Local arts students and educators are invited to learn about Space 4 Art’s unique model of operation and contribute to a design workshop. Share input about what is needed to serve future generations in our large-scale, community-based Arts Center. Click here for more details and to register.
Watch this space in late April for more details about our upcoming art exhibition and related events.
Space 4 Art’s past, present, and future community members— individuals, institutions, and administrators engaged with the arts —are invited to help shape the conceptual and physical future of the S4A Arts Center. This charrette-style design workshop will be a brisk and engaging two hours, immediately followed by a networking reception with food, drink, and music. Click here for more details and to RSVP.
Mark your calendars for our first Open Studios of 2024: Saturday, March 23. Click here for more details, and check back for updates as the event approaches.
Our final Open Studios of 2023 will feature a guest performance by Malashock Dance and an onsite mini-gallery with art for sale.
Join us for some Halloween and Dia de los Muertos fun for our next Open Studios.
Join us for two book talks onsite in August!
Join us for extended hours on a Saturday at our next Open Studios event! Click photo for more details.
Come chat with artists, hear performances, and discuss how the "power of the penny" can make big change through collective action.
Join us for a special musical performance in the gallery on March 13th as we all contemplate The Possibility of Something Happening.
Celebrating Holi, the Hindu Festival of Colors, our event will feature lively dancing and appetizers, and, of course, our artists and musicians, too! Click on the picture for more details and to RSVP.
Please visit our art exhibition at Art Produce Gallery, 3139 University Ave., 92104, from March 3-April 15. Click the picture for more details.
Kick off your winter holiday festivities at Space 4 Art! Join us for Open Studios on Dec 9th 2022 @7pm for an evening filled with art, artists, performances, drinks, and tacos! RSVP today!
Performance Lineup
7:30 PM
Felix Diaz with Silvio Diaz and Abril Diaz
8:00 - 9:00 PM
Ariana Warren and Chris Warren
Jonathan Piper
Nick Lesley
9:00 PM
Preston Swirnoff performing a composition for piano by Sean Francis Conway
Food and Drink
Please come hungry! Taco Land food truck will be serving up a variety of Mexican food and nonalcoholic beverages. We are excited and grateful to announce that they will be donating 20% of the night’s sales to Space 4 Art!
We’ll have beer from Hess Brewing and S4A house-made margaritas available for a suggested donation.
COVID-19 Protocols
We are no longer requiring proof of vaccination; however, in keeping with CDC guidelines, we do ask that our unvaccinated guests mask and maintain social distance around others not from their household. Further, each artist will determine protocols for their own studio space, so please be prepared to wear a mask if asked. If you are experiencing Covid-19 symptoms or feeling under the weather, we ask that you stay home, and we will hope to see you at our next event.
Location and Parking
The entrance to Space 4 Art is located on 16th St, near J St, directly across from Goodwill. A staff member will be posted at the gate to let you in. We cannot offer parking onsite; however, there are several options nearby:
FRED (the free downtown shuttle!): https://www.ridecircuit.com/fred
East Village Paid Parking Lots: https://www.eastvillagesandiego.com/parking-transit
Public Transit: Our closest bus stop is located at Market & 16th (Routes 3,5)
Accessibility
Our warehouse studios are wheelchair accessible via our 16th Street entrance. Our live/work area can only be accessed via a flight of stairs. Please call the office if you need assistance.
Free Admission
Space 4 Art is proud to offer FREE entry to our events whenever possible. If you would like to partner with us in making the arts a “free for all,” please consider making a donation today.
Summer’s almost here, it’s Juneteenth weekend, we’re commemorating Pride all month, and Space 4 Art wants to celebrate with YOU! We invite you to embody your many intersecting identities, and we will do the same. Let’s honor and learn from one another’s experiences, told through the mediums of visual and performance art. Please RSVP to let us know you’re coming!
Performances
7:00 PM Felix Diaz (interactive drum circle)
7:45 PM Anjanaé Hassell (dance: Krump)
8:00 PM Sean Francis Conway’s duo, no know (sound band)
8:45 PM Anjanaé Hassell (dance: Krump)
9:00 PM Jonathan Piper (tuba)
COVID-19 Protocols
We are no longer requiring proof of vaccination; however, in keeping with CDC guidelines, we do ask that our unvaccinated guests mask and maintain social distance around others not from their household. Further, each artist will determine protocols for their own studio space, so please be prepared to wear a mask if asked. If you are experiencing Covid-19 symptoms or feeling under the weather, we ask that you stay home, and we will hope to see you at our next event.
