The NTC Foundation ARTS DISTRICT Collaborative is in its sixth year of providing funding for creative proposals that support and promote the great things that NTC Foundation tenants are doing. The Collaborative program encourages proposals to consider how to welcome the public to ARTS DISTRICT using diversity, creativity, and cultural expression while focusing on subject matter that represents ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station experiences and partners.
ARTS DISTRICT Collaborative 2024 Recipients and Projects
Unidos por el Estumbre/United by Yarn
Visions Museum of Textile Art, San Diego Craft Collective and Songbirds Music | Spring 2024
Unidos Por El Estambre/United By Yarn was a collaborative public fiber arts project by Visions Museum of Textile Art (VMOTA), San Diego Craft Collective (SDCC), and Songbirds Music. This initiative is designed to support participatory yarn bombing projects among all three partners. United By Yarn celebrated both the contemporary and rich textile heritage of the San Diego/Tijuana region, aligning with the Latine exhibition’s theme by emphasizing creative shared experiences that connect people and nations.
Blossoming Borders
Ana Galena Floral Studio | Fall 2024
Blossoming Borders was a multi-faceted celebration to bridge divides and celebrate the rich tapestry of life along the Tijuana/San Diego border. Through floral displays, paintings, and writings, the event showcases the unique identity of the region and fosters community connections. Selected responses from the community served as inspiration for artists, resulting in a visually stunning and emotionally resonant exhibition. Workshops provided opportunities for active participation, enhancing community involvement and contributing to the narrative of unity and shared creativity.
ARTS DISTRICT Collaborative 2023 Recipients and Projects
Cameras in Communities
Outside the Lens and The Treehouse Academy | February 3, 2023
This innovative digital media art workshop introduced youth from The Treehouse Academy to the art of photography and digital media making.
Motions and Emotions: Filipino American Stories of Healing
Emerging Artist Trixi Anne Agiao and New Americans Museum | February 2023
Motions and Emotions was a four-part event comprised of an art exhibit and three performances addressing Filipino American intergenerational trauma.
Master Class Series
The Rosin Box Project and San Diego Dance Theater | April- October 2023
Taught by world-renowned professional artists, this series featured four public classes hosted at San Diego Dance Theater’s Light Box Theater.
Music Classes for Young Students
Treehouse Academy and Apt 4 Music | March 2023
Six weeks of twice-weekly music classes with Apt 4 Music. Students learned to play the ukulele, drums and other percussion instruments during the duration of the workshops and performed for families.
Youth Dance Photography Workshop
Malashock Dance and Outside the Lens | June 2023
This youth dance photography workshop and exhibit connected local students from marginalized communities who learned from renowned dance photographer, Doug McMinimy, about different techniques to capture dance effectively through a photographic lens, followed by an interactive photo shoot with Malashock Dance Company.
Choreography and Writing Workshop
San Diego Writers Ink in collaboration with Trixi Anne Agiao | May 2023
BIPOC writers and choreographers came together for this special program that brought the two groups of creatives together to explore the collaborative process within their art.
Brainstorms
Resurrecting Lives Foundation in collaboration with The LOT | September 2023
Resurrecting Lives Foundation presented a short film titled “Brainstorms” at The LOT, addressing the struggles and invisible wounds of war soldiers experience. Pisano Artistry presented an art display that addresses the comorbidities of TBI/PTSD including homelessness and suicide.
ARTS DISTRICT Collaborative 2022 Recipients and Programs
Children’s Garden
The Treehouse Academy & San Diego Craft Collective | Summer 2022
The Treehouse Academy and San Diego Craft Collective built a children’s garden outside of The Dorothea Laub Music & Arts Center, with seasonal vegetables, herbs, and native plants.
International Make Music Day
Apt 4 Music & Songbirds Music | June 2022
Outdoor music instruction and interaction for all ages on North Promenade making ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station the official San Diego location for International Make Music Day.
Metal & Mud Wall Art Workshop
Rekindle Pottery & AG Ambroult | July 2022
This workshop focused on how to create a small piece of wall art with the use of premade/pre-cut pieces of metal and ceramic that are strung together in a decorative manner. Collaborating on this project brought together the experience of both artists with their mediums and provides a safe space for women to explore their creativity.
Teaching Artist Professional Development Day
Malashock Dance, CoTA & KIT | August 2022
Malashock Dance will host a free “TEACHING ARTIST PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAY” in collaboration with CoTA (Collaboration Teachers and Artists) and KIT (Kids Included Together), both Liberty Station tenants. Our target audience is all teaching artists (regardless of arts discipline), and classroom teachers who are passionate about working with arts teachers to enhance the learning experience of their students.
Video Workshop
The Rosin Box Project & Outside the Lens | September 2022
Collaborating with Outside The Lens, TRBP presented a two-day workshop learning about capturing dance on film. Students worked with TRBP’s professional dancers and OTL’s tenured teaching artists, exploring how to highlight dance best on camera and the post-production work involved in creating a dance film short. The final videos were shown in a First Friday Showcase at the end of the project in September.
