet as well as secure collections storage and receiving areas, administrative offices, a Museum Store
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Tuesday - Saturday
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Sunday
Noon - 4:00 p.m.
Mondays
Closed
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From San Diego
Take I-15 north.
Exit at Valley Parkway and turn right.
Turn left on to Escondido Blvd.
The Center is 2 1/2 blocks down on the right.
From Coastal North County & Orange County
From I-5, take Highway 78 east.
Take I-15 south and exit at Valley Parkway and turn left.
Turn left on to Escondido Blvd.
The Center is 2 1/2 blocks down on the right.
From Riverside County
Take I-15 south.
Exit at Valley Parkway and turn left.
Turn left on to Escondido Blvd.
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Current:
March 1 – May 31, 2008
Conceived to promote and encourage dialogue, reflection, and social interaction about San Diego's artistic and cultural life, the exhibition, Innocence is Questionable, will celebrate the accomplishments of six renowned local artists: Jean Lowe, Ernest Silva, Raul Guererro, Iana Quesnell, May-Ling Martinez, and Yvonne Venegas, all recipients of the 06/07 San Diego Art Prize. By bringing awareness to the contemporary landscape and our place within it, each artist struggles with time and its impact on community, place, and the individual. By looking at historical precedents, mapping the physical environment and documenting the interconnectedness of all things, each artist explores one’s own history—how it’s constructed, where it begins and ends. Using the familiar, and sometimes the banal, to draw the viewer in, they make reference to the subtle complexities of an idealized image of the past in the face of the reality of the present. Ultimately, wh |
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