June 2010
PUBLIC INTEREST: PAINTED OVER/UNDER
PAINTED OVER/UNDER: PARTS 1-4 Kim Schoenstadt’s Painted Over/Under Parts 1-4 is a year-long project based on the mismatched color patterning created by “graffiti maintenance” on freeway retaining walls and other open walls in the city. Parts 1-3 will incorporate guest curators Les Figues Press, Jens Hoffman and Erin Cullerton who will invite writers, artists and architects to create drawings in shifts on the walls in LACE’s rear gallery. With each part of the project, works will be written and/or drawn…
Find out more »ASAP @ LACE
ASAP (after school arts program) is an arts education collective with a faculty and student population that is always in flux. Led by Michael Ano and Elizabeth Watkins, ASAP is motivated by the belief that “Arts education should be available to everyone.” They will organize a series of adult, family and teen programs that meditate on the landscape and populace of Hollywood and its relationship to LACE. www.asap-la.blogspot.com REVISIONS OF LA Every first Sunday of the month, 1-4 PM LACE…
Find out more »July 2010
Dollar Bill Origami with Mel Chin’s Fundred Project
ASAP and LACE join forces in this hands-on event to support Mel Chin’s Fundred project. Come draw your unique Fundred Dollar Bill and be part of the solution to eliminate the devastating effects of lead-contaminated soil that currently places children at risk for severe learning disabilities and behavioral problems. All Fundred Dollar Bills will be mailed from LACE to a Fundred Collection Center on its way to Congress. Learn more about this project: www.fundred.org
Find out more »re-visions of LA with Lily Simonson, Mara Lonner, and Elana Hill
re-visions of LA w/ Lily Simonson, Mara Lonner and Elana Hill Join us as we re-imagine the Los Angeles landscape as a super-urban metropolis and/or a plein air utopia. Follow local artists on drawing tours of Hollywood and learn about line, shape and perspective as you create your own vision of Hollywood. After you design your LA, take a tour with LACE educators of Public Interest 2010. Space is limited for the drawing workshops to 20 participants per class, advance…
Find out more »Not Content: Performance 2
with Douglas Kearney, Vanessa Place, and performance conceived by Divya Victor. Join us for readings by writers-in-residence Douglas Kearney and Vanessa Place and a Feral-Cat Attack as conceived by Divya Victor. This performance is part of NOT CONTENT, a series of text projects curated by Les Figues Press as part 1 of Kim Schoenstadt's Painted Over/Under. Both projects are part of LACE's year-long initiative PUBLIC INTEREST. During the course of his residency, Kearney periodically recorded "covers" of the ever-altering text,…
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