Uplifting Gestures
Artist Leslie Pierce & Malashock Dance | September 2022
Public outdoor Gesture Drawing of Malashock Dancers led by Artist Leslie Pierce. Drawings were on display in Dick Laub NTC Command Center in November of 2022.
Birds in Motion
San Diego Dance Theater & Mockingbird Improv | November 2022
Birds in Motion was a first time two-day collaboration between San Diego Dance Theater and Mockingbird Improv. This innovative pilot program consisted of two main components: a workshop open to the public, and a performance incorporating students from the workshop, along with a piece developed by the two professional companies.
2021 Collaborative Programs
Perspective Film Screening/ New Americans POV
San Diego Filipino Cinema & New Americans Museum | May 2021
San Diego Filipino Cinema in collaboration with New Americans Museum presented the virtual Perspective Film Screening/ New Americans POV of two award-winning films from two new Americans and POC filmmakers from the Philippines and Nigeria. An insightful discussion with filmmakers Drama Del Rosario and Peter Okojie followed the screening of their films. Drama’s film discusses issues of the LGBTQ experience and challenges of coming out in a religious and military family. Peter’s film discusses issues of poverty, economics, and a family’s aspirations for survival in Nigeria with the wife’s accidental introduction to boxing.
Dance is in the Air
San Diego Dance Theater, Malashock Dance & San Diego Ballet | May/June 2021
Malashock Dance, San Diego Ballet, and San Diego Dance Theater announced the return to live dance productions in the Dance is in the Air Festival on an outdoor stage at ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station. The three companies spent over a year working in virtual platforms to continue to create and perform dance, and were thrilled to collaborate on the vision, design, fundraising, and procurement of an outside stage.
San Diego Craft Collective & Hakkai Aquascape Design Gallery
San Diego Craft Collective & Hakkai Aquascape Design Gallery | Summer 2021
San Diego Craft Collective in collaboration with Hakkai Aquascape Design Gallery hosted 4 craft-based demonstrations showcasing Hakkai’s special aquascaping skills and San Diego Craft Collective’s skills in woodworking and craft. The workshops were open to the public and offered free of charge.
Day of Art
San Diego Brain Injury Foundation & VELTZ Fine Art | July 2021
The San Diego Brain Injury Foundation, in collaboration with Veltz Fine Art and Lovejoy Creations, produced a virtual Day of Art event for brain injury survivors. Day of Art was an opportunity for brain injury survivors to engage with creation of art projects in a variety of mediums as a form of art therapy. Survivors learned basic art techniques during Day of Art. This event, included art kits mailed to registered participants, was offered free of charge.
CineScore
Outside the Lens & Young Lions Jazz Conservatory | Fall/Winter 2021
Outside the Lens in collaboration with the Young Lions Jazz Conservatory presented CineScore, a multi-session media + film scoring program for high school students. Students collaborated on a multimedia project, creating a short narrative, documentary, or hybrid film together. The Young Lions students wrote a play and record an original musical score in a live studio session. The final outcome of the project was be a short film with accompanying original music score co-produced and co-created by youth from both organizations.
The Rosin Box Project & Outside the Lens
The Rosin Box Project & Outside the Lens | Fall 2021
The Rosin Box Project (TRBP), in collaboration with Outside the Lens, presented a free, 3-day movement photography workshop in early summer catering to middle and high school students across the San Diego region. Students will engage with professional teaching artists and dancers, producing dance photography that were showcased in Dorothea Laub Dance Place. Working with Outside the Lens, TRBP targeted middle school and high school groups already engaged with both nonprofits, including student bodies at San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts and Coronado School of The Arts.
2020 Collaborative Events
The Waves of Feminism
Women’s Museum of California | January – March 2021
The “Waves of Feminism” was a temporary outdoor multi-panel mural that will describe and distinguish between different eras and generations of feminism in a way that is educational, enlightening, and engaging. The three-panel mural featured images of prominent women who contributed to each era’s movement, along with didactic information embedded into the canvasses to provide context. An additional innovation allowed viewers to utilize their smartphones using a QR code or other technology, to connect to segments of audio or video recordings of the women’s speeches archived at the Library of Congress.
STREAM/Line: A Virtual Dance Series
Malashock Dance | November/December 2020
Malashock Dance presented STREAM/Line, a five-part series of unique, 30-minute, COVID-safe events, live-streamed from the Malashock Studio Theater. This series featured live World Premiere dance performances, open rehearsals where audiences could peer into the creative process in real time, forum discussions that address the current challenges and opportunities in the performing arts and made-for-the-camera dance films.
