Boy swinging at earth shaped pinata

Chicano/a/x Printmaking: Making Prints and Making History – 50 Years of Art Activism

Feb 08, 2020 – Apr 05, 2020


Exhibition February 8 – April 5, 2020 Thursday through Monday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. (closed Tuesday and Wednesday) Chicano/a/x Printmaking: Making Prints and Making History – 50 Years of Art Activism is a multi-site exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the SDSU Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies. Born in 1969 out of community […]

Downtown at Sundown

Downtown at Sundown with Prison Arts Collective: “Stitching the Gap”

Jan 16, 2020
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM


Downtown at Sundown with Prison Arts Collective: “Stitching the Gap”. For this installment of Downtown at Sundown, join the Prison Arts Collective (PAC) in creating a Healing Quilt, a collaborative art project. Participants will explore the relationship between creativity and rehabilitation in communities impacted by the criminal justice system. We will explore the issues and […]

Human figure in gold hue

Constructed Mythologies: Luis González Palma

Oct 17, 2019 – Jan 20, 2020


Exhibition October 17, 2019 – January 26, 2020 Thursday through Monday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. (closed Tuesday and Wednesday) Holiday Closures – November 11, 28, 29 December 23 – 27 January 20 Free admission Constructed Mythologies: Luis González Palma celebrates this prolific and influential Latin American artist, who is well known for an expansive […]

Reverse blueprint of ship cross-section

Radiant Architecture: The Visionary Work of Eugene Ray

Aug 03, 2019 – Oct 06, 2019


Exhibition On view August 3 – October 6, 2019 SDSU DOWNTOWN GALLERY 725 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 (619) 501 – 6370 Thursday through Monday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. (closed Tuesday and Wednesday) Holiday Closure – September 2, 2019 Free admission Radiant Architecture: The Visionary Work of Eugene Ray celebrates the work and […]

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World Refugee Day

Jun 20, 2019 – Jun 20, 2019


Join us to celebrate World Refugee Day with a series of programming and activities centered around stories of migration and refugee communities from members of the SDSU and local community. All Events are FREE and open to the public Currently planned activities include*: 1:00 – 7:00 p.m. (by appointment) A Portrait of People in Motion: […]

Two people embracing in a desert

In Transit

Apr 18, 2019 – Jul 14, 2019


Exhibition runs April 18 through July 14, 2019 In Transit is a multidisciplinary exhibition featuring the work of five artists who have forged relationships with and documented the lives of individuals fleeing intolerable hardship by migrating into Europe over the last seven years. Focusing on the tentative, limbo-like experience of living between different cultures, the […]

Digital Painting of urban sci-fi scene

Futures Past & Present

Feb 09, 2019 – Apr 07, 2019


Exhibition runs February 9 through April 7, 2019 Comprised of artwork created by faculty and students from the School of Art + Design, Futures Past and Present showcases works acknowledging the future in many arenas. The artworks in the exhibition consider not only how the future has been forecast in the past, but also how […]

painting of green building and photo of rusty trike

I Love to Ride My Bicycle

Nov 15, 2018 – Jan 27, 2019


Exhibition runs November 15, 2018 through January 27, 2019 Since their invention in 1817, bicycles have affected the progress of society in terms of both culture and modern industry. As a result of this broad impact, bikes have influenced artists over the past two centuries, with luminaries such as Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso featuring […]

Three figures sitting on colorful boxes

Tom Loeser: Please Please Please


Tom Loeser, LA/Chicago/New York, 2016; wood, paint, felt, 12 x 17 x 26 inches; image courtesy of the artist Exhibition runs August 4, 2018 through October 28, 2018 If the furniture we sit on every day were totally different, would our lives be different too? That is one question posed by Madison-based designer/maker Tom Loeser. […]

Give-and-Take: Poster Design by Nancy Skolos and Thomas Wedell

Apr 19, 2018 – Jul 22, 2018


Nancy Skolos and Thomas Wedell, Public Bike, 2012; poster, 60 x 40 inches; courtesy of the artists Exhibition runs April 19, 2018 through July 22, 2018 Give-and-Take: Poster Design by Nancy Skolos and Thomas Wedell presents the work of this graphic design twosome, who pioneered the medium from a traditional analog approach to its contemporary […]