2022 Keeper of the Culture honoree in Point Loma San Diego, San Diego Art Academy teaches oil, watercolor, and acrylic painting at 2750 Historic Decatur Road Suite 202 inside Liberty Station. The Black-owned, veteran-owned studio school was recognized by the San Diego African American Museum of Fine Art for its "tremendous impact on the community," a cultural-representation mission that threads into the broader immigrant-and-diaspora heritage programming on display at the New Americans Museum across the NTC Arts District. The founder trained at San Francisco's Academy of Art University, served as a Navy aviation structural mechanic at NAS North Island painting squadron logos and aircraft insignia, and has exhibited at SDSU, Cal State San Marcos, the San Diego Museum of Art, and Sparks Gallery across a 30-plus-year San Diego career. Studio classes run in-person at the Historic Decatur Road site and via live Zoom for remote learners, producing portraiture-and-symbolism output in the same Black-cultural-representation lane as fellow San Diego artists at Big Checho Art & Design Co. Mural commissions from the studio appear at San Diego High School and UC San Diego, with signature paintings featuring young Black men styled as Moors, the 8th-century North African royalty who ruled Spain for 700 years, inside a mildly surreal composition language that places Magritte, Dalí, and Rousseau influences on the same canvas as classical portraiture training for enrolled Liberty Station Point Loma San Diego students.