UC San Diego's Mandeville Art Gallery, known for its daring contemporary art shows, has just landed a $150,000 lifeline from the Teiger Foundation, a New York-based patron of innovative curatorial endeavors. Director Ceci Moss, the driving force behind the gallery's ambition, has a three-year financial runway to launch a bouquet of projects and public programs and even commission new works.

According to UCSD Today, Dean Cristina Della Coletta toasted to Moss's vision, emphasizing that the grant didn't just fall into their laps; it's a testament to Moss's compelling marathon of plans for the future of Mandeville Art Gallery and a signal booster for UCSD's ArtsConnect initiative. The windfall comes at a particularly sweet moment, considering the gallery's comeback in March 2023 after a swanky multi-million-dollar renovation, which didn't go unnoticed in the awards circles.

As per UCSD Today, Moss was predictably over the moon about the grant, pointing out that it will fuel the gallery's educational and interdisciplinary endeavors, all in the name of grooming the art world's next great minds. The investment transforms Mandeville into a teaching gallery-cum-experimental lab with the electricity of today’s bold-face artists buzzing through its veins.

There's a conveyor belt of stimulating exhibitions en route. This fall, art lovers can feed their souls at "Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work," an exhibition revisiting the ecological art maestros as part of the Getty Foundation's "PST ART: Art and Science Collide." Spring will usher in the "Border Craft" group show, spotlighting crafty commentary on border politics, featuring the incoming brain and Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence Tanya Aguiñiga. And if you think outside is where art stops at Mandeville, think again. Next summer, they're taking their talents to the great outdoors with the "Text Messages" program.