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.​

Espanol:
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 
6:00 - 7:00 PM
​Via ZOOM

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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.

Date:
Friday, August 21th 2020 
6:00 - 7:00 PM
​Via ZOOM

Monday, August 24th 2020 
6:00 - 7:00 PM
​Via ZOOM

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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!

Date:
Thursday, August 27th 2020 
6:00 - 7:00 PM
​Via ZOOM

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Alvaro Huerta Ph.D. on Latinx immigration with art by Salomón Huerta

Alvaro Huerta, Ph.D. on Latinx immigration with art by Salomón Huerta, M.F.A.

This book talk represents a collaboration of Alvaro Huerta, Ph.D., and his brother Salomón Huerta, M.F.A., (critically acclaimed artist), where they combined their creative and scholarly efforts (text, art) to defend and humanize Latinx people based on the book Defending Latina/o Immigrant Communities: The Xenophobic Era of Trump and Beyond. Using his academic training, public policy knowledge, and community activist background, as well as his personal and familial experiences as the son of Mexican immigrants, Dr. Huerta makes relatable los de abajo/those on the bottom. The text is accompanied by Salomón's brilliant art, where it also investigates intersectional issues related to race, class, place, and state violence.

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