Crown City Magazine - September 2018

Coronado Art & Artists Muralist Kelcey Fisher City Ballet of San Diego

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Coronado Calendar ................................................ 6 Loews Play by the Bay ............................................7 Art and Artists in Coronado.................................10 Kelcey Fisher, Controlled Chaos Muralist .......... 18 City Ballet of San Diego ...................................... 28 Island Girl – The Artful Islander.......................... 32 Q&A with Kristen Vincent.................................... 36 History of the Bicycle...........................................40 Art of the Craft Cocktail ..................................... 42 Christ Episcopal Church marks 130 years......... 46

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PUBLISHER Amy Slack amy@crowncitypublishing.com ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER / ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Heather Canton heather@crowncitypublishing.com EDITOR Leslie Crawford leslie@crowncitypublishing.com CREATIVE DIRECTOR Amy Stirnkorb design@crowncitypublishing.com ADVERTISING GRAPHIC DESIGN Gina Falletta Design Martina Schimitschek CONTRIBUTORS Arts & Frames Gallery, Samantha Bey, Blue Bridge Hospitality, City Ballet, Mark Dektor Photography, Christian Esquevin, Karyn Frazier, Karen Hogan, Loews Coronado Bay Resort, Jamie Marsh, Jessica Nicolls, Kelly Purvis, Martina Schimitchek, The Tavern, Christine Van Tuyl, Kristen Vincent Photography FOR ADVERTISING SALES AMY SLACK amy@crowncitypublishing.com; (619) 288-8050 HEATHER CANTON heather@crowncitypublishing.com; (619) 565-7789 HOW TO REACH US (619) 435-0334 hello@crowncitypublishing.com www.crowncitymagazine.com www.coronadocalendar.com www.welcometocoronado.com

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FROM THE CROWN CITY MAGAZINE TEAM

So Long, Summer!

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oronado has always been a gold mine for the arts. While creating the September issue, we saw art in its many forms everywhere we looked, so it was tough to pick and choose what to bring to you, our readers. Creating this magazine for our community is also an art form, and we hope you enjoy flipping through the pages to explore a sampling of Coronado’s treasure trove of local art.

In this issue we feature some stories of local art and artists through the years. We highlight Coronado graduate, Kelcey Fisher, and his interesting and growing career as an artist/muralist.

Island Girl shows us how to find our creative side

ON THE COVER Kelcey Fisher.

By Mark Dektor Photography www.markdektor.com

BACKGROUND PHOTO ByJamie Marsh

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and you’ll meet Coronado residents who are working on behalf of City Ballet of San Diego, just to mention a few stories in the magazine.

Over the past few months, we have had the pleasure of meeting such interesting people, all with compelling stories, right here in our own backyard. With each person’s story, we are reminded of what an exceptional community we live in. We are proud to be a part of our crowned city where creativity knows no bounds.

The Crown City Magazine Team, Amy Slack, Heather Canton, Leslie Crawford and Amy Stirnkorb

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ONGOING Art in the Park: 1st & 3rd Sundays, Spreckels Park Farmer’s Market: Weekly Tuesday afternoon, Coronado Ferry Landing Rotary Club: Weekly Wednesday at noon, Hotel del Coronado Optimist Club: Weekly Thursday at 7 am, Coronado Community Center SEPTEMBER 7: Loews Resort Play on the Bay 7-9: Beach Polo at the Hotel del Coronado 8: MainStreet Party in the Garden 13: Coronado Hospital Foundation Golf Tournament 16: SuperFrog Triathlon 21: 92118 Day! 26: Classic Movie Series 28: LT Frank Greene Memorial Golf Tournament OCTOBER 1-5: Bulky Trash Week 7: Fire Department Open House 20: CSF Gala Auction 20-28: Fleet Week 24:Classic Movie Series S AV E T H E D A T E November 4: Daylight Savings Time Change November 9-12: Coronado Island Film Festival November 24: Small Business Saturday November 28: #GivingTuesday

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GIVING BACK | DONORSCHOOSE.ORG

Play on the Bay Fundraiser benefits public school classrooms

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Guests enjoy last year’s Play on the Bay.

and his colleagues were spending out of their own pocket. Believing people would want to help as long as they could see where their money was going, Best created a website where teachers could post requests and people could choose what they wanted to support.

The idea worked. His coworkers posted the first 11 requests, and now the donation site is open to every public school in the United States.

Projects can be large and small — from butterfly cocoons to robotics kits — but every donor will receive a thank you note from the teacher.

They’ll also get photos from the

classroom so they can see how their money was spent.

