Breathe — A free, effective, and practical orientation tool for navigating a crazy world.
Participants should bring a blanket, block or pillow so they can sit comfortably for 15 minutes at a stretch.
A traveling piece of To Do, Christine Foerester and her two daughters, Sol and Sabrina will be setting up a creation/ meditation in eight iconic public spaces from Iceland to Portugal. The public will be invited to write a message inspired by the word “mend” on cloth, paper, string or ribbon and then weave it into a tapestry panel. The collapsible structure will then come back to San Diego, November 3, where Christine will set up on the plaza near 1805 and weave with the public.
About the Artist
A recipient of an Idea Fund grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Project Row Houses, in Houston, Texas, Artist Incubator Grants from the Museum and Cultural Affairs Department of El Paso, and a Community Arts Project Grant from the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, Christine creates modular and mobile structures that reshape the dynamics and possibilities of exchange within a given space. After much traveling and education, Christine has settled back in Oceanside where she was born and raised.
REGISTER FOR YOUR FREE WORKSHOP HERE:
Rizzhel Javier People and Places Project - The mission of the People + Places Project is to provide an inclusive space for communities to share stories about who they are and places they live. The People + Places Project is a an opportunity for unrepresented communities to make a unique one-of-a-kind toy that reflect who they are. Each drawing contributed to the project is transferred to fabric and sewn into a homemade toy for participants to keep. Give each one a hug to hear a story about the person and the place they live. www.peopleandplacesproject.com
About the Artist
Rizzhel Javier (San Diego, 1983) is a San Diego based artist and educator. She graduated college with a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Arts from San Diego State University in 2012. Rizzhel is an active member of the arts community in the region.Her work explores topics in communication, identity, memory and human relationships. Trained in darkroom photography, in the last ten years, Rizzhel has combined her images with sculpture, installation and digital media. Her pieces are playful and often require the viewer to engage physically with the work. She works autobiographically, using art and photography, to explore personal, community and global transformation. Through sharing personal stories, Rizzhel hopes to encourage viewers to recall their own memories, personal experiences and reflection.
WORKSHOP REGISTRATION CLOSED.
Mending: Drop by with clothing items that need repair. We will mend your clothing items while joining in conversation, tea and chocolate. During our mending hours you can bring in your torn, moth eaten, well-loved clean clothes to 1805 gallery. You can sit with us while we mend your items, or we can teach you how to do some patching and darning. If you don’t have time to stay, drop off your mending by filling out our form at the gallery, pinning one part to your article of clothing, and you keep one. We are not professional menders, but we will certainly do our best.
REGISTER
Debbie will teach you how to make yummy fresh handmade pasta, a tradition in her family for generations.
About the Artist
Sitting at her Nana and Nona’s table for Sunday afternoon pasta meals, Debbie Della Croce learned the art of food, family and homemade pasta.
REGISTER FOR YOUR FREE WORKSHOP HERE:
Through simple techniques to adjust and transform stuck mindsets we can heal our wounds and live life with greater kindness, compassion and strength. Now is the time to contemplate and get to know your mind - to REALLY get to know your mind. We all have patterns of thought and habits of response. Join us in learning a few easy practices to hijack the process of the habitual mind and awaken the enlightened mind.
Danielle Fowler is the director and lead instructor of True Nature School of Yoga, and co-owner of Yoga Oceanside. She has been a facilitator for Americorps VISTA, and an instructor at Miracosta College. Danielle's unique teaching style is inspired by her extensive training with renowned Yoga centers such as Mount Madonna and the Himalayan Institute, and masterful teachers such as Donna Farhi, Roger Cole, Judith Hanson Lasater, Nischala Joy Devi, and Rolf Sovik. She is also a graduate in the inaugural class of the Master's Degree Program in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University.
REGISTER
Awareness Through Movement (ATM) can mend and restore innate embodied knowledge.
