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Results
Fri
3
We're embracing the need to innovate how people access MOPA’s art by turning the lens on us. MOPA is livestreaming weekly shows on a dependable schedule using Facebook Live.
MOPA In Focus: Picturing the Still Life in Photography
What image comes to mind when you see the word ‘still life’? For many, it’s likely to be a bowl of fruit or a classic European painting. However, photography allows us to push these old-school boundaries, providing new perspectives on the everyday objects around us.
Whether it’s the beauty of a single leaf or an arrangement of cherished objects, tune in tomorrow for a live presentation to explore this theme through the artists in MOPA’s collection, and for a special highlight of the work of Hong Lei, a contemporary Chinese photographer featured in MOPA’s current exhibition Out of the Shadows.
Need a text reminder? Sign up here. Image credit: Hong Lei, Memory of Five-Needle Pine, 2005, archival pigment print. © Hong Lei, Courtesy of the artist. Catch the show on YouTube later.
Fri
3
We're embracing the need to innovate how people access MOPA’s art by turning the lens on us.
Catch weekly shows on MOPA's Facebook and YouTube.
Reimagine still life to visually document this unique moment in our isolation stories
These are unprecedented times we find ourselves in! Years in the future, how will we remember what it was like for us during this time? Who were we and how did we get through it? Inspired by photographic artists Hong Lei and Jo Whaley, we'll reimagine the classical traditions of still life to visually document this unique moment in our own isolation stories.
Here are the materials:
- A device to take pictures with (Camera, smart phone, or tablet)
- A collection of objects that you are using every day during your quarantine
- A tripod to hold your camera (optional)
- A box or empty frame, string, and tape (optional)
Fri
10
We're embracing the need to innovate how people access MOPA’s art by turning the lens on us. MOPA is livestreaming weekly shows on a dependable schedule using Facebook Live.
Projections of Light: Camera Obscura and Pinhole Photography
Technology has changed our relationship to photography in profound ways, but much of the science behind even the most modern camera has been around for centuries. Early experiments using a camera obscura, Latin for “darkened room”, laid the foundation for the invention of photography. Indeed, we even kept half of the name: the camera. As the ways in which images are made continued to evolve, some artists still find inspiration in the medium’s humble origins and make photographs using large hand-built camera obscuras or their smaller counterpart: the pinhole camera.
Join us to explore a selection of works from MOPA’s permanent collection by artists who invite us all to set aside our latest dSLRs and smartphones for a look at photography in its most beautifully simple form.
Artists in focus:
- Shi Guorui
- Ruth Thorne-Thomsen
- Abelardo Morell
- Susan Burnstine
- John Chiara
Fri
10
We're embracing the need to innovate how people access MOPA’s art by turning the lens on us.
Catch weekly shows on MOPA's Facebook and YouTube.
DIY Filters: Shape, Color, and Texture
Photography is about presenting ideas and the visual world in a new way and with a new perspective! Today's activity challenges you to use everyday objects collected in your home to make creative and interesting images. DIY Filters! A filter in this application is just something you place between your lens and your subject. We will play with shapes, colors, and textures as we experiment with taking photos through various objects. Let your imagination be your guide!
Here are the materials:
- A device to take pictures with (Camera, smart phone, or tablet)
- A selection of transparent/translucent/see-through objects from around your home (examples: Glassware, vases, colander, bubble wrap, prescription glasses, plastics, etc)
Fri
17
We're embracing the need to innovate how people access MOPA’s art by turning the lens on us. MOPA is livestreaming weekly shows on a dependable schedule using Facebook Live and YouTube Live.
Cut + Paste: Exploring Photomontage
While we may think that combining two or more photographs is a newer trend made possible by digital technology, artists have blended images in creative ways since the earliest days of photography.
From rough cut outs of print media to seamless digital blending of composite scenes, join us for a dive into MOPA's permanent collection to explore the idea of photomontage in photography.
Artists in focus:
- Ni Youyu
- Harry Bowers
- Byron Wolfe
- Ruud van Empel
- Julie Blackmon
- Ysabel LeMay
Fri
17
We're embracing the need to innovate how people access MOPA’s art by turning the lens on us.
Catch weekly shows on MOPA's Facebook and YouTube.
Self Portraits in your room
Is there a space in your home that is just YOURS? You fill it with the things you love, and you arrange it in a way that suits the way you live. At different stages in your life, this special and personal space - your sanctuary - will reflect who you are at that time. It will change as you grow and change.
This week, we are focusing on this year's theme for our Annual Juried Youth Exhibition, Growing Up. We'll be creating self portraits in our most sacred place at home, surrounded by the things that are important to us, and capturing where we are right now on our journey of growing up.
