Skirball Cultural Center

📆Mark your calendars for May 20. It’s time for our three NEW Spring Exhibitions to shine. We’re opening: ✨Inventing America: The Comic Book Revolution ✨Outsiders, Outcasts, Rebels + Weirdos: Punk Culture 1976–86 ✨Robert Russell and Lisa Edelstein: A Palace in Time Plan your visit by visiting us online at skirball.org. #ArtsandCulture #MuseumLife #JewishArt #PunkCulture #LAArtsScene

Conversations happen across our campus, from in-gallery learning and hands-on tactile learning to on-stage discussions in our Magnin Auditorium. Join our next conversation by following us online at skirball.org. This program is presented by the Charles Bronfman Prize in partnership with the Skirball Cultural Center.

After Noah’s Ark 🌈, the story keeps going. The Earth is alive again, and we all have a role in caring for it. Connect with nature and Jewish values through hands-on learning in our Bloom Garden.🪴 To learn more about School Programs, visit us online at skirball.org.

We commit ourselves to seeking learning by remaining open to new ideas, new perspectives, and the conversations that help us better understand one another. During Jewish American Heritage Month, we’re reflecting on the many ways learning takes shape here at the Skirball Cultural Center. Our rotating exhibitions invite visitors to explore themes of Jewish identity and American ideals through art, history, and dialogue. Pictured in the first image, staff members gather inside The American Library by Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, an installation that examines the layered meanings of citizenship, home, and nationalism. Learning also happens in our nontraditional classrooms—through Noah’s Ark and our outdoor amphitheater—where students from across Los Angeles engage with empathy, resilience, collaboration, and the work of rebuilding a shared world together. To seek learning is to stay curious, to welcome complexity, and to allow ourselves to be changed by what we encounter. What lessons have you taken from this brave space?

Get loud, get weird, and get wild in the streets as we celebrate the exhibition opening of Outsiders, Outcasts, Rebels + Weirdos: Punk Culture 1976–86. Special appearance by Keith Morris, legendary frontman of the hardcore punk bands Black Flag, Circle Jerks, and Off! 🌚Late Night! Outsiders, Outcasts, Rebels + Weirdos 📅Friday, May 29 ⏱️6:00–10:00 pm 📍Skirball Cultural Center Learn more at skirball.org.

✨What a magical month! Thank you for joining us at our annual Puppet Festival. Be sure to catch what’s coming up this summer by visiting us online at skirball.org and subscribing to our newsletter. We can’t wait to welcome you to the Skirball!

We honor memory each time you walk through our doors. Inspired by the form of a sukkah, our building’s open design and three-sided structure evoke a place of welcome. Within these walls, we celebrate nature’s abundance and the interconnectedness of life. This shared home regularly honors both the stories we inherit and the blessings we experience today. Each December, generations of families gather in our courtyard to celebrate the festival of Hanukkah. Through candlelight, music, and community, memory becomes something living—carried forward together and renewed through action.

We often return to a core idea in our mission: to be a place of meeting—guided by the Jewish tradition of welcoming the stranger and inspired by American ideals of freedom and equality. That spirit is reflected in the Statue of Liberty, featured in "Visions and Values." For generations of newcomers, it stood as a symbol of hope. This light in the harbor signaled safety, possibility, and the chance to begin again. For many Jewish families arriving in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it was among the first sights they saw after fleeing persecution in search of dignity and opportunity. In "Wayfinding" by Chloë Bass, we’re invited to look inward and consider what it means to make room for others by sharing our time, our space, and ourselves. We see that same invitation throughout our work, whether welcoming students from across Los Angeles into Noah’s Ark to explore Jewish values, or creating exhibitions that encourage reflection, dialogue, and connection. This Jewish American Heritage Month, we’re reflecting on that enduring call to remain curious about one another, to lead with openness, and to continue the work of welcome.

Amazing show @stiltshow !! @skirball_la had such an incredible crowd for our Dragon Knights puppet show! Thanks so much for playing with us!

Welcome to our Bloom Garden, where we host Art and Nature Workshops that invite families to explore the natural world through hands-on art making, storytelling, and seasonal activities. This month we welcome Latinx with Plants for a short and sweet workshop that invites guests to decorate their very own terracotta pot, choose a small succulent to plant inside, and take it home afterwards! Latinx with Plants is a small woman of color-owned business in Boyle Heights whose focus is to celebrate and uplift people of color in the plant world. Andi Xoch, the founder of Latinx with Plants, is a street and print artist whose practice is deeply embedded in community activism. They hope that through plant parenthood, people will be able to deepen their connection with nature and the earth, and tune into the healing that caring for plants can offer. 🪴 Learn more about this event at skirball.org.

Join us for opening day of our spring exhibitions! Whether you're visiting for daytime tours or evening fun, enjoy FREE admission to three new exhibitions, mingle with artists and curators, stroll through our oasis, and more. 〰️ Exhibition Opening, Spring 2026 📅 May 20 ⏱️ 12:00–5:00 pm 7:00–9:00 pm 📍Skirball Cultural Center We're opening ✨ Inventing America: The Comic Book Revolution ✨ Outsiders, Outcasts, Rebels + Weirdos: Punk Culture 1976–86 ✨Robert Russell and Lisa Edelstein: A Palace in Time Learn more by visiting us at skirball.org.

As we look back on the last 30 years, we find ourselves reconnecting to the reason why we built this beautiful, welcoming Jewish space, where every culture, tradition, and story could belong. Our reflection has left us committed to celebrating Jewish heritage, American democratic ideals, and the power of shared stories. Together, we can write the next chapter. We can't wait to welcome you to the Skirball!