The Hill Street Country Club

The Hill Street Country Club We are a not-for-profit art organization passionate about fostering Arts & Culture in Oceanside, CA and the surrounding North County San Diego community.

Our Goals:
1. Create pop up art events where HSCC partners with local business.
2. Provide a calendar of cultural events for the enrichment of North County residents.
3. Expose local artists.
5. Provide an art outlet for the community through workshops.
6. Expand art beyond gallery walls. Our Vision:
The Hill Street Country Club seeks to create an inclusive, diverse art culture for the social econ

omical landscape of North County San Diego. We strive to provide an art outlet for our community. WE BELIEVE ART IS FOR EVERYONE.

Friday June 12, 2026 from 12-2pm we are hosting a FREE workshop for The Art Hotel Project. Join us at the Brooks theater...
06/05/2026

Friday June 12, 2026 from 12-2pm we are hosting a FREE workshop for The Art Hotel Project.

Join us at the Brooks theater to meet Hill Street’s founders Marge and Dinah, learn more about our building plans from Architect partners Object Projects. We’re excited to share what we’ve learned in our feasibility study and collaborate with you as we design our next steps. You can share your input online with our survey, available in English and Spanish at the link in bio.

Teaching Artist Lissa Corona will be on hand to lead participants in an art activity focused on local perspectives of Oceanside. Supplies will be provided and are yours to keep after the event.

For more information about the Art Hotel Project including the full press release, visit our website at the link in our bio.

04/16/2026

WHAT DOES OCEANSIDE TO YOU?

We are excited to announce that Hill Street Country Club will be operating out of ICA Central as one of our satellite ga...
04/15/2026

We are excited to announce that Hill Street Country Club will be operating out of ICA Central as one of our satellite gallery/project spaces in San Diego County. We are so excited to be expanding as a space and offer arts programming, community engagement and solidarity across San Diego County.

Hill Street Projects
📍ICA San Diego / Central
1439 El Prado, San Diego, CA 92101

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Join us for our first event in our new space:
TATREEZ FOR LIBERATION | EMBROIDERY WORKSHOP

Saturday, April 18, 2026 | 1:00 PM 3:30 PM
Registration link in bio | Cost: $65
Balboa Park — Hill Street Country Club @ ICA San Diego / Central
1439 El Prado, San Diego, CA 92101

This event is beginner-friendly workshop introduces participants to tatreez — a traditional Palestinian embroidery practice. In this 2.5-hour session, participants will create wearable pins featuring the phrase “F**k ICE” in Arabic using traditional tatreez patterning.

All materials will be provided, including Aida cloth, tapestry needles, thread, and curated motifs. No prior stitching experience is needed.
Come craft in community while raising funds for mutual aid efforts. Cost: $65

Proceeds go to:
Gaza Soup Kitchen
Detention Resistance

Survey + Art Workshops start April 15th /// Join us as we begin our series of community engagement workshops and partner...
04/15/2026

Survey + Art Workshops start April 15th /// Join us as we begin our series of community engagement workshops and partnership development toward realizing the full Arts Hotel project with a series of survey & art workshops and community conversations in April and May.

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC:

🖼️ April 15th | 5:30 -7:30PM
John Landes
2855 Cedar Rd,
Oceanside, CA 92056
community center

📖 🖼️ 79TH LATINO BOOK & FAMILY FESTIVAL
APRIL 25TH | 10:00AM - 3:30PM
MIRACOSTA COLLEGE
OCEANSIDE CAMPUS
1 BARNARD
OCEANSIDE, CA 92056

🖼️ Art Workshop: Led in Spanish
MAY 8TH | 5:00 - 6:30 PM
LIBBY LAKE
4700 N. River Road, Oceanside, CA 92057
Community Center

🌼TRIBAL EQUITY IN OCEANSIDE:
COMMUNITY CONVERSATION & CULTURAL CELEBRATION
MAY 9TH | 5:30PM - 8:00PM
CIVIC CENTER LIBRARY
COMMUNITY ROOM
330 N COAST HWY OCEANSIDE, CA 92054

04/15/2026

The Hill Street Country Club (HSCC) is proud to announce that the California State Coastal Conservancy has unanimously approved funding for the Hill Street Arts Hotel Feasibility Study, a major milestone in the effort to create a new lower-cost, arts-focused coastal accommodation in Oceanside. The Conservancy authorized a grant of $236,400 to HSCC to conduct community engagement, evaluate potential sites, and complete a feasibility study for the future Arts Hotel.

The funded study will explore the development of an affordable, culturally rooted hotel along or near Oceanside’s historic Coast Highway—formerly Hill Street—within the City’s designated Cultural District. According to the Conservancy’s staff recommendation, the project directly supports the agency’s statewide goals to expand lower-cost coastal accommodations and improve equitable access to the California coast, particularly in areas like San Diego County where demand far exceeds supply.

The Arts Hotel will offer a distinctly Oceanside experience rooted in local culture. Visitors will encounter art installations, workshops, performances, and community programming integrated into the guest experience—creating a model of tourism that prioritizes authenticity, cultural exchange, and belonging.

“This study allows us to imagine a different future for tourism on the California coast—one that centers artists, community, and access,” said Dinah Poellnitz, Director of the Hill Street Country Club. “The Arts Hotel is about building a place where creativity and belonging shape the experience of the coast.”

To stay informed about this project as it continues, subscribe to The Hill Street Country Club’s newsletter, follow us here in IG.

If you’re a resident of Oceanside, please consider answering the survey linked in our bio, available in both English and Spanish or attend our upcoming in person survey and art workshops happening this April and May.

