A multi-pronged approach to educational programming to ensure that diverse populations benefit from participatory experiences that encourage creative expression, self-awareness, and dialogue.
Education & Outreach
LACE’s multi-pronged approach to educational programming ensures that diverse populations benefit from participatory experiences through creative expression, self-awareness, dialogue and understanding. LACE is perpetually finding ways to innovate, streamline, and maximize its education and outreach programs.
ArtWORKS
ArtWorks is a series of hands-on programs offered by LACE in collaboration with other community-based organizations that serve LA’s young adult community, including homeless and at-risk youth. Each workshop is developed and led by artists.
ArtKID
ArtKid is an educational series that invites children ages 6-10 and their families to visit LACE for a lively and interactive art experience. ArtKid events combine story-telling, art-making activities, and live performance. LACE has enlisted the assistance of celebrities and other accomplished guests to directly engage children.
SALON SERIES
The Salon Series offers participatory public programming for adults, sparking conversation about the work on view. Through the series, LACE strives to foster community engagement with contemporary art on a deeper level. Salon topics and activities range the full spectrum of contemporary art practice through round-table discussions, panels, demonstrations, workshops, video screenings, book readings, and performances.
GALLERY GUIDES
LACE’s Gallery Guides play a crucial role in helping audiences access and benefit from the challenging work that is presented. This group consists of culturally engaged students or recent graduates who are eager to interact with gallery visitors. Guides receive significant mentoring by key staff members, take part in artist-led walkthroughs, and attend gallery training sessions to learn skills that both help them serve as gallery guides to the public and prepare them for future careers in the arts.
Archive Research
The LACE archive represents a crucial site of cultural history for Southern California. Since its inception in 1978, LACE has been central to the visual and performing arts in Los Angeles. The archives ensure the preservation and availability of an unbroken thirty-year record of this influential art space. Many of the historically significant ephemeral practices presented at LACE now only exist as writings, photographic documents, and videotapes. The archives present an irreplaceable collection of these works. All of LACE’s holdings are placed in a climate-controlled space, and housed in archival boxes and sleeves. These archives make all aspects of LACE history available to artists, curators, and historians, including the conceptual and financial battles the visionary art space has endured. The archives also ensure that the work of current artists will remain part of a rich historical record.
The LACE archives can be found both online and in the
comprehensive on-site library. Upon exploring the digital archive,
LACE welcomes the public to schedule a visit to the archive room. The archives make the history of LACE accessible to the public and link the
organization’s rich past with a vibrant future.
Contemporary Editions Los Angeles
LACE distinguishes itself by serving as a laboratory for open, artistic experimentation and creative expression, where artists—including under- represented, newly emerging, as well as established artists—have the freedom and the opportunity to take risks. To foster this mission, LACE supports artists in the research and development of new works as part of the Contemporary Editions Los Angeles (CELA) program. The results are based on challenging and expanding the role of contemporary art in Los Angeles and in society at-large.
Browse through the artists here.
All proceeds from the sale of these editions are applied toward the programs at LACE, which demonstrate an unwavering commitment to innovation in contemporary arts.
LACE Silver Circle Members receive a 15% discount on CELA purchases.
Please contact Robert Crouch, LACE Assistant Director, at robert(at)welcometolace(dot)org for purchase inquiries.
Contributing Artists include:
Amy Adler
Alexander Apostol
Kevin Appel
John Baldessari
Andrea Bowers
Chris Burden
Jeff Burton
Meg Cranston
Evan Holloway
Mike Kelley
Martin Kersels
Sharon Lockhart
Monica Majoli
Paul McCarthy
Jason Meadows
Laura Owens
Jorge Pardo
Raymond Pettibon
Jim Isermann
Jeffrey Vallance
James Welling
T-Shirt Editions By Sam Durant, Katie Grinnan & Pae White