Over the past 18 years, 80 percent of public schools across the country have posted a project on the site and more than $715 million havs been raised by more than 3.2 million donors.

Tickets for the event at Loews are $100 per person. Room discounts are also available with the promo code PLAY. DonorsChoose. org is the national charity for Loews Hotels & Co. For more information and to buy tickets, go to eventbrite.com and enter Play on the Bay. CROWNCITYMAGAZINE.COM

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oews Coronado Bay Resort will once again host Play on the Bay, a fundraiser for DonorsChoose.org. The national organization, which was started by a history teacher at a Bronx public high school in 2000, raises money for classrooms at public schools.

“It is an opportunity to enjoy a fun-filled evening at our resort while supporting public school teachers and their local classrooms. We’ve raised $115,000 over the last two years to assist local school teachers with the supplies and equipment they need to teach our children,” said Sean Clancy, managing director at Loews Coronado Bay Resort, in a statement.

The annual event, now in its third year, is scheduled from 6 to 9 p.m. Sept. 7 and will include food, drinks, live music, a silent auction and for one night only, two specialty seasonal beers from Mike Hess Brewing.

Donors to DonorsChoose.org can choose to which school they would like to contribute. Since its inception, the organization funded more than 1.2 million classroom projects.

The idea started when Charles Best, the Bronx teacher, wanted his students to read “Little House on the Prairie,” and was making photocopies of the one book he had.

He thought about all the money he

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World-renowned Spanish artist Alfredo Navarro Montllor painted this “Setting Sun” with our Coronado beaches in mind — translucent waves gently rolling onto the gold-flecked sandy shore as the evening’s sunset dances across the water.

Art & Frames Gallery owner Jill Hardman met Navarro years ago in New York. Art & Frames is his exclusive representative in Southern California.

From the first time she saw his work, she exclaimed, “I have never seen a seascape artist paint like him, ever!” With great artistic emotion and power, he captures the many moods of waves — crashing against rock formations, calm mesmerizing expanse of ocean seas to the feeling of a warm sun on an endless horizon.

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HISTORY | CORONADO ARTS

Famed Western artist Lafayette Maynard Dixon created this mural, “Bureau of Indian Affairs: Indian & Teacher,” for the U.S. IMAGE COURTESY LIBRARY OF CONGRESS / CAROL M. HIGHSMITH, PHOTOGRAPHER

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Washington, D.C., during the Great Depression. As a young man, Dixon spent a formative year in Coronado sketching and developing his artistic eye before settling down in the American Southwest.

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Art & Artists in Coronado: A Rich & Colorful Legacy

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Story by CHRISTIAN ESQUEVIN

oronado is known for its strong naval ties, its golf and yachting and being a charming resort town. Yet curiously, its history as a mecca for art and artists, usually doesn’t come to mind.

The city was founded in 1890, and one of the great American artists spent the last year of his schooling here in 1891 before he dropped out.

Lafayette Maynard Dixon wandered around the beaches and the Silver Strand and he drew what he saw, sending his Coronado

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and founded the Franklin Club, whose purpose was to provide hospitality to strangers (there was no formal membership) and to have a salon where speakers talk about the world and the arts.

In 1930, the Franklin Club held its first art exhibit featuring 16 artists. The following year, 34 members of the community contributed 129 works of art in various media. Joseph Mason Reeves, Jr. (1898-1973), son of Admiral Joseph Mason “Bull” Reeves, the father of naval aviation, exhibited three paintings. Other works on display by accomplished artist-members of the club included Katherine MacDonald, Grace Healy and Howard Smith. The Franklin Club held art exhibitions for several years thereafter at Christ Church, broadening their shows to include commercial art and architectural drawings. The club also held lectures on modern art, Japanese art and Mexican pottery. Before any other Coronado civic clubs existed, the Franklin Club served the need.

Mitchell Art Gallery About the same time Mary Franklin arrived in Coronado, John W. Mitchell came to town with a splash. The retired lawyer was a world traveler and art collector, intent on building a gallery of fine arts in Coronado. He bought 10 lots on the 1000 block of Ocean Boulevard, with a residence on the corner facing the Hotel del Coronado. He commissioned Louis Gill to build an impressive Spanish-style building on the Flora Avenue side facing Star Park, which was to become the

Lafayette Maynard Dixon

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sketchbook to his idol famed American scultptor, painter and writer Frederic Remington. Remington wrote back saying, “You draw better at your age than I did at the same age.”

Remington offered a few other words of advice, “Be always true to yourself; if you imitate any other man…you are ‘gone’; read books and good literature; see much and observe the things in nature; and draw, draw, draw.” Dixon absorbed those lessons well. He moved on to roam the country, eventually settled in Southern Utah and Tucson and became one of the greatest Western painters.

