May 31, 2026, 9 am – 3 pm

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In 2016, 733 women and non-binary artists gathered in downtown Los Angeles for a collective statement of presence. This became the largest known group photograph of artists in LA. 10 years later, we are staging this photograph again.

Artists are invited to join Now Be Here and OXY ARTS on May 31, 2026, when Now Be Here marks its 10-year anniversary with a new community photo and full day of artist-centered programming titled Now Let’s Talk, Los Angeles.

The day will begin with a new community photo of women and non-binary artists (9-11am).

Artists and arts workers of all gender expressions are invited to attend the Now Let’s Talk, Los Angeles programming, including Panel Discussions and Community Conversations. (11 am – 3 pm)

Join us for a day of discussion based events that addresses systemic issues within the art world, while connecting joyfully and strengthening community ties with fellow artists and 50+ regional arts organizations.

Now Let’s Talk, Los Angeles is presented by a coalition of 50+ regional arts organizations, and made possible through generous donations by Artlogic, ArtConverge, East West Bank, and Claremont Graduate University Art Department, with thanks to Fulcrum Arts.

Schedule of Events

Program Descriptions below

– Women and non-binary artists welcome –

9:00 am Welcome Reception & Check-in 

10:00 am Keynote Speech & Photograph [Mullin Grove]

– All artists welcome –

11:15 am Flagship Panel: “Equal Percent: Ongoing Strategies for Resisting Sexism In The Art Market” Organized by The Judith Center [Thorne Hall]

Moderated by Kathryn Andrews, The Judith Center  Panelists Include: Jori Finkel, Art Journalist, New York Times/Art Newspaper, Sandra Jackson-Dumont, Cultural Strategist, Curator & Producer/Getty Research Institute Presidential Scholar, Founding member of the Guerrilla Girls, Artist and Activist and Anuradha Vikram, Associate Curator, Performance Art Museum

At this point, the day will split into two tracks of programming: small group community conversations and a second panel discussion. Artists can join in on a conversation or attend the panel.

Seating is first-come, first-served.

Food is available for purchase at the main dining hall.

12:30 pm  Community Conversations  [Main Quad]

These are small group conversations (~20 participants) centered around a specific topic (see session descriptions). There is no formal RSVP for these, and seating is first-come, first-served. Conversations will include facilitators from the partner organizations to guide the session and a notetaker. The conversations will not be recorded. Session notes will be shared after the event. 

• “How Do We Do This Differently?” Facilitated by Feminist Center for Creative Work
• “When the Margin is the Center: Identity, Politics, and Art” Facilitated by ArtCenter Exhibitions
• “For Freedoms School: Navigating the Currents of Change, Intersession” Facilitated by 18th Street Arts Center & For Freedoms
• “Artists, Community Resilience & Mutual Aid” Facilitated by Side Street Projects
• “Archiving for Us” Facilitated by Los Angeles Contemporary Archive
• “Procession: Art as Ecological Practice” Facilitated by Meztli Projects & Artists Commit
• “Where Are You Now? Where Will Your Work Go?” Facilitated by The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College
• “Art+: The Politics of Visibility” Facilitated by Sovern

1:00 pm Afternoon Panel: “No Unsolicited Submissions: Navigating Relationships with Curators and Gallerists” [Thorne Hall]

Moderated by Corrina Piepon, Continuous Project  Panelists Include: Emily Butts, Director, Pitzer College Art Galleries, Adrianna Cole, Director, Hoffman Donahue, Los Angeles,  Joes Segal, Chief Curator and Director of Programming, Wende Museum, Amanda Sroka, Senior Curator, ICA LA

2:15 pm Closing Reception / Celebration

Event Coalition

18th Street Arts Center · Angels Gate Cultural Center · Armory Center for the Arts · Art Converge · Art Galleria · Art Record · ArtCenter Exhibitions · ARTERNAL · The Artist’s Contract · The Artist’s Office · Artists Commit · Artlogic · Arts for LA · Artwork Archive · Avenue 50 Studio · The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College · Blue Roof · CalArts · The Chapter House · Cherryworks · Claremont Graduate University Art Department ·  Clockshop · Continuous Project · Corita Art Center · Craft Contemporary · Crenshaw Dairy Mart · The Culture List · Feminist Center for Creative Work · For Freedoms · Freewaves · Fulcrum Arts · Grand Central Art Center · GYOPO · Hauser & Wirth · Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles · The Judith Center · Japanese American National Museum · LA Commons · Level Ground Collective · LMU Laband Gallery · Los Angeles Artist Census · Los Angeles Contemporary Archive · Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions · Los Angeles Nomadic Division · Metabolic Studio · Meztli Projects · Otis College of Art & Design · OXY ARTS · Performance Art Museum · Pilele Projects · Pitzer College Art Galleries · Primer · Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College · Self Help Graphics & Art · Side Street Projects · Sovern · USC Roski School of Art & Design · Wende Museum

