A holiday night market featuring artisanal goods by local artists and makers! #ShopLocal Mercado at SPARC is a premier holiday night market during the Venice Art Crawl on Friday, December 6th from 6-10 PM. Shop local this season and discover unique artworks and handmade goods by local artists and makers! In addition to our artisan marketplace, […]
“Everything I know about Día de los Muertos I learned while living in Mexico. In Oaxaca and Michoacán, two states with deeply rooted Muertos traditions, I saw how lifelong practitioners dressed their ofrenda altars with precise additions according to the fancies of the departed person being honored: a plate of mole, just so; a specific reposado tequila, served neat; a […]
Join us on Saturday, November 9th in our Durón Gallery from 5-8 PM for the opening reception The Box Project Exhibition. The Box Project features the work of three women’s collectives located in Paris, Mexico City, and L.A., who began exchanging small artworks with each other. In the vein of Mail Art of the 1960s and women’s art […]
Join SPARC on Sunday, October 27th for our 17th annual Día de los Muertos celebration and ritual. SPARC partners with Professor Martha Ramirez-Oropeza and over 100 UCLA students every year to honor the memories of those who have passed on. Students will build intricate altars that represent Día de los Muertos traditions from regions across […]
Join us in the Durón Gallery on Saturday, October 12th from 5-7 PM for a lecture and conversation with Mercedes Gertz, the artist behind our current exhibition, Down the Rabbit Hole. She will discuss the works on view and her approach to art-making and collaboration. Mercedes Gertz works in Mexico City, California, and Switzerland. Her […]
Let’s knit together on Saturday, September 28th! Join Mercedes Gertz and Gabriela Rochin of Stitching Borders in The Durón Gallery at SPARC to learn how to knit in a supportive and creative space. Most knitters learn from someone else — such as a parent, grandparent, or friend. It is an art passed from generation to generation […]
Down the Rabbit Hole explores the symbolic language of images from a Mexican feminist perspective. Symbolic language has the ability to express abstract ideas that are otherwise difficult to translate in direct, analytical speech or text. This language of images is felt more so than it is heard, and honors the realm of instinct, dreams, […]
De Colores Means All of Us: Art and the Dialectics of Coalition Building in Communities of Color, curated by Claudia Huiza —A core exhibition of the Sur Biennial, Fall 2019 Opening in the Red Room Gallery on September 21 – November 16, 2019 Reception: September 21 @ 3-5PM This exhibition will focus on cross cultural relations between female-identified […]