NEW EXHIBITION AT LIBERTY STATION OPENS AUGUST 1ST“HOW TO BE HERE” featuring works by Amanda DiGiovanni and Helena Westr...
07/22/2025

NEW EXHIBITION AT LIBERTY STATION OPENS AUGUST 1ST

“HOW TO BE HERE” featuring works by Amanda DiGiovanni and Helena Westra

🗓️ Aug. 1 – Jan 26, 2026

📍 Arts District Liberty Station, Gallery 201
Second Floor
2820 Roosevelt Rd.
San Diego, CA 92106

🎉 Opening Reception: First Friday, Aug. 1 | 4–7PM

About the artists:
Amanda DiGiovanni, is a San Diego-born multimedia artist whose practice blends sculpture, performance, and photography into immersive, thought-provoking experiences. Her work examines what it means to be human in a constantly shifting world while consistently pushing artistic boundaries and expressions.

Helena Westra, who works with earthy materials like clay, dirt and found materials, creates sculptures and land art that speak to ancient symbols and archetypes. Blending land art with spiritual and symbolic themes, her sculptures explore archetypes and the human connection to nature. With this background, her portion of the joint exhibit emerges from the physical body, its cycles, limitations, and landscapes.

About the show:
This exhibition, is part of the Emerging Visual Artist Program, invites you to explore how found materials, sculptural interventions and personal archives can explore what it means to be present and just be – despite pain, outcry and systemic collapse. It takes viewers through the dynamic feelings and emotions of survival, how it can be vulnerable, circular, and quiet but also creative. Their work asks us not simply how we go on, but how we stay here, as full, flawed, feeling humans.


June 24th, 7:45-8:45PM via Zoom /// We & invite you all to join our current emerging artists in residence, Gracie Moon...
06/21/2025

June 24th, 7:45-8:45PM via Zoom /// We & invite you all to join our current emerging artists in residence, Gracie Moon, and Sean Sarmiento, .sarmiento on Tuesday June 24th, 7:45-8:45PM via zoom for a Residency Reflection & Artist Dialogue as the discuss and reflect on their show, ALL THE PLACES WE BELONG.

ALL THE PLACES WE BELONG
Residency Reflection & Artist Dialogue
June 24th, 7:45-8:45PM via zoom
Link in bio to join.

ALL THE PLACES WE BELONG has been EXTENDED until July 6th. Don’t miss your chance to view new art works by emerging artists in residence and .sarmiento

ALL THE PLACES WE BELONG
ON VIEW NOW- JULY 6TH
GALLERY 201
ARTS DISTRICT
LIBERTY STATION
2820 ROOSEVELT ROAD 201
SAN DIEGO, CA 92106

TONIGHT'S MOOD 🌀 streaming starts at 7:30 PM 🌀Catch our 🗣️Co-Founder & Founding Curator Dinah Poellnitz live on The Kic...
04/21/2025

TONIGHT'S MOOD 🌀 streaming starts at 7:30 PM 🌀
Catch our 🗣️Co-Founder & Founding Curator Dinah Poellnitz live on The Kick It Podcast () — streaming on IG & YouTube!

Dinah will be sharing her journey as a curator, artist, and community builder rooted in Oceanside & Vista. From the origin story of Hill Street Country Club to what’s next for us, she’ll be talking advocacy, access, and the work it takes to organize for and with community.

Tap into a conversation about building creative ecosystems beyond the downtown art district — because every neighborhood deserves space to gather, create, and be seen.

Link in bio to watch!

Thank you & Holly Fisher for your thoughtful article highlighting Sean Sarmiento, one of the exhibiting Emerging Artist...
02/18/2025

Thank you & Holly Fisher for your thoughtful article highlighting Sean Sarmiento, one of the exhibiting Emerging Artists in residence for the upcoming show “All the Places We Belong” at Gallery 201

“Sarmiento recently finished a six-month residency at Arts District in San Diego’s Liberty Station where he explored different ways of expressing the feeling of home in new-found places, experiences, and collaborations. In his recent body of work, Sarmiento is unbound by the need to document literal elements of the home. His current interpretation of home does not necessarily lie in the normative architecture of domestic spaces, but rather in the expansivity of self-discovery. Through experimentation, the artist reaches for the metaphoric, discovering that home is not a static setting, but a collection of experiences that culminate to form one’s relationship to self and their environment.”

Read the full article➡️ link in bio.

All the Places We Belong
Feb. 28 -June 13
📍 GALLERY 201
Arts District Liberty Station
🗓️ Opening Reception March 7, 4-8PM

From the desk of : JFK believed the arts were essential to democracy. The Kennedy Center wasn’t just meant to be a venu...
02/18/2025

From the desk of : JFK believed the arts were essential to democracy. The Kennedy Center wasn’t just meant to be a venue—it was built as a living memorial to the power of creativity.

But have we forgotten what he fought for?

In 1958, the U.S. approved the creation of a National Cultural Center. But when John F. Kennedy took office, he reframed it as something much bigger:
🏛 A beacon for the arts
🎭 A statement on culture’s role in democracy
📢 A reminder that artists shape the world we live in

He knew:
✔ Theater, music, and poetry shape history.
✔ Artists challenge power and spark progress.
✔ A thriving culture is the sign of a thriving democracy.

🔥 “If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free.” – JFK

But today, the arts are often seen as disposable—not essential.

Funding cuts, political interference, and shifting priorities are testing JFK’s vision.

When the arts suffer, so does democracy.

Let’s remember: Art is not a luxury. It’s a necessity.

Address

530 South Coast Highway
Oceanside, CA
92054

Opening Hours

Tuesday 12pm - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 12pm - 5pm
Friday 12pm - 5pm
Sunday 1pm - 5pm

Telephone

+17609176666

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