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Time to RSVP for @nowbehereart ! >> LINK IN BIO << Now Be Here’s 10-Year Anniversary Photo & Now Let’s Talk, Los Angeles May 31 | 9 am - 3 pm | Occidental College campus We’re excited to share the programs for the Now Let’s Talk, Los Angeles events! The programming is free and open to artists and art workers of all genders. 🎤 Panels: Equal Percent: Ongoing Strategies for Resisting Sexism in the Art Market / No Unsolicited Submissions: Navigating Relationships with Curators and Gallerists 🪢 Community Conversations: How Do We Do This Differently? / When the Margin is the Center: Identity, Politics, and Art / For Freedoms School: Navigating the Currents of Change, Intersession / Artists, Community Resilience & Mutual Aid / Archiving for Us / Procession: Art as Ecological Practice / Where Are You Now? Where Will Your Work Go? / Art+: The Politics of Visibility Now Let’s Talk, Los Angeles is organized by Now Be Here and OXY ARTS in collaboration with a coalition of 50+ regional arts organizations, and made possible by: Artlogic, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, ArtConverge, East West Bank, and Claremont Graduate University Art Department, with thanks to Fulcrum Arts.

💥 Coming soon this June! Cauleen Smith + National Museum at OXY ARTS in LA💥 National Museum of the Aftermath @cauleen_smith @the.national.museum @oxyarts Curated by @kinnanesmith & @jonrubinstudio Design: @nickcaruso

We are delighted to invite you to experience the Occidental College Studio Art Senior Comps Exhibition—”Interwoven”! This showcase highlights the culminating projects of eight graduating seniors, representing years of research and technical creative mastery. Opening Reception: April 30, 6-8pm 🗓 Dates: April 30 – May 16, 2026 📍 Location: OXY ARTS (4757 York Boulevard) Interwoven threads the tensions between abstraction and legibility, presence and absence, permanence and transformation. Through varied material and conceptual approaches, the exhibition contests static assumptions about the nature of being. By weaving introspective reflection with broader cultural contexts, viewers are invited to consider their own position within these layered networks. Interwoven opens space for new ways to understand ourselves and, in turn, how we shape and are shaped by the environments we inhabit. Exhibiting Artists: Liv Peterson, Lucy Roberts, Peyton Resto, Schuyler Simon-Thomas, Lucas Donovan, Zandra Sweeney, Olivia Johnson, Nicole Anderson We hope you will join us! Congratulations to the Class of 2026! 🎓🎨

We’re honored to announce Tanya Aguiñiga as the 2026-27 Wanlass Artist in Residence. During her residency, she will teach a Fall 2026 Occidental College course, and will mount a solo exhibition at OXY ARTS in Spring 2027. Oxy students! We encourage you to enroll in Aguiñiga’s Fall 2026 course, “ARTS290 Art Outside the Bounds: Fiber Art + Community” (CRN 1461), a hands-on studio class centered around textile or fiber processes and exploring the varied ways that textile arts can be used in solidarity with social justice movements. No prior fiber art experience is required. Aguiñiga is an artist, designer, and craftsperson, whose work draws upon Mesoamerican weaving and traditional forms and materials. She often collaborates with other artists and activists to create sculptures, installations, performances, and community-based art projects. Drawing on her upbringing as a binational citizen, who daily crossed the border from Tijuana to San Diego for school, Aguiñiga’s work speaks of the artist’s experience of her divided identity and aspires to tell the larger and often invisible stories of the transnational community. Aguiñiga began her career by creating collaborative installations with the Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo, and she co-built and for six years ran a community center in Tijuana, aimed at utilizing arts initiatives to bring attention to injustices facing the local community. In 2016, in response to the deep polarization about the U.S.-Mexico border, Aguiñiga created AMBOS (Art Made Between Opposite Sides), an ongoing series of projects that provides a platform for binational artists. @tanyaaguiniga @oxyarts