As Coronado’s population grew, the need for artistic expression and cultural stimulation grew apace.

Mary Elizabeth Franklin, a relative of the great American politician and inventor Benjamin Franklin, visited Coronado in 1922 and was charmed by the Flower Show and the people she met. In 1923, she moved to Coronado from Boston

Mitchell Art Gallery displaying his 30-year collection of art, sculpture, books and decorative objects.

Mitchell died in 1926 before the art gallery was finished, but his widow, Adina, carried on after his death and opened it to the public when the building was finished. The art gallery included a floor-to-ceiling library of 6,000 books on art history, literature, and the humanities.

The paintings ranged from Gainsborough and Goya to Tintoretto and Otto Van Veen. It also included modern artists such as Childe Hassam and Elliott Daingerfield and historic California scenes such as “The Landing of Junipero Serra in San Diego” and “The First Fiesta,” both by the Cecil B. DeMille artist Daniel Groesbeck.

The Mitchell Art Gallery could

Martinez murals Before the decade ended, another artist came to Coronado who did leave a legacy. In 1938, Albert Bram commissioned Alfredo Ramos Martinez to paint a set of fresco murals throughout his newly built La Avenida Café. Martinez was no itinerant artist. He studied art in France for 12 years and was the head of the Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico City, where he had launched a national “Open Air” program of art instruction for youths. Among the students in the program were

muralists Rufino Tamayo and David Alfaro Siqueiros.

The Martinez murals were an inspiration for generations of Coronado artists. Although the original building no longer survives, two of the murals “El Día del Mercado” and “Canasta de Flores,” are at the Coronado Public Library.

Coronado Academy of Fine Arts The World War II aerospace industry brought artist Monty Lewis out west from New York. A native of COURTESY CORONADO LIBRARY COLLECTION

have been a rich legacy for the city.

When Adina Mitchell died in 1931, her will, reflecting the wishes of her husband, left the property, art gallery and all its contents, to the city of Coronado to be used as a school of art. Regrettably, Coronado turned down the offer, stating an art school would be too expensive to maintain. So, an art collection now worth millions of dollars was sold off and lost to future art lovers.

The Mitchell Art Gallery was torn down in 1935 and the property sub-divided.

“Canasta de Flores” by Alfredo Ramos Martinez

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Wales, Lewis studied at New York’s Art Students League as a Guggenheim Fellow. He was working for Consolidated Aircraft as a technical illustrator when he moved to Coronado and opened the Coronado Academy of Fine Arts in his converted garage at 692 Margarita Ave. in 1945.

The Coronado Academy of Fine Arts really took off in 1951 when Lewis found its permanent home at 176 C Ave. There was sufficient indoor space for classes and a large yard where students could display their finished paintings – hung on the fence. Donal Hord, the renowned sculptor and fellow Guggenheim awardee, taught there, as did Guy McCoy, founder of the Western Serigraph Institute, as well as future acclaimed Coronado watercolorist Poppy Clark.

The new location allowed for an expansion of activities. Lewis began a film festival with screenings of international classics once a month. Classes on advertising art joined the fine arts. In 1957, Mayor Coleman Gray proclaimed a “Coronado Art Week,” concluding with the eighth annual Arts Ball, with student-painted posters displayed by merchants throughout town and Coronado Art Association member paintings on exhibit at the First National Bank.

In 1948, the Coronado Art Association was established with Adm. Paul W. Hord its first president. It was loosely affiliated with the Coronado Art Gallery/ Jeannette Studio at 1150 Orange Ave., where the association’s first exhibition and sale were held. It held its next sale at the Coronado California State Armory

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Lessons at the Coronado Academy of Fine Arts

on the Silver Strand. This building later became the Coronado Woman’s Club and was later demolished.

Arts at school Coronado High School was another thriving center for art education. In 1940, Esther Painter Hagstrom, who also taught at the Academy of Fine

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Arts, took over as the art teacher and began a multi-media art instruction curriculum. She died from a stroke in 1951 but left a legacy of students that continued their involvement with the arts.

Hagstrom was an accomplished painter and many of her works were donated to the Coronado

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library by her granddaughter Suzy Hagstrom.

Coronado High School also had the talented art instructor Charles Luedtke, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and who specialized in wood carving. He also taught and lectured on modern art at the Coronado Academy of Fine Art. The junior high school had J. Richard Leflang as the art teacher from 1952 to 1976. He was an accomplished artist who also served as president of the Coronado Art Association. These art instructors laid the groundwork for the acclaimed Coronado School of the Arts, founded by Kris McClung and Principal Jeff Davis in 1996.

