18th Street Arts Center

According to sources, Facebook tweaked its news feed code to help right-wing publishers get more visibility while hurting more independent publishers. Read the details of these findings here: https://www.motherjones.com//2020/10/facebook-mother-jones/ [: Mother Jones illustration; Imago/Zuma; Getty]

EZTV, a focal point of the independent video revolution, has been an organization in residence at 18th Street Arts Center since 2000. Since 1993, EZTV has been directed by media artists, Michael J. Masucci and Kate Johnson. Since its founding in 1979 by John Dorr, the community-based and artist-run organization has fostered creative experimentation between the arts and the sciences, recognizing that neither would exist in its fullest form, without the other. For artists at EZ...TV, continuous technological change is a given, and is welcomed for the continuing challenges as well as possibilities that new horizons present to creatives. EZTV artists and collaborators will gather and share community once more at : , an online experience of performances, memories and interaction that celebrate Johnson’s achievements in her 50 years on the one-year anniversary of her passing. Participating artists include Barbara T. Smith, S. Pearl Sharp, Mike Garson Kate Crash, Danielle Winkler, Joel Virgel, Michael J. Masucci, Robert Lowden, Aziz Yehia, Winn Schwartau, Shane Parton, Lincoln Smith, Alex Donis, Robert Lowden, David Evans Frantz, Sibylle de Laurens & Pascaline Morincome, Charity Wu, Paula Holt, Sue Tsao, Hilary Coe, Dan Kwong, Susanna B. Dakin, Shannon Daut, Murad Currawalla, Andrea Foenander, and Roberta Wolin-Tupas. Save the date: Saturday, March 20 at 5 PM PST RSVP here: https://buff.ly/3aKdMTe #KateJohnson #EZTV #EveryoneWasInvited #18thStreetArtsCenter #18thStreetAIR #KateJohnsonMemorialMediaLab #KateCrash

Museums and stake holders can start to address and potentially fix certain systemic issues through the following ethical recommendations. From transparency on salaries, board members, and diversity efforts, read the rest here: https://buff.ly/3dOopWQ [: A protest organized by the Revolting Lesbians at the American Museum of Natural History (April 2018) Credit: Photograph by John Miller via Flickr]

Barbara T. Smith with her work Field Piece at Cirrus Gallery in Los Angeles, 1971. One hundred eighty blades of grass molded from translucent fiberglass. Barbara T. Smith has been at the forefront of artistic movements in Southern California for over 50 years, particularly feminist art and performance. Her artworkwhich ranges from paintings, drawings, and artist’s books to installations, videos, and performances, and often involves her own bodyexplores concepts that stri...ke at the core of human nature, including male and female sexuality, sensuality, physical and spiritual sustenance, and death. Barbara T. Smith will be performing at : , an online experience of performances, memories and interaction that will awaken recognition of the multiplicity of Johnson’s achievements in her 50 years on the one-year anniversary of her passing. Save the date: Saturday, March 20 at 5 PM PST RSVP here: https://buff.ly/3aKdMTe #KateJohnson #EZTV #EveryoneWasInvited #18thStreetArtsCenter #18thStreetAIR #KateJohnsonMemorialMediaLab #BarbaraTSmith

Barbara T. Smith has been at the forefront of artistic movements in Southern California for over 50 years, particularly feminist art and performance. Her artworkwhich ranges from paintings, drawings, and artist’s books to installations, videos, and performances, and often involves her own bodyexplores concepts that strike at the core of human nature, including male and female sexuality, sensuality, physical and spiritual sustenance, and death. Barbara T. Smith will be perfo...rming at : , an online experience of performances, memories and interaction that will awaken recognition of the multiplicity of Johnson’s achievements in her 50 years on the one-year anniversary of her passing. Save the date: Saturday, March 20 at 5 PM PST RSVP here: https://buff.ly/3aKdMTe #KateJohnson #EZTV #EveryoneWasInvited #18thStreetArtsCenter #18thStreetAIR #KateJohnsonMemorialMediaLab #BarbaraTSmith

TODAY at 6 PM! Join artists Dina Abdulkarim and Hugo Hopping for a thoughtful conversation moderated by artist Harry Gamboa Jr. and introduced by the Armory Center for the Arts Chief Curator Irene Georgia Tsatsos. The inspiration for this talk came from some of the key themes of the 2019 exhibition by The Winter Office at the Armory, including the production of non-perfect models of adaptation to ever-shifting, always contested environmental conditions. Using the exhibition... as a point of departure, this dynamic conversation looks at the evolving Los Angeles urban landscape against the dissolution of public space, the exclusive architecture of privacy, and housing inequities. The Winter Office were also artists in residence at 18th Street Arts Center in 2019. For more information: https://www.armoryarts.org//2021/abdulkarim-hopping-gamboa/

Mike Garson was David Bowie’s longest and most frequent band member and has done thousands of concerts with him around the world. Here is an excerpt of them performing Life on Mars live. Mike Garson will be performing at : , an online experience of performances, memories and interaction that will awaken recognition of the multiplicity of Johnson’s achievements in her 50 years on the one-year anniversary of her p...assing. Save the date: Saturday, March 20 at 5 PM PST RSVP here: https://buff.ly/3aKdMTe #KateJohnson #EZTV #EveryoneWasInvited #18thStreetArtsCenter #18thStreetAIR #KateJohnsonMemorialMediaLab

Our #MakeJazzFellow Shirazette Tinnin and the Sonic WallPaper Band is performing selections from her new album as well as favorites! Celebrate today by tuning into right now! https://18thstreet.org/event/thehealingsessions/

The Healing Sessions: Shirazette Tinnin and the Sonic WallPaper Band

Read how Shirazette Tinnin beat the odds and tune into her concert tomorrow at 5 PM PST/ 8 PM PST on our website/ Facebook Live! The jazz drummer and composer will perform tunes from her latest album as well as other favorites with the Sonic WallPaper Band! https://jazztimes.com//p/shirazette-tinnin-beats-the-odds/

18th Street artist in residence, Rebecca Youssef, is being featured in AURORA, an online exhibition curated by The Los Angeles Art Association. View her work, Lost In The Shuffle, running from November 4 - December 11, 2020. : https://www.laaa.org/aurora [: Lost In The Shuffle, Acrylic and spray paint on paper, 30x22.]

