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Is a problem-posing guide that challenges artists to move beyond preservation and permanence, to rethink legacy through relation, use, and the conditions of precarity in which we already live.
Limited run of 20 workbooks.
+ Free PDF coming soon in bio / $35 print.
Grab a copy today at @printedmatter_artbookfairs or through the LACA online shop.
๐๏ธ Designed by Ruby Miller (@fruitcakedaily )
๐ out for an upcoming release party.
๐ฃCALLING ALL ARTISTS AGE 0-15!
LACA and Mishou Magazine are excited to share a ๐special collaboration.
We invite you to respond to the prompt below and contribute to our upcoming issue.
๐ฆ๐๐ฏ๐บ๐ถ๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ๐: What do you think is the oldest thing where you live? Is it something kept safe in a box? Something you get to use? Is it hidden or on display? Is it a work of art? Or the tree outside? ๐ณ
We want to hear from you! Once you find your โoldest thingโ, please make a drawing of it, take a photo of it, or write a poem about it and then submit it to Mishou!
More information on how to submit and deadlines: /submit
Visit the LACA table ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ at the @printedmatter_artbookfairs to pick up a poster version of the prompt and meet us!
๐จ Artwork by Kayla Ephros (@ephrodite_ )
โง LACA x CRG bookmark โจ#4 โจ
For this edition, LACA features gloria galvezโs drawings from her research and communal investigation of bat and human cohabitation in Los Angeles. Her illustrations and mapping extend an invitation to study alongside her.
All proceeds go toward Community Reading Groupโs (@community_reading_group ) lecture series, which is free and open to the public.
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$6 minimum donation.
Purchase at the LACA shop or IRL at laabf2026 (@printedmatter_artbookfairs )
๐ Want the whole ๐collection? DM us
๐ฟ๐๐๐ x Mishou Magazine are coming together to create a special edition of Mishouโs all ages magazine ๐ซ
Mishou centers artists 15 and under, creating interactive, intergenerational work.
๐ฟ๐๐๐ is a public art archive and artist book library showing that artistic production is happening beyond established institutions.
Together, by making participatory materials about creative life more available, more artists get to see, read, hear, and lead us to challenge systems that benefit only a few.
Keep your ๐ out for our first submissions prompt in the coming days!
๐จ Artwork by Kayla Ephros (@ephrodite_ )
STOP THE CHOP๐ช
Calarts Union materials are available at lacarchive.com to research, browse, and learn from.
๐ DM/email us if you have items to share or donate to the growing collection.
Tomorrow, Tuesday 17 March at 12pm, we are so lucky to be joined by Hailey Loman from Los Angeles Contemporary Archive! This is the penultimate session of Another School ๐๐ come along, no registration needed!
Hailey Loman co-runs the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA). Hailey has gathered material from the collection about alternative artist educational models, curriculums, and will introduce Archive Night School, a programme that addresses real-life archive problems and creative methods of organising. Haileyโs session will cover this ground and begin as all Archive Night School classes did: using gossip as a generative archiving process to better understand our conditions.
๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฃ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐๏ธ๐ Writing Center @ LACA:
Join a tri-weekly in-person writing group at LACA to write in community and find peer-to-peer support. Drop in to work on your essays, artist statements, stories, poems, drafts for fellowship/grant/residency applications, project proposals and more. The writing center program is open Wednesdays 6-9PM. First session starts on ๐ช๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฏ/๐ญ๐ญ
๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฃ๐ฒ๐ป๐ offers 3 hours of quiet cowriting space. The last hour will provide an optional time for participants to meet in pairs or small groups to share work and talk through projects.
Coffee, tea, pens, pencils, highlighters, post-it notes, and scrap paper will be provided.
๐ซ Thank you @simoneworkinit and @ccczzznnn of ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฃ๐ฒ๐ป๐.
What collections look when they are dropped off at LACA ๐
What naming conventions look like on LACA database ๐ป
๐งฉ #johnburtlearchive @realityshopping
The archive will be reopening Friday, Jan 9, 12-6. We look forward to welcoming you into the stacks in 2026.
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You can still order ๐๐ on the LACA shop. We will be processing orders through the holidays.
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This holiday a donation of $100 or more to Los Angeles Contemporary Archive includes a gift from us and @everybody.world , a new limited run L.A.C.A ๐ long sleeve.
Your donation keeps the archive open and cared for.
Gift, mail, ๐๐ or pick up your new shirt IRL.
Link in bio.
Thank you #LibrarianLynn and the Chinatown Teen Council from @chinatownlapl for joining our placemaking artist book workshop. If you are a teen and have interests in making handmade books DM us so we can connect with you.
Grateful to visit the Highlander Folk School (@highlandercenter ) and Septima Clark Leaning Center in New Market, Tennessee.
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For almost a century, Highlander has been the training ground for movement leaders across Appalachia and beyond. The school and library have centered the experiences of directly-impacted people, knowing that together, we have the solutions to address the challenges we face in our communities and to build more equitable structures.
