Category: Networking

Join the San Diego Emerging Museum Professionals (SDEMP) for a private tour of How We Gather with Mandeville Art Gallery’s new Director & Chief Curator, Ceci Moss! Everyone who attends is invited to participate in the exchange of something meaningful to add to the featured work, A Pot for a Latch project. The tour will be followed by a networking opportunity in the gallery.

This private tour and networking event is FREE! But RSVP so we can save you a spot in the tour.

📆 WHEN: Thursday, October 19, 2023 at 6:00 PM Pacific (tour starts at 6:15pm sharp)

📍WHERE: Mandeville Art Gallery (UCSD) 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093

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❤️ This event is FREE but please consider a small donation with your registration to help us fund upcoming events and professional-growth programming.

Please keep in mind that there is no food or drinks inside the galleries, even closed water bottles.

About Mandeville Art Gallery’s featured exhibition How We Gather

The group exhibition How We Gather investigates the notion and enactment of solidarity across various contemporary artists’ practices through the lens of the pandemic. The state of emergency brought on by COVID-19 both magnified existing structures of precarity and inequity, while also strengthening social bonds.

Featuring work by Pia Camil, b. 1980, Mexico City; lives and works in Acatitlán, México

A Pot for a Latch invites visitors to exchange unique items using this grid wall panel, whose design is inspired by markets in Mexico City. For each donated item, visitors are asked to complete a descriptive entry in the adjacent book. The title is a reference to the “potlatch,” a gift-giving ceremony practiced by Indigenous communities in the US and Canadian Pacific Northwest. The artwork is meant to honor the alternate models of shared ownership found in this tradition, as well as in pre-Hispanic bartering systems, while also illuminating the alliances forged through the transfer of objects and their associated stories. The work, which has been restaged widely since it was first shown at the New Museum in New York in 2016, reflects Camil’s interest in using paintings, sculptures, performances, and installations to transgress and circumvent the usual circulation of commodities.

📍HOW TO GET THERE

Located on the UC San Diego campus in the area designated for John Muir College, the Mandeville Art Gallery is attached to the west end of the Mandeville Center for the Arts, and is closest to Scholars Lane. It is adjacent from the Main Gym.

🚗 PARKING

The nearest parking lot with visitor (V) spaces is the “Scholars Parking Garage” about a 7-minute walk to the gallery. Several other parking lots and garages on the campus are within a 5-10 minute walk of the gallery.

All parking on the UCSD campus requires a permit available at a Pay Station using Visa, Mastercard or American Express only or on their mobile device with ParkMobile.

Visitor (V) Parking Rates (ParkMobile zone 4752)

• 30 minutes or less (no charge)
• Each additional hour $4 (daily maximum $32)
• After 5pm Weekdays and on Weekends $2/hr. (maximum $8)

More about directions, public transportation, and parking.

♿️ ACCESSIBILITY

This event meets ADA standards. The Mandeville Art Gallery is committed to providing a safe and accessible environment for all. Mandeville is located on the ground level and is accessible to those using wheelchairs or other mobility aids and devices. Service animals are welcome and exhibition-related texts are translated in Spanish and English both in print and in the galleries. Learn more about the Mandeville Art Gallery’s accessibility.

Have other accessibility questions or need accommodations? Email us at sandiegoemp@gmail.com to confirm your requirements or request more information.