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PRESS RELEASE: LACE 2024 Emerging Curator Investigates Memory, Excavation, and Diaspora

Image Credit: Yuchi Ma, Red Threads (我很爱你) (still), 2022. Courtesy the artist. For LACE’s ninth Emerging Curators presentation, Carrie Chen curates the screening series A Fossil, A Ruin, A Memory, ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 2020-Current Year, Emerging Curator Program, News, Screening, Video

LACE Announces Selene Preciado as Curator and Director of Programming

LACE has appointed Selene Preciado as the organization’s new Curator & Director of Programming. Selene Preciado was LACE’s first Emerging Curator in 2016, co-curating Customizing Language with ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 2020-Current Year, News Tagged With: curator, director or programs, Selene Preciado

PST ART Featured in The New York Times

The Getty Gives $17 Million to Museums for Pacific Standard Time, The New York Times  Beatriz da Costa: (un)disciplinary tactics showcases the collaborative work of Beatriz da Costa (1974–2012) as ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 2020-Current Year, Installation, LACE, News

2023 Lightning Fund Recipients Announced

Left to right: Felix Quintana (photo by Rafael Cardenas), Gelare Khoshgozaran (photo by Jimena Sarno), Heehyun Choi 최희현 (photo by Jeonju International Film Festival), Kimi Hanauer (photo by Sai ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 2020-Current Year, LACE, News Tagged With: Felix Quintana, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Heehyun Choi, Kimi Hanauer, Leslie Foster, Lightning Fund, McKayla Chandler, Odeya Nini, Queer Spa Network, Raymundo Reynoso, Texas Isaiah, 최희현

PRESS RELEASE: LACE 2023 Emerging Curators Announced

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LACE Emerging Curators exhibition highlights seeds, soil and stars Artists focus on regenerative practices that sustain life as well as community.  For LACE’s eighth annual Emerging Curators ... [Read More]

Filed Under: Emerging Curator Program, Exhibition, LACE, News Tagged With: 2023, emerging curator, Emerging Curators, Exhibition, Joy A Anderson, news, Robin Garcia

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PRESS RELEASE: Announcing LACE’s Next Emerging Curators

Announcing the 2025 Lightning Fund and Jacki Apple Awards

“Beatriz da Costa: (un)disciplinary tactics” named Best Art by The New York Times

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On Saturday, August 2 from 2–7pm, join LACE for On Saturday, August 2 from 2–7pm, join LACE for this year's Artists’ Film International (AFI'25) at the Philosophical Research Society (@philosophical_research_society).

This touring film program is collectively curated and presented by 16 international arts organizations and convened by Forma (@formaartsmedia). AFI’25 introduces the work of talented moving image artists to worldwide audiences, and will be live over 300 days, with exhibitions, screenings and public programs hosted across 4 continents.

LACE’s selection for AFI’25 is "Leymusoom Garden: New Sun" (2024) by Heesoo Kwon (@leymusoom). Kwon’s oneiric visual language and unique animation style allow her to create memoryscapes of personal and community liberation. The film rewrites mythical matrilineal histories through utopian and whimsical abstractions of time, space, and memory to ultimately bring forth healing and transformation. 

Admission is free! RSVP at the link in our bio.

Image caption:
Still from Heesoo Kwon, Leymusoom Garden: New Sun, 2024. Courtesy the artist
Join LACE for “Obsidian Reflections” happening Join LACE for “Obsidian Reflections” happening Saturday, July 19, 2–5 PM at the Philosophical Research Society (@philosophical_research_society).

Curated by Selene Preciado and Andrea Acuña, this film program presents a selection of video works that integrate ancestral knowledge and indigenous storytelling, imagining futures where the past and present connect through the power of ruins and resilience. Followed by a musical performance with multimedia NeoCumbia artist El Keamo (@el_keamo).

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We are excited to announce LACE's 11th Emerging Cu We are excited to announce LACE's 11th Emerging Curator! Meet Semaj Peltier (@horsebreath87) and pom*pom (@__pom____pom__), collaborators in a curatorial collective and experimental film archive organizing community-based events since 2022. For the Emerging Curator Program, Semaj Peltier and Pom Pom curate "No Loneliness Like This," a film and food event showcasing experimental films that traverse the many manifestations of state-sanctioned isolation.

Peltier, a projectionist, archivist and filmmaker, brings a praxis shaped by her studies at the University of Amsterdam’s Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image Masters program, specializing in ephemeral histories shaped by coloniality and otherness. pom*pom, developed by Russell Hartling and Crystal Dawana, is an experimental food collective whose sensory-driven dining experiences intersect with film programming to evoke memory, storytelling, and connection. Together, they build worlds where film and food become tools of resistance—rituals that evoke memory, incite dialogue, and nurture solidarity through shared sensation and subversion. 

This year’s panel included Jheanelle Brown (@jheaneeeeeelle), faculty member at CalArts and Curator of Film at REDCAT; Carrie Chen (@carriechen01), artist, curator, and educator; and Heber Rodriguez (@hebereatschips), Coordinator for the City of Lancaster’s Parks, Recreation and Arts Department in the Arts and Museums Division. 

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If you missed “ENDURANCE” or want to relive th If you missed “ENDURANCE” or want to relive the experience, head over to the LACE website to watch a selection of the performances with more to come soon!

“ENDURANCE” presented performance art and interdisciplinary work by elder artists. These artists use their practices to share wisdom, knowledge, and experiences that they have gained throughout their lives. This series is a companion program to LACE’s 2024 performance series, “ABUNDANCE”, both featuring often invisibilized bodies.

This program was held at L.A. Dance Project (@ladanceproject) from May 16–17, 2025.

The online presentation of “ENDURANCE” is supported by the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles (@culture_la). 

Photos by Angel Origgi (@angeloriggi).

Image captions in order:
Barbara T. Smith, OWB, 2025
Ulysses Jenkins and his band “Who Dat!,” Ethnic Cleansing, 2022/2025
Hirokazu Kosaka, Shoot Yourself, 2025
The Dark Bob, Beirut, 1982/2025
Kamau Daáood, Griot notes: Poem in Invisible Ink
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