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“Mexican Fiesta” by Poppy Clark

“Marina” by Esther Painter Hagstrom

Art for sale Artists were springing up in Coronado in the 1960s and ’70s, and with that came the need to exhibit and to sell their works. The

Coronado Art Association exhibited members’ works in conjunction with the Flower Show in 1961. It also began holding an exhibition at the park for the Fourth of July. An “Art Mart”

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Coronado artists were featured in the Bridge & Bay Magazine’s Arts and Artists column including Ouida Reilly (seated) and Doug St Denis (right) who, in recent years, helped establish the Coronado Arts Commission.

was held at the Bank of America (925 Orange Ave.) parking lot on Saturdays, later moving to the now familiar twice a month show at Spreckels Park. Noted artists who showed their works there include Sara Rowe, Sue Tushingham McNary, Uwe Werner, and John Yato.

The Bridge & Bay magazine covered the Coronado social and historical scene from 1972 to1977.

It contained a regular Art & Artists column. There were always notable Coronado artists to cover.

Ouida Reilly stood out as a regular award winner, as did Poppy Clark.

Clark had lost her sight by the early 1970s, but still painted nonetheless.

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Coronado. Jill Hardman’s Art & Frames by The Wood Gallery at 936 Orange Ave. opened in 1975 and is Coronado’s oldest framing and art gallery. The city also used to be home to the Coronado Art Gallery, which had two different locations on Orange Avenue. Uwe Werner and Sue Tushingham McNary had their own art galleries. The Hotel Del offered art for sale, and over the years numerous galleries operated at the Coronado Ferry Landing. Now, Emerald C Gallery at 1331 Orange Ave., is showing fine works of art.

Several art galleries began the idea for an art walk. The first Coronado Art Walk was held on Park Place and Star Park in 2006. It became a fundraiser for the Corona|

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do Historical Association and was held for several years at Coronado Ferry Landing.

Probably the most important event in Coronado’s art history happened when the Coronado City Council created the Coronado Cultural Arts Commission in September 2011. The commission’s mission is to serve and partner with Coronado’s many local artists and arts organizations, and act as a catalyst in furthering a vibrant and cohesive arts community, strengthening arts education, enhancing cultural tourism and economic development. The commission was established thanks to the hard work of Heidi Wilson and Doug St. Denis, who became two of the first seven appointed commissioners. The commission then divided into seven subject area working groups with an ambitious agenda.

By 2013, Kelly Purvis was hired as the arts administrator to help the commission accomplish its many projects, including the annual Coronado Island Film Festival, which was established in 2016, and the Public Art Working Group, which has placed sculptures and key pieces of public art around Coronado.

“About San Diego” television host Ken Kramer has said he believes Coronado has more history per square foot than any other place in San Diego County. Coronado’s art history has added much to what Coronado is today.

• Christian Esquevin has been the Director of Library Services at the Coronado Public Library since 1988.

He is a proponent of the arts, collector of original film costume design sketches, and is the author of Adrian: Silver Screen to Custom Label.

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Kelcey in front of his mural, completed this year at Coronado High School, with help from Cheyenne Barton, his assistant on the project and also a CHS grad.

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lass of ’06 Coronado High School grad Kelcey Fisher has returned to his alma mater to create a little chaos. Known as “KFish,” the artist recently completed a mixed-media mural at the school in his

energetic, vibrant style that has been called controlled chaos.

The mural, at the primary campus exit on Seventh Street, is of a girl on a swing, a surfer, a skater and a couple bicycling. If you look carefully, you’ll see Fisher has embedded a typographical surprise in the pattern work of broken mirrors and tiles. It reads “Coronado High School Islanders.” Fisher, along with his favorite art teacher, CHS’s Laura Hill, and friends from Coronado, drew up the vision inspired by a mural in Venice Beach featuring a “waist-down” view of people on the Venice boardwalk.

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With one of his murals as a backdrop, Kelcey paints a surfboard at the Surf Relik longboard competition in Malibu.

A 2011 graduate Loyola Marymount University with a degree in graphic design, Fisher was invited to create the large-scale artwork through funding from the Coronado Schools Foundation.

He invited current CHS students to collaborate on the project, and he spoke to students about art as a profession and finding your passion and pursuing it.

Fisher, born in Southern Florida, considers Coronado his hometown, having landed here during his middle school years when Navy orders brought the family to the west coast. His name, “Kelcey,” literally means “one who dwells by the sea,” in old English.