Day of Art
San Diego Brain Injury Foundation & Veltz Fine Art | November/December 2020
The San Diego Brain Injury Foundation (SDBIF) is collaborated with Veltz Fine Art to produce two virtual Day of Art events for brain injury survivors, an opportunity for brain injury survivors to create art projects in a variety of mediums. Survivors learned basic art techniques and the event also provided a positive environment where survivors could connect with peers. Registered participants received an art kit in the mail to enable participation and eliminate the need for them to purchase any supplies to participate.
Fish Out of Water 2020
Lauren LeVieux | November – April 2021
A temporary art installation, Fish Out of Water 2020 was a collaborative art piece only visible when wet. On rainy days the artwork surprised visitors. On sunny days a little water revealed the installation.
Annual Day of the Dead Commemorative Celebration
New Americans Museum | November 2020
Presented by New Americans Museum, this year’s Annual Day of the Dead Commemorative Celebration featured a special multimedia presentation in lieu of a physical altar to respect social distancing measures. The anticipated Día de Muertos/Day of the Dead experience honored the 200,000+ lives lost in the U.S. to the coronavirus pandemic with a student-led video/film, accompanying narrative and Zoom discussion with Professor of Anthropology Dr. Jose Guadalupe Flores from Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, detailing the symbols and significance of a cultural and pilgrimage practice dating back to precolonial times in Mexico.
Together, Liberty: Metamorphosis
Leslie Pierce | December 2020 -March 2021
“Together, Liberty” is a wall exhibit and online platform celebrating Metamorphosis, as seen as a butterfly. The butterfly can be interpreted in any way – abstractly or real in images, through the media of dance, jewelry, food, drink, sculpture, ceramics, paintings, architecture, flowers and words, and can be completely conceptual. This project will include a physical exhibit of hanging 8×8” prints at The Martha Pace Swift Gallery each available for viewing online.
Wanderlings the Zine Meets Liberty Station
Whimsique, MK Envisions, San Diego Watercolor Society and White Box Live Arts | April 2020
Art Date- 3 hour workshops and scavenger hunt to promote creativity and discovery across the campus. Includes a custom art map, photo prompts, art and text installations, portrait studios and submission boxes for innovative interactions with participants.
Perspective Series Film Screening
San Diego Filipino Cinema, New Americans Museum & Outside the Lens | February 2020
New Americans Museum partnered with San Diego Filipino Cinema to produce a Perspective screening program dedicated to bringing unique, powerful, and relevant films coming from the perspective of Filipinx filmmakers from around the world. The collective focus was on compelling films that address social justice issues rarely seen or talked about on the big screen. Included relevant shorts and a post screening Q & A.
2019 Collaborative Events
Summer Solstice featuring Art, Music, Dance & Dining
Various Arts District tenants | June 2019
A three-day weekend of visual and culinary experiences to awaken your senses to the summer sun! The celebration begins Friday evening and runs through Sunday evening.
The sunny daytime hours will be filled with Public Art participation and special events found in and around the ARTS DISTRICT’s more than 25 artist studios, to live music,
dance performances and yoga in the lawn. The evening hours are focused on indulging the taste buds and dining under the stars at one of the many top rated restaurants’
patios. Restaurants at Liberty Station can be found here. The Sunday night finale will be Congé the “ArtGastro Progressive Dinner of a Lifetime!” Dinner Guests will progress thru 3 Courses served at Veltz Fine Art, Solare Ristorante and MK Envision Galleries, with Celebrity Chef Flor Franco & Executive Chef Filippo Piccini.
First Friday Performance
DanzArts, Emilio Ochando and San Diego Dance Theater | October 2019
DanzArts La Esencia Flamenca Dance Company will be hosting world renowned and award-winning flamenco dancer, Emilio Ochando. A free Flamenco workshop will take
place and be open to the public. Prior to performance, attendees will have an opportunity to meet Ochando during a reception at 5:30 pm-7 pm with a free demonstration of his work and a history of flamenco at Dorothea Laub Dance Place.
Live Arts Fest
San Diego Dance Theater, Kevin Winger Fine Art, Lauren LeVieux, M. Fishbeck Studio Gallery, Velz Fine Art, Blue Pearl Art and Alexia Rose Art | April 2019
Dance-makers and 5 visual artists from ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station work collaboratively to inspire each other for the annual Live Arts Fest; creating original images for projection. The artists and dance-makers worked together, holding collaborative meetings and using the descriptions of the intended work from the dancemakers to serve as a point of inspiration.
Spring in the Arts
Recreational Music Center, Monart School of Art and The LOT | March 2019
Spring into the Arts is a collaborative camp that will offer a 5-hour camp experience for kids ages 4-14. The camp will conclude with a showcase of what they learned at THE
LOT. The showcase will allow for the public to view their work on the big screen, while also enjoying music by Recreational Music Center.
Filmmersion presented by San Diego Filipino Cinema
New Americans Museum and The LOT
March 2019
The San Diego Filipino Cinema in association with the New Americans Museum will host Filmmersion – a three-day film immersion workshop .The best three short films will be
selected to be shown at THE LOT prior to the showing of “The Women of The Weeping River.”
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