Chelo Montoya

To inspire activism in the next generation of leaders, community mentors in a variety of fields welcome teens to participate in unscripted conversations and workshops about changing communities. Young people use art, critical thinking, and community organizing to reframe “responsibility” to mean “the ability to respond to a broken society.” This spring, teens share topics […]

Let your creativity flow at this all-ages affair featuring maker stations led by local artists. Learn from the pros of our community, including Yerneh Gabon, who uses raw clay vessels and sculpture to discuss water issues; Silas Munro, whose lettering design exercises will map and image our city; and Cole M. James, who will present […]

Do you want to have a successful career or do you want to have children? Many women artists starting out still hear that they must choose one or the other. The KCET Artbound documentary Artist and Mother follows four artists, Rebecca Campbell, Andrea Chung, Tanya Aguiñiga, and Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, who defy this thinking. Not only do they juggle career and family but […]

Join us for a night of storytelling and recorded music in celebration of the life and musical contributions of the late Eric Dolphy, a noted 20th-century multi-instrumentalist jazz musician. James Newton, distinguished professor of ethnomusicology at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, will share artifacts and stories about the musician and his Leimert Park […]

Make a handmade button badge that celebrates your special someone! Use drawing and a mix of beautiful papers to create a personalized token of your appreciation.

Conversation and song come together to echo the narratives presented in How Sweet the Sound: Gospel Music in Los Angeles. Panelists include Dr. Margaret Douroux, composer and CEO of the Heritage Music Foundation, Rev. Calvin Rhone, recording artist and Los Angeles chapter representative of the Gospel Music Workshop of America, gospel musician Donald Webber, and […]

Points of Access, The Fundamentals of Art Collecting: Charlie James, Alitash Kebede, Gianna and Demetrio Kerrison Organized by CAAM and Art + Practice (A+P), The Fundamentals of Art Collecting is the second program in the Points of Access series aimed at offering meaningful dialogues about our access to and understanding of contemporary art. In four […]

The Evolution of View Park Inspired by the exhibition Adler Guerrier: Conditions and Forms for blck Longevity, come for lively conversations about Los Angeles’s View Park, one of the largest historically African American enclaves in the United States. The first program focuses on the beginnings of View Park, a community developed between the 1920s and […]

Make a map of your personal geographical journey with all of its diverse landmarks, either from recent memory or long ago. It may be the daily trip to and from school in your neighborhood or a journey you remember from another time and place. Think of all the significant places you have passed or visited, […]

To inspire activism and inspiration in the next generation of leaders, mentors from Queens of the New Age and Girls Make Beats welcome teens to participate in unscripted conversations and workshops about changing communities through the medium of music. The first two workshops (July 3 and August 7) will include a walkthrough of the exhibition […]