{"id":426043,"date":"2026-08-07T03:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T03:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426043\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T03:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T03:18:16","slug":"coast-highway-101-art-banner-tradition-set-for-sunday-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426043\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast Highway 101 art banner tradition set for Sunday \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sea shells, surfboards and some rather fabulous-looking birds have starring roles on a few of this year\u2019s Arts Alive banners in Encinitas, and all the 85 banners now are looking for new homes.<\/p>\n

An Encinitas tradition for 26 years, the banners for about two and a half months decorate a six-mile stretch of Coast Highway 101 from La Costa Avenue through Cardiff, plus the parking lot at Seaside Market. This year\u2019s artistic creations came down July 28, and they\u2019ll soon have new owners.<\/p>\n

The annual community reception and a live auction for the banners starts at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Encinitas Community & Senior Center, 1140 Oakcrest Park Drive.\u00a0The minimum bid is $200.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so proud of the caliber of art we have this year. \u2026 The talent that\u2019s out there is just incredible,\u201d said Brenda Dizon, founder and president of Art Can\u2019t Hurt You \u2014 The Morgan Mallory Art Foundation.<\/p>\n

The nonprofit organization is taking over the banner program this year, allowing its founder and longtime banner-hanging expert Danny Salzhandler to finally retire.<\/p>\n

Salzhandler said Wednesday that he\u2019s pleased to hand over the banner program to Dizon, saying it\u2019s about time he stepped down. Last year, he had a professional company hang the banners from the light poles along Coast Highway 101. Before that he did it himself in a bucket truck, and one time he fell out of the bucket and broke his arm.<\/p>\n

Dizon said she\u2019s capitalizing on the existing elements of the program and adding new marketing measures, including making the annual silent auction, which occurs in the days before Sunday\u2019s live auction, fully online for the first time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just tried to take this amazing program and elevate it,\u201d she said, adding that this year\u2019s participating artists are very much enjoying all the online publicity their pieces are receiving.<\/p>\n

To view the banners, find out who created them, and see how much bidding interest they\u2019re receiving, go to, https:\/\/www.artcanthurtyou.org\/arts-alive-banners.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday afternoon, Banner No. 56 \u2014 \u201cCoastal Wisdom,\u201d a great horned owl painted by artist Christopher Dillman \u2014 was being rated a \u201chot item\u201d and receiving top bids.<\/p>\n

\""Coastal\u201cCoastal Wisdom\u201d by artist Christopher Dillman. (Stephen Whalen Photography)<\/p>\n

Dizon said she loves to tell people that these art pieces \u201ccan live indoors or outdoors for years,\u201d so there\u2019s lots of possible display locations for anyone contemplating adding a little color to their homes.<\/p>\n

\""Reimagining\u201cReimagining the Mosaic Surfing Madonna\u201d by San Dieguito Academy student artists Avery Anderson and Macy Keifaber. (Stephen Whalen Photography)<\/p>\n

As this year\u2019s banner program comes to an end, she\u2019s envisioning the possibilities for next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to go for 101 (banners) on the 101,\u201d Dizon said, adding that she\u2019ll also reach out to more artists, particularly ones who specialize in ethnic art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sea shells, surfboards and some rather fabulous-looking birds have starring roles on a few of this year\u2019s Arts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,181,23,100,3054,74,84,76,75],"class_list":["post-426043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-north-county","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}