Press contact and inquiries: emma@ejs-media.com

Programs and Descriptions

Flagship Panel Discussion, 11:15 am [Thorne Hall]

Equal Percent: Ongoing Strategies for Resisting Sexism in the Art Market 

Organized and Moderated by Kathryn Andrews, Founder of The Judith Center

Description: The Judith Center is pleased to present this panel discussion, featuring a distinguished group of art world professionals and activists. Serving as a contextual framework for the day’s events, the panel will examine both historical and contemporary approaches to addressing sexism within the contemporary art market. Drawing from varied professional perspectives, panelists will reflect on strategies that have proven effective, with the aim of identifying areas where future individual, collective, and institutional efforts will have the greatest impact.

Moderator Bio: Kathryn Andrews is a Los Angeles based artist and the founder of the nonprofit organization The Judith Center. @thejudithcenter http://www.thejudithcenter.org/

Speaker Bios:

Jori Finkel is an award-winning arts journalist who writes for the New York Times and The Art Newspaper with attention to gender issues. She is the author of the book It Speaks to Me and co-producer and writer of the PBS documentary Artist & Mother. @jorifinkel www.nytimes.com/by/jori-finkel#latest www.theartnewspaper.com/authors/jori-finkel

Guerrilla Girls Kathe Kollwitz is a founding member of the Guerrilla Girls. The Guerrilla Girls formed in 1985 to do a new kind of political art that has the power to change people’s minds. @guerrillagirls http://guerrillagirls.com/

Sandra Jackson-Dumont is a curator, educator, and cultural strategist whose work reimagines the role of museums in public life. Currently the Getty Presidential Scholar, she has held senior positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Whitney Museum of American, and the Seattle Art Museum, and was most recently the Director/ CEO of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. @sandrajacksondumo

Anuradha Vikram is a curator and writer based in Los Angeles. They are an Associate Curator for the Performance Art Museum and a Continuing Lecturer at UCLA. Books include Decolonizing Culture (Sming Sming Books, 2017) and Use Me at Your Own Risk (X Artists’ Books, 2023). @curativeprojects http://www.curativeprojects.net/

 

Community Conversations, 12:30 pm [Main Quad]

These are small group conversations (~20 participants) centered around a specific topic (see session descriptions). There is no formal RSVP for these, and seating is first-come, first-served. Conversations will include facilitators from the partner organizations to guide the session and a notetaker. The conversations will not be recorded. Session notes will be shared after the event. 

How Do We Do This Differently?

Facilitated by: Feminist Center for Creative Work

Description: What would it look like to support artists and art workers without relying on burnout, scarcity, or extractive systems? Join the Feminist Center for Creative Work for a candid, collaborative conversation about building alternative structures for artists and arts workers in Los Angeles. Through shared experiences and collective brainstorming, participants will explore ideas about models rooted in care, sustainability, and mutual accountability.

 

When the Margin is the Center: Identity, Politics, and Art

Facilitated by: ArtCenter College of Design

Description: How do we work and make art (both in material and exhibitions) in our current cultural moment? This conversation explores challenges and shares solutions of navigating identity in this politically charged climate. What are you observing and experiencing as artists? Come share your thoughts, experiences, and workable solutions. 

 

For Freedoms School: Navigating the Currents of Change, Intersession 

Facilitated by: 18th Street Arts Center & For Freedoms, Please note this conversation will take place in the green space near Thorne Hall

Description: The For Freedoms School is a nomadic, artist-led laboratory for civic reflection, action, and repair. It brings together artists, civic leaders, and cultural producers to learn and unlearn practices that help us navigate moments of profound change and uncertainty. Navigating the Currents of Change Intersession, designed by Miguel Rivera and facilitated by Michelle Woo, For Freedoms, and Michael Ano, 18th Street Arts Center, will invite participants into a shared space of song, writing, and movement-based activities—collective practices that deepen reflection, build connection, and open new ways of engaging with one another and the world.