Location and Parking
The entrance to Space 4 Art is located on 16th St, near J St, directly across from Goodwill. A staff member will be posted at the gate to let you in. We cannot offer parking onsite; however, there are several options nearby:
FRED (the free downtown shuttle!): https://www.ridecircuit.com/fred
East Village Paid Parking Lots: https://www.eastvillagesandiego.com/parking-transit
Public Transit: Our closest bus stop is located at Market & 16th (Routes 3,5)
Accessibility
Our warehouse studios are wheelchair accessible via our 16th Street entrance. Our live/work area can only be accessed via a flight of stairs. Please call the office if you need assistance.
Free Admission
Space 4 Art is proud to offer FREE entry to our events whenever possible. If you would like to partner with us in making the arts a “free for all,” please consider making a donation today.
RSVP to let us know you’re coming! Artists will be opening their studios to the public at 7 PM.
Performances
Ania Sundstrom with her trio Figmentum
Nick Lesley with his band Necking
Jonathan Piper
Chris Warren
Holi
March 18th also marks the celebration of Holi, the Indian festival that ushers in spring. People traditionally celebrate it as a day of spreading happiness and love, and color each other with different colored powders. We will be (lightly) coloring anyone who wants to participate!
COVID-19 Protocols
Proof of COVID-19 vaccination is required for entry. Please be prepared to wear a mask when asked. Each artist will determine the boundaries for their own studio space.
Location and Parking
We share the property with other tenants, so street parking is all we are able to offer. The entrance to Space 4 Art is located on 16th St, near J St, directly across from Goodwill. A staff member will be posted at the gate to let you in.
Free Admission
Space 4 Art is proud to offer FREE entry to our events whenever possible. If you would like to partner with us in making the arts accessible in this way, please consider making a donation today.
Photography
Space 4 Art has engaged a professional photographer for March Open Studios. By attending the event, you consent to be photographed, filmed and/or otherwise recorded and to any use, in any and all media throughout the universe in perpetuity, of your appearance, voice, and name for any purpose whatsoever in connection with Space 4 Art and/or the photographer.
Welcome Back! We’re excited to host our first Open Studios since the shutdown. Join us on December 3, 2021 from 6-9 PM and see what our artists have been up to during the long “together but apart” months since March, 2020. You can RSVP here.
Tonight at 8PM pacific, join a watch party for the Memorial Concert of Nina Leilani Deering featuring her last concert performed at Space4Art October 31st 2019 and filmed by resident artist Justin Morrison
From Nina's own program notes for the concert:
Nina "neenz beenz" Leilani Deering
Born in San Diego, she was a lady of many talents and interests. She is survived by her dearest friends, Notably Mariela Contreras, Natasha Kozaily, and Victoria Robertson ... and numerous others. Nina would also have thanked the big hearts of her beloved flat mates at Space4Art....
"Can you believe it!?" - Nina L. Deering
No, we cannot believe it Nina. We miss you and your generous and prodigious talent, your laughter and your humor. There will be an empty place here at Space4Art without you and, in your memory, we will endeavor to fill it with music and song. Thank you. Rest in Peace.
Nov 7, 1986 - Jun 11, 2020
Join us this coming Friday the 13th for our first Open Studios of 2020.
Featured performances of dance, music and installation will occur around the warehouse and live/work spaces and art studios will be open for you to browse works in progress.
We invite you to come out and see our work, our space, and talk about what we do! This is our last Open Studios for 2019. There will be special performances and new works to view along with drinks and local fare. Join us!
Street parking only. Enter through pedestrian gate.
Art night at the Studio of resident artist Brennan Hubbell will be held this Saturday dec 7 at 6 pm. All are invited. Family friendly. The intention is to make things together, build community, and to play with materials perhaps outside our comfort zone.
Dress up and bring your alter ego to our Halloween Party!!! Dance, Music & Fun.
SCHEDULE
7:00-9:00: Dance Party and Mingle, BYOB and Snacks
9:00-10:00: MAD'DAM Album Release House Concert
(Donation based)
10:00-11:00: Last chance to Boogie! ( DJ Justin and May-ling)
PARKING & ENTRANCE
Street parking Only.
Come through pedestrian gate!
Include Space4Art on your Second Saturdays art tour! Artists will be opening their studios and spontaneous music and dance performances will occur!
Doors at 7, music at 8pm. $5 donation to help the tourists!
