Reimagining Art Institutions and Community

Saturday, April 15th at 4:00 pm

This public panel will bring together artists, curators, arts organization leaders and community organizers from LA and beyond to explore alternative practices of art and community outside of traditional institutional structures. Panel participants include gallerist Young Chung from Commonwealth and Council (LA and Mexico City); Director of the Feminist Center for Creative Work (FCCW), Sarah Williams; artist and arts community organizer and co-founder of non-profit art space Coaxial, Eva Aguila; artist and Managing Director of HRLA, John Bartel; and curator, writer and Director of The Sierra Hermosa Community Museum and Reading Club, Natalia De La Rosa. The panel will be moderated by artist Young Joon Kwak, and cover topics including conventional and [un-] professional practices to navigate patriarchal, capitalist structures of the art world, community-building, and alternative means of mutual support and sustainability for emerging artists.

This event is co-organized by Young Joon Kwak and artists in their class Mutant Salon: Critiques (Seeva Dawne, Hu Di, Liz Lee, Gwendolyn Moon, Antonio Okun, Anna Pelz, Naomi Sam, amanda teixeira, Rose Tsang, and Nieves Winslow) at CalArts.

image credit: amanda teixeira

This event is co-organized by Young Joon Kwak and artists in their class Mutant Salon: Critiques (Seeva Dawne, Hu Di, Liz Lee, Gwendolyn Moon, Antonio Okun, Anna Pelz, Naomi Sam, amanda teixeira, Rose Tsang, and Nieves Winslow) at CalArts.

image credit: amanda teixeira