Lisa Deaderick

There have been a lot of lessons for Noelle Ocen-Odoge, from growing up in Santee where hers was one of only a few Black families in the area, to being raised in a home that combined the cultures o…

This is the part of John Cappetta’s life he likes to call “chapter three”—the part where he’s pursuing storytelling focused on diverse and lesser represented voices. His Planet 9 Films production c…

The curators for the new exhibition at Balboa Park’s Centro Cultural de la Raza were very intentional about each part of the installation, even down to the color of the paint on the walls where the…

Her mother was a talented artist and her dad was a creative engineer, so it wasn’t much of a surprise that Diane Kane would go on to earn degrees in art history, as well as architectural history an…

Literally translated, the word “bocón” means “big mouth” in Spanish, but the local community arts organization of the same name chooses to use it a little differently. “While it traditionally carri…

For seven years in the early 2000s, local artists and activists organized to address the concerns they had with the direction of Centro Cultural de la Raza in Balboa Park and how it was being led a…

Contemporary artist Hugo Crosthwaite has spent his career disrupting conventions, which includes his latest exhibition at the Mesa College Art Gallery.

Hayden Crocker’s interest in environmental work started with his love for his hometown of Solana Beach, and all of coastal San Diego, which he sees as sitting “quite literally on the frontlines of …

The lights literally clicked on when inspiration hit for photographer Marshall Williams’s project documenting Southern California taco stands. “Driving home one day, I was stopped at a traffic sign…

In an effort to increase education and awareness of water quality and water pollution problems, a number of county organizations partnered up enlist the community in creative ways to address these issues.