The mission of the San Diego Art Institute is to maintain a center for emerging artists and the visual arts in San Diego. SDAI's most visible activity focuses on showcasing the work of San Diego emerging area visual artists through a program of over 30 juried shows a year, (regular show, "One-Foot" show, special outreach shows, youth art & others). Different art professionals are selected as jurors for each show assuring exhibitions of high quality and great variety.

SDAI maintains a separate facility for education. Classes in life drawing, painting, water color, children's art, and various photography classes are a sampling of the SDAI art educational programs offered. SDAI also offers comprehensive computer classes in multimedia and animation plus various workshops on specific computer programs.

SDAI hosts an annual community arts festival, Sony Artwalk, to showcase the visual and performing arts in four downtown neighborhoods linked by trolley.

At the Art Institute Gallery, a new exhibition of works by talented San Diego artists opens every six weeks. In this specially designed 10,000 square-foot state-of-the-art floating gallery space, juried exhibits display works in mediums including oil, acrylic, watercolor, pen and ink, monoprint, collage, assemblage, mixed media, photography and sculpture. A solo artist's work is also featured along with the main gallery exhibition. The David Fleet Young Artists Gallery showcases work from schools in the San Diego region.

At the SDAI, you'll also find the Artisan Shoppe gift shop, where you can puchase original artworks of local artisans.

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