Lessons vary tremendously and consist of verbally guided, gentle movement sequences. The process of self-awareness can increase flexibility, improve balance, and enhance overall wellbeing. With this lesson, we will have the opportunity to discover greater ease of sitting and turning. How can we bring our whole selves into the action of rotation?
Wear comfortable clothes. Chairs provided.Open to every body.
About the Artist
Karen Schaffman, Ph.D., is a professor, dance artist, scholar, and certified Awareness Through Movement® practitioner.
REGISTER
Bhavna Mehta: Maze book Subvert commercialism by using type from advertising to mend your spirit by composing a ransom note to yourself.
About the Artist
Born and raised in India in an extended family, Bhavna was surrounded by women who constantly embroidered, knitted, sewed, and created for the home. The inherent abundance of these experiences and memories roots my work. As an immigrant, I am constantly longing for connections. In telling one story in a particular setting, I hope to speak in a common language about cultural and personal associations.
REGISTER FOR YOUR FREE WORKSHOP HERE:
Too far gone to mend, Mending is reconstruction, rag-making is deconstruction. Bring used clothing, underwear, towels, and sheets that are “too far gone to mend” –too tattered, threadbare, stained, or faded. Cindy will tear or cut off the awkward parts, then create attractive and useful rectangular shapes. You can stay to help. Leave some rags behind for others and take some from the stockpile. You might have done this anyway but you probably would procrastinate!
About the Artist
Adjunct professor, community artist, co-founder of a circus, social change activist, nonprofit and government administrator, all-around instigator, Zimmerman is the eldest of eight Catholic daughters from Oklahoma City, and became a mother while still a teenager. Kids have always figured in her art world, and she created a mural at the Golden Hill Recreation Center with 200 child collaborators, which is still on view today. She got her start as an artist at her neighborhood rec center, where nice ladies helped you glue macaroni onto cold cream jars and spray them with silver paint and got her MFA at UCSD, Visual Arts Department. Oklahoma University granted her a BFA in Fine Arts with honors before that, and she supported herself and two kids throughout her education with a series of low paying jobs, forging a lifelong commitment to social justice through education and the arts.
REGISTER FOR YOUR FREE WORKSHOP HERE:
Mending: Drop by with clothing items that need repair. We will mend your clothing items while joining in conversation, tea and chocolate. During our mending hours you can bring in your torn, moth eaten, well-loved clean clothes to 1805 gallery. You can sit with us while we mend your items, or we can teach you how to do some patching and darning. If you don’t have time to stay, drop off your mending by filling out our form at the gallery, pinning one part to your article of clothing, and you keep one. We are not professional menders, but we will certainly do our best.
REGISTER
Binding Workshop. A book is like a body. It has a ‘spine’, head’, and ‘foot’. It’s pages reference landscape; ‘mountain’ folds, and ‘valleys’. We are in need of mending our past, future, and present, books have always held a special place within healing modalities worldwide. Recipes, medicinal and otherwise, religious and spiritual treatises, stories, histories, eventually find their way into the pages of books. Home Affairs will offer a workshop on a binding that allows one to continually add pages to their book over time.
About the Artists
Arzu Ozkal is a Turkish born artist and designer, whose work questions dogmas, traditions, laws, and patriarchal value systems through videos, public interventions, and performances.
Nanette Yannuzzi is a visual artist and writer whose creative work is inspired and challenged by the enigma that is contemporary life.
WORKSHOP REGISTRATION CLOSED.
Re-Purpose, Re-Invent, ROCK IT! Is your jewelry box in disarray? Gather all those broken, tangled, needs re-glued, re-paired, re-designed, identified? Let's get you ROCKIN' before the holidays.
About the Artist
Major Bead freak as a kid. Entrepreneurial starving artist. Trained Gemologist. Museum polished. Love to share my passion for all kinds of jewels... from beach combed shells, to glass baubles, Edwardian tiaras, display worthy gem minerals, bejeweled canes, 90’s fimo beads..anything sparkly!