You will need:
- A device to take pictures (Camera, smart phone, or tablet)
- Your bedroom
- A tripod or a family member that is quarantined with you to hold your camera (optional)
Fri
17
The San Diego Italian Film Festival presents: Che Strano Chiamarsi Federico (How Strange To Be Named Federico)
Directed by Ettore Scola | 93 minutes
The film is a tribute to and a portrait of Federico Fellini, told by Ettore Scola on the twentieth anniversary of the great director’s death. Other than Fellini’s incredible cinema, what this devoted admirer of the incomparable maestro wants to commemorate are a few private and lesser-known aspects of Fellini’s personality. The film recreates their encounter in the newsroom of the satirical paper Marc’Aurelio, their friendships with screenwriters Ruggero Maccari and Flaiano, with actors Alberto Sordi and Marcello Mastroianni, the sets of the mythical Teatro 5 of Cinecittà Studios, and other shared experiences that cemented their enduring friendship. This is a masterful telling of the life of a genius who was a dear friend. It tells us how rooted both men were in the earthy daily life of Italians. Finally, when Scola finishes telling us of Fellini, we realize he has told us above all about himself and about the circus of that Italian life.
SDIFF celebrates the centennial of Federico Fellini's birth and his incredible heritage, a treasure for a worldwide audience. In Italian with English subtitles.
As tickets for this series often sell out, we encourage you to buy tickets online in advance. All films in the series in Italian will have English subtitles.
- Advance tickets are available online through San Diego Italian Film Festival.com until the afternoon of the screening.
- Unless noted online at San Diego Italian Film Festival.com as Sold Out, available tickets can be purchased at the Box office the Night of. (Sorry-MOPA does not have information as to ticket availability)
- The Box office will open about 45 mins before the screening
- Cost: $12 General Admission; $8 SDIFF and MOPA Members, Students & Active Military
Fri
24
We're embracing the need to innovate how people access MOPA’s art by turning the lens on us. MOPA is livestreaming weekly shows on a dependable schedule using Facebook Live and YouTube Live.
The Past in Motion: A Look at Early Cinema
On a sunny afternoon 125 years ago, the inventor Louis Lumiere set up a new kind of photographic device outside his factory in southern France. Equipped with nearly 55 feet of a new kind of flexible film, he trained this camera on workers as they left through the complex’s main gate to end their daily shift. In sixteen frames per second, he created one of the earliest motion picture recordings that remain available to us today.
Like many developments in photography and film, the motion picture arose out of a rich history of performance, shadow puppetry, and immersive storytelling. Join us this Friday for a look at the origins of the moving image, a preview of two early films currently featured in MOPA’s exhibition Illusion: The Magic of Motion, and for a lively discussion with special guest Joaquin Ortiz, the museum’s Director of Innovation, about their legacy and importance to us today.
Artists in focus:
- Louis Lumiere
- George Méliès
Fri
24
We're embracing the need to innovate how people access MOPA’s art by turning the lens on us.
Catch weekly shows on MOPA's Facebook and YouTube.
Who I Am: A collage project inspired by our Youth Exhibition
Who or what makes us who we are? We are complex creatures. We are individuals with unique experiences and unlimited dreams! Today, we are going to look at our own stories and our own unique identities through the art of photo collage, using snapshots you take or your family takes on their smartphones almost every day. How can those images come together to help us see who we are and what is important to us?
You will need:
- A smart device with internet capabilities
- A collection of images on that device (from your camera roll)
- A piece of paper and a pen or pencil
- Pictures that you are ok with cutting up (optional)
- Magazines, construction paper, newspaper, markers, paint, glue stick, scissors etc... (optional)
Fri
1
We're embracing the need to innovate how people access MOPA’s art by turning the lens on us. MOPA is livestreaming weekly shows on a dependable schedule using Facebook Live and YouTube Live.
Mixed Media
For many of us, photography is about the pursuit of the perfect photograph. We debate angles, fine tune camera adjustments and dream of the latest and greatest equipment. But what if a photograph were just the beginning of a wider creative process?
Tune in this Friday at 10AM for a look at artists who blur the boundaries between artistic mediums and invite us all to consider new ways of seeing their subjects and the wider photographic arts.
Artists in focus:
- Shao Wenhuan
- Shana + Robert ParkeHarrison
- Holly Roberts
Fri
1
We're embracing the need to innovate how people access MOPA’s art by turning the lens on us.
Catch weekly shows on MOPA's Facebook and YouTube.
The Art of Silhouettes
During a time before cameras were in common use, people went to have their silhouettes made. These were done by special artists carefully cutting detailed renderings of the subjects features in profile. Even without the facial details we are used to seeing in photographic portraits, each of these silhouettes was as unique as the person sitting for them. Using your window, a smartphone or tablet, and some tips for proper exposure, we can create beautiful silhoutettes that celebrate the simple beauty in our shapes and lines!
You will need:
- A device to take pictures (Camera, smart phone, or tablet)
- A window with good light
- A subject to photograph (yourself, another person, an object with an interesting or recognizable shape)
