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Announcing: “Profoundly… James Hubbell”, April 14th

Mar 25 2012 • Posted in NewsLeave a Comment

 

Profoundly…James Hubbell

A Benefit for the Ilan-Lael Center for Art-Environment-Humanity

Saturday April 14, 2012  5pm – 9pm

 

To be held at the:  David Alan Collection
241 S. Cedros Ave.
Solana Beach, CA 92075

You can find directions here.

Tickets:  $75 per person, $140 per couple

Buy your tickets online here!

View Live Auction items in advance:  http://www.ilanlaelfoundation.org/profoundly

Join us Tuesday, March 20th for Conversations on Beauty: “The Myths We Tell Ourselves,”

Mar 18 2012 • Posted in NewsLeave a Comment

Conversations on Beauty

The Myths We Tell Ourselves

How the Arts Convey Our Changing Story

 

5:30 – 7:00pm

Tuesday March 20, 2012

Mingei International Museum

Balboa Park, San Diego

(Click here for driving directions…)

 

PEOPLE NOWADAYS  think only primitive people believe in myths, but myths dominate the thinking of every society, including our own.  Myths are the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of the world.  Human beings think with stories as inevitably as they see with eyes and walk with feet, and if you pay careful attention to the stories a culture tells, you can grasp things about the culture that nothing else will teach you.

How does our culture communicate contemporary myths?  In Myths – The Stories We Tell Ourselves, we will examine the power of myth and what role the arts play in the unfolding of a world view.  Is beauty now an essential part of that evolution?  Can we imagine a myth that gives the possibility of a world that is balanced, human, functional, and beautiful?

 

Panelists

James Hubbell – Artist

Phil Cousineau – Author, “Who Stole the Arms of Venus de Milo?”

Richard Lederer – Author, Columnist, Verbivore

Jo Lauria – Independent Curator and Art & Design Historian

Dirk Sutro – Moderator

 

Book signing with Richard Lederer from 4:30 – 5:30pm.

PechaKucha Night San Diego 2/2

Jan 28 2012 • Posted in NewsLeave a Comment

It’s time for PechaKucha Night San Diego, Volume 14! Join SDAF on 2.2.12 for some food, drink, art, and 20×20 presentations at the Mingei International Museum. 

Date: Thursday, 2/2/2012

Time: 6:00 – 10:00 pm

Suggested Donation: $10

 

Doors open at 6:00 to allow time for guests to peruse the Mingei’s exhibits. Guests will have all-museum access, and time to peruse Mingei’s exhibits including “San Diego’s Craft Revolution; From Post-War Modern to California Design” (curated by Dave Hampton of Objects USA), “A Fantastic Voyage; The Art of Ynez Johnson,” “Northern Stars; Twentieth Century Finnish Design (opening on 1/29), and more.

Beer and wine will flow. MIHO Gastrotruck will be cooking up their magical deliciousness. And the presentations… well they will rock, as usual. So arrive early. Have a beverage. Enjoy some MIHO yumminess, browse the brilliant exhibits and then settle in. Presentations begin at 8:20.

 

What is PechaKucha Night? 

 

PechaKucha Night was designed by designers Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham in 2003 as an event for (you guessed it) designers and creative types of all disciplines to meet, network, and show their work, and play, in public. PechaKucha is now happening in 382 locations around the world. SDAF is pleased to serve as the San Diego’s official host chapter of PechaKucha Night.

PechaKucha is derived from a Japanese term meaning the sound of conversation, or chit-chat. PechaKucha Nights are creative, social and informal.  The concept is simple: each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds, giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of floor time and expression before the next presenter is up. Then there’s the 20 “rules”. One of our favorites? PechaKucha Night is about thinking and drinking.  It all makes for stimulating, scintillating, succinct and often striking presentations from design, architecture, photography, art and other creative fields. Presentations begin at 20:20. Surprised?

 

More event details here.
View information about scheduled presenters here.
RSVP on Facebook here.

 
If you are interested in presenting at a PKN SD, we’d be happy to add you to our queue. Check out our PKN page to view submission guidelines, then send us a note. We look forward to hearing from you!

 

See you there!

Join us for Conversations on Beauty: “Creating a Whole Student” – Nov 15th

Oct 28 2011 • Posted in NewsLeave a Comment

Event Flyer

SAN DIEGO, CA — On November 15, 2011, from 5:00 – 7:30pm, the Mingei International Museum will host a reception and conversation panel with San Diego artistic and educational legends about the vital role of arts in creating a whole student. The panel includes artist James Hubbell, Maestro Jung-Ho Pak of Orchestra Nova, Dr. John Eger, Professor of Communications and Public Policy, SDSU, and Christine Brady, Founder of Colegio La Esperanza. Dirk Sutro will moderate the discussion.