REGISTER
Anna O’Cain will teach you how to create a healthy alternative to a traditional sports drink that effectively hydrates with all natural flavors.
About the Artist
Anna O’Cain is a San Diego based artist who was born on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. In the seventies she studied ceramics, photo, film, and conceptual art for two years at Oklahoma University, moved to Chicago to continue her studies in art and received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and in 1983 she received an MFA in Visual Art from the University of California San Diego. Anna is a recipient of a public art commission with artist Richard Keely for Aviara Community Park in Carlsbad, California. She has received grants from the California Arts Council and Art Matters in New York City, and held artist residencies at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming and the Djerassi Foundation near Palo Alto, California. Anna has developed installation projects with students in the art departments at Oberlin College in Ohio and Southern Oregon State College in Ashland, Oregon. She currently teaches in the Art Department at MiraCosta College in Oceanside, California.
REGISTER
Make your own succulent planter from a personal wide mouthed item that you would like to repurpose. Participants will also learn a little about plant repair, succulent propagation, and plant care.
Please bring your own unique container.
About the Artist
Originally from Los Angeles, Kline Swonger’s greatest joy as a kid was playing outside and using imagination to repurpose abandoned materials in vacant lots. This, as well as spending a lot of time in the outdoors, facilitated her interest in art and the environment. Her educational background is in visual art, environmental studies, and landscape architecture. When she’s not working toward earning her sculpture MFA you can spot her and her crazy hair in the Sierras or on community build projects in San Diego.
REGISTER
Kids and adults alike love to draw dinosaurs. Tim Penney will lead a workshop for all ages drawing real and imaginary dinosaurs and other beasts.
REGISTER
Blue Feeney will teach you how to read some simple patterns and crochet a variety of stuffed animals. Some knowledge of crochet is helpful, but not necessary. All ages welcome, little ones may need a parent assisting them. Blue has all the supplies you need to make a small crocheted creature.
REGISTER
Bill Feeney: Glue- everything you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask This will be an informational workshop to provide you with knowledge of various adhesives and their applications.
Please bring your glueing questions
About the Artist
William (Bill) Feeney is a local artist, who has exhibited extensively in San Diego. He has many years experience in construction and artmaking.
REGISTER
Mending: Drop by with clothing items that need repair. We will mend your clothing items while joining in conversation, tea and chocolate. During our mending hours you can bring in your torn, moth eaten, well-loved clean clothes to 1805 gallery. You can sit with us while we mend your items, or we can teach you how to do some patching and darning. If you don’t have time to stay, drop off your mending by filling out our form at the gallery, pinning one part to your article of clothing, and you keep one. We are not professional menders, but we will certainly do our best.
REGISTER
Drawing Meditation is a drawing session that invites participants to be present in the moment and enjoy the experience of observing and drawing. May will encourage participants to focus on a still life set in the middle of the room, guiding them to observe and experiment with the material in order to bring awareness on the experience rather than teaching a technical class to develop a skill. The space will be calm with music in the background. Yep, there might be some aromatherapy included…
About the Artist
May Ling is a local artist and teacher. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, May received her MFA at SDSU in 2007. Her work has been exhibited widely, and will be on view this October in Ready Lane at CEART in Tijuana
REGISTER
Join in a drop-in day of collaging together images to create your own postcards, learn to make envelopes from recycled materials, and fold origami boxes.
About the Artists
Laughter unites these long-time friends, along with a love of books, handwriting and making.
Join in a drop-in day of collaging together images to create your own postcards, learn to make envelopes from recycled materials, and fold origami boxes.
About the Artists
Laughter unites these long-time friends, along with a love of books, handwriting and making.
