A day in Tijuana to check out arts and food with Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD)
La Jolla’s Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego has been leading daytrips across the border so that members and friends can experience the burgeoning art and food scene of Tijuana, and beyond. The trips, offered two or three times a year, are organized and led by Education Curator Cris Scorza and Senior Membership Manager April Erin Farrell. On Feb. 19, 2016 with 53 art-lovers on the bus, the itinerary included a walk-through of La Colleción Elias-Fontes at El Cubo — the newish annex to Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT) with the collector, Alonso Elias; a family-style lunch at a local restaurant; and visits to a photographer’s studio and a warehouse-turned-gallery showing recent works by Jaime Ruiz Otis, a featured artist in MCASD’s 2013 exhibition, “The Very Large Array: San Diego/Tijuana Artists in the MCA Collection.”