Balboa Art Conservation Center begins social justice art preservation program

The Balboa Art Conservation Center announced Wednesday, Aug. 12, a program to preserve important cultural works that emerge from social justice movements in the San Diego area.

The Preserve Community Art! program seeks to protect the region’s cultural heritage and provide free art conservation services for those works deemed “significant” coming out of various social justice movements.

The BACC outlined three primary goals for the program: to serve as a resource for the art that is created as a direct result of activism; to document and preserve a type of human expression that normally emerges...