African American Heritage Month

Sargent Claude Johnson

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
This exhibition includes 41 works drawn from The Huntington’s as well as key loans from institutional and private collections. On view will be The Huntington’s Head of a Boy and the monumental carved redwood Organ Screen. In this exhibition, the screen—will be reunited with the other parts of Johnson’s California School for the Blind Commission for the first time in over four decades.
Website Link
https://huntington.org/exhibition/sargent-claude-johnson
Event Date
-
Event Location

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Garden
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.1278618, -118.1094516

tags

Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$25 – $29
Contact Phone
626.405.2100
Event ID
10298174
Event Main Image

Adeola Davies-Aiyeloja – Echoes of Ancestors: Bearing Witness to Their Legacy

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
The Elmina and Cape Coast castles might seem to be far away, but their history connects with our American history. The castles were relics of the continent’s early interactions with Europe. Several thousands of West Africans, mostly men, passed through the castles after being held in the dungeons. When I walked through the dungeons recently, it was terrifying to imagine the reality of what took place in these tiny suffocating rooms filled centuries ago. Then I think of our current state of injustice going on in the marginalized communities and the struggle to survive is so much aligned with the past.
Website Link
laaa.org/adeola-davies-aiyeloja
Event Date
-
Event Location

Gallery 825
825 N. La Cienega Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0859727, -118.3767668

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Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10299696
Event Main Image

The Significant Movies and Moviemakers: Boyz N the Hood

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
The Boyz N the Hood gallery explores the movie’s groundbreaking depiction of Black life in South Central Los Angeles as well as its lasting impact on popular culture. The space highlights writer-director John Singleton’s unique vision for the film, for which he became both the first African American and the youngest person ever to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. The gallery also spotlights the cast and crew––showing the pivotal role the film played not only in their careers but also for a new generation of Black talent in Hollywood.
Website Link
academymuseum.org/en/exhibitions/boyz-n-the-hood
Event Date
-
Event Location

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
6067 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0633867, -118.3608799

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Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$15 – $25
Contact Phone
323.930.3000
Event ID
10301099
Event Main Image

Black California Dreamin’: Claiming Space at America’s Leisure Frontier

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Access to nature, recreation, and sites of relaxation—in other words, leisure—is critical to pursuing the full range of human experience, self-fulfillment, and dignity. The exhibition illuminates Angelenos and other Californians who worked to make leisure here an open, inclusive reality in the first half of the twentieth century. In shaping recreational sites and public spaces during the Jim Crow era, African Americans challenged white supremacy and situated Black identity within oceanfront and inland social gathering places throughout California.
Website Link
caamuseum.org/exhibitions/2023/black-california-dreamin-african-americans-and-the-frontier-of-leisure
Event Date
-
Event Location

California African American Museum
600 State Drive, Exposition Park
Los Angeles, CA 90037
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0152307, -118.2861853

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Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
213-744-2024
Event ID
10287316
Event Main Image

Riverside Art Museum presents Rico Gatson: Icons

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Riverside Art Museum is proud to present the second West Coast solo exhibition of Rico Gatson’s work. An interdisciplinary, Brooklyn-based artist, Gatson grew up in Riverside, California. His work is bold and graphic with art historical references to Russian Constructivism and Op art, while his wholly unique style highlights the complexities of Black life and its impact on American popular culture.

The exhibition is on view from Saturday, November 18, 2023 through Sunday, April 7, 2024 at the Riverside Art Museum in the Art Alliance Gallery.

 

Website Link
riversideartmuseum.org/exhibits/rico-gatson/
Event Date
-
Event Location

Riverside Art Museum
3425 Mission Inn Ave.
Riverside , CA 92501
United States

Event Lat/Long
33.9817847, -117.3704849

tags

Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$10.95 – $15.95
Contact Phone
951.684.7111
Event ID
10291539
Event Main Image

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh: Speaking to Falling Seeds

