Cake Walk This Way: SD Art Prize Cake Walk

Do you like to bake cakes?  Do you like to eat cakes? Do you like art?  If yes, to any of these questions, then San Diego Visual Arts Network  EAT YOUR ART OUT, event is perfect for you. 

Join us for the 2026 SD Art Prize Cake Walk.  ORDER YOUR TICKETS NOW

Here are two example of art prize recipients from the past years and cakes that have been design inspired by these impressive artworks. 

Art by SD Art Prize recipient Ernest Silva  (Collection Debra and Larry Poteet

Portrait of Debra Poteet by SD Art Prize recipient Raul Guerrero
(collection Debra and Larry Poteet)

If you are a baker, amateur or professional, or if you just want to see and eat some cake PLUS get to see the entire Poteet Art Collection in Del Mar, then please sign up for this event on Sunday, August 9 from 3 to 5 pm. 

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YOU ARE INVITED

SAN DIEGO ART PRIZE CAKE WALK

SUNDAY, AUGUST 9 FROM 3-5PM

Hosted by DEBRA AND LARRY POTEET
2425 Lozana Road, Del Mar,CA,92014

To benefit  SAN DIEGO VISUAL ARTS NETWORK and
the San Diego Art Prize 2026
An Eat Your Art Out Event
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Join us for an extraordinary evening where art and pastry come together in a delicious celebration. We invite amateur bakers and art lovers alike to participate in this unique event .We are asking those of you who are bakers to supply cakes inspired by the SD Art Prize recipients owned by the Poteets. 

If you bake a cake, we will match you with an artist from the collection before the event and you can let your imagination run wild with decoration!  

Amateur or professional bakers who supply cakes inspired by the SD Art Prize recipients owned by the Poteets will get reduced admittance. 

Cake Bakers: $25 donation + bring an artist-inspired cake. 
                        $10 donation + bring two artists -inspired cakes. 
Once you RSVP you will be given an image and description of the artist and artwork.  We have 25 art works to match. 

Non-Bakers: $40 donation 

Once we have viewed all the cakes, it will be time to eat them! Everyone will be given a collector cake box to enjoy at the event and to take home leftovers 

So put on your thinking toques blanche and let us know if your interest is piqued and if you want to come as a baker or a supporter.  RSVP by July 24 to allow plenty of time for creative baking. This is a limited space event. 

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Questions? -  info@sdvisualarts.net 

Join us for a creative cake celebration with gâteaux galore. Perfectly perfected pastry for patrons of the arts.

At 4:30 pm during the SD Art Prize Cake Walk event the high bids for the Silent Auction to benefit SD Art Prize featuring Deanne Sabeck and Jeffery Laudenslager will be announced

Image of Jeffery Laudenslager credit Sidney Wildesmith 
Bidding opens on Jul 14, 2026 at 8:30 AM PDT

 

This SD Art Prize Cake Walk fundraiser is in support of the 
2026 SD Art Prize Soft Power: On Color, Time, and Resistance 
held for the first time at Oceanside Museum of Art 
Opening on Sept 5th, 2026 and showing  until February 7, 2027.  
2026 SD Art Prize recipients Danielle Dean, Ingrid Hernández, Tatiana Ortiz-Rubio 
Buy tickets here

Soft Power in Practice: A Conversation with the 2026 San Diego Art Prize Recipients
Sun Sept 27th from 2 to 4 pm.  The artists in conversation with curator Dr. Lara Bullock at the Groves Gallery at Oceanside Museum of Art. Limited seating $20-50 Buy tickets here

What you need to know about the new San Diego County Arts and Culture Funding

 

Although our District County Supervisors from District 3 and 4 say there is no relationship, May was a month when attention for funding for arts and culture shifted from the lack from the City of San Diego to the abundance for the County of San Diego.

In a stunning announcement and vote, $2.75 million was proposed by Terra Lawson-Remer and Monica Montgomery Steppe and granted to the arts to be administered by the County Commission of Arts and Culture led by their chairman Jim Gilliam. This includes $2.25 million each year through 2031.

This County Commission has been working for 3 years toward getting funding so that they can move from being an advisory commission (the usual role of a county commission) to taking on more staff and programs. It would be wonderful if we truly had a supportive County Arts Council/Department like most counties that value the arts and partner with the State Arts Council.

The County Art commission is instructed to direct the funding in the following way:

• $1 million annually for direct artist grants
• $500,000 for affordable creative spaces
• $250,000 for artist residencies within County departments
• $250,000 for binational arts investment in the San Diego–Baja California region
• Creation of  policy for Arts & Cultural Districts, with no funding but hopes for money from private sources.
• A one-time $500,000 investment in the Black Arts & Culture District

We have seen a strong trend to support individual artists since the pandemic. San Diego gave out funding as a sort of WPA type of program from the California Arts Council. Private money was forthcoming to buy $1 million worth of art directly from artists. The new Artists Count program is directing forty-two $50K grants to be awarded later this year. Now there is another $1million for artist grants. We are all hoping this encourages our talent to stay put in San Diego County especially if there is the chance of more affordable live work spaces.

There is currently one full time administrator at the County Commission, Christina Jones, but there is money to add staff especially to handle PR, marketing  and workshops for the artist applying for these monies. Some of this will be contracted help to begin. We probably will not see a roll out of this until earliest, in the fall and maybe not until the new year.

As of this report, the City of SD budget has been dropped from $13.8 million to under $2 million. Both the City  ($146 million) and the County ($360 million) both have budget deficits. But the arts bring huge financial revenues ($10 billion annually) to the county and it is short sighted to eliminate this source for public health and youth opportunities.

Grant Oliphant,  CEO of the Prebys Foundation reminds us, “… experience tell us that when cities retreat from investing in arts and culture, they don’t just trim ​“excess.” They undercut economic growth, community connection, quality of life, and civic identity.” The arts are not a luxury.

We certainly thank Chair Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer and Vice Chair Supervisor Monica Montgomery Steppe and wonderful staff for their leadership and vision, and to Supervisor Paloma Aguirre for carrying the vote