One of the greatest things about our Little Italy neighborhood is how supportive the whole community is \u2014 local businesses, residents, community members and its visitors. Since the Little Italy Association is a nonprofit organization, having a community that stands behind us is key to the success of the neighborhood.<\/p>\n In order to raise funds for one of our most enterprising projects \u2014 Piazza Famiglia, a 10,000-square-foot European inspired piazza on West Date Street \u2014 community members and business owners are coming together to host a neighborhood fundraising art exhibition to benefit the project. It\u2019s called, \u201cComing Home to Famiglia: The Works of John Asaro.\u201d<\/p>\n Little Italy\u2019s Meyer Fine Art gallery will be hosting the exhibition from July 9 through August 1. Fifty percent of sales from the art exhibition will be donated to the Little Italy Association\u2019s Piazza Famiglia fund.<\/p>\n The piazza will become the new civic center of Little Italy and its developer, H.G. Fenton Company, will be creating a large public space for visitors and residents, new homes, approximately 16,600 square feet of restaurant and commercial space, and an underground parking garage.<\/p>\n The art exhibition will feature the work of San Diego local Italian artist, John Asaro, who grew up in Little Italy. Asaro\u2019s family came to Little Italy from the boot-shaped country and created their foundation in Little Italy through his father\u2019s barbershop business on the corner of India and W. Beech Street (now known as Mexican Fiesta).<\/p>\n Asaro wanted to find a way to benefit the community that he grew up in and had accepted him, so he partnered with Meyer Fine Art to host this art exhibition to give back to the Little Italy neighborhood.<\/p>\n The show will offer a variety of art for collectors, from original paintings of scenes from all over San Diego, such as Balboa Park, the Embarcadero, Little Italy and more, and women and children in gardens and beaches as well. There will also be drawings, studies of paintings and serigraphs available to purchase that feature art from Asaro\u2019s past and more recent work.<\/p>\n A public reception of \u201cComing Home to Famiglia: The Works of John Asaro\u201d will take place at Meyer Fine Art, July 19 from noon to 4 p.m. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet Asaro, learn about the art featured and view his artwork while enjoying refreshments and small bites hosted by local Little Italy businesses and restaurants.<\/p>\n This exhibition is more than just an art show \u2014 it\u2019s an example of how a whole community is working together to raise funds to improve and beautify the neighborhood.<\/p>\n To find out more information about the featured artist, John Asaro, please visit johnasaro.com<\/a> or for details about the upcoming art exhibition, visit littleitalysd.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u2014Christopher Gomez has been Little Italy\u2019s district manager for the past 15 years. Reach him at <\/em>chris@littleitalysd.com<\/em><\/a>. Follow LIA on <\/em>Instagram and Twitter @LittleItalySD<\/a> y Facebook\/Peque\u00f1a Italia de San Diego<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Christopher Gomez |\u00a0Little Italy News Connecting neighborhood growth and community through art One of the greatest things about our Little Italy neighborhood is how supportive the whole community is \u2014 local businesses, residents, community members and its visitors.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1217,"featured_media":237420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Coming home","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-sdnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Christopher](\"https:\/\/sandiegodowntownnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Christopher-M-Gomez3web.jpg\")
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