Woodward Contemporary

Woodward Contemporary Old Town San Diego's premiere arts destination featuring a fine art gallery, fully-equipped artist studios, and community workshop space.

Wait… isn’t that the show from earlier this summer?Yep. 👀We are always a delighted when a painting from a past show resu...
08/29/2026

Wait… isn’t that the show from earlier this summer?

Yep. 👀

We are always a delighted when a painting from a past show resurfaces and catches someone's attention.

🔴 SOLD! "The Woman in Butter Yellow" | Visions Of Venus by Trish V.

If you missed a show, or there was a piece you've been thinking about, you can browse past exhibitions anytime in our online shop.

A little gallery time travel, if you will.
With front porch delivery or pickup right here at the gallery 🏘️

Tap the SHOP link in our bio.

❌ This isn't your average figure drawing meet-up ❌Drawing on years of teaching experience and technical mastery, Carlos ...
08/27/2026

❌ This isn't your average figure drawing meet-up ❌

Drawing on years of teaching experience and technical mastery, Carlos Castrejon guides students in this fun and engaging live n*de model workshop.

Designed for all levels, this immersive 4- week class explores both quick gesture sketches and longer, sustained poses to help you capture movement, mood, and form. You’ll strengthen your understanding of proportion, anatomy, and composition while experimenting with expressive mark-making and dynamic line work.

Workshop: Drawing the Figure (Live N**e Model)
Instructor: Carlos Castrejon
Dates: Tuesdays, September 1-22, 2026
Hours: 2pm - 5pm
Level: All (age 18+)
Class Size: 12
Tuition: $200 (total)

Expect a relaxed, supportive studio atmosphere where curiosity is encouraged and progress happens naturally. Whether you're building foundational skills or refining your personal style, working from a live model will sharpen your observation skills and boost your confidence.

Come ready to draw, explore, and enjoy the creative energy of the figure in motion!

✨What to Expect ⬇️⬇️

✔️Live n**e model
✔️Short gesture studies and sustained long poses
✔️One-on-one and group instruction
✔️Work with a range of materials—including charcoal, colored pencil and conte—learning how each medium can be used to capture the figure.
✔️Thoughtful group critique at the end of the 4-week workshop
✔️Easels, tables and chairs included

✨Goals ⬇️⬇️

🏆Develop a strong understanding of human proportion and anatomy
🏆Improve gesture drawing skills to capture movement and energy
🏆Build confidence drawing from direct observation
🏆Practice short and long poses to strengthen both speed and sustained focus
🏆Explore expressive mark-making and line quality
🏆Enhance composition and spatial awareness
🏆Train the eye to see value, form, and structure
🏆Receive constructive feedback through group critique
🏆Foster consistency and discipline in observational drawing

Tap the link in our bio to save your spot before September 1!

🎬 The credits are rolling...Remember back in the day when the credits ran before the movie?You’d settle into your seat, ...
08/27/2026

🎬 The credits are rolling...

Remember back in the day when the credits ran before the movie?

You’d settle into your seat, popcorn in hand, and there they were:

Starring…
Featuring…
With special appearances by…

Well, we thought we’d do the same thing.

Because before we tell you about Finding Flow, the December workshop with Nino Yuniardi, we’d like to let the reviews have the floor.

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“Nino’s workshop was such a treat on so many levels."
-Jen B.

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"It was so deliciously satisfying."
-Kate J.

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"The workshop with Nino was just what I needed."
-Jo-Anne W.

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“If you have the opportunity to study with Nino, do it.”
-Ree K.

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"Nino was a gentle joy!"
-Lisa H.

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"Nino's process was such an "aha!" for me!"
-Christy V

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"Super special experience..."
-Lyn F.

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"It was a fantastic week!"
-Ashley O.

FINDING FLOW
December 12–15, 2026 | 10am–4pm
Nino Yuniardi | All Levels | Class Size: 10
$1,600 | Lunch + drinks included daily

Top the link in our bio to save your spot.

What a beautiful opening for "Reclaiming the Ordinary" ✨Thank you to every artist who shared their work, our incredible ...
08/25/2026

What a beautiful opening for "Reclaiming the Ordinary" ✨

Thank you to every artist who shared their work, our incredible install team, everyone who joined us on Saturday, especially our collectors, supporters, and friends who continue to show up for the artists we believe in. Your encouragement means so much.

We're so grateful to celebrate this work with you!

Reclaiming the Ordinary
National Juried Exhibition
August 19 - September 12, 2026
Free and Open to the Public

Tap the link in our bio to plan your visit.

✨New Workshop Alert✨Finding Flow is about loosening up and building work through layers and movement.Inspired by gardens...
08/25/2026

✨New Workshop Alert✨

Finding Flow is about loosening up and building work through layers and movement.

Inspired by gardens, salads, food, and human connection, you’ll explore gestural marks and simple design principles while staying open to intuition.

🎯 The focus is on finding that sweet spot between heart and head—feeling your way through the process while making clear, intentional choices—so making art feels more natural and connected.

Workshop: Finding Flow
Dates: December 12-15, 2026
Instructor: Nino Yuniardi
Level: All
Tuition: $1600
Includes: Complimentary lunches and drinks served daily in studio

This workshop is open to all level artists. It’s ideal for artists who want to loosen up, reconnect with intuition, and find more ease and confidence in their process.

