San Diego Artist Dani Dodge Selected as Featured Artist for 2010 Mission Federal ArtWalk

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(Free-Press-Release.com) January 22, 2010 -- San Diego, CA, January 22, 2010 -- San Diego Fine Art Society (SDFAS) is proud to announce that artist mentee Dani Dodge has been selected as a featured artist for the 2010 Mission Federal ArtWalk. ArtWalk, San Diego’s largest and best-known art festival, is celebrating its 25th anniversary on April 24 and 25, 2010, in Little Italy.

Dodge, a former reporter and editor with The San Diego Union-Tribune, began telling her stories in paint in 2004 after covering the war in Iraq.

Three months ago, she was invited to be part of the SDFAS mentorship program for midcareer artists. SDFAS is a nonprofit organization founded by April Game to strengthen the pulse of the art community through education and collaboration. The Society has retained Yoram Gil as the mentor to help artists like Dodge move forward in their careers.

“The San Diego Fine Art Society’s mentor program has given me the support and confidence I need to move my art in a new direction,” Dodge said. “The subways and crowds I experienced on a recent trip to New York City provided fodder for me to produce more powerful images on canvas. These images are the stories of intimate moments and human emotions. Encouragement from Yoram and April was instrumental in this new series of paintings, which will be introduced at ArtWalk.”

Dodge will be one of more than 300 artists exhibiting at ArtWalk. This is her third year showing at the festival.

“ArtWalk is an important event for the community and Dani being chosen as a featured artist speaks for the quality of this festival,” said April Game, SDFAS founding executive director. “Dani’s work has tremendous depth. Being chosen means that the organizers have seen the quality of her work and feel this is the level of quality they want to represent the festival.”

As a journalist, Dodge covered the invasion of Iraq and was part of a Pulitzer Prize-winning team recognized for coverage of Randy "Duke" Cunningham, a Rancho Santa Fe congressman who ended up in prison after accepting bribes. Now, she tells her stories in paint.

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