Tag: Art

  • City Heights Square Mini Park Opens

    A new mini-park designed for adults opened in City Heights, with plenty of open space and public art. | Video Credit: Nicholas McVicker By Dwane Brown A new mini-park opened today in City Heights — a neighborhood where green space and recreation areas are in short supply. The 5,300-square-foot park is located on 43rd Street…

  • National Endowment for the Arts Awards Grant to The AJA Project

    Asha, 17, took this photo during an AjA Project class. The AjA Project helps refugees like Asha and other youth explore their identities and communities through photography. By Julia Richardson City Heights nonprofit The AjA Project was recommended by the National Endowment for the Arts to receive funding for its PhotoCity program. The NEA awarded…

  • story+LINES: Tracing San Diego’s Collective Journey Through Art

    Photo transfer portraits will be used to construct a satellite-like sculpture. The piece will “project the community’s voices into the world.” By Julia Richardson As The AjA Project team unloaded square panels of wood, acrylic medium, tables and brushes from a parked SUV and began to set-up shop at the City Heights Farmers Market on…

  • The AjA Project Plans Day of Storytelling

    The AjA Project has provided photography-based educational programming to youth affected by war and displacement since 2000 in City Heights. Program participants think critically about their identities, develop leadership skills and become agents of personal and social transformation. | Photo Credit: Asha, 17, Kenya By Alicia Marvan When was the last time you took a…

  • ‘Rites of Passage’ Exhibit Features Artifacts From Local Refugees

    Some regions of Somalia celebrate the Shaash Saar, or scarf ceremony. Seven days after the wedding, a Somali bride will attend a big gathering of women who each bring a shaash and, one by one, place it on the bride’s head. | Photo Credit: San Diego Museum of Man By Carissa Casares and Maureen Cavanaugh…