Tag: Arts

  • Central’s Tiny Dancers Muddle City Arts Money Talks

    By Kelly Bennett Eight third-grade kids from Central Elementary School showed up in the City Council meeting chambers last week to dance. Their vice-principal introduced them and described the school’s population: Every student at the school is poor enough to qualify for free or subsidized lunch. The vast majority are learning English as a second…

  • Museum of Contemporary Art to Host ’44th and Landis’ Installation

    By Kelly Bennett   Upending the familiar model of art grants going to big institutions, a new program from the San Diego Foundation aims money at individual artists’ ideas. If a museum or an orchestra wants in on the game, it must agree to house or support the selected artists’ work. In a voiceofsandiego.org interview…