PROFILE

Jim Hammond has been an artist in the San Diego community for the past 40 years. He has been working full time on his art for the past 15 years. He was the founding member of the 13^th Street Artists Consortium, a group of artists dedicated to producing art in public places. Hammond is currently a member of RevArte, a bi-national artist group creating public art in San Diego, Mexico, and Cuba at the Havana Bianal 200, Havana, Cuba. His individual work had been exhibited in many selected shows throughout San Diego. He exhibited with Artists Equity Association Annual Exhibition in which his work, The Bow, received the Juror’s Choice Cash Award, at the San Diego Art Institute, a solo show for the Clairemont Art Guild as the guest artist; solo show and group shows, at the Art union Building and at the Centro Cultural, Tijuana, Mexico.

He earned his BFA from San Diego State University with emphasis on sculpture, printmaking and jewelry. He is also a graduate of CORO Southern California Arts Advocate Fellows leadership program supported by the San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture and the California Arts Council. Hammond is also a board member on the San Diego Book Arts Association.

Along with his accomplishments in he arts, Hammond acquired graphic art skills while working on the newspaper he started about his community, Mission Valley News, which subsequently became a weekly newspaper, San Diego Weekly News. His expertise in developing publications is the source of the success of his magazine, The Publication, San Diego’s Arts Magazine now in its seventh year. Also in the works is another publication – Studios, which is the photography of local photographers in San Diego/Tijuana “photographing” regional artists’ studios.

As a member of RevArte (RevolucionArte), he shares a grant from US/Mexico Arts and Culture and the Rockefeller Foundation and an InSite97 grant to continue a community installation project in Popotla, Baja California. His latest public art piece is in San Ysidro, California for Casa Familiar/City of San Diego Arts and Culture Commission, which is a set of three sculptural metal vases. Jim currently has a sculpture on display at the new Mission Valley Library.