 

Artists, Community Resilience & Mutual Aid

Facilitated by: Side Street Projects

Description: How can artists support community resilience? How can communities support artists’ resilience?  How do we stagger our breath? How do we ensure that the individuals in the cultural resistance are able to sustain and grow their practice? Join us in a collaborative discussion on how artists work through mutual aid networks and political movements towards collective growth. 

 

Where Are You Now? Where Will Your Work Go?

Facilitated by: The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College

Description: Where would you like to see your work in the future? Join the staff from the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College for an open-ended discussion and visualization session about artists’ legacies and lineages. Come share your experiences and/or glean wisdom from other participants about how artists can organize, plan, and advocate for their work and its afterlives. 

 

Archiving for Us

Facilitated by: LA Contemporary Archive

Description: This conversation invites artists to reflect on how we identify what is included in our own archives, how we care for the archives we make for each other, and why we share our artistic ephemera. When we talk, we’ll do so not as “archivists.” Instead we’ll let our experiences, frustrations, and desires build different visions for collective archival practices. What can we recover together?

 

Procession: Art as Ecological Practice

Facilitated by: Meztli Projects & Artists Commit, Please note this conversation will take place at 

Description: Art as practice, practice as relationality, relationality as kinship — this community conversation begins with a sharing from Procession, a collaborative project grounded in process, relation and ecological thought rather than object-making. We’ll collectively dialogue and reflect on what it means to approach art as a relational, lived, and ecologically minded practice.

 

Art+: The Politics of Visibility

Facilitated by: Sovern

Description: This community conversation explores art as a shared social space where different experiences, identities and perspectives meet, challenge one another, and shape collective understanding. Together, we’ll examine and discuss how artistic practice can move beyond aesthetics, toward healing, accountability, and imagining more just futures in the face of systemic justice.

 

Afternoon Panel Discussion, 1:00 pm [Thorne Hall]

No Unsolicited Submissions: Navigating Relationships with Curators and Gallerists

Moderated by Corrina Peipon, Continuous Project

Description: Museum and gallery websites often include a discreet yet loud and clear admonishment to artists: “We do not accept or review unsolicited submissions.” Despite its brevity, or perhaps because of it, this policy presents a sticky conundrum for artists and sets the tone for a lifetime of uncertainty in their relationships with curators and gallerists. While artists are responsible for introducing themselves to the professional partners they hope to collaborate with, artists are also implicitly and explicitly told that it’s impolite, unprofessional, or even forbidden to approach them. And since many professional relationships in the field are time-limited by the circumstances of the engagement, artists face this dilemma throughout their careers. This panel of local curators and gallerists moderated by Corrina Peipon of Continuous Project will explore the myths and realities of meeting, working with, and maintaining relationships with curators and gallerists over time. 

Moderator Bio: Corrina Peipon is an artist, curator, writer, and independent consultant. She founded Continuous Project in 2018 to transform how society perceives, acknowledges, and compensates cultural labor by empowering art workers through private and group consulting; education and lateral knowledge-sharing; and thought leadership. @altereddaily https://www.continuousproject.info/

Speaker Bios:

Emily Butts is the director of curatorial affairs and Pitzer College Art Galleries in Claremont, CA, where she oversees exhibitions, gallery operations, and programming rooted in the college’s legacy of social engagement. Her curatorial practice centers on modern and contemporary art of the Americas, with an emphasis on issues of identity, place, and representation.

Adrianna Cole Adrianna Cole is a Director at Hoffman Donahue in Los Angeles. Alongside her work with the gallery, she organizes a lecture and conversation series devoted to contemporary art and culture.

Joes Segal is chief curator and director of programming at the Wende Museum, where he organized close to 40 exhibitions. He has published widely on Cold War cultural history and on art and politics in the twentieth century. https://wendemuseum.org

Amanda Sroka is a curator whose creative work focuses on global histories of contemporary art with a specialized interest in interdisciplinary practices that operate at the intersections of our personal, political, and material worlds. She is the Senior Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, where she organized the current Speaking in Tongues exhibition and has curated solo presentations dedicated to the work of Samar Al Summary, Carmen Argote, Jackie Castillo, Chris Emile and No)One. Art House, Liz Hernández, Will Rawls, Christine Sun Kim, Trương Công Tùng, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, and Alberta Whittle, and supported with Carl Cheng: Nature Never Loses (forthcoming 2026), Scientia Sexualis (2024), Barbara T. Smith: Proof (2023), and Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency (2023). Prior to ICA LA, Sroka held curatorial positions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the New Museum in New York. @absroka_peters

 

Special thanks to our project sponsors:

                    

 

 

