Current Exhibition:

• Poplar House Gallery, SD, CA

 

Recent Publications:

• Spotlight Contemporary Art Magazine, Issues 29 and 31, 2022

• SD Voyager, May, 2022, Life & Work with Vicki Leon

• Cool San Diego Sights! by Richard Schulte, Creating beautiful mosaics for Little Saigon!, 2021

• Cool San Diego Sights! by Richard Schulte, The extraordinary mosaics of Azalea Park!, 2021

• Cool San Diego Sights! by Richard Schulte, Art’s Popping Up in Azalea Park!, 2021
   

Education and Fellowships:

• California State University at Chico, sculpture, painting and glass 1978-79,1985-88

• Seminars Series on Public Art, San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture 2010

• Americans for the Arts Public Art Pre-conference in San Diego 2011

• Nonprofit Management for the Arts, University of San Diego 2011

• Pomegranate Fellows Training 2013

• Public Art/Public Sphere, Intensive, San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture 2019

 

Awards and Grants:

• Circle Foundation, Masterful Minds Award, 2024

• Artist of the Year Winner Certificate, Artavita, 2021, 2022

• Certificate of Artistic Excellence, Circle Arts, 2022, 2023

• Finalist, 50th International Artavita Online Art Contest, 2022

• Award of Excellence, Boulevard Improvement Association, 2020

• Best Glass Artist, Laguna Art-A-Fair 2016, 2017, 2018

• Azalea Park Water Conservation Garden, Award of Merit American Society of Landscape Architects 2015

• Manzanita Gathering Place, Award of Merit American Society of Landscape Architects 2014

• DNA of Creativity Grant/Invitational Group Show, Oceanside Museum of Art 2014

• Great Neighborhood Challenge Public Art Grant, San Diego Foundation 2014

• First Place Art Glass Association of Southern CA 1991, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2021

• Honorable Mention Dichroic By Design International Contest 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014

• Creative Catalyst Grant and Fellowship, San Diego Foundation 2012

• Neighborhood Arts Program Grant for Azalea Park, Commission for Arts and Culture, 2005

 

Artwork in the permanent collections of:

• Women’s Museum of California, SD, CA; Maquette for The Women's Hall of Fame

• Women’s Museum of California, SD, CA;

Collaboration with Judy Chicago Remembering Clara Shortridge Folts

• Museum of Dichroic Art, Orange, CA; Radiant Vortex

• Morean Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL; Undercurrent

• Carter Art Center, Kansas City, MO. The Four Elements

• Canadian Clay and Glass Museum, ON, Canada

  Collaboration with Judy Chicago Arcanum in Shades of Gray

• New Mexico Museum of Art/Santa Fe; Collaboration with Judy Chicago Peeling Back

• Joan Kroc Peace and Justice Center, S.D. CA Carved Glass in Meditation Room

• UCSD and Thornton Hospitals Carved Glass with Gold Leaf Way-finding

   

Outdoor Public Art Projects:

2024: The Boulevard Improvement Association, Dreamcatcher Totem
Permanent installation on El Cajon Blvd. at 52nd St. San Diego, CA

2023: Carlsbad Sculpture Garden, Dreamcatcher Totem
Featured artist in Fusion, a Geometric Garden, on view until August 2024 Carlsbad, CA

2022: Ocean Discovery Institute, Four Elements Mosaics San Diego, CA

Community-building project bringing staff and students of ODI together with residents of Azalea Park neighborhood to create 24 themed mosaics for the ODI rooftop garden

 

2019 (In progress): Little Saigon Identity Mosaics San Diego, CA

Collaborating with The Boulevard Improvement Association and the Azalea Park Mosaic League

 

2018: Azalea Park Neighborhood Identification Sign San Diego, CA

Coordinated with Project Manager from City of San Diego, City Contractor, Sign Designer, Azalea Park Neighborhood Association

 

2017: Vista Veterans Memorial Park Healing Wall Vista, CA

Coordinated and collaborated with City of Vista Public Art Department.

 

2016: Migratory Flight at Paradise Creek National City, CA

Core Design Team Member and Lead Artist for 20 vertical sculptures. Collaborated with ARTS, A Reason to Survive, the City of National City, Rooted in Place landscape architects, The Pomegranate Center, and the other team artist.

 

2015: ACT: The Boulevard

Community Murals Project: Quilts of City Heights San Diego, CA

Collaborated with: City Heights CDC, The Boulevard Improvement Association, Circulate San Diego and the City Heights Town Council.
 

2014-Present: The Azalea Park Mosaic League (founder) San Diego, CA

Artists living in Azalea Park learn to design, make and install mosaics that improve the community while fostering relationships, creativity, community togetherness and overall well-being.

 

2013: Manzanita Gathering Place San Diego, CA

2015: Received Merit Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects

Core Design Team Member and Mosaic Lead Artist. Coordinated and collaborated with The San Diego Foundation, ARTS, A Reason to Survive, the City of San Diego, the City Heights Town Council, The Pomegranate Center, Azalea Park Community, and other team artists.

 

2010: Solar Illuminated Translucent Totems San Diego, CA

Gateway Sculptures for Azalea Community Park

2015: Merit Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects for the Azalea Park Water Conservation Garden. Coordinated and collaborated with Rebuilding Together San Diego, Estrada Land Planning, Taggart Landscaping, City of San Diego Parks and Recreation.

 

2009: Photoscopia Scottsdale, AZ

Scottsdale Arts Festival, Time-Based Art Project; Coordinated with Scottsdale Public Art.

Also shown as part of the DNA of Creativity at the Oceanside Museum of Glass in 2014

 

2008: The Californiascope

Collaboration with Harmon Nelson and Steve Riggs San Diego, CA

A big attraction on the highly traveled embarcadero. Solar lit for enjoyment at night. Featured in The Big Bay commercial, traveled to Ontario Canada for the annual Tulip Festival in 2010, and installed in Glorietta Bay, Coronado for 1 year. Photo image featured in Wikipedia’s definition for kaleidoscope.