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist whose practice considers Black image making as a site of protest, contestation, affirmation, and possibility. At CAAM, Fazlalizadeh will present a series of portraits of Black Angelenos wheat-pasted across the atrium’s monumental walls. Based on photographs and conversations that took place this spring while the artist was living in Los Angeles, the portraits ask how safety is inferred, built, and felt for the city’s Black residents.
Website Link
caamuseum.org/exhibitions/2023/tatyana-fazlalizadeh
Event Date
-
Event Location

California African American Museum
600 State Drive, Exposition Park
Los Angeles, CA 90037
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0152307, -118.2861853

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
213-744-2024
Event ID
10295989
Event Main Image

Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Renowned American artist Betye Saar’s large-scale work Drifting Toward Twilight—recently commissioned by The Huntington—is a site-specific installation that features a 17-foot-long vintage wooden canoe and found objects, including birdcages, antlers, and natural materials harvested by Saar from The Huntington’s grounds.

 

“Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight” transforms an entire room in the Scott Galleries into what the artist calls a “cocoon-like environment.” The walls are painted in an oceanic blue gradient, featuring a poem by Saar and phases of the moon. Shifting lighting effects in the gallery emulate phases of daylight to twilight, evening to night, and night to dawn. Inside the canoe, Saar positions mysterious “passengers,” including antlers in metal birdcages, children’s chairs, and architectural elements—all drawn from the artist’s ever-evolving collection of found objects. The space beneath the canoe is illuminated by a cool neon glow, highlighting plant material.

 

Betye Saar (b. 1926) is one of the most significant American artists. Over her six-decade career, she has created assemblage works exploring themes of racial oppression, mysticism, the occult, family, memory, and identity. She fashions her assemblage artworks from found objects, antiques, and family heirlooms that she collects. Emerging as an important artistic voice during the feminist and Civil Rights movements, Saar is a pioneer of Black feminist art who connected the personal with the political, taking on such subject matter as the legacies of enslavement and the impacts of racism.
Website Link
huntington.org/exhibition/betye-saar-drifting-toward-twilight
Event Date
-
Event Location

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Garden
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.1278618, -118.1094516

tags

Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$25 – $29
Contact Phone
626.405.2100
Event ID
10296259
Event Main Image

LA Made Presents: Black Punk Now

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Music
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description

Discover the inspiration and purpose that fueled the creation of Black Punk Now, James Spooner, and Chris L. Terry’s latest book. Curated from the perspective of Black writers with connections to the world of punk, the collection mixes media as well as generations, creating a new reference point for music lovers, readers, and historians by capturing the present and looking toward the future. With strong visual elements integrated throughout, this smart, intimate collection is demonstrative of punk by being punk itself: underground, rebellious, aesthetic but not static—working to decenter whiteness by prioritizing other perspectives. The co-authors will lead a table reading followed by a moderated conversation with Tunde Adebimpe and Kash Abdulmalik. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to gain insights into the book’s inception and join in the discussion with our talented creators.

Website Link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gLiV_6-fjs
Event Date
Event Location

Los Angeles Library – Online
Los Angeles, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0522342, -118.2436849

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10301206
Event Main Image

An Hour with Your Friend, Dan: Award-Winning Author/Illustrator Dan Santat

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Illustrator Dan Santat will share stories of his books, work, process, and life, along with the secrets of how he has published 100+ books for young people. Dan Santat is the Caldecott Medal–winning and New York Times–bestselling author and illustrator of The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend and the new feel-good coming-of-age memoir, A First Time for Everything. This event is recommended for school-age kids and families.
Website Link
youtube.com/watch?v=Nn7tEwZ7Pls&list=PLRsndPpfc7j8AHQBLENOLyOs4fEllALGw
Event Date
Event Location

Online – Los Angeles County Library
Los Angeles, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0522342, -118.2436849

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10285431
Event Main Image

Celebrate African American History Month with Movies on Kanopy and Hoopla

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Film
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Stream films on Kanopy or Hoopla, both on-demand streaming film services. They both have an extensive library of African American Cinema and  Documentaries that are free with your Los Angeles City or Los Angeles County library card.
Website Link
kanopy.com/en/category/40898?frontend=kui
Event Date
Event Location

United States

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10285916
Event Main Image
African American Heritage Month