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New consignment shops Designer Consignment Shops, My Sister’s Closet and Well Suited will have its grand opening and ribbon cutting in Encinitas at 9 a.m. Nov. 2 at 146 N. El Camino Real Suites A & B. First 100 lined up get free Swag Bags. Shop on oneof-a-kind finds inside the beach-themed shops near Encinitas Boulevard and El Camino Real. It is the chain’s 14th store. 6,489 square feet go to the ladies at My Sister’s Closet, and 1,932 square feet is reserved for men at Well Suited.
Kickin’ it! Try out some martial arts for free at the West Coast Martial Arts open house, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 2, 451 Encinitas Blvd., Encinitas. At 9 a.m., join the adult class for 13 years and up, at 10 a.m. the Junior Achievers class is for age 9 to12 and at 12:15 p.m. Lil’ Champions ages 4 to 8, work Oceanside Y reopens out. For more information, The Mottino Family visit wcmaasd.com. YMCA celebrates its grand reopening at 4701 Mesa Curb cafe Blvd., Oceanside Nov. 8 Through the Carlsbad through Nov. 10. Military City Council’s three-year memberships are available pilot program, North as is financial assistance for County’s first “parklet” for qualified households. For restaurant dining broke more information, please ground Oct. 17 at Garcia’s visit mottino.ymca.org Mexican Restaurant, 2968 State St., Carlsbad, adding Young entrepreneur 20 more seats for outdoor Scholastic Media, a childining. dren’s publishing company, The “curb cafes” are and HandsOn Network, temporary deck structures announced Gabrielle that extend onto the public Pousard, 16, of Encinitas, right-of-way on low-speed was one of five grant winners streets in the core Village of the “Be Big In Your area. Community” contest, a program of the ongoing Clifford, Carry it all? The Big Red Dog BE BIG! The Bicycle Coalition Campaign. She continued to and the Encinitas Bicycle pursue her food rescue proShop Oct. 24 showcased the gram “Donate Don’t Dump,” latest in cargo bikes that let to change the paradigm of one bicycle haul your family, commercial food waste and groceries, dog and more, at inspire youngsters to usher the Velo Hangar/Alterna in the next generation of Bike Shop, 637 Valley Ave., recycling. Solana Beach. For more information, call (760) 492- Breast cancer book 6450 or email Solana Beach author Gordon@velohangar.com. Wendy Sellens will be signing copies of her book, “Breast Cancer Boot Camp” from 7 p.m. to midnight Nov. 8 at Hotel Palomar, 1047 5th Ave., San Diego. For more information, contact (877) 727-0697. New film blog North County Film Club’s Nancy Javier has created a blog at ncfilmclub.blogspot.com/201 3 / 1 0 / ab o u t - m ov i e s - a n d books.html, featuring film review’s by club members, plus a Critic’s Corner. If you loved or hated any films you have watched lately, you can leave a comment on the site. Also comment about films, books, past showings, future showings, whatever’s on your mind. Rancho Rotary The Rancho Santa Fe Rotary hosted nationally known, top Real Estate analyst Jon Woloshin Oct. 22 at the Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club. Woloshin spoke about the U.S. and Southern California residential and commercial market recovery and his prediction for interest rates. Woloshin is the Chief investment officer with UBS Financial in New York with 28 years of experience as a securities analyst covering REITS, homebuilders, Health care, technology and energy sectors.
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New to Del Mar Plaza Parsa Rug Gallery, a designer home and rug boutique, will open a 700square-foot boutique, its first U.S. location in the Del Mar Plaza, this November. Persian designer, Minoo Yashin, is the artist behind Parsa. For more information, visit delmarplaza.com. New school Taylion San Diego Academy opened its newest location in San Marcos, 100 N. Rancho Santa Fe Road, Suite 119, offering classes for grades K-12. The school presents a program that’s online, athome, or a blended program of both, for gifted and talented students. An informational session will be held at 6 p.m. Nov. 6. For more information, call (760) 295-5564 or visit taylionsandiego.com. Scrapbook success The 24-hour scrapbooking event called Survivor Crop that supports Susan G. Komen for the Cure San Diego, began Oct. 19 went through to Oct. 20 and raised more than $76,000.
From left: Danielle Deery, OMA Director of Marketing/Curator; Dave Roberts, County Supervisor, District 3; Daniel Foster, OMA Executive Director; Terry Sinnott, Mayor, City of Del Mar. Courtesy photo
Museum director marks one year By Promise Yee
OCEANSIDE — Daniel Foster has finished his first year as Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA) executive director and begins his second year with two impactful community outreach projects, among other accomplishments. Foster came to the museum with a great deal of experience, and a healthy respect for where the young museum was in its development. OMA formally opened in the historic Irving Gill building on Pier View Way in 1997, and finished a $6 million, 15,000-square-foot expansion by archetect Fredrick Fisher in 2008 under its first executive director Skip Pahl, who served until 2010. From 2010 to 2012, under its second executive director Ed Fosmire, the museum updated its online presence and continued to push its exhibits and programs further with innovative projects including the Art After Dark series that fuses entertainment, interactive art and exhibits of off beat genres such as steampunk art. The Artists @ Work program was also launched, which shares entertaining live art with spectators. Foster began in 2012 and saw the next step for the museum. His goal was to raise the museum’s recognition level as a regional leader in the arts. The museum is acknowledged for its excellent curating, but has not established a regional audience. Foster saw the need to build connections with surrounding communities and bring art to them instead of waiting for peo-
ple to find the museum. “The most important job for me is to aggressively start building bridges with new audiences,” Foster said. First he created a focused vision with museum staff to anchor the museum’s efforts. Then he encouraged staff members to dream big on ways to bring art out into the community. “We needed to establish a dynamic efficient vision for the museum,” Foster said. The museum’s vision is to be a premier regional art museum in Southern California and a leader of arts and culture in San Diego North County. To fulfill that vision staff works to raise awareness of the importance of arts and culture, and build collaborations with civic, economic and educational organizations. “Outreach means more than an aggressive advertising budget,” Foster said. “Our approach is much more about going into the community and creating a portal for connection.” Two great outcomes of these efforts are OMA exhibits at the Herbert B. Turner Galleries in Del Mar and the Exploring Engagement initiative
throughout North County. The Herbert B. Turner Galleries is an outdoor gallery set in the Southfair business center at 2010 Jimmy Durante Blvd. Turner, who is an architect and artist, built the window display galleries into the business center. The galleries have not held exhibits for a while. OMA seized the opportunity to arrange a long-term lease of the outdoor galleries that lend themselves to 24/7 art displays and outdoor event space around the art. “It was a natural,” Foster said. “We want this to be a really important showcase in North County coastal.” The first museum exhibit currently on display at the galleries is “The Unerring Eye.” It features paintings by Turner and black and white photos of celebrities and the backside of the Del Mar racetrack by H. Montgomery-Drysdale. Another great example of the progressive direction the museum is taking is the first Exploring Engagement initiative project that will begin Nov. 29 at the Westfield Plaza Camino Real Shopping Mall in Carlsbad.
The Exploring Engagement initiative is a two-year, five-artist residency project funded by the James Irvine Foundation to bring interactive art to unexpected locations. The first project is varied art experiences ranging from social media to interactive catwalks, musical performances and puppet shows, set in a winter wonderland within the mall during the holiday shopping season. “It’s designed to create different interactive participatory experiences in a shopping environment,” Foster said. “We’re honoring the path of making art part of our daily consciousness. Fundamentally everyone is an artist and has a unique special voice.” The project is led by artist Armando de la Torre. It will be held through the holiday shopping season.
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