Lisa Deaderick

1 week ago | sandiegouniontribune.com | Lisa Deaderick

As a child, Bryttney-Mischele Salvant remembers dreaming, expressing herself, and feeling deeply, as plenty of children do. There’s another, more painful memory, that came along with that — being told “you’re too much.”“At first, I tried to shrink,” she says. “But I started to lose parts of myself in the process.

3 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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 month 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 month 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.