About the Coalition

🔵 Artist Residency/studios  🟡  Programming /Education 🟣 Exhibitions 🟢 Support/Tools 

 

18th Street Arts Center  🔵🟡🟣 

18th Street Arts Center is a Santa Monica–based nonprofit that supports artists through residencies, public programs, and community partnerships focused on social impact and creative experimentation. Founded in 1988, it is one of the largest artist residency programs in Southern California, fostering cross-cultural exchange and collaborations that connect artists with local and global communities. [Santa Monica, 90404] @18thstreetarts  https://18thstreet.org/

 

Angels Gate Cultural Center 🔵🟡🟣

Angels Gate Cultural Center (AGCC) is a vibrant contemporary arts center that serves as a cultural hub for San Pedro and the Los Angeles Harbor Region. Established as a nonprofit in 1982, AGCC serves the local community with exhibitions of contemporary art, family arts programming, cultural events, community art classes, primary and secondary arts education, and studio space for 50 local artists. [San Pedro, 90731] @angelsgateart http://www.angelsgateart.org/

 

Armory Center for the Arts 🔵🟡🟣

Armory Center for the Arts is a nonprofit visual arts organization in Pasadena, California. They present exhibitions by forward-thinking contemporary artists and provide artist-led education programs for children, teens, and adults. Guided by a mission to nurture their community and its young people by creating, learning, and presenting art to advance equity and social justice, the Armory envisions joyful, healthy, and equitable communities shaped by imagination, creativity, and diverse voices. [Pasadena, 91103] @armoryarts http://armoryarts.org/

 

Art Converge 🟢🟡 

ArtConverge provides advice to a wide range of clients, including for-profit and nonprofit art institutions, artists, collectors, dealers, municipalities, digital platforms, and other creative innovators. ArtConverge represents clients in matters pertaining to fine art and navigating the art market; NFTs and blockchain; AI and machine learning; business affairs and strategic planning; public art and policy; and copyright and intellectual property. [Los Angeles, 90028] @scodenkirk https://www.artconverge.com/

 

Art Galleria 🟢 

Art Galleria is the all-in-one toolkit that helps you manage and grow your presence as an artist. From artworks, sales, and contacts to lead capture and collector relationships, it gives you everything you need to run and expand your art business. @art.galleria https://www.artgalleria.com/

 

Art Record 🟢

Art Record is an independent, design-forward digital archive and inventory management platform supporting international artists and estates since 2018. Committed to privacy, archival integrity, and intuitive organization, Art Record is woman-owned and provides tools tailored to long-term artwork and collection stewardship. https://www.art-record.com/

 

ArtCenter Exhibitions 🟡🟣

ArtCenter College of Design’s primary exhibition spaces include the Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery and the Peter and Merle Mullin Gallery. They share a unified intent to spark vital conversations among and around emerging and established works of art and design that address the most pressing issues of our times. [Pasadena, 91103] @artcenterexhibitions http://www.artcenter.edu/exhibitions

 

ARTERNAL 🟢

ARTERNAL is a gallery management platform built for revenue, not just records. Where legacy systems stop at inventory, ARTERNAL connects artwork data to collector relationships, sales workflows, and AI-powered operations — so galleries can manage the business of art, not just catalog it. @_arternal_ https://arternal.com/

 

The Artist’s Contract 🟢

Visual Artists need tools and support to protect their rights and financial security. The Artist’s Contract website is a hub for free Legal Contracts for visual artists, along with education, resources and conversation to support fairness in the art world. [Los Angeles, 90023] @artistscontract  https://www.artistscontract.com/

 

The Artist’s Office 🟢

The Artist’s Office works with visual artists and their estates to be prepared for and cultivate opportunities for their life’s work. Founded and operated by Virginia Broersma, a Los Angeles based visual artist, The Artist’s Office supports artists with the “office work” of being a professional artist. [Los Angeles, 90023] @theartistsoffice  https://www.theartistsoffice.net/

 

Artists Commit 🟢

Artists Commit is an artist-led collective committed to a climate-conscious, resilient, and equitable future. As a platform, we provide tools and resources to support artists catalyzing climate action, in particular through the impact of the work we make and how it travels through the art world. @artistscommit https://www.artistscommit.com/

 

Artlogic 🟢🟡

Artlogic is the leading technology platform for artists, galleries and collectors, providing integrated sales, websites, marketing, payments, and inventory management solutions to more than 6,000 clients worldwide. With offices in London, New York, and Atlanta, Artlogic supports art businesses of all sizes, helping them operate more efficiently and connect with audiences globally. @artlogicplatform www.artlogic.net

