Help Save the Historic SWC Art Gallery!
May/June 2025

For six decades, the SWC Art Gallery at Southwestern College in San Diego has been a creative hub, inspiring and presenting the art of generations of artists and students. Internationally renowned artists showed their early work here, including the late conceptual artist John Baldessari, who also taught at Southwestern; Judy Chicago, creator of the iconic feminist installation “The Dinner Party;” Bruce Nauman, who works in neon, video, sculpture, and other media; and the late Dennis Oppenheim, an environmental, conceptual, and performance artist. The flexible, contemporary gallery with high ceilings is modeled on Marcel Breuer’s famed Whitney Museum of American Art building in New York.

Now, this storied historic building—an irreplaceable part of the region’s cultural legacy—is scheduled for demolition under the college’s Facilities Master Plan.

The Save the Historic SWC Art Gallery advocacy group needs your voice
to help preserve and protect it!

Sign the Petition and stand with them and SOHO in urging the Southwestern College Governing Board to save this architectural and artistic treasure.

You can also help by:

• Writing a letter from your organization or group asking to preserve the gallery.
• Emailing the Student Trustee if you’re an SWC student.
• Spreading the word on social media.
• Volunteering your skills to support the campaign.

Learn more about how you can get involved, and why saving this gallery matters.

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