Scholarship Winner: JP Wackenstedt

Julian 2–Acrylic on Wood Panel
Introducing JP Wackenstedt, our Business of Art Scholarship Winner
 

The Business of Art Scholarship Partners are excited to announce The Business of Art Scholarship recipient, JP Wackenstedt.  JP was selected out of an impressive group of applicants  to be showcased at one of Mission Fed ArtWalk’s artist booths on April 29 and 30, 2023 in Little Italy. In addition to being awarded a booth,JP will benefit from  mentoring, publicity, art consulting, and marketing, 

A native Californian artist, JP explores the ideas of joy and memory with her figurative yet abstracted oil and acrylic paintings. She spent her childhood living in a small town at the edge of the Mohave Desert and moved to San Diego as a young adult. The duality of experience formed by growing up in a small, rural, isolated community and transitioning to adulthood in a large, urban, accessible city sparked a curiosity about what exactly brings joy and what destroys it, and where the balance hangs in between. One can have joy in the most unassuming, mundane moments as well as exciting, extravagant ones.  Her current work is centered around portraying with paint that perilous moment somewhere between joy and nostalgia in the attempt to concretely capture the experience of realizing a memory is a joyous one while simultaneously grieving the loss of it fading.

She earned a B.A. in Visual Art (Studio) from UCSD and worked for several years as a decorative painter and muralist before becoming a full-time studio artist. Her work has been shown at UCSD, SDAI and SDSU and she has an upcoming show this summer with the City of Encinitas Cultural Arts. Her work can be found online at www.jpwackenstedt.com.

About the Scholarship:

The San Diego Visual Arts Network and Mission Fed ArtWalk are pleased to offer The Business of Art Scholarship for the annual Mission Fed ArtWalk event in Little Italy on April 29 and 30, 2023. The scholarship is annually awarded to one emerging visual artist who has a body of work to be shown and sold at Mission Fed ArtWalk. 

Mission Fed ArtWalk – CONNECTING CREATIVE COMMUNITIES. Mission Fed ArtWalk is San Diego’s largest urban arts festival. Over 300 artists participate each year and over 100,000 visitors purchase approximately $1 million worth of artwork. The two-day festival also includes live music, food vendors, and art activities for kids amidst the hip, historic charm of downtown San Diego’s Little Italy.

San Diego Visual Arts Network – San Diego Visual Arts Network (SDVAN) is a database of information produced to improve the clarity, accuracy and sophistication of discourse about San Diego’s artistic and cultural life and is dedicated to the idea that the Visual arts are a vital part of the health of our city. SDVAN provides a resource-rich website and facilitates countless opportunities for inspiration and collaboration on visual arts projects.