REGISTER
Mending: Drop by with clothing items that need repair. We will mend your clothing items while joining in conversation, tea and chocolate. During our mending hours you can bring in your torn, moth eaten, well-loved clean clothes to 1805 gallery. You can sit with us while we mend your items, or we can teach you how to do some patching and darning. If you don’t have time to stay, drop off your mending by filling out our form at the gallery, pinning one part to your article of clothing, and you keep one. We are not professional menders, but we will certainly do our best.
REGISTER
Lauren Siry will lead a watercolor painting workshop that explores themes of control and chaos. Participants will be provided with materials.
About the Artist
Lauren Siry holds a Masters in Contemporary Art from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London and a BFA from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. As a practicing studio artist, Siry has completed studio fine art programs at the San Francisco Art Institute in California and the Studio Arts College International in Florence, Italy. In 2012 Siry returned to San Diego to open 1805 Gallery. She aims to create opportunities for artists to exhibit and develop their practice while producing exciting experiences and events for collectors to acquire meaningful works of art. Siry specializes in private collections, hotel art collections, curating art exhibitions and events for galleries, museums, organizations and hotels.
REGISTER
Make finger puppets and laugh. Bring your kids, or just you.
REGISTER
Fixing Bike Flat Tires and Mending Golf Tees
REGISTER
Golf tees are often used a few times before they bust. Wooden ones can be repaired with a little bit of time and patience.
Mending: Drop by with clothing items that need repair. We will mend your clothing items while joining in conversation, tea and chocolate. During our mending hours you can bring in your torn, moth eaten, well-loved clean clothes to 1805 gallery. You can sit with us while we mend your items, or we can teach you how to do some patching and darning. If you don’t have time to stay, drop off your mending by filling out our form at the gallery, pinning one part to your article of clothing, and you keep one. We are not professional menders, but we will certainly do our best.
REGISTER
This workshop touches on daily journaling, creating, breathing and stretching; the importance to our general mental health as well as the benefits of utilizing these outlets as an artist. We discuss tricks, tips, using found materials to create, and the value in seeing your voice (handwriting) through free-writing, to heal and create personal goals. I encourage wearing comfy clothes, as we break with "Moga" a choreographed stretch routine that I've created, developed and continually practice myself. Journals and materials to create with are provided. Please bring a yoga mat or towel/blanket to sit on the floor.
About the Artist
Southern California based Artist, Michelle D. Ferrera took the leap to full-time Artist upon moving West. Utilizing her Fine Art degree from New Jersey, armed with years of journals filled with experiences and people, sketches and ideas, Ferrera found her medium by accident. In her Imperial Beach, garage studio, Michelle creates Original and Commissioned Figurative Fine Art, drawn freehand with pencil (and sometimes mixed media) on custom built wood panels, she builds herself. The raw wood serves as her mirror, reflecting the Artist’s words, skin, durability, vulnerability and individuality. Keeping her tools and medium minimal provides Ferrera an environment conducive to creating such personal, intimate moments and poses. “The nude figures, whether self-portrait or other, represent the vulnerable process of letting go, in hopes to build self-love and strength needed to fuel honest communication and connections.” -Ferrera
Paul Best recreates Yoko Ono’s Mend Piece on Saturday, October 13, 2018 from 11AM-12PM.
Originally created in 1966, Yoko Ono’s Mend Piece invites the audience to participate in the creation of the artwork. Participants are asked to creatively mend fragments of broken cups and plates.
“As you mend the cup, mending that is needed elsewhere in the Universe gets done as well. Be aware of it as you mend.’ - Yoko Ono
About the Artist
Paul Best is a local artist interested in exploring the idea of love and joy as the factors originating creative expression.He works in performance, video, installation and sculpture. He went to grad school with Anna at UCSD
Guests are invited to apologize to someone they personally know; by email, text, note (mail), card, postcard. (materials provided), or in person. This is meant to help mend burden, our conscious, bridges, connections lost or taken advantage of. My role is facilitator, cheerleader, collaborator, and mail delivery person. Guests will take away knowing they took action, or a first step towards mending.
REGISTER
