California Center for the Arts Museum

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Tickled to be a featured performer for the first Loud As Folk at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido- even if it’s because I threw a tantrum & cried untill Greg Gilmore put me on the bill. Event Details: Date: Thursday, May 14 Time: 7:00 PM Location: CCAE Museum Sculpture Court / Museum Courtyard Admission: $6 Performers: Jay Freed || @itsmejayfreed Double Knot || @thedoubleknotband Buffalo Moses || @buffalomoses Eric Neilson || @ericneilson Host: Greg Gilmore || @greggilmoremusic #loudasfolk #escondido
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Back in March, during Nowruz, our hearts were with the mothers who lost their beloved children in the January massacre. Lucia, our amazing partner, shared a beautiful whirling dance, and her team moved with such grace and grief in every step. It was more than a performance, it was remembrance and love.
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Last weeks to see Designing the Infinite: Virtual Worldbuilding in Art & Gaming.⁠ ⁠ Drawing from global cosmologies and contemporary digital practices, Designing the Infinite explores the perspectives of twelve artists from across the world building virtual environments through gaming technology to reimagine the cycles of creation, balance, and renewal that shape our realities.⁠ ⁠ On view through April 12.⁠ Learn more at ccaemuseum.org.
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This year, Nowruz is our voice. In the shadow of sorrow and longing, we will call out Nowruz louder than ever, for freedom, for those no longer beside us, for the tall cypresses who gave their lives. We will gather together, and we will remember that joy itself is an act of resistance. There will be music. There will be dance, a mourning dance in honor of grieving mothers. Join us on March 14, from 12:00 to 3:00 PM, at the California Center for the Arts Museum in Escondido.
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Spend the day with us in the galleries. ⁠ ⁠ Every Second Saturday, admission to the museum is free. Stop by today between 11am to 1pm to create your own air-dry clay trinket tray inspired by Dave Eassa: Head Above the Clouds, grounded in the spirit of care and the people we hold close.⁠ ⁠ Bring a friend, a partner, your family, or come solo.⁠ Make something by hand. Spend time with art.⁠ ⁠ Free and open to the public.
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Love looks different these days. 💔📱⁠ ⁠ In this handwoven tapestry, Kayla Mattes captures intimacy in the age of infinite scroll. Spend this weekend with work that reflects how we connect now.⁠ ⁠ Kayla Mattes: Reboot > Reweave > Repeat is now extended through April 12.⁠ ⁠ Image: Linked, 2023, Handwoven cotton, wool, and silk. 38.5 x 29.5 inches. Photo by Brandon Marks/Oakenheart Photography.⁠
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Maryam Bayat: Unrolling Paradise⁠ Opening Saturday, March 14th, with a public reception from 12pm-3pm⁠ ⁠ Maryam Bayat: Unrolling Paradise explores the Persian garden as a living design tradition carried through textiles, memory, and everyday objects. Interdisciplinary artist Maryam Bayat reinterprets centuries-old carpet aesthetics through sculptural works that merge traditional Persian rugs with contemporary form and function.⁠ ⁠ Raised in Tehran in a family of rug producers and now based in North County San Diego, Bayat draws from inherited craft to create installations that reflect on place, belonging, and cultural continuity. Her woven sculptures, appearing as furniture, abstract trees, and domestic interiors, extend the symbolism of the garden, linking ideas of sanctuary to personal and collective memory.⁠ ⁠ Curated by Sadry Hedayat and organized in collaboration with Persian Place.⁠ @maryambayatdesigns @s.a.d.r.y @persianplace
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Head Above the Clouds is built around love in its many forms.⁠ ⁠ The exhibition brings together portraits of Dave Eassa’s family, and friends who have become family. It reflects love as a practice: showing up, listening, staying, and making space for others. In Eassa’s work, love is carried through care, collaboration, and the decision to keep going, together.⁠ ⁠ Dave Eassa: Head Above the Clouds is on view through March 1.⁠ ⁠ @daveeassa ⁠ ⁠ Images:⁠ 1. A force colliding, something from me and something from you, 2025, Oil and spray paint on canvas, 64 x 48 in⁠ 2. Installation view, Dave Eassa: Head Above the Clouds, October 2025.⁠ 3. Dreams in scales, up up up, 2025, Oil and spray paint on canvas, 64 x 48 in⁠ 4. Tending to the growth, 2025, Oil, polystrene foam, resin, and spray paint on canvas, 64 x 48 in⁠ 5. I don't believe in God but I'm asking, 2025, Oil and spray paint on canvas, 64 x 48 in⁠ ⁠ Photos by Philipp Scholz Rittermann
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3 months ago
What was your last Google Search?⁠ ⁠ In the Google Search Series, Kayla Mattes compiled automated search prompts beginning with “what is,” “when is,” and “why is,” weaving together suggestions generated by location, search history, trending topics, and frequently asked questions. Ranging from the personal to the political, science to science fiction, these pieces reveal what we tend to ask anonymously, and how the internet reflects a shared, evolving consciousness.⁠ ⁠ Kayla Mattes: Reboot > Reweave > Repeat is on view through February 15.⁠ ⁠ Image: Kayla Mattes, Google Search Series, 2023, Jacquard woven cotton and rayon, 143.5 x 45 in.⁠ Photo by Philipp Scholz Rittermann
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Tell us a memory you wish you could hold.⁠ ⁠ Visitors to Dave Eassa: Head Above the Clouds have the opportunity to contribute a drawing, a letter, or a reflection on the exhibition's themes of love and longing in our BLICK Interactive Station. These contributions will appear in Eassa's culminating zine publication for the exhibition.⁠ ⁠ Dave Eassa: Head Above the Clouds is on view through March 1. ⁠ ⁠ Thank you to our sponsor, BLICK Art Materials @blickartmaterials , for supporting creative collaboration in our community.⁠ ⁠ Photo: Philipp Scholz Rittermann⁠ ⁠
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3 months ago
As a public cultural institution, we respond to our community's needs by providing a space for reflection. While the Museum remains open today, we are offering free admission to the galleries as a gesture of public access and solidarity. We invite visitors to spend time with art and ideas that speak to the conditions of our present moment. The Museum will be open today from 11am to 5pm. Image: Installation view, Kayla Mattes: Reboot > Reweave > Repeat. Photo: Brandon Marks/Oakenheart Photography
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The paintings in Head Above the Clouds are bold and life-size, yet filled with quiet moments. Drawing from family archives and daily life, Dave Eassa treats these moments as worthy of care and attention, creating monuments to the everyday.⁠ ⁠ Dave Eassa: Head Above the Clouds is on view through March 1.⁠ ⁠ @daveeassa ⁠ ⁠ Image: that soft magic, 2025, Oil and spray paint on canvas, 64 x 48 in.⁠ Photo: Philipp Scholz Rittermann⁠
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