American Indian Heritage Month

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
10347488
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
10347431
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
10346979
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
10346833
Event Main Image

GROUNDED: Contemporary Ceramics

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Forged from the land, contemporary ceramics reflect an intimate working relationship with the environment and centuries of artistic tradition. GROUNDED: Contemporary Ceramics features significant examples of contemporary Native ceramics.
Website Link
https://theautry.org/exhibitions/grounded-contemporary-ceramics-gifts-dr-loren-g-lipson
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
10347294
Event Main Image

Moompetam American Indian Festival

Event Type
Culture & Community
Fairs & Festivals
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
You are invited to join the Aquarium of the Pacific for its twentieth annual Moompetam American Indian Festival. This celebration features traditional cultural craft demonstrations, storytelling, music, and dance. The festival celebrates indigenous California maritime cultures, including Tongva, Chumash, Acjachemen, Costanoan, Luiseño, and Kumeyaay. General admission is required. Free for Aquarium members with reservations.
Website Link
aquariumofpacific.org/events/category/festival
Event Date
-
Event Location

Aquarium of the Pacific
100 Aquarium Way
Long Beach, CA 90802
United States

Event Lat/Long
33.7621679, -118.196966

tags

Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
Check the website for ticket prices
Contact Phone
562.590.3100
Event ID
10335468
Event Main Image

On the National Language: The Poetry of America’s Endangered Tongues

Event Type
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
This exhibition showcases forty-seven portraits of speakers and students of endangered languages living in the United States. The artist, B.A. Van Sise, collaborated with numerous Indigenous and diasporic cultural organizations, as well as Native Tribes and Nations, to raise awareness about these languages and the ongoing efforts to revitalize them.

 

Adults — $18, Seniors, Students & Children (2 – 17), $13, Free to Members & Children under 2.
Free on Thursdays

 

Tuesdays – Fridays 12:00 noon – 5:00 p.m.,
Saturdays – Sundays 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Website Link
skirball.org
Event Date
-
Event Location

Skirball Cultural Center
2701 North Sepulveda Boulevard
Los Angeles, 90049
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.1247412, -118.4791706

tags

Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$18
Contact Phone
(626) 699-9307
Event ID
10347168
Event Main Image

Future Imaginaries: Indigenous Art, Fashion, Technology

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Future Imaginaries delves into the emergence of Futurism in modern Indigenous art. The exhibit showcases over 50 artworks that interweave elements of science fiction, self-determination, and Indigenous technologies from various Native cultures. The show also envisions sovereign futures. It challenges historical myths and the enduring impact of colonization, including environmental degradation and harmful stereotypes, offering a transformative experience that inspires hope for the future.

 

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
Contact Phone
323.667.2000
Event ID
10342367
Event Main Image

Indian Alley: Pamela J. Peters on the Urban Migration of American Indians

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Film
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
The work of Diné artist and documentarian Pamela J. Peters addresses the complex relationship between Native Americans and the US government, exploring the history of coercive assimilation, displacement, and cultural erasure. In this program, Peters screens her short film Indian Alley (2021) to discuss the migration of American Indians to urban centers such as Los Angeles under the false promises of government relocation programs.
Website Link
youtube.com/watch?v=h1-0m6bYmOM
Event Date
Event Location

Online at the Getty Center
United States

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
310.440.7300
Event ID
10345202
Event Main Image

Native American ALOUD Podcasts

Event Type
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Numerous Native American-related events have taken place at the Mark Taper Auditorium as part of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles’ ALOUD series. Explore the best of those conversations online.
Website Link
lapl.org/native-american/aloud
Event Date
Event Location

Online at the Los Angeles Central Library
Los Angeles, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0522342, -118.2436849

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10342240
Event Main Image
American Indian Heritage Month