Lisa Deaderick

4 days ago | sandiegouniontribune.com | Lisa Deaderick

In “We the People, Sing Our Song,” an art project/“talking comic book” created by Neil Kendricks that explores the concept of democracy through voting and civic participation, the hardest part was finding people who were willing to participate. “Early in the project’s development, I cast a wide net and approached high schools, distributed flyers at local events, and spoke to local grassroots organizations, along with posting information on social media. Sadly, I barely got any responses,” he says.

5 days ago | sandiegouniontribune.com | Lisa Deaderick

Her mom was diligent about keeping a very young Kaley McCabe supplied with computer paper. The budding artist would spend hours during her childhood making up stories and fashioning them into books she stapled together and created construction paper book covers for them. “My parents always encouraged my drawings: My mom is an elementary school teacher, and she has a massive collection of children’s books.

1 week ago | sandiegouniontribune.com | Lisa Deaderick

“Lineage + Inheritance,” an exhibition of new artwork by four, Black visual artists based in San Diego, serves as a kind of dialogue between members of different generations and their perspectives on what life is like right now for Black people. These four artists — Domonique King, Jean Cornwell Wheat, Mensah Bey, and Andrea Rushing — work in media ranging from oil on canvas or hand-embellished acrylic prints on paper, to acrylic on board or wood, metal, yarn, and textiles.

1 week ago | sandiegouniontribune.com | Lisa Deaderick

Before Kevin Hosseini was introduced to painting when he was 9 years old, things like emotional expression and mental focus were more challenging. Once he got a chance to create art, he says he felt happy. In school, he had trouble paying attention in class, but when he painted, he was able to pay attention and could keep painting for a long time. Hosseini was diagnosed with autism when he was 3 years old.

2 weeks ago | sandiegouniontribune.com | Lisa Deaderick

A question posed by another researcher really struck Caroline Collins in her work on the way the public thinks about and remembers the American West: “Where else can blackness imagine itself besides the Atlantic?”“I was interested in not just how we imagine our relationship to the Pacific in the future, but in order to do that, helping folks realize that we do have this really long history of interacting with the Pacific.