Over a year ago, the Museum decided to take the lead in presenting and organizing San Diego Design Week as an expression of its mission to celebrate human creativity. Over the past 40 years, Mingei has celebrated and exhibited local artists, craftspeople and designers supporting the notion that everyone is creative. The mission of the Museum is not only to steward wonderful arts of daily life from past generations but to encourage us to consider how we live today, what we use and surround ourselves with in our daily lives. Mingei is honored to be the institutional sponsor of this new event for our region and to join an international community of Design Weeks with the debut of the inaugural San Diego Design Week (SDDW).
SDDW will be a five-day celebration of our region’s rich design community September 9-13. Under the theme Design+, SDDW highlights design in all forms, from architecture, interior and landscape design to fashion, technology and graphic design. Amid the ongoing pandemic, the programming has been adapted with everyone’s safety in mind. There will be live and pre-recorded studio tours, cooking demos, opportunities to have your portfolio reviewed, self-guided art walks and many more design-filled experiences. During SDDW the Museum is hosting various programs that all explore design through a different lens. You can watch a short film about the Museum’s recent building transformation featuring Executive Director Rob Sidner, or learn about the work of design couple, Ellamarie and Jackson Woolley from Senior Manager of Collections and Exhibitions, Barbara Hanson Forsyth. Take a little time and read through the list of Mingei’s SDDW events below or head over to sddesignweek.org to learn about more programming.