 

Arts for LA 🟢

Arts for LA is the only cross-sector and cross-discipline arts advocacy organization in Los Angeles County that informs, engages, and mobilizes individuals and organizations to advocate for access to the arts across all communities. Arts for LA invests in leadership development, growing networks of civically-engaged advocates, building deep relationships with elected officials, and working in partnership across sectors to make Los Angeles a vibrant, prosperous, creative, and healthy society. [West Covina, 91791] @arts4la https://artsforla.org/ 

 

Artwork Archive 🟢

Artwork Archive is a leading cloud-based art inventory management platform built specifically for artists, collectors, and organizations. Since 2010, we’ve been dedicated to helping the art community organize, manage, and showcase their work professionally and efficiently. @artworkarchive https://www.artworkarchive.com/

 

Avenue 50 Studio 🔵

Avenue 50 Studio is an arts presentation organization grounded in Chicanx/Latinx culture, visual arts, and the Northeast Los Angeles community that seeks to bridge cultures through artistic expressions, using content-driven art to educate and stimulate intercultural understanding.  We were founded on the belief that social justice impacts all people across race, class, gender, ability and geography. [Los Angeles, 90065] @avenue50studio http://www.avenue50studio.org/

 

The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College  🟡🟣

The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College explores the role of museums in society through creative collaborations with students, faculty, and community partners. The museum serves as a steward for nearly 20,000 objects. As a teaching museum, the Benton offers an average of ten exhibitions and more than 100 programs per year while encouraging active learning and intellectual exploration across all disciplines of study within the liberal arts context. [Claremont, 91711] @bentonatpomona www.pomona.edu/museum or www.pomona.edu/benton 

 

Blue Roof 🔵🟡🟣

Blue Roof’s mission is to provide women artists a studio of their own and the financial resources to experience the freedom to explore, investigate, and create in a dedicated safe space. [Los Angeles, 90003] @blueroof.art https://www.blueroof.art/

 

CalArts 🟡

CalArts is a multidisciplinary community of artists. Our ongoing educational endeavor is grounded in openness, experimentation, critical engagement, and creative freedom. Through artistic practice, we transform ourselves, each other, and the world. [Valencia, 91355] @calarts https://calarts.edu/

 

The Chapter House 🟡🟣🟢

The Chapter House (TCH) is a Los Angeles–based cultural institution created by and for Indigenous Peoples, founded in 2020 by artist and community organizer Emma Robbins to address the need for spaces centered on cultural connection, creativity, healing, and collective thriving. Through art, performance, and community-driven programming, TCH cultivates Indigenous joy and fosters intergenerational collaboration, empowering Indigenous people and allies to strengthen relationships to land, culture, and community while co-creating a vibrant future. [Los Angeles, 90026] @thechapterhousela  www.thechapterhouse.org

 

Cherryworks 🟢

Cherryworks offers business strategy to artworld and tech companies with an eye towards optimization. With 25 years of proven experience in building businesses, cultivating audiences, and mentoring the next generation of arts workers, tech workers, and artists. Our global network brings top professionals to assist with any project or challenge. [Culver City] @cherryworks.art http://cherryworks.art/

 

Claremont Graduate University Art Department 🟡🟣

 CGU Art offers both a 2-year MFA and a 1-year MA in Studio Art.  We are a transdisciplinary university allowing for customized course pathways of study.  The Art Department has recently moved locations on campus to feature newly constructed world class galleries, accompanied by multiple installation exhibition spaces, while retaining our signature large studios for students.  CGU is a member of the Claremont Colleges focused entirely on graduate level discourse, our charge—research that matters. [Claremont, 91711] @cgumfa  http://www.cgu.edu/academics/program/mfa/ 

 

Clockshop 🟡🟣

Clockshop works with artists to deepen the connection between communities and public land, in order to build a shared vision of a future based in belonging and care. As a Los Angeles-based arts and culture nonprofit, Clockshop produces free public programming and commissions contemporary artist projects on public land to better connect Angelenos to the land we live on. [Los Angeles, 90039] @clockshopla http://www.clockshop.org/

 

Continuous Project 🟡🟢

Continuous Project is an independent consultancy transforming how society perceives, acknowledges, and compensates cultural labor. Founded in 2018 by Corrina Peipon, Continuous Project empowers art workers through private and group consulting; lateral knowledge-sharing and education; and thought leadership. @altereddaily https://www.continuousproject.info/

