Saturday, September 24, 2022
11 AM–4 PM
The Athenaeum will participate in San Diego Design Week (September 21–25) with special activities at both the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library in La Jolla and the Athenaeum Art Center in Logan Heights.
The Athenaeum will host an art activity day for elementary school students and their families inspired by Faiya Fredman’s works and lifelong interests in childhood art education at the museum level and her philanthropy in that area. Join us on the patio and in the galleries for crafts, including creating hand puppets from found objects, drawing masks, making a lenticular drawing, self-guided scavenger hunts, and more. This is a free event.
SDDW: SEPTEMBER 21–25, 2022
San Diego Design Week (SDDW) is an annual five-day event celebrating design across the binational San Diego-Tijuana region. A community-led event, SDDW features programs such as live community discussions, studio tours, workshops, lectures, exhibitions, films, and podcasts from all disciplines of design.
This year, San Diego Design Week dives deeper into the influences and origins of inspiration to share new ideas across our region.
JOSEPH CLAYES III GALLERY
Faiya Fredman: Continuum: The Art of Faiya Fredman
Continuum presents an intimate view into the lifework of Faiya Fredman (1925–2020), whose 70-year art career produced an ambitious and eclectic body of work driven by experimentation with unusual formats and unconventional materials. Her large and varied works include paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, installations, and artist’s books. A graduate of UCLA, Fredman juggled marriage and raising a family with the rigors of developing cutting-edge art. Her final body of work combines goddess imagery, vintage puppets, narrative forays into surreal worlds, and hybrid works combining graffiti with botanical imagery.
Fredman’s work can be found in many public and private collections, including the MoMA, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and numerous others.
The exhibition can be viewed in the Joseph Clayes III Gallery at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library (1008 Wall Street, La Jolla, CA 92037) during open hours, Tuesday through Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.