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History of The San Diego Museum of Art

Monday, 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Offsite, Grossmont Healthcare Center Auditorium

Dr. James Grebl, Manager of The San Diego Museum of Art’s Library and Archives, will speak about the colorful history of the Museum.

Sponsored by the East County Chapter 

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Jan
8
2013

The Museum Experience

Lecture

Tuesday, 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
The San Diego Museum of Art

Get an unique perspective of a special exhibition and earn academic credit through this package experience designed by the Museum and UCSD Extension. This four-part program, which spans a month's time, begins with an introductory conversation at the Museum followed by a docent-led tour of the featured exhibition. Components include a private lecture with the exhibition curator, as well as the opportunity to attend one of a menu of exhibition-specific programs offered at the Museum.

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Jan
10
2013

Bus Trip

The Bowers Museum

Thursday
Offsite, The Bowers Museum in Santa Ana

Visit the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana for two featured exhibitions, Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection and Cut! Costume and the Cinema. The Albright collection consists of pins that Secretary Albright, America's Ambassador to the United Nations, and the first woman U.S. Secretary of State, wore before, during, and after becoming a diplomat. Albright discovered the power of jewelry to convey a foreign policy message and the brooches soon became her diplomatic signature; their stories and messages reflecting her sense of humor and humanity.

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Jan
10
2013

ArtStop: Alice Neel

Thursday, 12:00 p.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Lucy Eron, Museum Educator, discusses Alice Neel.

ArtStops are 15 minute, staff-led tours of one to three works on view. Museum curators and educators present these brief yet always enlightening and informative talks every Thursday and third Tuesday at noon.

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Jan
12
2013

Second Saturday Workshop: Pastel Portraits

Inspired by Behold America!

Saturday, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
The San Diego Museum of Art

Robert Henri, Bernadita. Oil on canvas, 1922. Gift of the San Diego Wednesday Club, 1926.138, The San Diego Museum of Art

Create a pastel portrait taking inspiration from the profiles, palettes and compositions of works on view in the Figures section of Behold, America!. This workshop focuses on observing positive and negative shape relationships in selected subjects and begins with a tour of the exhibition.

The Second Saturday Workshop Series is an adult program that explores exhibitions and installations at the Museum. Each begins with a tour of the related exhibition, followed by the fine art workshop. 

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Jan
12
2013

Pompidou Workshop: Journey through the City

Saturday, 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
The San Diego Museum of Art

Miquel Navarro. 1994. Game/artwork. Commissioned by the Centre Pompidou, Paris. © Museo de la Ciudad de México

Visitors of all ages can invent their own city and explore an imaginary urban environment with others during this guided workshop in Journey Through the City.  

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Jan
12
2013

Film Screening of The NO. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Saturday, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Museum Boardroom

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is the first major film to be shot entirely on location in the African country of Botswana. Based on the international best-selling novels by Alexander McCall-Smith and produced by the late Anthony Minghella, this HBO film series follows the story of the brave heroine Precious Ramotswe as she traverses the landscape of her country, solving the mysteries of her people, while offering a humorous and energetic view of contemporary African life. 

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Jan
12
2013

Pompidou Workshop: Journey through the City

Saturday, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The San Diego Museum of Art

Miquel Navarro. Beneath the Moon II: Journey through the City, 1994. Game/artwork. Commissioned by the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Visitors of all ages can invent their own city and explore an imaginary urban environment with others during this guided workshop in Journey Through the City.  Working with more than 1,000 pieces of materials in the space, visitors will be able to manipulate and transform their visionary models of urban landscapes.

Workshop Theme: Adapting the Past

Recommended for families and visitors of all ages.

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Jan
13
2013

Family Drop-In Day

Exploring Texture

Sunday, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
The Studio

Trowbridge, Gail. Found Objects Printed. Undated. Assemblage. 23 in. x 27 7/8 in. The San Diego Museum of Art.

Explore the art element of texture as you create collagraph prints.  Artfully arrange everyday objects and materials to create a textured surface from which to "pull a print".  Learn about new artistic processes under the guidance of our experienced Museum Educators.  Each Sunday inThe Studio we'll explore a new art-making activity inspired by paintings, sculptures, and drawings on view at The Museum.

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Jan
13
2013

Pompidou Workshop: Journey through the City

Sunday, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The San Diego Museum of Art

Visitors of all ages can invent their own city and explore an imaginary urban environment with others during this guided workshop in Journey Through the City.  Working with more than 1,000 pieces of materials in the space, visitors will be able to manipulate and transform their visionary models of urban landscapes.

Workshop Theme: Adapting the Past

Recommended for families and visitors of all ages.  Pre-registration is not required.

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Exhibitions on View

  • Young Art 2013: The Story of Me
  • Piranesi, Rome, and the Arts of Design
  • Pacific Horizons
  • Alternative Accounts

January Docent Tour Schedule

Mon: 11:00 a.m., 1:00, 2:00, and 3:00 p.m.
Tues: 11:00 a.m., 1:00, 2:00, and 3:00 p.m.
Thurs: 11:00 a.m., 1:00, 2:00, and 3:00 p.m.
Fri: 11:00 a.m.* , 2:00, and 5:00 p.m.
Sat: 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m.
Sun: 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m.
*(4th & 5th Fridays only)

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The San Diego Museum of Art
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Hours

Sunday 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri., Sat.
10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday Closed


Summer Hours
June 6 through August 29

Sunday 12:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Mon., Tues., Fri., Sat.
10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday Closed
Thursday 10:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.*

*See calendar for exceptions

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Member Spotlight

Marjorie Ann Mopper, Director's Circle
Tim January, Gallery Member

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