During high school Fisher stood out on the athletic field. He was the MVP on his football team in his A piece of Kelcey’s work senior year and a 2006 All Amerifrom high school. can The for lacrosse, landing a lacrosse first home for the Balboa Park Carousel classmates. scholarship 12-time NCAA Diviwas attoCoronado’s Tent City in 1912. In the 2006 CHS Beachcomber yearbook, Fisher and his felsion III Champion Salisbury College low classmate Abbie Faller are listed in Maryland. However, his artistic under the title “Most Artistic.” talents were also well known by his

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Fisher studied art under the direction of Hill, the head of CHS’s art department. While he admits he didn’t study hard in high school, art came naturally to him. His mother, Ruth Ann Fisher (now the principal of Del Coronado Realty), was his pre-school art teacher and is one of his greatest champions.

His grandfather was an accomplished artist as well.

Fisher attended college in Maryland for a year, studied business and played lacrosse. But Maryland was cold, quiet and his heart was in California, so he returned to Los Angeles. He found his niche in the Loyola Marymount University Art Department.

Kelcey first made his mark on the art scene when, as an urban artist, he painted large-scale portraits of iconic Americans surrounded by his trademark pattern work on the streets of Venice. At first glance his pieces have a vibrant, almost happy repeat of color and pattern.

However, with more discernment, a

more complex and moody structure emerges especially if you watch the artist at work. Through painting and photography, he combines his pattern work with images that are digitally manipulated, printed and then affixed to the surface of his chosen medium.

In late December 2015, renowned prima ballerina Misty Copeland was memorialized with a vibrant, four-panel KFish mural on the side of her alma mater, the San Pedro Ballet School, which was once a Norwegian bakery. Fisher called the side of the studio “the perfect canvas.” The work is comprised of 16-foot-tall panels with black-and-white photo cutouts of Copeland in powerful poses against Fisher’s signature colorful patterns.

“I want this to be loud,” he said of

For more about Kelcey and his work, check out his website at kfishart.com or follow him on Instagram at @KFishla. the Copeland mural. “I want people to want to stop and take an Instagram picture.” Painting a mural of Copeland at a time when she was breaking barriers and her fame skyrocketing, Fisher said, was “such an inspiration. I think for any artist — whether it be a painter, a dancer, actress or actor — it’s really cool to

see a story like that take off and see what your potential could possibly be.”

This past January Fisher moved in as Artist-in-Residence at OLiVE DTLA, a newly developed, art-inspired apartment community in downtown Los Angeles. Fisher lived there rent-free in a two-story loft for six months and created work on interior and public-facing exterior walls, showcasing his exhibits in the building’s communal spaces while receiving a monthly allowance for art supplies and support.

“Kelcey had all the qualities we were looking for in our Artist-in-Residence,” said Amber Huntley-Ruiz, director of marketing at The Wolff Company, a private real estate equity firm that developed OLiVE DTLA. “We were blown

This canvas, a mixed media portrait of Marilyn Monroe, is one of Kelcey’s smaller projects.

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away by the talent and range of applicants; but, in the end, Kelcey’s approach and work resonated with the panel.”

Fisher’s “controlled chaos” art also inspired his collaboration with Coronado Brewing Company on four limited-edition beers. The first three, Coco Chaos IPA, Marine Dream IPA and Island Vibes were released earlier this year. The last one is due out by December. The partnership with Fisher kicked off CBC’s new Coronado Art Series, an annual collection of beers featuring custom artwork by local artists.

“We’re very excited to have KFish, a Coronado local, on board for our inaugural Art Series,” said CBC CEO Brandon Richards. “We’re proud to be supporting a local artist whose roots perfectly align with our

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Coronado Brewing Company collaborated with Kelcey to create unique can designs for their special brews.

stay coastal lifestyle, and we look forward to continuing to partner with different artists every year.”

Artist collaborations are an essential facet of Fisher’s work.

Some of his Coronado collaborative co-creators include fellow CHS lacrosse teammate Kyle Boatwright who is also a muralist, and Dan Pressler, former graphic designer at Coronado Brewing Company, whom Fisher credits with pulling

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together the collaboration with CBC. Fisher said, “collaboration is great because you learn so much about yourself and you grow as an artist and creative open-minded person.”

You can also find Fisher’s signature pattern work on wine bottles, board shorts, shoes and a new Toyota CH-R, his first car canvas for a television commercial.

Fisher admits that the business side of being an artist is challenging but working with a manager has allowed him to focus on what he does best — the creative aspects. His work is now taking off with “controlled chaos” from coast to coast.

• Kelly Purvis is the City of Coronado Cultural Arts Administrator and a frequent contributor to Crown City Magazine.

