{"id":254424,"date":"2019-04-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/acclaimed-uptown-artists-ready-for-artwalk-in-little-italy\/"},"modified":"2019-04-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T07:00:00","slug":"acclaimed-uptown-artists-ready-for-artwalk-in-little-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/acclaimed-uptown-artists-ready-for-artwalk-in-little-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Acclaimed Uptown artists ready for ArtWalk in Little Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Por BJ Coleman<\/p>\n

From Uptown to Downtown, artists who live and work around the outskirts of central San Diego are preparing for the late-April arts festival that enlivens Little Italy during springtime. This year\u2019s 35th annual Mission Federal ArtWalk will fill 16 blocks of Downtown\u2019s Little Italy on Saturday, April 27 and Sunday, April 28. More than 350 artists will display their works, while musicians and other performing artists entertain event-goers on stages during the arts festival.<\/p>\n

Among them is Ruth Fromstein, who creates her art in her Hillcrest home. She is currently working exclusively on abstracts painted on canvas. Fromstein is one of eight featured artists at this year\u2019s ArtWalk. \u201cThis is pretty exciting,\u201d Fromstein said in a recent phone interview. \u201cThis is a real honor. This was by award of judges who considered artists working in all different mediums.\u201d<\/p>\n

This will be Fromstein\u2019s second appearance showing her work at ArtWalk in Little Italy. \u201cI consider myself an emerging artist,\u201d Fromstein said.<\/p>\n

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Sarah Stieber was in London for an art residency ahead of ArtWalk. (Photo by Anna-Maria Frastali)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fromstein said that art festival displays are challenging for working artists, even festivals as accessible as Little Italy\u2019s ArtWalk. \u201cSetting up is a real challenge,\u201d Fromstein said. \u201cThis is hard work, any way you look at it. You gotta love it to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fromstein declared that she has been making art her whole life but made it a full-time gig after raising three children and working earlier jobs in vocational rehabilitation. A Wisconsin native, Fromstein moved to San Diego eight-and-a-half years ago. Prior to focusing on painting abstracts on canvas, Fromstein created jewelry, textiles and painted furniture.<\/p>\n

Fromstein\u2019s work can be viewed on display Downtown at Adelman Fine Art and at venues in Kensington and Hillcrest. Her art can be seen online and purchased by email at links on ruthfromstein.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love it here. I love my neighborhood,\u201d Fromstein said.<\/p>\n

Fromstein disclosed that she is an avid hiker and backpacker, who derives inspiration for her art from nature. She described her abstract art as intuitive, based on landscapes and nature.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love to have my original art displayed in homes,\u201d Fromstein said. \u201cI want to take people on a journey to a happy place. Art can bring so much joy, color and emotion to a viewer.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ruth Fromstein\u2019s paintings can be viewed at Mission Federal ArtWalk. (Photo courtesy Ruth Fromstein)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sarah Stieber is on a longer journey to ArtWalk in Little Italy. Stieber spent three weeks in the U.K., and two of those weeks in London with her own art residency. While there, Stieber performed live painting in a local pub and attended art openings. Work she created abroad will be shown in a Chelsea London gallery.<\/p>\n

This will be Stieber\u2019s fourth year participating in ArtWalk. \u201cI have had a wonderful experience each year,\u201d Stieber said. She was a featured artist at the 2016 event, and did an art performance piece that year.<\/p>\n

Her show at ArtWalk will preview work that will be on display at the Stieber Summer Gallery, running from June 11 through July 30. Her first summertime gallery was last year in Little Italy.<\/p>\n

Stieber has a new thematic series in mind, which is still in the development stages. Stieber\u2019s art will be part of a multimedia art project, addressing concerns about what she calls the \u201crampant depiction of faceless women in contemporary art and culture.\u201d Stieber plans to respond to the seeming \u201cdecapitation\u201d in headless imagery with powerful, large-scale portraits focusing on female faces.<\/p>\n

Stieber\u2019s art studio is in North Park, where she hosts monthly open studio events. Viewings of her work can be arranged by appointment as well, by emailing sarah@sarahstieber.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other Uptown artists whose work will be on display include Adrian Arango, Moni Blom, Padgett Mason, Ariadna Saenz, Christine Schwimmer, Daniel Bommarito and Stephanie Clair.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By B.J. Coleman From Uptown to Downtown, artists who live and work around the outskirts of central San Diego are preparing for the late-April arts festival that enlivens Little Italy during springtime. This year\u2019s 35th annual Mission Federal ArtWalk will fill 16 blocks of Downtown\u2019s Little Italy on Saturday, April 27 and Sunday, April 28. […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":730,"featured_media":254425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"Acclaimed Uptown artists ready for ArtWalk in Little Italy","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11549,11547,11551,11550,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-features","category-news","category-top-stories","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254424","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\/730"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}