October 16, 2025

Walking In Beauty, Life As Ceremony

Walking in Beauty, Life As Ceremony 7 Peaks for 7 Sister, MMIW November 8 – November 30, 2025 Opening Reception: Saturday, Nov. 8,  4pm to 8pm Organizer/Curators: Artivists Way of the Sacred Mountain organization, Teyana Viscarra and Norm Sands Indigenous Cultures Educator, Heather Gallana Walking In Beauty, Life as Ceremony is a new exhibition at the Bonita Museum and Cultural Center, about MMIW, missing and murdered indigenous warriors. Organized and curated by Artivists Way of the Sacred Mountain organization, Teyana […]
October 10, 2025

Angel Cerrillo, “Homily”

  About this series by Angel Cerrillo HOMILY Artist Statement This is my first exhibition, therefore I decided to relate it to the creation of men according to the Catholic faith I was raised with. The Catholic environment has heavily influenced my life and creativity. As a mixed media artist, I express my ideas in the medium that I find more meaningful for each piece. This exhibition follows a neutral color scheme that references The Bible and its content, such […]
September 16, 2025

History Gallery: Vitaliano Victa Vallar, U.S. Navy Portraiture 1940’s to 1950’s

History Gallery: Vitaliano Victa Vallar, Navy Portraiture Nov.8 – extended until January 23, 2026 Reception: Sat. Nov. 29, 2pm to 4pm In November and December, the museum will feature an exhibit about Vitaliano Victa Vallar (1920 – 2005), a Filipino who served as a Steward in the United States Navy, who created oil portraits of high-ranking officers while stationed in Hawaii, during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Watch: 10News Many of his works were given as gifts to admirals […]
May 14, 2025

ACCESS

Exhibition: ACCESS Exhibition dates: July 5 – August 15 Reception: Sat. July 19, 3 – 6pm Access is a group exhibition featuring materially and conceptually diverse works by multidisciplinary artists Carolina Danu, Yena Kim, Nanzi Muro, Gabrielle Berens and Philip Brun Del Re. This exhibition presents the possibilities of visual arts studies in higher education. Danu, Kim, Muro, Berens, and Brun Del Re all current or recently graduated MFA students, strongly believe in the need for diversity in the arts. Through […]
March 12, 2025

Native Plant Cinema Lab w/Omar Lopex, Sweetwater River Valley

  Watch the Film  A walk through the Sweetwater River Valley during the Native Plant Cinema Lab in Winter 2025. The lab, led by filmmaker Omar Lopex, focused on plants in the valley, 16mm filming, and eco-friendly film development.  Photos from Transborder Film Foundation and Carlos Cacho, David’s Harp Foundation   Watch the Film  
March 1, 2025

CA Grown, Plein Air 2025

California Grown, Plein Air 2025 exhibition Highlighting San Diego County Farmers and Produce Juror: Katie Stokes, Edible San Diego Magazine Reception: Saturday, May 17, 2:30PM to 4:30PM Award presentation: May 17, 3:15PM Bonita Paint-Out with Mehl Lawson: Friday, May 16 at 9am Artists in the exhibition include: Liz Abeyta, Andrew ‘Drew’ Bandish, Julie Bradbury-Bennett, Lorraine Marie Cote, Brian Gibson, Rose Irelan, Margaret Larlham,  Chrysanne Lowe, Frankie Martin, Doreen Mattingly, Carmelita Molina, Michelle Montrose, Kathryn Peterson, Nina Pierson, Indu Ramkumar, Elisabeth […]
December 20, 2024

Symbolizing Americana, Richard C. Ybarra

Photography by San Diego native Richard C. Ybarra Exhibition Dates: January 4 – February 6, 2025 Reception: Saturday, January 18,  2pm – 5pm Artist Talk: Saturday, January 18, 3:30pm Symbolizing Americana delves into the visual language of “Americana” and the feelings associated with living in rural environments around the United States.            …what ‘animates’ us is what lies beyond the photographic frame in our imaginations. –  Roland Gérard Barthes (1915 – 1980) was a French philosopher […]
November 27, 2024

Friendship Park

Exhibition: Friendship Park, Take Amistad on the Road Artists: Nanzi Muro, Maria Teresa Fernandez, Pedro Rios, natalia ventura February 8 – March 28 Opening Reception: Sat. February 8, 2025,  3:00pm to 6:00pm Exhibition visitors will encounter sculptures, photography, paintings, performance art, and participatory installations about the past, present, and future of Friendship Park.  Each of the four artists communicates a shared message of cross-border friendship (amistad) that is the essence of Friendship Park.             Artivists/ […]