Sunday, April 4, 2010: Target Free Sundays @ MOLAA
1:00-3:00 p.m. Art Workshop: Community, Cubed. Create a depiction of your current community on a flat plane and, using cuts and folds, transform it into a cube. Stack your cubes alongside of others to create a three-dimensional panorama of the communities we co-exist in! Based on the work of Jaime Avila.
2:00 -3:00 Docent Tours of Changing the Focus: Latin American Photography (1990-2005)
Interlogues- Photography in L.A.
Join the local curators and photographers as we discuss issues related to producing photographs in and about Los Angeles.
Free with admission!
Time: 7:30-9pm
Join us for our weekly Target Free Sunday!
Sunday, April 11th: The day’s workshop is “The Irony of Advertisement.”
Utilizing collage and text, particpants will “sell” anything from ideas to places. The workshop is based on the work of Jonathan Harker who is in our Changing the Focus exhibit. The art workshop is from 1-3pm in the Art Studio.
Docent tours of Changing the Focus: Latin American Photography (1990-2005) are from 2-3pm.
See you there!
Buen Provecho: Puerto Rican-style Arroz con Gandules
Saturday, April 17th:
Arroz con Gandules (Rice with Pigeon Peas) is a delicious mix of yellow rice, pigeon peas, a variety of meats, olives and capers– cooked in vegetable herb sauce known as sofrito. Learn the secret of creating your own tasty sofrito with Puerto Rico’s national dish.
The cooking workshop is from 11:00am to 1:00pm and involves both a demonstration and a tasting. Participants get to interact with and have their questions answered directly by Augusto Coen-Brown, the owner and chef at Mofongos Restaurant in Los Angeles. Space is limited so RSVP today!
To RSVP call 562-437-1689.
Cost: $25 for members and $35 for non-members.
Come celebrate Children’s Earth Day Festival free of charge! 4/18/10
Target Free Sunday:
Join MOLAA as we celebrate the contributions of children in art and life.
12-4pm Display of MOLAA’s 2010 Poster Contest entries, Finding Art in Life.
1:30-3pm Art Workshops: We will be making art and other things using recycled paper and more!
2-4pm Performances
2-3pm Docent Tours of Changing the Focus: Latin American Photography 1990-2005
Artist: Gabriel Orozco
Presenter: Linda Fox
Friday, April 23rd
Guests will meet in the lobby at 12pm and go into the gallery. After the presentation, enjoy lunch at Cafe Viva and discuss the art with friends.
Master Art Class with Nelson Garrido*
Saturday, April 24th from 1-3pm
Join Venezuelan artist Nelson Garrido through an irreverant afternoon of humor, iconography and aesthetics. Garrido, who is featured in Changing the Focus: Latin American Photography 1990-2005 will work one-on-one with participants as they produce a work of art. *Limit: 25 participants
Members: $25 and Non-members: $35
Target Free Sunday @ MOLAA on 4/25
1-3pm Art Workshop: “Object Drawings.”
Use a variety of household objects, liquids, and food to create a reproduction of a popular image. Based on the work by Vik Muniz in Changing the Focus.
2-3:30pm Roundtable Discussion: Changing the Focus: Latin American Photography 1990-2005. Join curator Idurre Alonso along with some of the featured artists in the exhibition for a discussion about the exhibition.
Roundtable Discussion: Changing the Focus exhibition
Sunday, April 25th from 2-3:30pm
Join the MOLAA curator Idurre Alonso, Jose Falconi, Art Forum Curator at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University and some of the featured artists in the exhibition Nelson Garrido, Ruben Ortiz-Torres, and Liliana Porter, as they discuss their work.
FREE ADMISSION
Saturday, May 1, 2010: Buen Provecho
11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Grab your molcajete! Celebrate Cinco de Mayo by treating your friends and loved ones to a plateful of authentic Mole! Join Consuelo Campos as she walks you—step by step—in creating this delicious dish!
Sunday, May 2, 2010: Target Free Sundays @ MOLAA- Cinco de Mayo Festival
Celebrate the victory of Mexico over France at the Battle of Puebla during MOLAA’s Cinco de Mayo Festival! Enjoy art workshops, Ballet Folklorico, Mariachis and more!
1:00-3:00 p.m. Art Workshops
2:00 -3:00 Docent Tours
1:00-4:00 p.m. Live Music and Ballet Folklorico
Sunday, May 9 2010: Target Free Sundays @ MOLAA
1:00-3:00 p.m. Art Workshop: Pamphlet Books: In honor of Dia de las Madres create a coupon book to thank the woman in your life!
2:00 -3:00 Docent Tours of Dialogues: Chapters in Latin American Art
Thursday, May 13, 2010: INTERLOGUES: Ehrenberg’s “Visual Score”
7:30-9 p.m. Professor Richard Wearn and his students share their experience of collaborating on a version of Ehrenberg’s Visual Score, a portable mural on display during the exhibition, Manchuria: Vision Perifírica.
Saturday, May 15, 2010: Master Art Class: Ehrenberg and Llanos: Producing Art In/Con-Text
12-3 p.m.
Join Felipe Ehrenberg and Fernando Llanos in designing and producing a limited edition, digitally printed artist’s book!
$25 members/$35 non-members. All materials included, some restrictions apply. Registration is open to working artists. For details, please contact the Education Department at 562-216-4108
Sunday, May 16, 2010: Target Free Sundays @ MOLAA
1:00-3:00 p.m. Art Workshop: DIY Etchings. Create a white line etching in the tradition of Robert Matta’s New School Etchings.
2:00 -3:00 Docent Tours of Dialogues: Chapters in Latin American Art
Sunday, May 23 2010: Target Free Sundays @ MOLAA
1:00-3:00 p.m. Art Workshop: Grid Art. Collaborate with other participants to create a group art project based on the work of Felipe Ehrenberg
2:00 -3:00 Docent Tours of Manchuria: Vision Perifirica
Sunday, May 30, 2010: Target Free Sundays @ MOLAA
1:00-3:00 p.m. Art Workshop: Pop Collage. Use ads, stamps and paint to create pop-art collages.
2:00 -3:00 Docent Tours of Manchuria: Vision Perifirica
Education Programs @ MOLAA 