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[1] [2] MOPA is one of three museums in the US dedicated exclusively to the collection and preservation of photography, with a mission to inspire, educate and engage the broadest possible audience through the presentation, collection, and preservation of photography, film and video. [3] The museum's address is 1649 El Prado, San Diego, CA, 92101.
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Ray Street was developed as a commercial district largely in the mid-1930s. [2] As part of downtown North Park, it helped form one of San Diego's largest business districts in the middle of the 20th century, but the latter half of the century brought the white flight and suburbanization that devastated many urban communities in the United States.
The San Diego Art Institute was a contemporary art museum with a focus on artists from the Southern California and Baja Norte region. [1] It was founded in 1941 as the San Diego Business Men's Art Club. Its name was changed in 1950 to the San Diego Art Institute. In 1953, women were admitted for membership. It officially became a nonprofit in ...
The groundwork for the museum was laid in 1951 when Walter Ames helped sisters Amy and Anne Putnam (nieces and heirs of Henry W. Putnam) to form the nonprofit Putnam Foundation to own and manage their art collection. The sisters had settled in San Diego in the early 20th century and made donations to the San Diego Museum of Art in its early ...
A large art piece displayed projecting out from the La Jolla museum roof in 2007 The entrance of Museum of Contemporary Art, downtown San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, downtown San Diego Founded in 1941 in La Jolla as The Art Center in La Jolla , a community art center, through the 1950s and 1960s the organization operated as the La Jolla ...
SDUPS was first established on September 28, 1961, by underwater photographic pioneers Ron Church and Chuck Nicklin at San Diego's Diving Locker dive shop, formerly on Cass Street in Pacific Beach. Membership covers all levels of underwater photography from beginning U/W photographers to amateurs, semi-professional and full-time professional ...
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