Our 2026 visiting curator is Umi Hsu @wfumihsu , a scholar and practitioner whose work spans public and historical humanism, technology and sound. Oxy students! Enrollment is open for Hsu's Fall 2026 course "Curating Trans History: Archives, Art, and Politics" (CRN 1462), a theory + praxis course exploring the erased cultural and artistic practices of transgender and gender-diverse people. Hsu will be curating OXY ARTS’ fall exhibition entitled "Hold Each Other’s Hand" and co-presented with @oneinstitutela . The exhibition will explore historical practices of trans mutual aid and animate the spirit of mutualism through contemporary works of art. Part archival and part contemporary art, the show will draw from @onearchivesusc to foreground mutualism as a relational model to bring together art and politics, two pillars in trans and queer survival in history. To contextualize today’s practices of mutual aid, the exhibition will provide a space for expansive thinking and public dialogue around relationality, collectivity, co-existence, coalitions, support, and care. Commissions by contemporary artists Leslie Foster, Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai, Salvador de la Torre, Xixi Edelsbrunner, Wesleigh Gates, and Whisper (fka Sammie Veeler) will respond to and extend these archival histories, treating the archive not as a static record but as a living resource for collective inquiry. A series of public programs will further extend the exhibition's reach, centering the work of contemporary mutual aid practitioners and cultural workers. Umi Hsu has published extensively on digital media, data, and Internet culture, taught at ArtCenter College of Design and the University of Southern California, and holds a PhD in Critical and Comparative Studies from the University of Virginia. Their fellowships and awards include recognition from the American Council for Learned Societies, Shuttleworth Foundation, LA Metro, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Photo credit: Clifford Pun

What if we could compost the multiple lives within our single lifetime to grow a world? Join sound artist Umi Hsu on 4/9 7PM for an artist talk and workshop to explore mushrooms, mycelium, and worldmaking. Hsu will give a performance lecture introducing their practice while playing sounds on a living fungi synthesizer that they built. Workshop participants will then have the chance to interact with the fungi synth and take part in speculative group activities inspired by fungal life. Fruiting Bodies: A Speculative Sound and Story Workshop with Umi Hsu April 9, 7:00-8:30pm 4757 York Blvd This event and exhibition are made possible by generous support from the Kathryn Caine Wanlass Charitable Foundation.

Four more weeks to experience “Roksana Pirouzmand: everything was once something else” – presented across two locations with JOAN Los Angeles. Come see, feel, and hear it! The OXY ARTS gallery is open Monday-Saturday, 11am-4pm. JOAN is open Thursday - Saturday 11am-5pm. @roksanapirouzmand @joanlosangeles Video by @adamkostylo

Fresh paint has made a big impact at the Hillside Theater 🎨 thanks to a new 5,000-square-foot mural. The artwork was imagined by local artist Andrew Armstrong (who was inspired by @oxyarts ’ “Flesh of the Forest” exhibit) and painted with the help of Oxy students. Thank you to Janette Sadik-Khan ’82 for funding the project, who was inspired by her work on Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Asphalt Art Initiative. Learn more about the project at the link in our bio 🔗

You're invited to take inspiration from Roksana Pirouzmand's sculptures and create your own decorative clay piece next Saturday at our Making Space workshop. We will experiment with clay, using different objects to create impressions and decorate clay slabs. Making Space Workshop: Clay Imprints Saturday, 3/21 11am - 12pm OXY ARTS, 4757 York Blvd. Open to all ages and all skill levels, but all artists under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult. There is no registration required and participants will be seated on a first come, first-serve basis. Please arrive on time to ensure a spot! This iteration of Making Space is facilitated by Anna Knight and Millie Weitz, Occidental College student Teaching Artists. Exhibition installation photo credit Gina Clyne @ginaclyne

Please join us this Saturday for a two-part artist walkthrough with Roksana Pirouzmand @roksanapirouzmand , starting at @oxyarts continuing on to @joanlosangeles . Saturday, Feb 28 11:00 AM at OXY ARTS, 4757 York Blvd 12:30 PM at JOAN, 1206 Maple Ave, Suite 715 You are welcome to join for either or both events! Photo credit @sylvaintron

Our free, all ages Making Space workshops are back this Spring! Join us for the 1st workshop of a 3-part series. We will be creating projects inspired by "everything was once something else", a solo exhibition by Roksana Pirouzmand. The first workshop focuses on Foil Embossed Stamps. We will make our personal stamps out of familiar metal materials, inspired by Pirouzmand’s sculptures. Open to all ages and all skill levels. Participants under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult. There is no registration required. Seating will be on a first come, first-serve basis. Please arrive on time to ensure a spot! Save the date for upcoming Making Space workshops this season! Friday, March 20, 6-7:30pm Friday, April 10, 6-7:30pm This iteration of Making Space is facilitated by Anna Knight and Millie Weitz, Occidental College student Teaching Artists.

Join us on March 3 for an intimate in-gallery conversation between Roksana Pirouzmand @roksanapirouzmand and Candice Lin #candicelin Tuesday, March 3rd 7:00-8:30pm OXY ARTS, 4757 York Blvd. Both Pirouzmand and Lin have been Wanlass Artists in Residence at OXY ARTS, and this dialogue will delve into their shared commitment to deep, reflective, materially driven work. The conversation will consider their shared approaches and influences, inherited histories, and reflections on pedagogy and mentorship.