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May 16, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
The Jeannie, Sixth College, UC San Diego
Boots Riley is a director, activist, screenwriter, producer, poet, rapper, and speaker. His directorial debut "Sorry to Bother You" premiered to strong critical acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival. His seven-part series "I’m A Virgo" released in summer 2023 to critical acclaim. Boots Riley is also is the founding member and lead vocalist of The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club featuring Tom Morello on guitar.
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Ceremony: May 17, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Exhibition: May 16 - May 23, 2023
Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego
The Kamil family, Department of Visual Arts, and School of Arts and Humanities at UC San Diego invite you to the 14th Annual Adam D. Kamil Media Awards Ceremony. Please join us for an evening of film and creativity to honor the memory of Adam Kamil and showcase the talent of the undergraduate students.
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May 17, 6:30 p.m.
The Loft, UC San Diego
To kick off The Otherwise Film Festival, (a.k.a.) Memo Navajas will present a premiere screening of the short film "Aliendigenismo" along with a performance from Rancho Shampoo & The Indian Dub Orchestra.
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Reception: May 18, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
May 17 - May 24, 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Main Gallery, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego
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Reception: May 18, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Performance: May 24, 7:15 p.m.
May 18 - May 24 by appointment
Performance Space, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego
JAX culminating thesis exhibition, Carpal Tunnel Crick Cracks in the Tendons of My Flexors: These Hands Will Never Be the Same, is an overflow of hair based installation work and a dedication to swept under the rug grief throughout her familial past, specifically in relation to her lineage of Mothers.
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Reception: May 18, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
May 18 - July 20, 2024
LA Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Garnett's new film Songbook is included in this year's COLA Independent Master Artist Project exhibition. Songbook was developed with the support of The City of Los Angeles, The Industry LAB (2022). Thematic iterations have shown in 2022 at CAMH and 2021 at Commonwealth + Council.
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Reception: May 18, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
May 18 - June 15, 2024
Phase Gallery, Los Angeles CA
This exhibition brings together a body of recent collaborative projects as well as a selection of independent works by the artists, each tracing a key lineage to their collaboration. Themes of queerness and invisibility/visibility emerged and ultimately became the foundation of their collaboration.
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May 19, 2:00 p.m.
Getty Center, Los Angeles CA
Contemporary artists featured in Nineteenth-Century Photography Now take an inquisitive approach to the inventiveness and conventions of photography’s early years. In this conversation moderated by Getty curator Carolyn Peter, artists Laura Larson, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Wendy Red Star talk about their artistic practices and how they are engaging with and critiquing photography from the 19th century.
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May 19, 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Mingei Museum, San Diego CA
Join us this month to explore the craft of shibori with San Diego based artist Kirstyn Hom. Hom is an interdisciplinary artist specializing in sculpture, installation, and performance, to explore the intersection of language and textiles. In this workshop, we will explore various shibori resist dyeing techniques, including stitching, folding, and binding with indigo.
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May 21, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD
Kameelah Janan Rasheed holds an MA in Secondary Social Studies Education from Stanford University (2008) and a BA in Public Policy from Pomona College (2006). She was an Amy Biehl U.S. Fulbright Scholar at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa (2006–7). A learner, she grapples with the poetics-pleasures-politics of Black knowledge production, information technologies, [un]learning, and belief formation.
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May 22, 6:30 p.m. Berlin / 9:30 a.m. PDT
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Germany
The panel discussion will focus on the question to what extent artistic ecologies and nature(s), being anticipated in contemporary art, turn away from the seemingly dystopian narrative of the Anthropocene, which places humanity at the center, in favor of positive, hopeful, but also playful narratives through eco-fictional strategies.
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May 24, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Bread & Salt, San Diego CA
Diana Benavídez (BA), Maria Mathioudakis (MFA), Josh Tonies (Lecturer), Perry Vasquez (MFA), Allison Wiese (MFA), Joe Yorty (MFA). The Museum School based in San Diego, California, supports the academic growth and abilities of students through experiential, project-based learning both within and beyond the classroom.
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Reception: May 25, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
May 26 - September 8, 2024
Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles CA
Highway Hypnosis explores the cultural lineage of 3B Collective, a group of native (and immigrant) Angeleno multidisciplinary artists. The exhibition delves into past and present connections within the collective’s work, such as challenging preconceived notions of craft, the commodification of cultural goods, hyper-individualism, and hidden labor.
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May 28, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD
LaJuné is a Multidisciplinary Artist, and Educator creating art that integrates performance, extended reality, and physical computing to question our contemporary forms of communication. They are passionate about discovering, learning, manifesting, and stewarding spaces for liberated Black Realities and the Black Imagination.
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Delancey Street Press
One Second to Live: Photography, Film and the Corporeal in An Age of Extremes is a book by George Porcari that covers the aspect of photography and film that deals with the "substantial" and the "non-spiritual" - the two dictionary definitions of the corporeal. Whatever the vast difference in corporeal photographs and films they all deal in some way with our innate, and complex relationship to all living things and to our own sensibility.
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Muir College
Aleesha is a Muir College alumni who graduated in 2016 with a degree in Visual Arts, ICAM. Her work is deeply inspired by nature, geometry, and the dynamic ways in which people interact with and enhance their environments through play.
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We are living through a singular cultural moment in which the conventional relationship between art and the social world, and between artist and viewer, is being questioned and renegotiated. FIELD responds to the remarkable proliferation of new artistic practices devoted to forms of political, social and cultural transformation.
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Money on the Left
Here, we focus on Kester’s two recent books published by Duke University Press. Instead of grounding art in its distance from the social, Kester demonstrates how socially engaged art, developed in conjunction with forms of social or political resistance, encourages the creative capacity required for collective political transformation.
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March 2 - May 18, 2024
Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine CA
Home is universal and home is deeply personal; family can be anyone, and family is specifically someone. The exhibition Reencuentros: Seeing You Again presents eight contemporary photographers whose works delve into the ubiquitous and intimate nature of family and home.
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March 7 - May 19, 2024
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN
With this project, Barnette honors Black queer joy and her own family history by reanimating her father’s bar and its legacy as a space of community connection and engagement.
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February 3 - May 19, 2024
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
As artificial intelligence tools for image creation enter the mainstream with text-to-image software such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, Harold Cohen: AARON examines the historical foundations of AI artmaking and provides a deep exploration of creativity, authorship, and collaboration in the context of AI.
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March 2 - May 25, 2024
Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego
For the past fifteen years, Lauren Lee McCarthy has worked in performance, video, installation, software, artificial intelligence, and other media to address how an algorithmically determined world impacts human relationships and social life. Bodily Autonomy is McCarthy’s largest solo exhibition in the United States to date.
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