Art Galleries

Mesa College Art Gallery serves as an educational forum to present the work of professional artists working in a range of media and dealing with diverse issues. It is our mission to enrich and engage our community through art.The gallery also serves as a setting to showcase outstanding work created by students in the Art Department. During the academic year four exhibits feature emerging and established artists; at the end of every semester we hold a student exhibition.

Located in San Diego's beautiful Balboa Park, the Timken Museum of Art houses the world-class Putnam Foundation Collection of European old masters American art, and Russian icons.Artworks in the collection range from 13th-century altarpieces through 18th-century portraits to 19th-century still lifes. Represented are the works of Dutch, Flemish, French, and Italian painters, including Rembrandt, Rubens, Petrus Christus, Fragonard, Jacques-Louis David, and Veronese, as well as American artists such as John Singleton Copley and Eastman Johnson.Admission to the Timken Museum of Art is always free.

Plaza de Panama Balboa Park San Diego CAWest Grand Avenue, Escondido CAMingei is a special word increasingly used throughout the world for "arts of the people." It was coined by the revered scholar, the late Dr. Soetsu Yanagi, through combining the Japanese words for all people (min) and art (gei). His keen eye observed that many useful, pre-industrial articles made by unknown craftsmen were of a beauty seldom equaled by artists of modern societies.