March 2018
The Archival Impulse: 40 Years at LACE
Curated by Matias Viegener with Exhibition Design by Jeff Cain Ongoing The Archival Impulse: 40 Years at LACE is a Project Room installation that pulls from material found in LACE’s archive that either highlights or disputes our conceptions of LACE’s history. Accumulated over 40 years, it has no organizing system beyond what LACE staff considered worth saving. It enfolds many stories about the space, less woven than overlaid and amassed. This exhibition is a conversation about our expectations of the archive and the…
Find out more »January 2020
SOUND OFF: Silence + Resistance
January 8 - March 15, 2020 Curated by Abigail Raphael Collins, LACE's 2020 Emerging Curator Opening Reception: January 8, 7-10 pm Workshop with Kameelah Janan Rasheed: February 29, 12-2 pm 2020's Emerging Curator Exhibition engages silence as a tool of resistance. The exhibition, SOUND OFF: Silence + Resistance, fifth in the Emerging Curators series, opens in January 2020 Interdisciplinary artist Abigail Raphael Collins, selected by jury, explores silence as an expression of political resistance. Works by artists and activists engage…
Find out more »Creative Capital Award Application Info Session
January 23, 7:00-8:30 PM Learn how artists can apply for the Creative Capital Award valued at $100,000, including $50,000 in project funding, and an additional $50,000 in career development services—all dedicated to supporting artists complete their innovative project ideas. The application, opening February 2020, is free and open to artists working in all disciplines across the country. Creative Capital staff will present an overview of the organization and answer questions about the application process, the type of work they support,…
Find out more »PEN America Emerging Voices Welcome Party
January 28, 7-9pm Free event RSVP here. Join PEN America in welcoming their 2020 Emerging Voices Fellows Damien Belliveau, Megan Dorame, Shannon Gatewood, M. Kiguwa, and Claire Lin, as they read together for the first time. The Emerging Voices Fellowship is a literary mentorship that has provided new writers with the skills they need to launch a professional writing career since 1996, and LACE has been hosting this reading for the last five years. Hailed by many audience members as…
Find out more »February 2020
PEN Presents: Charles Yu
February 4, 7-9pm Free event, RSVP Here. Charles Yu’s newest novel Interior Chinatown is a brilliant, funny, and personal story about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are expected to play in America. Described as “a clever depiction of Hollywood dreaming itself,” the story follows actor Willis Wu as he tirelessly works towards graduating from Generic Asian Man to Kung Fu Guy, the role he has hoped for since childhood. Once his dreams have come true,…
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