Thanks to The San Diego Foundation for their support to our programs. Here you can see Casa Familiar highlighted by them.

This event was sponsored by San Diego’s City Council Community Projects, Programs and Services (CPPS). Thanks to  Vivian Moreno’s Council Office 8, Raul Campillo’s Council Office 7, & Stephen Whitburn’s Council Office 3 for their support to our communities.

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El Devenir / Becoming

This exhibition intends to contemplate the past and the future in the same blink of an eye. We accept and place ourselves in that constant process of becoming something else, without  completely ceasing to be what we already were and what we already are. The exhibition finds in the values ​​of heritage, tradition, social justice and community a foundation upon which to explore the poetics of the past and present, those that serve to build our own future, our own becoming. 

This selection of artists and their works reflect upon multiple temporalities, subjects that represent the vision of Casa Familiar and The FRONT, as an art space for the community. These are topics that in this, our 15th anniversary, we honor and respect. They represent matters  that convince us even more, that our mission as cultural agents is of utmost importance to our community.

The commemoration will also include a special Dj set concert by grammy nominated electronic Tijuana band: Nortec, Bostich + Fussible, (tickets to this concert will be free but limited), as well as a panel discussion with former directors of the gallery, workshops, tours of the exhibition, and the premiere of a retrospective video about the gallery.

Participant artists:

Marcos Ramirez Erre (TJ). http://marcoserre.com/bio/

Rafael Lozano Hemmer (MEX – CA)  https://www.lozano-hemmer.com/bio.php

Rizzhel Xavier (SD)  http://www.rizzheljavier.com/about-rizz

Sama Alshaibi (IRAQ- AZ)  https://www.samaalshaibi.com/bio

Tania Candiani (MEX)  https://taniacandiani.com/en/about/

Important dates / Parallel Activities

-Exhibition Opens – Oct 7, 11am – 6pm

–Exhibition Opening Reception + Anniversary Commemoration Oct 11, 5 pm – 8pm

–NORTEC Bostich + Fussible Dj set Concert Oct 16, 7pm (limited tickets available for free oct 1st)

-Panel Discussion – The Front Arte & Cultura: Art as the voice of a community, with the participation of Leticia Gomez Franco, David Flores & Monica Hernandez. Moderated by Francisco Morales Oct 28, 6pm

–Workshop imparted by Rizzhel Javier – Back + Forth: Photo Workshop Nov 12 4 – 8 pm

–Exhibition tour lead by curator and gallery director Francisco Morales- Nov 18, 6 pm

-Workshop imparted by Sofia Limon – Ceramics: Tradition and Utilitarianism  Nov 19 – 20 6pm

-Video screening -The FRONT Arte & Cultura retrospective video Dec 18, 6pm

-Exhibition Closes Jan13, 2022

Last August, Casa Familiar´s art gallery The FRONT Arte & Cutura, in Collaboration with IMAC Tijuana and A Reason to Survive (ARTS) created a binational project to paint 9 murals across the border, 5 of those murals were painted in the community of San Ysidro, CA and 3 of them in Tijuana.  Here you can find some coverage from the different media outlets that covered the project.

San Diego Design Week  https://sddesignweek.org/programs/self-guided-tours/walls-as-windows-of-reality-cross-border-urban-art

KSDY50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLH4q4ZPsJc

Times of San Diego https://timesofsandiego.com/arts/2020/09/16/san-diego-tijuana-artists-join-forces-for-walls-cross-border-urban-art/

Cool San Diego Sights https://coolsandiegosights.com/2020/09/20/amazing-murals-in-cross-border-art-exhibition/?fbclid=IwAR2bjWmNgM03ntapIZJ4uAnYEH297FKnN63VVS7EIM3MguY7UXzqTvZunDY

Union Tribune https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/en-espanol/primera-plana/articulo/2020-09-21/exhibicion-binacional-resalta-el-arte-en-las-calles-en-tiempos-de-pandemia

MSN https://www.msn.com/es-us/news/other/exhibici%C3%B3n-binacional-resalta-el-arte-en-las-calles-en-tiempos-de-pandemia/ar-BB19gVoM?li=BBqdrQU

Union Tribune https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/border-baja-california/story/2020-09-22/binational-showcase-highlights-street-art-in-pandemic-times

Pacific San Diego https://www.pacificsandiego.com/local-entertainment/arts-culture/story/2020-09-23/binational-showcase-highlights-street-art-in-pandemic-times

El Imparcial https://www.elimparcial.com/tijuana/mundo/Restricciones-en-cruce-fronterizo-no-frenan-colaboracion-binacional-de-arte-20201002-0026.html

IV https://ivn.us/posts/san-diego-tijuana-artists-launch-mural-project-in-act-of-resistance

KPBS https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/oct/21/public-art-connects-neighborhoods-across-border/