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OVER THE BRIDGE | CITY BALLET OF SAN DIEGO

In May, City Ballet of San Diego will perform Mozart’s “Requiem,” a contemporary ballet set to the composer’s final, hauntingly beautiful composition. The dancers will be accompanied by a full orchestra and large

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chorale ensemble.

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On Point!

Coronadans celebrate the artistry of City Ballet of San Diego Story by SAMANTHA BEY

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hen Coronado locals Ray and Hillary Karno met fellow locals Chuck and Rita Steel at the Hotel Del in 2016, they weren’t aware their love for the classic art of ballet was about to take flight.

The Steels, whose children had taken classes at the City Ballet school and performed in its production of The Nutcracker, invited the Karnos to attend that year’s annual City Ballet of San Diego gala at the Del. They accepted, and Ray was so taken with the evening — including the ballet performances at the event — that he decided he had to get further involved.

With a background in sales and marketing, Ray signed up to become sponsorship chair, aspiring to get more Coronadans on board with supporting the celebrated program.

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Coronado’s growing team of City Ballet of San Diego sponsors (L-R): Layne Beaubien of Crown Island Insurance, Harold Rapoza, Jr., General Manager of the Hotel del Coronado, Michael Jacobs-Bonnett of QualCraft Construction, Hillary Karno, Ray Karno, Rita Steel, Chuck Steel, Rainier Trinidad of Parabolic Asset Management, and Lisa Kinzel of Alan Kinzel Realty Group.

“Performances are held just over the bridge at the Spreckels Theatre, and since Coronado doesn’t have its own company, we should really adopt this one as our own,” Ray said. “It’s really the premier performing ballet of San Diego County.” He explained there’s been a growing wave of Coronadans supporting the program and its

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noteworthy performances that he’d like to see keep growing. “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve invited locals who’ve never seen a ballet before, besides maybe The Nutcracker when they were a child, and everyone is just blown away. I even brought a Navy SEAL who’s now completely hooked,” he said, chuckling.

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The Hotel Del is one of the company’s major sponsors, hosting the annual gala for the third year in a row on Oct. 13 this year. Other Coronado sponsors include Alan and Lisa Kinzel with the Kinzel Realty Group, Layne Beaubien with Crown Island Insurance and Michael and Sheryl Jacobs-Bonnett with Qualcraft Construction. The event will be host-

ed by San Diego’s own Mario Lopez whose dance background includes a role in A Chorus Line on Broadway and Dancing with the Stars, and feature ballet performances by the City Ballet dancers and a live auction.

Rita explained that the gala, which has been running in some capacity since 1995, is the company’s largest fundraiser, with proceeds benefiting more than 10,000 children annually in San Diego County through performances and community outreach.

The gala will mark the opening of the four-production season running November through May. First, the “Tchaikovsky Spectacular” will take patrons through three pieces of his music to exquisite choreography, including Swan Lake Act II, Black Swan Pas De Deux and The Seasons. “Many people think of Vivaldi when they think of The Seasons, but Tchaikovsky actually composed one with 12 sections for each month,” explained the company’s managing director, Joanne Emery. “And Tchaikovsky is one of the most

handed down through generations,” Emery said.

Closing the season is Mozart’s Requiem, a full-company, large scale contemporary ballet incorporating the hauntingly beautiful score with dancers, a full orchestra and a large choral ensemble. “The acoustics in Spreckels Theatre are fantastic,” Emery said. “Guests will be completely surrounded by art!”

Today, Ray serves on the board of directors as sponsorship chair along with Rita, who is vice president. They hope to see more and more Coronadans begin to support the ballet this year, and know that those who do will not be disappointed. “Performances look and feel on par with those you’d see in Paris or New York. They’re really phenomenal,” Ray said. “Every single seat should be filled!”

For more information on performances or to buy tickets to the gala, visit cityballet.org. For sponsorship opportunities, contact Ray.Karno@ cityballet.org.

well-known and favorite composers of all major ballets. Twelve performances of The Nutcracker will follow the Spectacular through December.

The company is particularly honored to present “The Balanchine Masterpieces 2019” in March. Performances will include three masterpieces choreographed by George Balanchine, founder of the New York City Ballet. Emery explained that the Russian-born genius is widely considered to be the greatest ballet choreographer of the 20th century and created more than 300 ballets during his prolific career. “He was so ahead of his time,” she said.

Ballet companies must be granted permission to perform Balanchine’s pieces following a rigorous selection process based on extremely high artistic quality standards — and the City Ballet now holds that honor.

