California Coastal Conservancy Unanimously Approves Hill Street Country Club’s Arts Hotel Feasibility Study
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.
HSCC Announcement, March 9, 2026
Longstanding Oceanside Art Space Faces Eviction and Closure
"What Goes Up Must Come Down" is the final exhibit at The Hill Street Country Club, a nonprofit Oceanside art space co-founded in 2012 by Dinah Poellnitz and Margaret Hernandez.
Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS, Dec. 17, 2024
Artist in Practice: Cole Douglas
On view at The Hill Street Country Club
through July 22, 2024
Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS, July 11, 2024
Andrés Hernández: 'My Faith Won't Move Mountains But My Longing Builds Bridges Across the Mexican Border To Be By Your Side'
On view at The Hill Street Country Club through Feb. 28, 2022
Juila Dixon Evans, KPBS, Jan. 27, 2022
Beyond the big headlines, the city’s contemporary art scene is rooted in its diverse, community-centered art spaces.
Jordan Karney Chaim
Hyperallergic Magazine, Oct. 13, 2022
Delana Delgado is an assistant curator with the Hill Street Country Club, a nonprofit working to create a more inclusive and diverse arts culture and community in northern San Diego County
Lisa Deaderick
San Diego Union Tribune, July 10, 2021
Painter Chitra Gopalakrishnan explores the joys and isolation of American motherhood.
Seth Combs
San Diego Union Tribune, July 4, 2021
Club Boutika, a Black, queer-owned culinary and craft collective, is teaming up with HSCC to present High Tea, an inaugural arts, music and cultural gathering to be held just down the street at Oceanside’s Goat Hill Park.
Seth Combs
San Diego Union Tribune, June 27, 2021
This week, nonprofit art space The Hill Street Country Club opened an exhibition of portrait photography of unsheltered individuals plus onsite programming, panels and events dedicated to homelessness.
Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS, April 15, 2021
This weekend in the arts: Hill Street Country Club, Red Brontosaurus Records, a world premiere concert, experimental percussion and a globe-trotting dance film
Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS, Feb. 18, 2021
Several weeks ago, the Oceanside art space, gallery and community hub Hill Street Country Club closed, again, for in-person appointments and programs.
Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS, Dec. 17, 2020
Oceanside's Hill Street Country Club art space opens a new show this weekend, a retrospective of photographer Johnny Nguyen's work. The exhibition, "Normalize Radical," chronicles the decade Nguyen spent photographing street activism and counterculture movements in San Diego, beginning with the Occupy movement and leading right up until this summer's protests against police brutality and racial injustice.
Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS, Sept. 24, 2020
Hill Street Country Club founder Dinah Poellnitz is finding art and hope in the ways local artists are taking their art off the canvas and into protests.
Julia Dixon Evans
KPBS, June 4, 2020