Summer Salon Series 2011

The following is a detailed list of the evening's events and participants:

5:00 - 9:00 p.m. Miki Iwasaki presents Don't Fence Me In, a transformable ‘screen’ built of modular components that allows people to determine its location and position.  This ‘screen’ has visible and audible permeability but does not allow for physical passage through the piece.  The work uses design to touch on issues of  access, privacy, control, and borders, and relates to the Museum's Gustav Stickley exhibition in terms of craft and material.

5:00 – 9:00 pm: Matthew Hebert presents Blind Spots, an installation of several small, abstracted and improvised dioramas throughout the Museum.  The dioramas will each deal with the vital infrastructure that feeds energy to San Diego and its inhabitants despite its remote geographic proximity.  Specific points of inspiration for this work include the oil derricks off the Santa Barbara coast, the California Aqueduct and the wind farm at Altamont Pass. 

This work will be displayed in various galleries throughout the Museum.

5:00 – 9:00 pm: Sumi Ink Club will present a participatory drawing piece.  Sumi Ink Club is a Los Angeles-based drawing collective founded in 2005 by Sarah Rara and Luke Fischbeck. The group holds regular, open-to-the-public meetings to execute topsy-turvy, detailed, collaborative drawings using ink on various surfaces. In each of its permutations, Sumi Ink Club uses group drawing as a means to open and fortify social interactions that bleed into everyday life. The collective is non-hierarchical: all ages, all humans, all styles.

5:00 – 9:00 pm: Brian Goeltzenleuchter and Katharine Whitcomb will present Smelling the city, an olfactory artwork that will be present at each remaining night of the 2011 Summer Salon Series.  This project juxtaposes a poetic text printed on a fragrance blotter against an artist-made scent into which the blotter is dipped. Upon request, Summer Salon patrons receive a blotter which is lightly scented and highly transportable. The blotters become points of personal reflection and conversation pieces.

This project will take place in the Museum's Lower Rotunda.

5:00 – 8:30 pm:  Giuseppe's Restaurant will offer a no-host bar with beer, wine and light snacks.

The bar is located in the Museum's Lower Rotunda.

7:00 – 7:30 pm: Jericho Brown: Poetry Reading

Jericho Brown worked as the speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans before receiving his PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. He also holds an MFA from the University of New Orleans and a BA from Dillard University. The recipient of the Whiting Writers Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Krakow Poetry Seminar in Poland, Brown is an Assistant Professor at the University of San Diego. His poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including, Fence, The Iowa Review, jubilat, Oxford American, Ploughshares, A Public Space, and 100 Best African American Poems.  His first book, PLEASE (New Issues), won the American Book Award.

Mr. Brown will have books for sale following the reading.

This presentation will take place in Gallery 18. 

8:00 – 8:30 pm: The San Diego Architectural Foundation will present a mini-Pecha Kucha, a series of four lectures each lasting six minutes and forty seconds.  The topics discusses will each directly relate to the evening's theme of Design and Planning.

The San Diego Architectural Foundation (SDAF) is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to the education and promotion of outstanding architecture, planning and urban design throughout the San Diego region. They seek to educate students, emerging professionals and the community at large about the value of design excellence.

This presentation will take place in Gallery 18.