 

Corita Art Center 🟡🟣🟢

Founded in 1997, Corita Art Center, an affiliate of the Immaculate Heart Community, preserves and promotes Corita Kent’s art, teaching, and passion for social justice. Today, Corita Art Center supports exhibition loans and public programs, oversees image and merchandising rights, and serves as a resource and archive on her life and work. [Los Angeles, 90013] @coritaartcenter http://corita.org

 

Craft Contemporary 🟡🟣

Craft Contemporary, founded in 1965 by Edith R. Wyle as The Egg and The Eye, is a unique, non-collecting museum in Los Angeles dedicated to showcasing underrepresented, contemporary craft arts and artists through exhibitions and multigenerational programs.  Cohesively designed, our exhibitions and programming adhere to a curatorial philosophy that prioritizes storytelling, accessibility, sustainability, and honoring the natural world with the goal of achieving zero-waste exhibitions by 2030. [Los Angeles, 90036] @craftcontemporary https://www.craftcontemporary.org/

 

Crenshaw Dairy Mart 🟡🟣

The Crenshaw Dairy Mart is a transformative artist collective and art gallery located at the intersection of Manchester and Crenshaw in Inglewood, CA. Housed in a former dairy mart, CDM explores ancestry, healing and abolition within the Inglewood community, fostering new collective memories through dynamic programming, events, and art installations. Founded in 2020 by artists noé olivas, alexandre ali reza dorriz, and Patrisse Cullors, CDM  is rooted in Black queer feminist principles. Under the leadership of Executive Director Ashley Blakeney, CDM focuses on curating artist exhibitions, dynamic programming, and a freedom portal for all. [Inglewood, 90305] @CrenshawDairyMart https://www.crenshawdairymart.com/

 

The Culture List 🔵🟡🟣

The Culture List, Inc. is a creative consulting agency specializing in innovative programming, audience engagement, and strategic planning for museums, non-profits, and businesses. Founded in 2016 by Elizabeth Pezza as a way to apply her expertise outside of institutional boundaries, The Culture List has partnered with hundreds of non-profits, artists, and creatives to bring groundbreaking and meaningful projects to new audiences. [Los Angeles, 90041] @culture_list  www.theculturelist.org

 

FCCW 🟡

Feminist Center for Creative Work nurtures an ever-evolving, intersectional, intergenerational, and joyful collaborative feminist praxis*—modeling ways of working and living through art, programming, media, publishing, and the redistribution of resources, from Los Angeles, within the world. The process is the product. [Los Angeles, 90065] @feministcenterforcreativework https://fccwla.org/

 

For Freedoms 🟡🟢

For Freedoms deepens civic engagement through the arts. We provide artists, institutions, and communities a decentralized space for connection, and the tools to support their creative capacities and resilience as cultural producers. Together, our network is building more robust civic dialogue, and inspiring a sense of belonging and responsibility for one another. Our vision is of a joyful, interconnected world where creativity is seen as integral to enhancing civic expression, listening, healing, and justice. @forfreedoms https://forfreedoms.org/

 

Freewaves 🟡🟣

Freewaves, is a Los Angeles–based nonprofit organization that exhibits multicultural, independent media and produces free public art projects to engage artists and audiences on current social issues. @lafreewaves https://freewaves.org/programs/justice/

 

Fulcrum Arts 🟡🟣🟢

Fulcrum Arts champions creative and critical thinkers at the intersection of art and science to provoke positive social change and contribute to a more vibrant and inclusive community. [Pasadena, 91101] @fulcrumarts https://www.fulcrumarts.org/

 

Grand Central Art Center  🔵🟡🟣

Grand Central Art Center (GCAC), located in Downtown Santa Ana and operated by California State University, Fullerton, is a dynamic hub for contemporary art, offering innovative exhibitions, artist-in-residence programs, and community-focused projects. With its 45,000-square-foot facility, GCAC fosters creativity, dialogue, and collaboration between artists and the local and global community. [Santa Ana, 92701] @grandcentralart http://www.grandcentralartcenter.com/

 

GYOPO 🟡🟣

GYOPO is a volunteer-powered nonprofit that organizes free public programs and projects connected to diasporic Korean arts and culture in Los Angeles and beyond. [Los Angeles, 90005] @gyopo.us http://www.gyopo.us/

 

Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 🟡🟣

Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA) is a non-collecting contemporary art museum located in the Arts District of Downtown Los Angeles. An epicenter of artistic experimentation and incubator of new ideas, ICA LA is recognized for its history of bold curatorial vision and innovative programming to illuminate the important untold stories and emerging voices in contemporary art and culture. [Los Angeles, 90021] @theicala https://www.theicala.org/en/about

 

Japanese American National Museum 🟡🟣

The mission of the Japanese American National Museum is to promote understanding and appreciation of America’s ethnic and cultural diversity by sharing the Japanese American experience. As the national repository of Japanese American history, JANM creates groundbreaking historical and arts exhibitions, educational public programs, award-winning documentaries, and innovative curriculum that illuminate the stories and the rich cultural heritage of people of Japanese ancestry in the United States. [Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, 90012] @jamuseum https://www.janm.org/

 

The Judith Center 🟡

The Judith Center is a Los Angeles–based nonprofit that advocates nationally for gender equality through interdisciplinary, art-centric programming. Through commissions, exhibitions, talks, and public events, the organization brings together artists, activists, scientists, and policymakers to examine structural inequities across fields. [Los Angeles, 90007] @thejudithcenter http://www.thejudithcenter.org/

 

LA Commons 🟡

Everyone has a story to tell. LA Commons is a leading South LA-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that engages communities in artistic and cultural expression that tells their unique stories. [Los Angeles, 90008] @lacommons http://www.lacommons.org/

 

LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) 🟡

LACE champions artists, curators, and cultural workers who explore and defy boundaries through socially-engaged projects. We provide platforms within and beyond our space for diverse communities to connect deeply with challenging contemporary art. [Los Angeles, 90028] @welcometolace https://welcometolace.org/

 

Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) 🟡

Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) connects people and places through art to deepen a sense of belonging by commissioning site-responsive free public art and programs. [Los Angeles, 90018] @nomadicdivision https://www.nomadicdivision.org/

 

Level Ground Collective  🟡

Level Ground creates purposeful and sustained spaces where visual, literary, and moving image artists can learn, develop, produce, and exhibit work with and for each other and our communities. Our programs are designed to address the common barriers artists face by fostering non-extractive and regenerative practices around artist support and development and helping to remove economic barriers so that artists can sustain their work over time. [Los Angeles, 90012] @levelground.co https://www.levelground.co/collective

 

LMU Laband Art Gallery 🟡🟣

The Laband Art Gallery is located at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. We are dedicated to presenting exhibitions and public programs that illustrate that the visual arts are a critical component of society. [Los Angeles, 90045] @labandartgallery  https://cfa.lmu.edu/labandgallery/

 

Los Angeles Artist Census 🟢

The Los Angeles Artist Census is an artist-driven research initiative that gathers and publishes data in support of local artists. We are currently developing An Accessibility Guide to Los Angeles Art Spaces, which can be explored online at http://accessartLA.com [Los Angeles]

@losangelesartistcensus  https://losangelesartistcensus.com/

 

Los Angeles Contemporary Archive 🟡🟢

Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA) is a public archive and library dedicated to contemporary art-making. LACA collaborates with artists to build archival collections, which include studio leases, contracts, paystubs, performance apparel, set pieces, police reports, text messages, class syllabi, and materials from formally running art spaces. These collections enable us to learn from each other’s experiences and create new works that privilege the desires and needs of our communities. [Los Angeles, 90012] @lacarchive  www.lacarchive.com

 

Metabolic Studio 🟡🟢

Metabolic Studio is an artist-led, multidisciplinary practice based in Los Angeles that engages long-term reparative ecological work.  Our aim is to transform water, land, and civic systems into shared resources through collaborative, site-based projects. [Los Angeles, 90012] @metabolicstudio metabolicstudio.org

 

Meztli Projects 🔵🟡🟢

Meztli Projects supports the creative development of Native and Indigenous Peoples by providing an ecosystem of support that helps strengthen and reconnect generations, cultural production, and knowledge building and transmission. As an Indigenous-based arts & culture collaborative, it centers Indigeneity into the creative practice of Los Angeles by using arts-based strategies to support, advocate for, and organize to highlight Native and Indigenous Artists and systems-impacted peoples. [Montebello, 90640] @meztliprojects meztliprojects.org 

 

Now Be Here 🟡🟢

Now Be Here supports the practices of thousands of diverse women and non-binary artists by building community and expanding public knowledge of their work. We work to create a more equitable art world through direct outreach, public programming, and our free, global visual artist directory. [Los Angeles, 91103] @nowbehereart  https://nowbehereart.com

 

Otis College of Art & Design 🟡🟢 [Los Angeles, 90045]

