Arts
TRANSFORMATION
IN PROGRESS
Mingei International Museum
M
ingei International
Museum is breaking
ground on its
much-anticipated
transformation in
Balboa Park, and while the museum is
under construction, Shop Mingei and Café
Mingei have docked at ARTS DISTRICT
Liberty Station. Now more than ever,
Mingei is active throughout the region with
enhanced partnerships and opportunities to
learn and create - taking “art of the people”
out to the community near you.
Mingei recently marked the
end of Creative City Heights - a
yearlong engagement with The
Partnership for the Advancement
of New Americans (PANA), Media
Arts Center, KAREN Organization
of San Diego and The AjA Project.
The evening mixed lively film,
photography, stories, dancing,
drumming, folk art and handwoven
craft at the City Heights/Weingart
Library and Performance Annex.
The Museum’s most recent Family
Sunday Pop-Up, free and open to the public
thanks to the ResMed Foundation, popped
that same weekend at Weingart Library. This
monthly, hands-on artmaking event is also
rotating through libraries in Logan Heights
and Valencia Park, engaging kids and
families of all ages in making everything from
textile wheels to nichos (shadowboxes) and
polymer clay sculptures.
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Creative City Heights
American Quilts at CECUT
Many of Mingei’s collection objects are also traveling throughout the bi-national
region. This past fall, Mingei collaborated with longtime partner Centro Cultural
Tijuana (CECUT) for the exhibition AMERICAN QUILTS, featuring 50 vibrant quilts
from its permanent collection, dating from roughly 1850 to the mid-twentieth century.
Both Museum members and staff traveled to view the show. Coming in spring 2019:
a selection of Mingei’s mid-century pieces at the Central Library Art Gallery!
To keep up with the Museum’s calendar of events, workshops and offsite exhibitions,
please visit www.mingei.org.