American Indian Heritage Month

Kids Path — Book Bundles to Go

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Are you looking for children’s books but don’t know where to start? Let the library surprise your child (and you!) with a beautiful selection of books from Book Bundles To Go. Each Bundle consists of five books based on interest level, theme, or type of book. Every bundle is different! We will choose exciting books for you from our libraries throughout Los Angeles. To receive your personalized Book Bundle To Go, fill out the form on the website.
Website Link
lapl.org/kids/book-bundles
Event Date
Event Location

Your local branch library
United States

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10341886
Event Main Image

Taming the Desert: Resilience, Religion, and Ancestors in Ancient Peru

Event Type
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description

The exhibition features 34 Moche and Nazca ceramics and textiles drawn from the collections of LACMA and the Fowler Museum at UCLA. The works depict fantastic creatures, powerful ancestors, and mythological beings—illustrating how ancient Andean societies sought spiritual meaning and help in an unpredictable and challenging world.

Website Link
fowler.ucla.edu
Event Date
-
Event Location

Fowler Museum, UCLA
308 Charles E. Young Dr. N.
Los Angeles, CA 90024
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0729274, -118.442983

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
310.825.9672
Event ID
10347525
Event Main Image

Sangre De Nopal/Blood of the Nopal: Tanya Aguiñiga & Porfirio Gutiérrez En Conversación/In Conversation

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Sangre de Nopal/Blood of the Nopal is a multi-site project offering an expanded understanding of cochineal’s scientific and Indigenous origins, a red dye developed by the Zapotec people. This multivocal exhibition will center ancestral knowledge and technical experimentation and bring a special focus to issues of immigration and labor justice.
Website Link
fowler.ucla.edu
Event Date
-
Event Location

Fowler Museum, UCLA
308 Charles E. Young Dr. N.
Los Angeles, CA 90024
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0729274, -118.442983

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
310.825.9672
Event ID
10344901
Event Main Image

We Live in Painting: The Nature of Color in Mesoamerican Art

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
We Live in Painting: The Nature of Color in Mesoamerican Art explores the science, art, and cosmology of color in Mesoamerica. Histories of colonialism and industrialization in the “color-averse” West have minimized the deep significance of color in the Indigenous Americas. This exhibition follows two interconnected lines of inquiry—technical and material analyses, and Indigenous conceptions of art and image—to reach the full richness of color at the core of Mesoamerican worldviews.
Website Link
lacma.org
Event Date
-
Event Location

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0637913, -118.3588851

tags

Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
Check the website for ticket prices
Contact Phone
213.202.5567
Event ID
10347472
Event Main Image

Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice

Event Type
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
The exhibition considers environmental art practices that address the climate crisis and anthropogenic disasters and their inescapable intersection with issues of equity and social justice.  The exhibition strives to challenge and deconstruct polarized political attitudes surrounding climate justice in America and offers new perspectives on land and indigenous rights of nature.
Website Link
hammer.ucla.edu
Event Date
-
Event Location

Hammer Museum, UCLA
10899 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90024
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0591217, -118.4436674

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
310.443.7000
Event ID
10347414
Event Main Image

Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Desert Forest focuses on the plight of the iconic Joshua tree and the vital and sensitive Mojave Desert ecosystem that supports it. The tree’s survival is threatened by climate change as well as development, wind and solar energy industries, and wildfires.    In August 2020, a lightning strike ignited a fire that destroyed more than 1.3 million trees, prompting the California Fish and Game Commission to consider granting western Joshua trees protection under the California Endangered Species Act. This multidisciplinary project brings together natural history, Indigenous knowledge, public policy, conservation science, and creative works by historic and contemporary artists to spotlight the threatened tree and preservation efforts around it. From the first known photograph of a Joshua tree by Carleton Watkins to recent photographs by Cara Romero, the exhibition brings attention to the Joshua tree, current pressures on its fragile desert ecosystem, and its future viability.
Website Link
lancastermoah.org
Event Date
-
Event Location

Lancaster Museum of Art and History
665 W. Lancaster Blvd.
Lancaster, CA 93534
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.6981717, -118.1418003

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
661.723.6250
Event ID
10342380
Event Main Image

Borderlands

Event Type
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
A thematic anchor in the exhibition is an 8-foot-by-8-foot watercolor painted by Los Angeles–based artist Sandy Rodriguez. Rodriguez’s YOU ARE HERE / Tovaangar / El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula / Los Angeles is a multilingual map of the greater Los Angeles area, representing the topography, language, flora, fauna, and land stewardship in the region over time and illustrating the movement and histories of peoples who have called—and continue to call—the area home.  

 

Check the website for ticket prices. Wednesdays – Mondays 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Website Link
huntington.org
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
Contact Phone
626.405.2100
Event ID
10347104
Event Main Image

Reclaiming El Camino: Native Resistance in the Missions and Beyond

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Reclaiming El Camino explores significant moments in time that demonstrate how “El Camino” (meaning “the road”) symbolizes oppression and revolution. The exhibition spotlights the enslavement and brutality that Native Americans experienced in and around the missions. It also reveals the resistance that Native Americans put up against missionaries and colonizers, which enabled their “survival” over the last two hundred and fifty years.

 

Adults — $18, Students and Seniors — $14, Children (3–12) — $8, Free hours Tuesday and Wednesday from 1—4 p.m. Advanced registration is required for free days.

 

Tuesdays – Fridays 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., Saturdays – Sundays 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Website Link
theautry.org
Event Date
-
Event Location

Autry Museum of the American West
4700 Western Heritage Way
Los Angeles, CA 90027
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.1487135, -118.2812551

tags

Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$18
Contact Phone
323.667.2000
Event ID
10346960
Event Main Image

First Californians

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

This installation showcases Bowers’ extensive permanent collection of Native American art and artifacts in stone, shell, plant fiber, basketry, and feathers. These items play a crucial role in narrating the story of Native Californian culture. While the exhibit includes groups from all areas of California, it focuses on the local groups residing in the coastal regions of Southern California.

Website Link
museu.ms/exhibition/details/1010/first-californians
Event Date
-
Event Location

Bowers Museum
2002 N. Main St.
Santa Ana, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
33.7633562, -117.8682052

tags

Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
Check the website for ticket prices
Event ID
10347257
Event Main Image

Mapping the Infinite: Cosmologies Across Cultures

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
The exhibit presents a group of rare and visually stunning artworks from different cultures and time periods to explore the variety of human attempts to explain the universe’s origins, mechanics, and meaning. Nearly every ancient culture has seen the heavens as a mirror of cosmic structure and process, and ancient measurements of time were directly influenced by the movements of heavenly bodies. Mapping the Infinite reveals how, as religions evolved, cultures conceived of and depicted cosmic deities and concepts of time and space through works of art and sacred architecture. The exhibition illuminates this history of cosmologies around the globe from the Stone Age to the present, from Neolithic Europe to the present day and including Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, South and Southeast Asia, East Asia, the Islamic Middle East, the Indigenous Americas, Northern Europe, and the United States.
Website Link
lacma.org/art/exhibition/mapping-infinite-cosmologies-across-cultures
Event Date
-
Event Location

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0637913, -118.3588851

tags

Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
Check the website for ticket prices
Contact Phone
213.202.5567
Event ID
10338210
Event Main Image
American Indian Heritage Month