Otis College of Art & Design, in their undergraduate and graduate programs, prepares artists and designers for success through rigorous practice that nurtures creativity, vision, and critical thinking. [Los Angeles, 90045] @otiscollege  https://www.otis.edu/index.html

 

OXY ARTS 🟡🟣

OXY ARTS is Occidental College’s community-based arts hub. At the intersection of art, culture and social movements, OXY ARTS is committed to facilitating projects that hold space for complex ideas and dialogue, spark curiosity and invest in artists and community growth. All exhibitions and public programs are free and open to the public. [Los Angeles, 90042] @oxyarts https://oxyarts.oxy.edu/

 

Pilele Projects 🔵🟡🟣

Pilele Projects is an exhibition and workshop space dedicated to supporting artists, cultural practitioners, curators, and scholars emerging from and focused on Pacific Island cultures and their diasporas. Pilele Projects takes its name from the creative director’s Chamoru Grandfather who ran a Mom and Pop store and Laundro-mat in post-war Guam, which was beloved in the village for being a community center, a place for ceremonies, and a support for local artists. [Los Angeles, 90018] @pileleprojects  https://pileleprojects.org/

 

Performance Art Museum 🟡🟣

The Performance Art Museum advances the visibility, legacy, and scholarship of artists working in performance. [Los Angeles, 90013] @pamuseum_ https://www.pamuseum.org/

 

Pitzer College Art Galleries 🟡🟣

Pitzer College Art Galleries fosters meaningful engagement with contemporary art and the pressing issues that shape our world. Through exhibitions, programs, and partnerships, the galleries reflect Pitzer College’s commitment to social responsibility, intercultural understanding, and interdisciplinary inquiry @Pitzerartgalleries  https://www.pitzer.edu/offices/art-galleries

 

Primer 🟢

Primer is an art management platform built to serve artists, non-profits, and galleries. Since 2014, we’ve helped art professionals work more efficiently by giving them powerful tools and personalized client support without charging extra for essential features. @primerarchives https://www.primerarchives.com/

 

Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College 🟡🟣

The Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery serves as an important teaching instrument and visual resource in the education of Scripps College students. In addition to caring for the Scripps art collections, the Gallery presents exhibitions and programs that enrich the College’s curriculum and engage the community. [Claremont, 91711]  @ruthchandlerwilliamsongallery https://rcwg.scrippscollege.edu/

 

Self Help Graphics & Art 🔵🟡🟣🟢 

Self Help Graphics & Art fosters the creation and advancement of new art works by Chicana/o and Latinx artists through experimental and innovative printmaking techniques and other visual art forms. We are an organization rooted in community; and since 1973, have been at the intersection of arts and social justice, providing a home that fosters the creativity and development of local artists. [Boyle Heights, 90033] @shg1970  https://www.selfhelpgraphics.com

 

Side Street Projects 🟡

Founded in 1992, Side Street Projects is a mobile artist run organization based in Altadena, CA. Our mission is to give artists of all ages the ability and means to support their creative endeavors. We are devoted to community-centered artists through community-led programming that promotes creativity, well-being, and the potential for collective growth. [Altadena, 91101] @sidestreetorg https://www.sidestreet.org/

 

Sovern 🔵🟡🟣🟢 

Sovern LA is an intercultural arts and healing hub located in the Black Cultural District (BCD) of Los Angeles, California, attracting cultural workers across multiple diasporas to advance necessary intercultural solidarity and healing. We particularly emphasize workers of BIWOC+ identities and diasporic traditions whose histories, traditions, and stories are often excluded or forgotten. Our approach weaves together these traditions–without enmeshing them–to bring forward a world with greater empathy, love, and social concern. [Los Angeles, 90016] @sovern.la https://www.sovern.la/ 

 

USC Roski School of Art & Design 🟡

The USC Gayle Garner Roski School of Art and Design is committed to inspiring students to create aesthetically powerful, politically responsible, and inclusive ways of being in the world. Through an immersive studio curriculum grounded in historical and critical discourse, the USC Roski School fosters innovative art and design practices that challenge, illuminate, and reimagine our globally connected future. [Los Angeles, 90089] @uscroski https://roski.usc.edu/

 

Wende Museum 🟡🟣

The Wende is an art museum, cultural center, and archive that preserves history and brings it to life through exhibitions, scholarship, education, and community engagement. In our exhibitions and programs, the Wende explores meaningful connections between the past and the present. [Culver City, 90230]  @wendemuseum https://wendemuseum.org/

 

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