Tag: Art

  • City Heights Is Still Waiting on That Art it Was Promised

    The transit Plaza on University Avenue in City Heights was never supposed to be so barren. | Photo Credit: Kinsee Morlan By Kinsee Morlan When Interstate 15 was extended through City Heights in the mid-1990s, it leveled homes and businesses and cut the community in half. Irate residents demanded concessions from the city and transportation…

  • Community Unveils Sculpture, Plans for Fairmount Avenue Arts Corridor

    By Brian Myers “Fairmount Corridor Arts Concept,” a study published last year by the City Heights Community Development Corporation, outlines potential art placement along Fairmount Avenue between El Cajon Boulevard and University Avenue to make the high-traffic area friendly to pedestrians. Last month, the plan became more of a reality when esidents celebrated the unveiling…

  • ‘Maletas Migrantes’ Exhibit Explores the Immigrant Experience

    Andurriales del corazón (The Detours of the Heart), 2012 by Bana Fernández Rolfi from “Maletas Migrantes,” an art exhibit on display at the New Americans Museum in Liberty Station from July 23 through Oct. 2, 2015. By Megan Burke and Maureen Cavanaugh On the surface, a simple suitcase may not seem to have much artistic…

  • Students to Display Themes of Sustainability, Education on Monroe Clark Art Wall

    Students at Monroe Clark Middle School are completing plans and raising money to paint a mural on their campus. | Photo Credit: Juan Carlos, The AjA Project By Julia Richardson The AjA Project’s PhotoCity program at Monroe Clark Middle School is in its third semester of programming. Over the past few semesters, PhotoCity students have…

  • Artist Declares War on Peace Vandals

    By Brian Myers April showers couldn’t keep artist Laurie Carlock inside while one of her community murals stayed vandalized. Earlier this week Carlock pulled painting supplies out of her car’s trunk, wiped the raindrops off the gunite wall on the northeast corner of Fairmount and Home avenues and started covering the vandal tags with her…