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Día de los Muertos 2023

Social and Public Art Resource Center 685 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA, United States

SPARC will host its 21st annual Día de los Muertos celebration in collaboration with UCLA Professor Martha Ramirez-Oropeza and more than 230 students! Professor Ramirez-Oropeza will lead a traditional invocation ritual in Nahuatl, Spanish and English at sunset, calling the spirits to join the celebration.⠀ We will be building a community altar and everyone is...

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Calaveritas Literarias Workshop, in collaboration with Beyond Baroque

Social and Public Art Resource Center 685 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA, United States

SPARC will host its 21st annual Día de los Muertos celebration in collaboration with UCLA Professor Martha Ramirez-Oropeza and more than 220 students! Professor Ramirez-Oropeza will lead a traditional invocation ritual in Nahuatl, Spanish, and English at sunset, calling the spirits to join the celebration. We will be building a community altar, and everyone is...

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Mercedes Gertz: Knitting Circle “An Active Imagination”

Durón Gallery at SPARC 685 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA, United States

Welcome to our free two-hour knitting circle workshop! Whether you're a beginner or looking to enhance your knitting skills, this session is designed to cater to all levels. Throughout the workshop, we will not only guide you through the basics of knitting but also encourage dialogue and exploration of how this beautiful craft can serve...

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Mercedes Gertz: Knitting Circle Workshop [CANCELLED due to weather]

Durón Gallery at SPARC 685 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA, United States

Updates 2023/08/18: CANCELLED due to forecast weather Welcome to our free two-hour knitting circle workshop! Whether you're a beginner or looking to enhance your knitting skills, this session is designed to cater to all levels. Throughout the workshop, we will not only guide you through the basics of knitting but also encourage dialogue and exploration...

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Mercedes Gertz: Dream Workshop

Durón Gallery at SPARC 685 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA, United States

Join us for a free transformative workshop led by artist and Jungian psychologist, Mercedes Gertz. In this unique experience, we invite you to explore the depths of your subconscious and your dreams to life. Through the power of externalizing dreams that are ready to be told, we will embark on a journey of self-discovery and...

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Mercedes Gertz: It’s All in a Dream

Durón Gallery at SPARC 685 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA, United States

SPARC Unveils Mercedes Gertz’s Captivating Exhibition Showcasing the Power of Dreams at the Duron Gallery! Mexican conceptual artist, Mercedes Gertz, takes center stage once again with her latest exhibition, designed to ignite the creative potential that resides within our dreams. The exhibition, accompanied by a series of empowering workshops, promises to immerse attendees in a...

Subverting the Male Gaze: Susan Rennie Disrupts Art History

Durón Gallery at SPARC 685 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA, United States

June 17 – July 8, 2023 Artist’s Reception: June 17, 2023, 6pm – 8pm In this series of digital photo-montages, the feminist artist invades iconic works of western art and gazes back, sending up masterpieces with scintillating satire. Each piece delivers a blow to patriarchal canonical scenes through a sparkling and mischievous feminist lens. Open...

Judith F. Baca: The Great Wall of Los Angeles

Jeffrey Deitch Gallery 925 N. Orange Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Over the course of six blistering summers starting in the late 1970s, Judith F. Baca recruited a small team of artists and over four hundred at-risk youth to create the most significant public art monument of her native city, The Great Wall of Los Angeles. Stretching along the walls of the Tujunga Wash, the landmark mural...

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Día de los Muertos 2022

Social and Public Art Resource Center 685 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA, United States

SPARC will host its 20th annual Día de los Muertos celebration in collaboration with UCLA Professor Martha Ramirez-Oropeza and more than 100 students! Professor Ramirez-Oropeza will lead a traditional invocation ritual in Nahuatl, Spanish and English at sunset, calling the spirits to join the celebration.⠀ We will be building a community altar and everyone is...

Judith F. Baca: The World Wall

The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA 152 North Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, United States

On View Sept 11, 2022 @ The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA The World Wall  Celebrated Chicana muralist Judith F. Baca began her collaborative, portable mural The World Wall: A Vision of the Future Without Fear in 1990. An ambitious, utopian, and international project, The World Wall is rooted in the philosophy that in order to achieve world peace, we...

