Kinsee Morlan has been covering arts and culture in San Diego and Tijuana for nearly a decade as the arts and web editor for San Diego CityBeat. Recently, she left her post for the purportedly greener pastures of the landscape architecture world (she's now the office manager and marketing coordinator at the firm Schmidt Design Group). Kinsee's got a cool dog, an even cooler husband and sweet pad in Lemon Grove, a weird, old suburb of San Diego County.
LOCATION: San Diego, CA
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/kinseemorlan
WHAT INSPIRES ME: Authenticity. Interesting urban tribes. Geeky passion.
FAVORITE PLACE TO GET AWAY IN MY AREA: Hiking trails in East County. Tecate, Mexico if I have all day.
FAVORITE WRITERS: Charles Bukowski, Lauren Collins, Virginia Woolf
ARTIST/CREATIVE YOU'D WANT TO HAVE LUNCH WITH: Chris Burden.
MOST OVER-HYPED ARTIST: Damien Hirst.
PERFECT SOUNDTRACK FOR WRITING: Ratatat or other high-energy music without lyrics to distract me.
WHY I LOVE WHERE I LIVE: The weather, like everyone else in this area. I actually just bought a home in the Lemon Grove area of San Diego County where the motto is "Best Climate on Earth."
ART YOU MAKE (IF YOU MAKE ANY...): I take photographs and used to paint. My goal is to start a creative project with my mom in which we revamp old lamps. I love lamp. I really do have a thing for unique lighting.
RSS: KCET Artbound
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Architecture/ Design
California becomes an international export by redefining the concept of city and home.
Community Arts
Through workshops, education and placed based projects, art is the connective tissue of a community.
Cultural Politics
Funding bubbles, cultural deserts and the politics of access to the arts in the 21st century.
Film & Media Arts
At the shadow of the entertainment industry, video artists and underground filmmakers take a stand.
Literature
Noir, sunshine and dystopia create a multi-ethnic narrative that is read, watched and admired around the globe.
Multi-Disciplinary
Multi-hyphenate works that combine disciplines, remix dogmas, and reinvent the wheel.
Music
A dialogue between cultures, the music of our state serves up the California dream like no other artform.
Visual Arts
Breaking away from the European and New York vanguard, California reinvents the art world.
