Free Entry! Museum of Contemporary Art 🖼️🎨✨

Sunday, October 11, 2026

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - FREE entry!
Optional lunch at Museum Cafe

We will tour the Museum galleries and check out this exhibit:

The Dean Collection Presents: Hometown Heroes
Drawn from The Dean Collection of Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz, The Dean Collection Presents: Hometown Heroes showcases selected works by local photographers–MJ Pimentel, Oscar Cruz, and Chata–alongside MCASD Collection works by artists from our region, including, Andrea Chung, Esteban Cabeza de Baca, and Fox Maxy. Works in this gallery evoke the border region’s cultural and ecological landscape and the communities who have long inhabited and shaped it.

Works by Pimentel, Cruz and Chata capture facets of life in San Diego with images that speak to the encroachment of gentrification, a longstanding history of Chicana/o/e activism, lowrider car culture, and community pride. With an eye towards the natural environment, Chung’s cyanotypes of lionfish shed light on the enduring effects of colonialism, while Cabeza de Baca’s layered painting and Maxy’s sculptural video installation point to the cultural and ecologic forces that have shaped the US/Mexico border region.

Meeting time: 10:45am in front of the museum

Parking: Free two-hour street parking is available in front of the Museum and on nearby cross streets.
For valet parking: $10 for Members and $15 for Non-member visitors (Museum Membership or ticket purchase will be verified on arrival).
The parking garage entrance is around the corner from the main museum entrance, on Cuvier St, just before Coast Blvd. Guests will then exit the parking garage, walk up Cuvier St toward Prospect St and enter through the front doors of MCASD. Guests requiring ADA access will be escorted through an alternate pathway into the Museum lobby.

Please read the visitor guidelines on the museum's website by clicking here.

See you there!
Judy :)

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