Pinata-based artist Roberto Benavidez in conversation
Piñata-based artist Roberto Benavidez joined us in conversation with Catherine Hess, curator and Head of the Board at Art Division. Benavidez describes himself as a half-breed, South Texan, queer, figurative sculptor specializing in the piñata form whose work plays on themes of race, sexuality, art, sin, humor, ephemerality, and beauty. He talked about his work and artistic practice.
Date: Thursday, November 12, 2020
Time: 6pm Via Zoom |
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Commonalities: Prints and Drawings of
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Art, Immigration & Resistance
In this lecture, Dr. Álvaro Huerta will discuss the contentious topic of immigration through art. This includes photographs (Antonio Turok, Pablo Aguilar) and paintings (Salomón Huerta). In particular, by utilizing the brilliant art of Salomón (his sibling who was born in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico), Dr. Huerta seeks to humanize immigrants and defend los de abajo / those on the bottom—where he comes from—against Trump’s xenophobic rhetoric and policies.
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Thursday/Jueves, October 8th 2020 |
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THE CAMERA LENS AS A COMMUNITY BUILDING PRAXIS
Xelestiál Moreno-Luz is a Los Angeles based artist who uses Photography and Cinematography to uplift and weave solidarity networks that highlight LGBTQIA+ communities of color. Her approach when documenting the sitter and the movement center on collective autonomy, fugitivity, and vulnerability.
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Xelestiál Moreno-Luz es un artista de Los Ángeles que utiliza la fotografía y la cinematografía para elevar y tejer redes de solidaridad que resaltan las comunidades de color LGBTQIA +. Su enfoque al documentar a la modelo y el movimiento en su práctica artística se centra en la autonomía colectiva, la fugitividad y la vulnerabilidad. Date:
Thursday/Jueves, August 20th 2020 |
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INTRODUCTION TO AKIRA KUROSAWA'S RED BEARD with KARYN KUSAMA
Karyn will discuss one of Akira Kurosawa’s most humanistic films with the group, as well as what it means for all of us to be storytellers in today’s very chaotic world.
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Friday, August 21th 2020 Monday, August 24th 2020 |
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ART EXHIBITIONS: WHAT WORKS with CATHERINE HESS
Catherine Hess, Museum Curator with a 37-year career between the Getty Museum and Huntington Museum of Art, and Head of the Board at Art Division, will deliver a Zoom lecture on the topic of exhibitions. She will touch on such issues as what makes a show successful or not and why exhibitions are important for artists and community alike. After a brief slide presentation, Catherine will be joined by Alma Ruiz, Senior Fellow at the Center for Business and Management of the Arts, Claremont Graduate University, where she teaches curatorial studies, and former MOCA Senior Curator, Los Angeles, and Nereya Otieno, Communications Coordinator and Programs Assistant at Art + Practice, an exhibition and public program space in the Leimert Park area for a conversation and question and answer period. Please join us!
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Thursday, August 27th 2020 |
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Cezanne - A talk with Luis Serrano and Fabian Cereijido PhD
Luis Serrano and Fabian Cereijido PhD. had a discussion about four paintings by Cezanne and Cezanne's influence on Luis's work.
Date: March 6, 2020
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Manet: A Conversation with Dan McCleary and Fabian Cereijido PhD
Dan McCleary and Fabian Cereijido PhD. discussed four paintings by Manet and Manet's influence on Dan's work.
Date: Friday, January 10th 2020
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A Conversation with Alex "Otiswoods" Gonzalez
Alex "Otiswoods" Gonzalez and Fabian Cereijido PhD held a talk in conjunction with the closing of Debajo, Lo Mas Bajo.
Date: Thursday, June 27th 2019
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Craftivism with Sarah Corbett
Award-winning speaker, professional activist, author and artist, Sarah Corbett lead a talk about Craftivism.
Corbett is the founder of Craftivist Collective, a social enterprise which uses the technique of Craftivism - combining craft and activism - to engage people in social justice issues "in a quiet, non-confrontational manner involving pretty, handcrafted gestures of defiance". Corbett is the author of A Little Book of Craftivism and How To Be A Craftivist Date: Wednesday, June 23rd 2019
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Mending As Metaphor with Ruth K. Souza
Ruth Katzenstein Souza is the founder of Mending As Metaphor, a mending group where people gather to share stories, mend and alter their textiles and explorerestoration on many levels. There is a growing movement toward repair and remaking of clothing to combat the waste and mindless consumption that is so toxic to our world.
Souza presented a lecture on the 19th of June at the Art Division Library as part of our summer Lecture Series. Date: Wednesday, June 19th 2019
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Ken Fields: Poetry And Memory
A reading with commentary from Fields’s latest poems, Blue Plateau.
“I am interested in several kinds of memory: autobiographical memory, what Proust calls involuntary memory, and poetic memory, memory of poets in my life, lately the ancient Chinese poet Hanshan, who wrote Cold Mountain. Blue Plateau begins with memories of Cold Mountain and improvises back and forth from him.” - Ken Fields Date: April 12th 2019
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Phranc Talk: The All-American Jewish Lesbian Folksinger and the Art of the Cardboard Cobbler
Join us for a 70 minute multi-media presentation that includes stories, songs, images and live musical performance that celebrates the intersection of DIY punk rock, personal and political history, feminist art, cardboard sculpture with proud butch lesbian swagger.
Date: Saturday, March 23rd 2019
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The Shadow Sense
Sound is invisible yet impacts us so deeply.
Please join us for an evening that will shift how you hear the world. dublab founder Mark “Frosty” McNeill opens our ears to the powerful mysteries of sound. We will explore the innovative ways in which artists have sought to visualize music and how by pivoting our auditory perspectives we can discover to new sensations. Date: Saturday, February 23rd 2019 |
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SIGHTLESS & SOUNDLESS:
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CHANCE AND SILENCE: THE WORK OF MERCE CUNNINGHAM AND JOHN CAGEFabián Cereijido and Jack Taylor lead a discussion on the artistic impact of Merce Cunningham and John Cage, the legendary avant-garde couple whose work in dance and music still reverberates today. In conjunction with the talk, there will be dance performance to music by Cunningham and several Cage pieces will be performed by Taylor and Parches, an artist who works in different media (from painting to music to poetry to social relations to virtual reality).
Date:Wednesday, September 5th, 2018 |
John Cage and Merce Cunningham talk
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2018
Meet The Artist - Narsiso Martinez Meet The Artist - John Nava Meet The Artist - Bo Daraphant 2017 Art & Brain - Lectures by Katherine Sherwood, Larry Swanson, Leo Christov-Moore Jean McLaughlin from Penland School of Crafts 2016 Meet the Artist - Roberto Gil De Montes Meet The Artist - Dario Canul, Cosijoesa Cernas, Itandehui Franco John Humble, Dan McCleary, AD Print Collective at Craig Krull Gallery Meet the Artist - Peter Zokosky Ayotzinapa: Citizen Responses to Unanswered Questions - Lecture by Roman Lujan Meet the Artist - Ruth Weisberg Meet the Artist - Pierre Picot 2015 Meet the Artist - Filmmaker, Rodrigo Garcia |
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