Julia dixon Evans

A holiday market features handmade ceramics, art, food gifts, woodworking, jewelry and more — all supporting the Mission Trails Regional Park Foundation.

This weekend in arts and culture in San Diego: Author & Punisher's industrial drone music; a new exhibit on race history at the Museum of Us; clown art at Woo Studios; Vietnamese food and art lessons with Thien Pham; Jessie Montgomery compositions at the Mingei; new work by Maybelle Reynoso and more.

Books can be life-changing for people who are incarcerated. When Cherish Burtson went to federal prison, books became her source of survival. Her story – and the volunteers fighting censorship to get books past prison walls – reveals how access to reading can mean survival, connection and hope.

This weekend in the arts in San Diego: Halloween punk, "Rent," printmaking, wearable art, a Día de Muertos procession and more.

The 2026 San Diego Art Prize winners were recently announced: three visual artists — Tatiana Ortiz-Rubio, Ingrid Hernández and Danielle Dean — creating in vastly different forms and processes, from photography and murals to immersive installations.

Co-presented in the San Diego region by mika Castañeda and Cat Gunn's curatorial project Harvest & Gather, Other Places Art Fair (OPaf) pushes back against the "white cube gallery" model to make art accessible to artists themselves.

This weekend in the arts: ghosts, spookiness and hauntings in theater, visual art, literature, music and more — plus an experimental art fair, canyon-inspired sound sculpture, drag and more.

Bob Ross 🤝 gamers: On Twitch, official Bob Ross Paint-Alongs and watch parties are popular, long-running streams that, share "The Joy of Painting" with everyone, no matter their skill. "Bob used to say, 'Talent is a pursued interest,'" says instructor Carolyn Saletto.

This weekend in the arts in San Diego: 60 years of Jean Isaacs' choreography; San Diego Zine Fest; Wayne Thiebaud; jazz; a modern-day witch play; TwitchCon and more.

After street closure permits were canceled last-minute, the North Park Book Fair is back. This Saturday, it returns in pop-up form — and the switch rallied one local business to step up.