Chelo Montoya

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 […]

Monica Rodriguez and Kelman Duran continue this series, conceived by artist Lisa C  Soto and originally hosted at Soto Studio in Inglewood, which brings together creative contemporaries from many artistic genres, including visual, performing, and multidisciplinary practices. Two artists working in different mediums and with distinctly different approaches interview one another and then broaden their […]

Not good with gardening? Why not start small? First, decorate a pot. Next, learn how to plant and maintain flowers or herbs that you can take home for a special someone.

In conjunction with the exhibition Gary Simmons: Fade to Black, Far Out Black features Afrofuturist short films that present visions of the future that are complex, unique, and vibrant. The panel following the screening includes filmmakers Buki Bodunrin, Ezra Claytan Daniels, Donovan Vim Crony, and Keith Josef Adkins. It gives the audience an opportunity to […]

All ages are invited to participate in an interactive workshop, organized in response to the exhibition Charting the Terrain, to reimagine urban planning and the rapidly changing landscape of Los Angeles. Build a replica of streets, topographical features, and key points of interest in your community to share with family and friends.

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 […]

Join us for an afternoon of improvisational making. In the first part of the workshop, we will cut, tear, wrap, tie, and improvise using textiles inspired by Shinique Smith: Refuge. Part two includes a fashion show remix activated by lively music. This program is led by students and faculty from the Otis College of Art […]

In tandem with the exhibition Adler Guerrier: Conditions and Forms for blck Longevity, this mixed-media workshop combines the power of the sun with light sensitive paper to produce magical sunprints layered with text, found objects, and other embellishments. All ages welcome.

Reclaiming Our Time: Radical Self Care Now! When Representative Maxine Waters invoked the phrase “reclaiming my time” during a House Financial Services Committee meeting last year, social media went ablaze. Used by the Congresswoman to demand that her questions be answered, the phrase signaled that it was the moment for Waters—and maybe all of us—to […]

Our monthly book club continues this spring with titles selected in conjunction with the exhibition How Sweet the Sound: Gospel Music in Los Angeles. April’s book is David Ritz’s Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin. May's selection is The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, along with his essay Letter from a Region in My […]