This is the fifth in a series of conversations that has been sponsored by the Ilan-Lael Foundation, an arts education foundation begun by James Hubbell in 1984 and which calls Hubbell’s historically-designated property near Julian CA its home. The Foundation provides hand-on building experiences, tours, and educational opportunities using the arts to foster exploration of self and harmony with the changing rhythm of our times.

The emphasis on science and math-based achievement along with the fiscal uncertainties being experienced by educational institutions have resulted in arts and humanities studies being reduced or eliminated in many cases. At the same time, businesses and industries are demanding creative thinkers to work in an increasing complex and fast-paced world.

“Our contemporary reliance on technology and knowledge of the physical world, the things we can measure, are training only half the person.” says artist James Hubbell.

“This has a profound affect on students’ view of themselves and where we are as a country.  Art is not about knowledge; it is about a very real part of being human that we will never completely understand; the intuitive. It can open windows to possibilities that our knowledge told us were closed. Knowledge can tell you where you are but it cannot tell you where you wish to go.”

New to this conversation is a performance component. Orchestra Nova’s widely acclaimed Every Child, Every Life program will supply a young pianist to perform. In addition, Colegio La Esperanza, a school which James Hubbell has built for the past 20 years along with panelist Christine Brady will be bringing a young violinist from its Tijuana school performing arts program.

 

~ Tickets are $10 at the door. ~

 

PANEL

James Hubbell is an important and unique artist who is concerned with art that links us back to the common source — to nature, mystery and community. He can paint, sculpt in wood, stone, and metal, build furniture, create houses and parks. But his art-­making is clearly in service to a larger goal of shaping a unified creation where separate objects form a whole that is much greater than the sum of its great parts. James has always been concerned with how it all fits together. With great compassion and skill he makes art through which we can see connections.

Jung-Ho Pak is a conductor who radiates enthusiasm. His vision is to create a joyous, emotional and dramatic musical experience for today’s audiences that attracts a whole new generation to classical music. He has served as artistic and music director with symphonies and music conservatories across the United States and around the world. His personalized, contemporary approach utilizes non-classical connections to make classical music interactive and approachable. He is a frequent speaker about the relevance of art in society and the importance of music in education.

Professor John Eger, J.D. is a telecommunications, lawyer, is the Lionel Van Deerlin Endowed Professor of Communications and Public Policy at San Diego State University, and Executive Director of SDSU’s International Center for Communications. His varied career has taken him from the Nixon and Ford administrations where he was an advisor on the telecommunications industry to senior management at the CBS broadcast group where he developed marketing strategies for its news division. More recently, he’s headed up San Diego State University’s International Center for Communications where he specializes in international communications, emerging trends in media and marketing and revitalizing communities through the use of telecommunications.

Christine Brady is the founder of Colegio La Esperanza, a school for the arts, she founded in Tijuana twenty-three years ago. Her Americas Foundation has brought science, math, technology and a performing arts education to a neighborhood where the average parent has a third-grade education. Her partnership with James Hubbell has created a school of unusual beauty that has united a community and helped it recognize its potential.

Dirk Sutro is our moderator for Conversations on Beauty and hosted “The Lounge”, a nightly arts and culture program on KPBS-FM public radio in San Diego from 1999 - 2004. He was editor of San Diego Home/Garden magazine, and was weekly jazz and architecture columnist for the San Diego edition of the Los Angeles Times. He’s currently Publicity Director at the UCSD School of Music.

 

Conversations on Beauty – Uniting Matter and Spirit — Creating the Whole Student is organized by the Ilan-Lael Foundation and Mingei International Museum and has been made possible thanks to funding from the Rokenbok Foundation and Ilan-Lael Foundation’s 2011 sponsors that include; Boomerang for Modern, David Alan Collection, Camp Stevens, Girard Gourmet, Graham Wilder PHotography, Hubbell and Hubbell Architects, Lang Contracting, Rancho La Puerta Health and Resort Spa, San Diego Botanical Garden, Slice of Heaven Catering, Stone Brewing Company, The Beach House Restaurant Cardiff, The Pearl Hotel, Wynola Farms Marketplace and Wynola Pizza Express.

Bright Green Future Conference Oct 21-22 at USD

Oct 18 2011 • Posted in NewsLeave a Comment

Bright Green Future Conference 2011 – October 21-22

Bright Green Future Conference
Come see Drew Hubbell present!

Hello All:

I wanted to let you all know that I will be speaking at the Bright Green Future Conference this Saturday, Oct. 22 from 1:00pm to 2:15 pm. My presentation will be titled “Sustainable Architecture – Listening to Nature” and will be full of great images of recent projects. The conference is taking place at the University of San Diego. There are many other great presentations at this event as well that deal with topics such as climate change, water in San Diego, green business, zero waste, and green building. Please see the event website for more info: http://brightgreenfuture.net/

Thank you,
Drew

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