They must hire a “repetiteur” to come and teach the exact choreography, steps, staging and even lighting. “It’s choreography that’s been

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A R O U ND TOW N | CH RIST INE VAN T U YL

Whether you’re an aspiring artist, have a crafty alter-ego or you just love pretty things, our enchanted isle has a something to set your creative side on fire. From a visit to a nature-minded gallery to a chance to custom-build your very own piece of beach-chic jewelry, to a relaxing “Sip and Dip” with sea breezes galore, Coronado is bursting with enough art inspo to color you happy for days!

The Artful Islander Summon Your Inner Spirit Animal at Art for Wildlife Galleries

An artist’s homage to Mother Earth, the Art for Wildlife Galleries was established at the Coronado Ferry Landing in 1994. This world-class environmental gallery beckons with a distinct purpose: the inescapable belief in the purity and sanctity of animals and the natural world as subject matter for art.

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Imagine creating a customized piece of jewelry with a local designer who beachcombs for her treasures in Hawaii, Australia and Costa Rica. Coronado resident Liz Campbell started designing jewelry in 2014 when her daughter set her sights on a Tahitian pearl bracelet.

Liz decided to make it herself, and things took off from there. Now Liz specializes in creating custom jewelry for her clients from her charming home studio. After a brief meeting to discuss your style, preferences and desires, you’re only one or two weeks away from a finished piece. Prices start at $65. I mean, after all … who doesn’t want their own personal beachcomber bangle?

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Get Global at Fair Trade Décor even purses made from recycled cement bags in Cambodia! The best part? All artisans are paid fair wages for their work, and they labor in good working conditions.

According to store owners and Coronado locals Elizabeth and Jude Paganelli, “When you choose fair trade items, you are endorsing

Explore unique, hand-crafted items from more than 40 countries around the world at Fair Trade Décor, and everything in the store has been fair trade certified since 2012. The vibrant, eclectic bazaarstyle setup invites you to admire Turkish lamps, Ecuadorian alpaca blankets, sari textiles from India…

an economic system that provides sustainable and legitimate means for people around the world to lift themselves out of poverty in proper working conditions.” That’s some art we can get behind!

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Fit for artists and foodies alike, this old-school Italian restaurant is just dripping with Sinatra-esque vibes and a culinary cool. Happy hour features $3 off all drinks and specially-priced appetizers. Indulge this tasty, alluring refinement Monday through Friday, 5-7pm.

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P R O F I L E | P H OTO G R A P H E R

Q&A WITH KRISTEN VINCENT Karyn Frazier and Jessica Nicolls of Bungalow56 interview local photographer Kristen Vincent.

TELL US ABOUT YOUR BACKGROUND AND PHOTOGRAPHY BUSINESS? Originally from California’s gorgeous Central Coast, I’ve been lucky enough to call Coronado home for the last 9 years. My first career was an ER nurse. I loved seeing that human connection and vulnerability and have been able to use that same compassion to tell my clients’ stories through powerful images. When I’m not shooting,

I love hiking with my kiddos, paddleboarding with my girlfriends, and checking out the latest eateries with my husband. We love to travel as a family and I am able to offer sessions where we go. It’s a great way to explore a new area and really see the areas that aren’t so popular wherever we go. I started my business shortly after I moved here and have met so many amazing people in Coronado because of it. I feel super lucky to love what I am doing and the opportunity to connect with people on a personal level.

Natural lighting, the ocean and a happy family make a perfect photo shoot.

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Kristen Vincent

WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CAMERA? I was given an M&M 120 film camera in my stocking one year for Christmas and thought it was the best gift ever!

I wish I still had it, but after a few moves it disappeared.

WHAT IS THE MOST REWARDING PART OF YOUR JOB? The best part is hearing my clients’ stories. Some are just starting out and have that fire to share their love with the world, some are celebrating a milestone and reconnecting, some have been diagnosed and want people to remember them as they are now and some of them are huge family gatherings at the Hotel Del and they finally have all of their family in one spot. Each and every session is so different because I choose to delve deeper, to connect, to listen. This allows me to truly share who they are and to authentically tell their story.

WHAT WAS THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE STARTING YOUR OWN BUSINESS? The hardest part of starting my business was learning how to balance

An intimate moment with a beautiful Coronado backdrop

family life and work. As a creative, I love the shooting, editing and styling of my projects, but I don’t care to be on the computer for hours a week updating my website, invoicing, etc. Learning how to market, time manage, edit, and all the aspects of owning my own business was so challenging and I learned early on how to balance it all pretty well. I take on a few mentorships per year and

love teaching a newer photographer the tricks and ways to be successful in all areas of photography. You can have a rad business, AND a great family life.