Why We Won’t Just Leave Exhibition [Opening Reception]

Social and Public Art Resource Center 685 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA, United States

Join us for the virtual opening of Why We Won't Just Leave: What Alaska is Telling the World About Climate Change on February 27th at 4:00 PM PST. This event will feature a special tour and talk by exhibition curator Lindsay Carron. Why We Won’t Just Leave features portraits, paintings, photography, stories, and video profiles...

Friends @ MOLAA present MOLAA Zoom Project With Judy Baca

Social and Public Art Resource Center 685 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA, United States

MOLAA Zoom Project with Judy Baca w/ MOLAA Chief Curator Gabriela Urtiaga Wednesday, July 28, 2021 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM This chapter will feature a conversation between the remarkable artist Juda Baca and our MOLAA Chief Curator Gabriela Urtiaga. Together we will focus on a series or specific artwork which requires a close inspection,...

Judy Baca: Memorias de Nuestra Tierra, a Retrospective

MOLAA - Museum of Latin American Art 628 Alamitos Avenue, Long Beach, CA, United States

Co-Curated by Guest Curator Alessandra Moctezuma and MOLAA Chief Curator Gabriela Urtiaga July 2021 – January 2022 Judy Baca: Memorias de Nuestra Tierra, a Retrospective is the first comprehensive retrospective of the work of the internationally renowned Chicana muralist, public intellectual and community activist, Judy Baca. Baca is a painter and muralist, community arts pioneer, and...

Change = Action/Time: Generational Activism in Chicanx and Latinx Art

Monterey Museum of Art 559 Pacific Street, Monterey, CA, United States

The Monterey Museum of Art presents the 3rd Annual Art of the State Symposium. ​​​​​​​Join Latinx and Chicanx artists and scholars including MacArther Fellow Amalia Mesa-Bains, renowned collector Armando Duran, and internationally recognized Chicana artist Judith Baca Ph.D. ​​​​​​​and others for personal accounts, live Q & A, and a live panel discussion with presenters, moderated...

The Art of Transforming Loss

Monterey Museum of Art 559 Pacific Street, Monterey, CA, United States

Join us for a conversation with renowned artists, Judith F. Baca and Amalia Mesa-Bains, as they discuss the experience of processing loss through artistic practices that are grounded in cultural traditions. In connection with the process of building altars during Día de los Muertos, this talk considers the relationship between artmaking, healing, and memory. Artist...

Día de los Muertos 2020

Social and Public Art Resource Center 685 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA, United States

Join us for our 18th annual Día de los Muertos celebration and ritual on Monday, November 2nd at 6:00 PM PST. This year, SPARC is inviting the public to join us virtually to see a collection of altars from previous years as well as a community altar that honors the memories of your loved ones...

Signs from the Heart: California’s Chicano Murals

Social and Public Art Resource Center 685 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA, United States

Chicano Murals from Archive to Gallery! Join us for Signs from the Heart: California's Chicano Murals SPARC is proud to invite you to a special exhibition on Chicano murals in California. The resistance, resilience, and cultural pride of Chicano murals continues to empower generations and to influence public art in our cities. SPARC maintains the largest...

The Patchwork Healing Circle

Social and Public Art Resource Center 685 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA, United States

Create a patchwork that speaks out against gender-based violence and the destruction of Mother Earth for The Patchwork Healing Blanket, an ongoing project that currently includes 600 patchworks by women and children from 10 countries. The Patchwork Healing Blanket is currently on view through a virtual exhibition presented by SPARC. Join textile artists from The...

Yoga + Dream Lab at SPARC

Social and Public Art Resource Center 685 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA, United States

SPARC is proud to host Virtual Yoga + Dream Lab with Stacy TenHouten and Mercedes Gertz on Wednesdays from 5:30-6:45 PM PST on Zoom. Open Zoom Link Here OR use Meeting ID 534 363 5121 Please be sure to register online below or email events@sparcinla.org to receive the password for Zoom! August/September 2020: Wednesday, August 12th | 9:00 - 10:15...

The Patchwork Healing Blanket – Virtual Exhibition

Social and Public Art Resource Center 685 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA, United States

The Patchwork Healing Blanket: Piece-by-Piece and Country-by-Country is an international textile art project that unites generations of women in a global movement against gender-based violence and the destruction of Mother Earth. In 2019 a group of women artists from Oaxaca and Mexico City, led by Founder/Director Marietta Bernstorff, started working together to develop the Patchwork Healing Blanket/La Manta...