We’ll build abstract work through layers and gestural movement, guided by simple design principles and intuition, with inspiration from gardens, food, and human connection.

Expect to experience guided demos, simple prompts, plenty of making time, and a supportive, low-pressure environment focused on process rather than perfection.

Curiosity and willingness to try are all you need.

Tap the link in our bio to register.

🔴🎉 Our AVone Art workshop is officially full, and we couldn't be more grateful to everyone who grabbed a spot. If you di...
08/24/2026

🔴🎉 Our AVone Art workshop is officially full, and we couldn't be more grateful to everyone who grabbed a spot.

If you didn't make it into this one, there's plenty more happening in our studios 🎨🖼️

Tap the link in our bio to discover upcoming workshops, events, and all the good things we have in the works.

📣ART CALL DATE CHANGE 📣We’re writing with an important update to the timeline for Quiet Interruption, our upcoming art c...
08/23/2026

📣ART CALL DATE CHANGE 📣

We’re writing with an important update to the timeline for Quiet Interruption, our upcoming art call and exhibition.

If you’ve already applied, your application is still under consideration. No need to do a thing.

Here are the new dates to save ⬇️📅

Application Deadline: September 5, 2026
Artist Notifications: September 8, 2026
Exhibition Dates: September 17 - October 10, 2026
Opening Reception: September 26, 2026 · 4-7 PM

If you haven’t applied yet, you’ve got a little more time to get your work in.

And if you already did? Consider yourself ahead of the game.

Thanks for being part of our growing community. We’re looking forward to seeing your art!

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Quiet Interruption

What happens when something quiet interrupts the ordinary?

Quiet Interruption invites artists to consider the subtle moments that shift our attention—a pause, a shadow, a small disturbance, an unexpected encounter, or something almost overlooked.

We are seeking artwork that creates a moment of reflection, curiosity, discovery, or surprise.

The work may be intimate or monumental, permanent or temporary, material or ephemeral. We welcome approaches that engage with space, light, sound, movement, nature, memory, absence, or the everyday.

Rather than demanding attention, Quiet Interruption asks: What if art could gently interrupt the way we see, hear, move through, or experience a place?

Comment CALL for the 🔗🎨

Join us this Saturday from 4–7 PM for the opening reception of Reclaiming the Ordinary ⬇️⬇️The theme? The ordinary.The r...
08/19/2026

Join us this Saturday from 4–7 PM for the opening reception of Reclaiming the Ordinary ⬇️⬇️

The theme? The ordinary.

The result? Anything but.

Everyday things, familiar places, overlooked details, all reimagined by artists who know how to make you stop, look twice, and think, Wait… why didn’t I see it that way before?

Everyone is welcome. Bring your art-loving friends, your curious neighbor, your spouse, your kids, your out-of-town guests.

📍 Woodward Contemporary
📅 Saturday, August 22
⏰ 4–7 PM

Reclaiming the Ordinary is where ordinary gets a little extraordinary.

We’ll see you there!

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The Life Above, Ler Chang, Available

You’re not stuck. You’re just working too hard on one painting.You may have already heard that we're bringing Michael Sh...
08/17/2026

You’re not stuck. You’re just working too hard on one painting.

You may have already heard that we're bringing Michael Shemchuk back to our studio. With a twist...

This time, he’s bringing something brand new: "Power of 12"— where you'll work on twelve 12" x 12" panels at once! 🎉🎨

You’ll move between them, experiment, make decisions, step back, and keep going. One panel might spark an idea for another. A color, mark, or texture you discover on one might completely change the direction of the next.

And here’s the part we really love: you don’t just leave with twelve paintings. You leave with a body of work that can actually live together.

💥 Only 3 Spots Left 💥

Throughout the workshop, you’ll learn how to look at your twelve panels as a collection and make choices that create rhythm, contrast, and connection. 

Six over six. A long horizontal installation. Vertical columns. Diptychs. Triptychs. Rearrange them, turn them, separate them, bring them back together. Your twelve panels can become one large statement or several smaller groupings, giving you the freedom to install the work in different spaces and change the arrangement whenever you want.

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“We found our mojo because we had a great teacher and there were great artists in the group. It was the most amazing gathering of artists I have ever been with."
—Bibby G.

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"It was fantastic. I went in as a blank slate and came out with so many ideas, new techniques, inspiration and creative energy. Just what I was hoping would happen."
—Leslie R.

Workshop: Power of 12: Abstraction by Design
Instructor: Michael Shemchuk
Dates: October 1-4, 2026 | Level: All
Tuition: $1095

And along the way, you’ll learn to trust your eye, make decisions with more confidence, and see possibilities in your work that you might have missed before.

Tap the link in our bio to save your spot.

PS. Your tuition includes complimentary daily lunch in the studio, plus select supplies to help you dive right in.

Address

3935 Harney Street
San Diego, CA
92103

Opening Hours

Monday 9:30am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 9:30am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 9:30am - 4:30pm
Thursday 9:30am - 4:30pm
Friday 9:30am - 4:30pm
Saturday 9:30am - 4:30pm

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