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are so playful and full of wonder.

They are old enough to take direction and really connect and not too cool to wrap their arms around their Momma’s neck or play tag for a fun action shot.

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H I STO R I C | B I C YC L I N G

A Very Brief History of the Bicycle: Highlights from the 1800s

Draisine, 1817

Macmillan’s bicycle, 1839

Rover safety bicycle, 1885

across the United States and the globe on a 50-inch 1817: German Baron von Drais invents the draisine, also called a velocipede. A precursor to the bicycle, the draisine Columbia penny farthing. He subsequently wrote a book is basically the first commercially successful two-wheeled, about his journey, “Around the World on a Bicycle: From steerable, human-propelled machine.

San Francisco to Teheran.”

1839: Scottish blacksmith Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents 1885: John Kemp Starley, nephew of James Starley, a system of levers and pedals to allow riders to propel the produced the first successful safety bicycle, the Rover, velocipede with their feet off the which he never patented. The saftey ground. bicycle featured a steerable front wheel, equal sized 26-inch wheels (still 1866: English inventor James a standard size) and a chain drive to Starley creates the penny farthing the rear wheel. or high-wheeler, and as one of the most innovative and successful 1887: John Boyd Dunlop invents the builders of bicycles and tricycles, his first pneumatic bicycle tires (inflatable inventions include the differential tubes) in Ireland. gear and perfection of the bicycle 1889: Daniel Stover and William Hance chain drive. of Illinois patent the back-pedal brake.

1868: French engineer Clément 1890s: Gottlieb Daimler adds internal Thomas Stevens, 1884 Ader patents the first rubberized combustion engine to a bicycle wheels. creating the first motorcycle.

1878: American Albert Augustus Pope starts production of 1896: The Wright Brothers begin manufacturing their own Columbia High-Wheelers. bicycles. The Van Cleve was mostly hand made with a 1879: British bicycle designer Henry J. Lawson patents the choice of handlebars, metal or wood rims, and single-tube Bicyclette, a rear-wheel, chain-driven bicycle. or double-tube pneumatic tires. It sold for $65.

1880: League of American Wheelman bicycle club founded 1899: African-American inventor Isaac R. Johnson files his and Good Roads Society organized to lobby for better roads. patent for a folding bicycle — the first with a recognizable 1884-1886: Thomas Stevens is the first person to cycle modern diamond frame, still used in 21st-century bicycles.

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In 1891, William Martin wins the first New York Six-Day Race that was dubbed the “longdistance championship of the world.� The race started after midnight in Madison Square Garden and the riders raced continuously around a 1/10-mile wooden track for six straight days on penny farthings.

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The Art of the Craft Cocktail Even after Labor Day, there’s still time for garden parties before evenings turn cool. Turn your gathering into a sophisticated soiree with these refreshing cocktails from our local mixologists.

The Tavern’s Beet & Agave 2 ounces beet-infused tequila ½ ounce cucumber juice ¾ ounce lime juice ½ ounce Orgeat almond syruup A refreshing cocktail that is a bit tangy with a slightly earthy finish. Start by slow oven-roasting red beets for one hour. Once cooled but not cold, peel then infuse them into blanco tequila. For the cocktail, add fresh cucumber and lime juices and a touch of almond syrup. Shake and serve over large ice cubes. Garnish with edible flowers.

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Christ Episcopal Church, 1888-2018

Christ Episcopal Church celebrates 130 years this year. In the 1888, the Little Guild of St. Barnabas

Orange Avenue. Six years later construction began

ministry was founded by Reverend Restarick. The

on a permanent home for the parish. The cornerstone

first church service was held in the small school

was laid on Sept. 19, 1894, with the building completed

house at the corner of Seventh Street and E Avenue.

in 1896. St. Peter’s Mission officially became the Parish

Within a few months, the name of the mission was

of Christ Church or Christ Episcopal Church as we

changed to St. Peter’s Mission and services were

know it now. Capt. Charles Hinde, a wealthy benefactor

moved to the St. Josephine Hotel on 300 block of

and parishioner, made the construction of the church

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“While not pretentious architecturally, its simple elegance and solidity will render it an ornament to the beautiful city by the sea” — Coronado Mercury, Sept. 20, 1894

possible with a generous loan to the parish. When

The Gothic-style architecture is striking with granite

construction was complete, Hinde and his wife

quarried from East County and beautiful stained-glass

decided to deed the land and the building to the

windows. Dating back to the Crown City’s earliest

parish in memory of their daughter Camilla who

years, the church stands tall with the deep history of

had died at a very young age.

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