SULT (oslo/oakland)
Sult explores the hidden sounds of acoustic instruments, magnifying them with microphones so the audience can join them inside their silent cacophony.
https://sult.bandcamp.com/
A HUNDRED GHOSTS (sd)
Chris Warren is a sound designer, composer, installation artist, and signal processing researcher.
http://www.alloyelectric.com/music/
KEVIN SCHWENKLER + NICK LESLEY (sd)
electronics, voice, percussion
https://k-a-s-music.tumblr.com/
http://www.nicklesley.com/
ITS LIKE AN OPEN MIC, BUT MORE PHYSICAL!
We got the space, you bring the show.
Come show a work in progress, an improvisation, try out an idea or score.
Sign Ups and Reception 6pm
Show 7pm
Dance Party 8pm
Vol 3: We will be featuring a wonderful line up of performance artists from San Diego CA and Tijuana MX
ITS LIKE AN OPEN MIC, BUT MORE PHYSICAL!
We got the space, you bring the show.
Come show a work in progress, an improvisation, try out an idea or score.
Sign Ups and Reception 6pm
Show 7pm
Dance Party 8pm
Vol 2: We will be featuring a wonderful line up of performance artists from San Diego CA and Tijuana MX.
UCSD’s annual Music and Performance Springfest joins forces with San Diego-based performing artists for an evening of music, dance, theater and socializing.
ITS LIKE AN OPEN MIC, BUT MORE PHYSICAL!
We got the space, you bring the show.
Come show a work in progress, an improvisation, try out an idea or score.
Sign Ups and Reception 6pm
Show 7pm
Dance Party 8pm
Ten years in the making and scrupulously planned to provide the greatest possible benefit to artists and our San Diego community at large, the Space4Art team will share the architectural renderings, timelines, and funding updates that will help us realize the ambitious goal of building a 35,000 square-foot arts and culture center with 80+ below market rate artist's spaces in the heart of Sherman Heights.
Join us to share your feedback on our plans, meet your local arts community peers, and help us to make this vision a reality.
Light refreshments will be served. Street parking is available but incredibly limited, consider public transport or rideshare services if they are available.
Questions? Email us (sdspace4art@gmail.com) or call (619.269.7230).
Join us at Space 4 Art’s Open Studios event Saturday, December 8,2018 6-9PM
340 16th St. San Diego, CA 92101
There will be art, music, a food truck and cash bar!
For Giving Tuesday, Sparks Gallery will bring a cross-section of voices who represent a multiplicity of experiences together for a panel discussion on the subject of perseverance in San Diego’s arts & culture community. Led by Kinsee Morlan, newly appointed as Podcast Producer at KPBS and most recently the arts & culture and engagement editor at Voice of San Diego, leaders from unique disciplines will come together to share their insights in a wide ranging conversation.
Sparks Gallery owner & curator Sonya Sparks will host as well as participate in the panel. Sonya will be joined by Lynn Susholz, citizen artist and Executive Director of Art Produce, Jennifer de Poyen Executive Director of Space 4 Art, and Curator Jill Dawsey from the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.
Each panel participant represents organizations at important inflection points — the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego with their in-progress expansion, Sparks Gallery on the precipice of celebrating its fourth year, Lynn Susholz as she strives to pilot a new public arts initiative in North Park, and Space 4 Art as they fundraise to build their future home.
Panelists will share how they are all moving forward — collectively and independently — and what the future can hold for the arts in San Diego, resulting in a sharing of ideas that will empower people to feel a sense of agency in leading the arts and culture community forward.
Beyond the Age of Reason features artists who contemplate how faith meshes with contemporary life, the role of ritual and symbolism, and the metamorphosis of traditional symbols as they become immersed in popular culture. Using materials and principles of design that place them firmly in the world of contemporary art, this show incorporates both traditional media and modern technologies.
This exhibition is multicultural and addresses many faiths, as seen through the filter of artists who pose questions, make comparisons, find commonalities, challenge customs and encourage discussion. Some viewers may find parts of these works irreverent, but the presence of religious iconography in contemporary art indicates that questions of faith are still relevant. Throughout history, artists and their images have played an integral part in shaping religion and religious leaders have found power in pictures, often commissioning artists to create works to validate or nullify beliefs. Beyond the Age of Reason acknowledges these historical underpinnings of faith-based iconography as the exhibition’s individual artists put this iconography through its full range of plastic possibilities.
Curated by Debby and Larry Kline
Artists include:
Eleanor Antin, Wayne Martin Belger, Adam Belt, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Einar de la Torre, Jamex de la Torre, Stephen Douglas, Steve Eilenberg, Scott Froschauer, Dave Ghilarducci, Cole Goodwin, Ichiro Irie, Beliz Iristay, Paula Levine, Maria Munroe, Cheryl Nickel, Sean Noyce, Ruben Ochoa, Erika Rothenberg, and Kristine Schomaker.
