The Museum at the CCAE hosts four to six exhibitions per year. The Museum seeks to provide North County San Diego with access to relevant, thought-provoking, and wide-ranging exhibitions that highlight contemporary artwork. Each show is accompanied by a dedicated Emerging Artist Gallery as a commitment to supporting young artists in the community. Find the current exhibits here.
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
Frida Kahlo: Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray
June 10, 2023 – November 5, 2023
In May 1931, photographer Nickolas Muray traveled to Mexico on vacation where he met Frida Kahlo, a woman he would never forget. The two started a romance that continued on and off for the next ten years and a friendship that lasted until her death in 1954. Approximately fifty photographic portraits taken by Muray of Kahlo comprise this exhibition.
The photographs, dating from 1937 to 1946 explore Murray’s unique perspective as Kahlo’s friend, lover, and confidant. Muray’s photographs bring to light Kahlo’s deep interest in her Mexican heritage, her life and the people significant to her with whom shared a close friendship with.
Nan Coffey: Positively Animated
June 10, 2023 – November 5, 2023
Nan Coffey is a San Diego based artist with a background in animation. She has developed a stylized design aesthetic and freeform methods to promote connectivity, inclusivity, and love while drawing inspiration from her childhood obsessions with cinema, music, television, and pop culture.
Click here to learn more about upcoming programming related to the exhibitions.
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