SAN DIEGO VISUAL ARTS NETWORK
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SDVisualArts.com
A data base of information produced to improve the clarity, accuracy and sophistication of discourse about San Diego's artistic and cultural life and which is dedicated to re-enforce the idea that the Visual Arts are a necessary and vital part of the health of our city.
Directory entry includes:
Name of Organization or Service
Location
Contact numbers (tel, fax, email, web site)
Mission statement or services offered to the community.
A small map of San Diego could divide the city into 6 districts to give a general idea of where the entries are located. The directory is available as a web site. Entries are made directly onto the site by those listed.
The categories for directory include:
Arts Societies/ Organization
Public Exhibition Spaces
Commercial Galleries
Art Education
Art Management and Promotion
Services and Suppliers
The Internet.
and THE ARTISTS (organized by medium and alphabetically
Other components of the web site include an events planning calendar, employment and volunteer opportunities, a gossip column called RAW and the SmART Collector feature.
An Ad Hoc committee was formed with Sandra Chanis , Daniel Foster, Patricia Frischer, Jane LaFazio and Elfred Lee. Soon they were joined by Ann Berchtold and Lisa Roche. The committee members are also members of prominent arts organizations of all types. They changes from month to month and meeting are always open to anyone who may want to contribute. The committee believes by using existing organizations, people and institution, not inventing new ones, the San Diego Visual Arts Network will:
A data base of information produced to improve the clarity, accuracy and sophistication of discourse about San Diego's artistic and cultural life and which is dedicated to re-enforce the idea that the Visual Arts are a necessary and vital part of the health of our city.
Directory entry includes:
Name of Organization or Service
Location
Contact numbers (tel, fax, email, web site)
Mission statement or services offered to the community.
A small map of San Diego could divide the city into 6 districts to give a general idea of where the entries are located. The directory is available as a web site. Entries are made directly onto the site by those listed.
The categories for directory include:
Arts Societies/ Organization
Public Exhibition Spaces
Commercial Galleries
Art Education
Art Management and Promotion
Services and Suppliers
The Internet.
and THE ARTISTS (organized by medium and alphabetically
Other components of the web site include an events planning calendar, employment and volunteer opportunities, a gossip column called RAW and the SmART Collector feature.
An Ad Hoc committee was formed with Sandra Chanis , Daniel Foster, Patricia Frischer, Jane LaFazio and Elfred Lee. Soon they were joined by Ann Berchtold and Lisa Roche. The committee members are also members of prominent arts organizations of all types. They changes from month to month and meeting are always open to anyone who may want to contribute. The committee believes by using existing organizations, people and institution, not inventing new ones, the San Diego Visual Arts Network will:
- Recognize and celebrate the existing accomplishments by ordering and identifying the visual arts.
- Facilitate cross-pollination between the cultural organizations to strengthen and invigorate the art scene.
- Bring the visual arts to a new audience - children and adult, business and family, state, country and world
- Promote a vision of the future of the role the visual arts can play in the San Diego community - lively, thriving, positive, empowered
- Create an infrastructure of spokespeople who have access to regularly collected information about visual arts organizations, activities and providers including a data bank for future analysis.
- The artist who would use it to get more information and services, who want others in the community to be directed to an organization to which they are members.
- The listed entries would use it to be made available to those who might want to join, attend or use their services.
- The new or newly interested citizen or corporation who wants to know what is happening in the Visual Arts in the city and who may be encouraged to fund the visual arts or use the services of the entries.
- National research programs like the Pew Charitable Trust who will need to start with this type of directory to do its research
- The Convention and Visitors Bureau and Commission for the Arts and Culture who are charged with promoting San Diego as a city of cultural richness.
PROJECT sOF SAN DIEGO VISUAL ARTS NETWORK INCLUDE:
- The San Diego Art Prize: Awarding excellence through Mentorship, Education, Recognition, Collaboration
- New Contemporaries: Emerging artists of excellence
- Movers and Shakers, who's who in the Visual Arts in SD
- Little and Large: jewelers making sculpture and sculptors making jewelry
- Art Meets Fashion: An Opportunity to Inspire
- Hats Off to Life: honoring senior members of our community by illustrating their stories with artists made hats
- The DNA of Creativity - Fusing the Energies of SD Arts and Sciences to promote understanding and news ways to view the world.
