upcoming events

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Most of these events are in Southern California. When something looks too amazing not to share, even if it’s out of the area, we’ll include it.


Lucianne Tonti: A Gathering
Nov
7

Lucianne Tonti: A Gathering

Sold Out! Please join us for a private gathering and dinner welcoming Lucianne Tonti to Los Angeles. Lucianne is internationally recognized as an investigative fashion journalist, commentator and expert in regenerative fashion systems. Her award-winning book Sundressed: Natural Fibres and the Future of Fashion was published in 2022. She is currently at work on a new book, Good Witch Hunting.

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Biocentrics: LA Film Premiere
Jun
23

Biocentrics: LA Film Premiere

Join us for the Los Angeles premiere of Biocentrics, a documentary film that explores the interconnectedness of all living things and the importance of preserving biodiversity. Please note, no tickets will be sold at the door.

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We Carry the Land
May
26
to Sep 8

We Carry the Land

We Carry the Land is an architectural exploration of space, time, and form born from an alignment of varied Indigenous foundational ways of being. This courtyard installation is commissioned and produced by Materials & Applications (M&A).

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Ross Gay Reads From His New Book
Sep
14

Ross Gay Reads From His New Book

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Gay’s collection of essays, The Book of Delights, was released in 2019 and was a New York Times bestseller. His new collection of essays, Inciting Joy, was released by Algonquin in October of 2022.

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Smithson Holt Lecture
Apr
1

Smithson Holt Lecture

Rebecca Solnit, Lucy Lippard and Lisa Le Feuvre join DesertLAB in conversation.

Image: Nancy Holt standing in one of the Sun Tunnels, outside Lucin, Utah. Photograph: Ardele Lister. © Holt/Smithson Foundation, Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York

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Truth Telling: Voices of First People
Feb
18
to Jun 30

Truth Telling: Voices of First People

Truth-Telling is a multidisciplinary cross-section of well-known Native artists from across the US and Canada, featuring the works of eight contemporary Indigenous artists: Christi Belcourt, the late T. C. Cannon, Nicholas Galanin Yéil Ya-Tseen, Hock E Aye VI Edgar Heap of Birds, Margaret Jacobs, Rose B. Simpson, Duane Slick and Benjamin West. Their visual truth-telling presents a counter-hegemonic view of Native people.

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Shaped by the Loom
Feb
17
to Jul 9

Shaped by the Loom

Shaped by the Loom places Indigenous aesthetics and ways of knowing at the center of Navajo textile production, highlighting the localized and land-based knowledge systems that guide the process behind the finished product. Rather than reifying the object, this perspective foregrounds the active and generative practices that shape and animate this art form.

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I Can't I Won't I Will I Do
Jan
28
to Mar 25

I Can't I Won't I Will I Do

Debra Disman is a Los Angeles-based artist known for her work inspired by the book, both as a solo practitioner and in the public sphere of community engagement. As a maker and teaching artist she creates work and projects which push the body and boundaries of the book into new media and materials, inviting altered ways of viewing the world and how we inhabit it.

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ruinous ravishment
Jan
14
to Feb 25

ruinous ravishment

A three person exhibition with artists Christopher Miles, ceramic sculpture; Jamie Vasta, glitter works on wood; and Amy Usdin, fiber sculpture.

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