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  • CAAM: Family Workshop

    California African American Museum 600 State Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Sunday, November 24, 2019 | 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. I Live Here

  • CAAM: MOVE: Dance ’90s

    California African American Museum 600 State Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Saturday, September 28, 2019 | 3:00 – 4:00 p.m.  Saturday, October 26, 2019 | 3:00 – 4:00 p.m.  Saturday, November 30, 2019 | 3:00 – 4:00 p.m.  Saturday, December 14, 2019 | 3:00 – 4:00 p.m.  MOVE: Dance ‘90s

  • CAAM: Points of Access

    California African American Museum 600 State Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Wednesday, December 4, 2019 | Mixer 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. | Program 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Points of Access: Speed Mentoring Mixer

  • CAAM: Docent-Led Tours

    California African American Museum 600 State Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Saturday, September 14, 2019 | 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Saturday, October 12, 2019 | 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Saturday, November 9, 2019 | 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Saturday, December 14, 2019 | 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Docent-Led Tours

  • CAAM: Family Workshop

    California African American Museum 600 State Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Sunday, December 15, 2019 | 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.  CAAM Makers Fest

  • CAAM: Animate Space

    California African American Museum 600 State Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Wednesday, December 18, 2019 | 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Animate Space: Syncopated Ladies

  • CAAM: Family Workshop

    California African American Museum 600 State Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Saturday, December 21, 2019 | 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.  Abstract Metallic

  • CAAM:Black Collectibles

    California African American Museum 600 State Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Black memorabilia is one of the most provocative and fastest-growing categories of collecting in America. Assistant curator Taylor Bythewood-Porter and Gail Deculus-Johnson, a collector and the owner of Sable Images, discuss how these controversial and uncensored depictions shaped African American experiences, as well as the value of these objects today.

  • CAAM:In Conv. Melvin Edwards+Jill moniz

    California African American Museum 600 State Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Pioneering contemporary artist Melvin Edwards joins LA Blacksmith curator jill moniz in a discussion of the artist’s work. Edwards employs metalwork and abstraction to invoke social injustice and the African American experience, as evidenced in his work My Turn to Burn—a response to the 1965 Watts Rebellion—which is currently on display at CAAM.

  • CAAM:Docent-led tour

    California African American Museum 600 State Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Every second Saturday, CAAM offers in-depth tours of selected exhibitions. Meet passionate and knowledgeable members of CAAM’s Volunteer Docent Council for spirited conversations about the exhibitions Making Mammy: A Caricature of Black Womanhood, 1840–1940 in January