March 2010
Meet the Artist : Kristin Calabrese & Joshua Aster
March 6, 2010 Please join LACE for an exclusive studio visit and reception with artists Kristin Calabrese and Joshua Aster, as part of LACE’s Meet the Artist program. Designed to facilitate lively, intimate conversation between artists and patrons and provide unique insights into the artistic process, Meet the Artist is a series of studio visits, lectures, and gallery tours held throughout the year, and is a benefit offered exclusively to LACE members at the Silver Circle and higher. Please RSVP…
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Portable City Projects: Economy of Gesture
Workshop with Owen Driggs, Evelyn Serrano, and Felipe Zuñiga In his revolutionary essay The New Art of Making Books (1965, Mexico City), Ulises Carrion states that: “the introduction of space into poetry (or rather of poetry into space) is an enormous event, literally of incalculable consequences”. Inspired by this powerful statement Economy of Gesture appropriates Sign Spinning – a contemporary advertising practice popular in southern California – to open a platform for experimentation and inquiry that asks who is authorized to speak in the…
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The Future of Los Angeles and the Role of Artists
Tuesday October 13, 2015, 6:30 pm Los Angeles has never been a static city, but within the last several years change seems to be coming at an accelerated pace, bringing with it economic opportunity along with increasing inequality. In the face of these changes, what is the role of the artist in shaping L.A.’s future? With this question in mind, the California Community Foundation has organized a conversation around the leadership roles that Los Angeles artists are taking with regard…
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