Visit the Movers and Shakers website for Artists and Movers and Shakers biographies as well as VIP views on highlights of the last year and their visions for the future of the visual arts in San Diego.

Description Movers & Shakers: (plural noun) very important, influential or innovative San Diegans in the visual arts community.

Unyielding enthusiasm, imagination, dedication and an intense love of art, drives the individuals who shape the art community in San Diego County. Artists, art collectors, students, teachers and the community at large all
benefit from the extraordinary efforts of those who help put the San Diego cultural scene on the map. Movers and Shakers: Who's Who in the San Diego Visual Arts World will celebrate these influential people through a collection of their portraits.

From Sept 5 to Oct 4, 2008, invited artists will exhibit portraits that will be featured at Art Expressions Gallery. To celebrate the opening, a reception will be held on Friday, Sept 5 from 7 to 9 pm to honor the Movers and Shakers, as well as the artists who created their portraits. An educational event Collectors Cocktails: How to Commission Art will take place at a date TBD. San Diego Visual Art Network will be showcasing portraits in an online gallery with linked images produced by San Diego Visual Artists Guild.

Mission

To recognize the people who make the San Diego art world spin through an online and gallery exhibition of portraits by San Diego regional artists.

Goals

Ø Educate the public about the efforts of the San Diego "Movers & Shakers" and their tremendous impact on the health of the art community.

Ø Foster relationships between the "Movers & Shakers" and San Diego artists.

Ø Promote San Diego regional artists and the art of portraiture through the Patrick Moore Gallery, SDVAN and SD Visual Artists Guild.

Ø Foster awareness of San Diego Visual Arts Network and the roles we take in nurturing collaborations and creating artist recognition.

Ø Encourage Art Collecting and Connoisseurship

Portrait Selection (Artist - Mover and Shaker)

Patricia Bean - Constance White (Art Program Manager, Pubic Community & Customer Relations Dept, San Diego County Regional Airport Authority)

Denise Bonaimo - Arline Fisch (Artist/Jeweler/ Author/ Professor of Art Emerita SDSU)

Stuart Burton - Doug Simay (Simayspace Gallery at Co-founder, The Art Academy of San Diego)

Dan Camp - Jonathan Segal(Jonathan Segal FAIA & Development Company)

Alida Cervantes - Jean Lowe (Installation artist, lecturer at UCSD)

Becky Cohen - Ellen Phelan (Art activist, educator, and noted contemporary art collector)

Cynthia Colis - Liz Edwards (Founder and Director of LetsPlayDowntown)

Isaias Crow (Crol) - Naimeh Tahna (Vice President of Network Development and Operations, Satori World Medical, Inc. and founder of Studio Vivace)

Kevin Conners - Victoria Hamilton (Executive Director of the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture)

MOFO - Matt D'Arrigo (Founder/Executive Director, Pat D'Arrigo ARTS (Art, a Reason to Survive Center)

Mireille des Rosiers - Felicia Shaw (Director Arts and Culture, The San Diego Foundation)

Irène de Watteville - Zandra Rhodes (International Fashion Icon)

Diana Duval- Steven Churchill (producer, The Art of Photography Show)

Raymond Ellstad - Mary-Catherine Ferguson (Museum Director, California Center for the Arts, Escondido)

Mary Fleener - Gustaf Rooth (Planet Rooth, founder Ray at Night)

Dave Ghilarducci & Cindy Bis-Sevon - Laurie Brindle, Laura Groch, Pam Kragen, and Gary Warth (North County Times staffers)

Gerrit Greve - Derrick Cartwright, (The Maruja Baldwin Director, San Diego Museum of Art) and Vas Prabhu (Deputy Director for Education and Interpretation, SDMA)

Raul Guerrero - Larry Poteet (lawyer, SDAI board member, art collector and Debra Poteet collector and both honorary VIP hosts for SD Art Prize)

Pamela Jaeger - Robert Pincus (Art Critic and Books Editor, The San Diego Union-Tribune and Sign-On San Diego)

Aaron Rix - April Game (CEO, San Diego Fine Art Society)

Gail Roberts - Tina Yapelli(Professor and Director, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University)

Lisa Roche - Ann Berchtold (Gallery Director, L Street Gallery Art Gallery, Program Director, San Diego Art Prize)

Jamie Roxx - Philly Joe Swendoza (Chanter of Personality ArtRocks! Internet radio) and Alexandra Rosa (Co-Producer ArtRocks! Internet radio and SDVAN RAW Columnist)

Philipp Scholz Rittermann - Mary Beebe (Director, Stuart Collection, University of California)

Lisa Smith - Mario Torero (artivist, Barrio Logan /East Village Art Association)

Stacy Smith - Patricia Smith (Art Expressions Gallery, Arts Bus Xpress)

Doug Snider and Chris Brown - Nate and Ralyn Wolfstein (Wolfstein Sculpture Park, Scripps Hospitals)

Cheryl Tall - Sandra Chanis (Carlsbad Outdoor Arts Foundation, President, Board of Trustee, Oceanside Museum of Art)

Mario Torero - Naomi Nussbaum (Director, Synergy Arts Foundation and the BL/EV Project)

Jen Trute - Dennis Paul Batt (Museum Artists Foundation, San Diego Visual Artists Guild )

Sidney Wildesmith - Catherine Sass (Public Art Director, Port Of San Diego)

Jeff Yeomans - Hugh Davies (The David C. Copley Director, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego)

Yuransky - Kevin Freitas (Art As Authority)

The Movers and Shakers committee is composed of the following who are giving of their times as volunteers to make this project successful: Mary Brooks, Michele Esposito, Denise Bonaimo, Mireille Des Rosiers, Dennis Paul Batt, Rosemary KimBal and Patricia Frischer.


San Diego Visual Arts Network: SDVAN is a database of information produced to improve the clarity, accuracy and sophistication of discourse about San Diego's artistic and cultural life and is dedicated to the idea that the Visual Arts are a vital part of the health of our city. SDVAN hosts a free interactive directory and an events calendar covering all San Diego regions including Baja Norte with an opportunity section, gossip column and the SmART Collector feature to help take the mystery out of buying art. SDVAN is the proud non-profit sponsor of the SD Art Prize. This is the only site designed exclusively for the SAN DIEGO region and the VISUAL ARTS and is one of the most technically advanced sites of this kind in the country.

Art Expressions Gallery: Art Expressions Gallery provides personalized service to both residential and corporate clients. The gallery features a vast selection of both traditional and contemporary art in a variety of media, as well as an extensive inventory of fine art photography. Art Expressions Gallery also offers on-site art and framing design consultation and art locating services with worldwide resources for the serious collector. Under the stewardship of Patricia Smith, who founded the gallery in 1984, Art Expressions Gallery represents emerging American artists who share a mastery of their medium. Patricia Smith established ArtsBusXpress, a program that offers all school children in San Diego County free transportation to the arts. To date, this nonprofit has provided rides to over 135,000 children.

San Diego Visual Artists Guild: SDVAG became an online representative for artists in the San Diego/Baja Norte region in Jan. of 2004. It evolved from the original San Diego Art Guild founded in 1915. It features images of well over 300 artists and links to hundreds of websites of the participating artists, museums, and art resources throughout the region. Also on the site is a comprehensive history of the Guild from 1910-1999.

For more information: patricia@SDVisualArts.net or 760.943.0148