Last call to register for the upcoming ARLIS/SC chapter meeting in San
Diego, July 19-20.
In addition to the business meeting, a panel session on collection
management and reception on Friday, Saturday consists of a full day of
tours and opportunities to see the UCSD campus collection of
site-specific art works and the architecture and museums of beautiful
Balboa Park.
Check out these websites for a glimpse of what you will experience:
Stuart Collection tour Saturday morning from 9-11am
http://stuartcollection.ucsd.edu/
The Stuart Collection Of Sculpture at the University of
California, San Diego seeks to enrich the cultural, intellectual, and
scholarly life of the UCSD campus and of the San Diego community by
building and maintaining a unique collection of site-specific works by
leading artists of our time. It has been inventive in both its curatorial
point of view and its working processes.
Lunch at the Prado Restaurant in Balboa Park 12-1:15pm
http://www.balboapark.org/aboutrestaurants.html
Architectural Walking Tour of Balboa Park: 1:30-3pm
The Committee of 100 offers tours highlighting the Spanish Colonial
architecture in the Park.
One of the highlights will be Balboa Park's magnificent Botanical
Building, part of the original legacy of the 1915-16 Panama-California
Exposition, reopened to the public on May 31, 2002. The renovation
included replacing nearly 12 miles of redwood lath. Measuring an
impressive 250 feet long, 75 feet wide and 60 feet tall, the Botanical
Building is one of the largest wood-lath structures in the world.
Mingei Museum 3-5pm:
http://www.mingei.org/
Special Exhibition: AFRICAN ART—The Pulse of a
Continent.
Mingei International Museum in Balboa Park presents a comprehensive
exhibition of African arts of daily life from across the continent. On
exhibit are furniture, utensils, shields, apparel, adornment, musical
instruments, architectural elements, ceramics, baskets, currency and
ritual objects fashioned from wood, glass, clay, horn, bone, ivory,
feathers, trade beads, skins, hides, shells, silver, bronze and
iron.
or
San Diego Museum of Art 3-5pm:
http://www.sdmart.org/
Special Exhibition: Idol of the Moderns: Pierre-Auguste
Renoir and American Painting provides the first investigation of the
American critical response to Renoir between 1904 and 1940 and of his
relationship with American artists who drew inspiration from him and his
work. The exhibition presents approximately forty paintings, one-third of
which are by Renoir.
or
other museum of your choice (on your own):
http://www.balboapark.org/
UCSD parking information and directions (Friday afternoon
attendees will need to pay for parking, Saturday parking is free):
http://parking.ucsd.edu/parking/park.html
Balboa Park information and directions (free parking):
http://www.balboapark.org/nav.html
Come on down!
Leslie