Art on 30th is an 8,000-square-foot, two-story art school and gallery in San Diego's Normal Heights neighborhood at 4434 30th St in the 92116 ZIP, operating at the western edge where University Heights meets the North Park Arts and Culture District. Founder Kate Ashton conceived the project in 2013 and opened the doors in January 2015 inside a former Morse Security Company building — the original mosaic company logo remains embedded in the lobby floor. Class programming covers acrylics, mixed media, and abstract composition for beginning through advanced students, and Ashton's 24-week Keys to the Art World program trains emerging artists in pricing, marketing, gallery representation, and collector relations — a business-of-art curriculum distinct from the technical studio instruction at Fusco Fine Art Studio and Classes elsewhere in the neighborhood. The second floor houses 16 private artist studios leased on a monthly, no-contract basis, while the ground level splits between classroom space and the Ashton Gallery. Ashton Gallery hosts 10 juried regional group shows, seven solo exhibitions, and one national show with a published catalog and cash prizes each year, plus opening-reception nights where all 20-plus second-floor studio artists open their doors to the public. The building's walkable gallery experience connects to the performing-arts programming at Art FORM on nearby Adams Avenue, extending the corridor of creative venues that runs from 30th Street eastward through Normal Heights and into Kensington. Ashton authored the instructional book Abstract Painting: For Today's Contemporary Artists, which features artwork from the Art on 30th community and covers abstract composition, luminosity techniques, and integrating words and numbers into visual art. Student parking is available in a rear lot, and ADA-accessible entrances serve both the front and back of the building with first-floor wheelchair-accessible shared studios available for lease.