SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A downtown San Diego Fine Art and Craft sale in April will support artists impacted by the Los Angeles wildfires.
San Diego artists have come together to support Los Angeles artists and art workers impacted by the devastating wildfires that broke out in early January 2025 and left dozens of people dead and thousands of homes and structures damaged.
The Fine Art and Craft Sale will be held at Union Hall Gallery on Broadway in downtown San Diego from April 4-6 and again April 11-13, 2025, featuring nearly 500 pieces of art from over 160 artists from San Diego and across the country and world.
All proceeds from the art sale will benefit the Grief and Hope: LA Art World Fire Relief Fund.
Some artists with pieces in the sale include Italo Scanga, Paula Wittner, James Hubbell, Larry Groff, Margaret Larlham, Jane Culp, James Aitchison, Doshi, and Joe Garcia, alongside emerging artists, university students, tattoo artists and fiber artists.
View just a few of the pieces that will be on sale below:
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Echo Mountain talking- oil/board (Photo: Union Hall Gallery) -
The Fine Art and Craft Sale will be held at Union Hall Gallery on Broadway in downtown San Diego from April 4-6 and again April 11-13, 2025 (Photo: Union Hall Gallery) -
Doshi-Listen (Photo: Union Hall Gallery) -
Debra-Garcia (Photo: Union Hall Gallery) -
Holly-Given-Vineyard_Cedars (Photo: Union Hall Gallery) -
Harry-Sternberg-Moonlit-2 (Photo: Union Hall Gallery) -
Polly-Giacchina-Distant-Ridges (Photo: Union Hall Gallery) -
Robert-Christy (Photo: Union Hall Gallery) -
Shauni-Lin-black-eyed-susan-3 (Photo: Union Hall Gallery) -
Steve-Gould-Painted-Desert-Petroglyphs-metal (Photo: Union Hall Gallery) -
Unknown-Artist-Painting (Photo: Union Hall Gallery) -
Susan-Schiffer-The-Peaceful-Day (Photo: Union Hall Gallery) -
Yale-Storm-Shards-from-a-Jewish (Photo: Union Hall Gallery) -
Muriel-Replica-of-Ameila-Earharts-Plane (Photo: Union Hall Gallery) -
Lori-Polak-Glass-Sculpture2 (Photo: Union Hall Gallery) -
Lori-Polak-Glass-Sculpture3 (Photo: Union Hall Gallery) -
Leah-Schaperow-GoldSkySailing (Photo: Union Hall Gallery) -
Lester-Machado-Painting (Photo: Union Hall Gallery) -
Larry-Groff-Cabrillo-Bridge-Balboa-Park (Photo: Union Hall Gallery)
Art pieces will range from $10 to $5,000, to give more people a chance to benefit the Los Angeles art community.
Several artists with pieces at the sale have previously exhibited works at Union Hall Gallery, including sculptor Ted Berryman and landscape artist Lester Machado, and have either donated works or are creating new pieces specifically for the fundraiser, the gallery said.
The gallery described the collection as “spanning abstract to realism – surrealism, impressionism, expressionism, fauvism, whimsy, plein-air, ceramics, glass, metalwork, fiber arts, and beyond.”
“This sale is both a fundraiser and a powerful demonstration of the solidarity of the San Diego arts community,” said Heidi Farkash, owner of Union Hall Gallery and Santa Ysabel Art Gallery and lifelong patron of the arts in San Diego County. “I’m overwhelmed at the compassion of this community and willingness to help those in need.”
Union Hall Gallery is located in the historic San Diego Carpenters Union building at 2323 Broadway.