Artists and Creatives

Interview with Bryant Hernandez 4/29/2020 Bryant Hernandez is an actor (Member of Actors Equity Association,) Director and a Playwright. What projects are you currently working on? I am currently working on adapting my play, TRICKS, that was written in 2003 as a screenplay. I am currently working on the second […]

Interview with Joey Molina 5/1/2020 Joey Molina is an Actor, Film Producer, Singer, and Writer. He is currently a teaching artist for Teatro Izcalli and the San Diego Opera. What projects are you currently working on? I am currently working on a novel/movie adaptation for a project titled “Julie and […]

Interview with Julie Corrales 5/4/2020 Julie Corrales is an autodidactic Chola poet, single teen mother, hoochie, feminist, survivor. What projects are you currently working on? I’m working on a screenplay about assimilation, codeswitching, Chicanismo, cholas, and friendship. It’s a comedy. I continue to write poetry for fun and for publication. […]

Interview with Maria Patrice Amon 5/7/2020 Dr. Maria Patrice Amon is a director, producer, and scholar. Maria Patrice has directed Tanya Saracho’s Fade at Moxie Theatre, co-directed the NNPN RWP of Stephanie Allison Walker’s The Madres at MOXIETheatre, directed Octavio Solis’ Lydia with Brown Bag Theatre Company, and directed staged […]

Interview with Dr. Max Branscomb 04/27/2020 Introducing Max Branscomb, Professor of Journalism and Adviser for Student Publications at Southwestern College in Chula Vista, California. Max has taught journalism and creative writing at Southwestern College for 24 years. Before that, he taught musical theater and journalism at Bonita Vista High School. […]

Interview with Max Robert Daily 03/15/2020 As a way to move forward into the year, and away from the typical “happy hour” of other years prior, Rising Arts Leaders partnered with Max Daily at the Oslo Sardine Bar in Seaport Village in order to get together and get to know […]

Interview with Perry Vasquez 04/20/2020 Continuing with providing resources through interviews with local artists, we sent some questions to Perry Vasquez, an interdisciplinary artist who has taught locally at Southwestern College in Chula Vista, has had artworks on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Downtown San Diego, and […]

Interview with Ilse Almazan 04/26/2020 A Mexican artist from Tijuana, Ilse Almazan grew up in South San Diego. She tells us she had always been drawn (pun intended?) to painting and art-making, and she even majored in Studio Art at SanDiego State University (or, SDSU). While painting has always been […]