LACE's Lightning Fund Applications are due NOV. 20. That's in two weeks! . The LACE Lightning Fund is a new regional regranting fund made possible by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (@warholfoundation). For its first round, the Lightning Fund will provide emergency relief grants for independent visual artists based in Los Angeles County who are experiencing financial hardship due to the severe economic impacts of COVID-19.This effort reflects LACE’s commi...tment to artists, supporting their livelihood and practice with multifaceted care. . You can find more information here: https://welcometolace.org/lightning-fund/ . This fund is in solidarity with partners in the Warhol Foundation’s Regional Regranting Network (@warholfoundation) . #WarholFoundation #AndyWarhol #Warhol #LACE See more

Building Networks of Empathy is now on view at our Airport Campus! The exhibition is the second of a two-part show that asks us to consider the ways in which art empowers not only the artist, but its viewers to transform their most difficult experiences into enlightened outcomes. The first part of the show is an ongoing online-only exhibition entitled Facing Darkness, which encouraged artists in our community to reflect internally on our current moment of pandemic, isolat...ion, and structural inequity laid bare. A live Zoom panel featuring Alma Ruiz and Karen Sherman, moderated by Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, will kickoff the exhibition! This will take place Thursday, November 12, 2020 at 12 pm PST. For more information on the exhibition or to sign up to the panel webinar: https://buff.ly/31xR3oc #BuildingNetworksofEmpathy #18thStreetArtsCenter #AlmaRuiz #KarenSherman #PaulBoninRodriguez #18thStreetExhibitions [Image on flyer: Siru Wen, Anchor, 2020. Chromogenic print. 32 x 32 inches. Photo by the artist. Courtesy of the artist.]

#FacingDarkness: During this time of isolation and social distancing, my hectic schedule came to a screeching halt. It was a strange revelation when I found myself with almost too much time on my hands and a lot of time with my thoughts. As life paused and routines reorganized, I’d been gifted a unique opportunity to turn inward and to reflect on what this moment in history can teach me. This journey has not been easy as I faced my fears and met the darker sides of myself th...at can show up under stress and loss. I’m committed to walking this unfamiliar path and seeking the lessons this moment presents. Artwork and words by artist in residence Rebecca Youssef Facing Darkness is an online exhibition of 25 varied artists from 18th Street’s artist community that present artworks that address the human capacity to overcome hardships on both global and personal scales. Check out the exhibition here: https://buff.ly/3lipkPS (link in bio!) [ Rebecca Youssef, Deluge, 2020. Acrylic on linen. 89 x 57.5. Courtesy of the artist.]

#FacingDarkness: My first response to being at home social distancing was to do Art. Shapes and patterns started to show up in my mind's eye and I began to cut out circles. The circles became a pattern and before long I had created a pattern of circles that are connected. Facing Darkness opens us to possibilities. We are all connected, we are all different colors and shapes and we are all beautiful. Artwork and words by artist in residence Gwen Samuels Facing Darkness is... an online exhibition of 25 varied artists from 18th Street’s artist community that present artworks that address the human capacity to overcome hardships on both global and personal scales. Check out the exhibition here: https://buff.ly/3lipkPS (link in bio!) [: Gwen Samuels, One of Many, 2020. Digital images hand-stitched. 40 x 25. Courtesy of the artist.]

#FacingDarkness: To me, such profound times like the ones we are going through now, are always an invitation and an opportunity to go within, approaching it as something happening for me instead of happening to me. My work through art reflects how I relate to myself while going through different circumstances. It’s a conversation within my inner states, different levels of consciousness and my body through automatic painting, allowing those parts inside to speak through gest...ures, facing different aspects of myself, my shadows and perceptions of the inner and outer realities. In this manner, my work reveals information personally and collectively, beyond what I can see or express through words. Artwork and words by artist in residence Claudia Concha Facing Darkness is an online exhibition of 25 varied artists from 18th Street’s artist community that present artworks that address the human capacity to overcome hardships on both global and personal scales. Check out the exhibition here: https://buff.ly/3lipkPS [Claudia Concha, PIE, 2020. Acrylics and Ink on Paper. Framed on wood and glass. 43 x 45.; Claudia Concha, PORTALES, 2020. Acrylics and Ink on Paper. 43 x 45.; Claudia Concha, VEHICLE, 2020. Acrylics and ink on paper. Framed on wood and glass. 44 x 44.;

(Inter)Facing Darkness is a facilitated dialogue that will take place next Thursday, November 12 at 5 PM PST! Let’s meet virtually and reflect on Facing Darkness, an online exhibition now on view, and consider how the show renders a public crisis and artists’ circumstances evident and knowable. Moderated by artist-scholar Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, with talks by curator Alma Ruiz and dancemaker Karen Sherman, (Inter)facing Darkness will frame a dialogue on how artists are op...erating as second responders, as thought leaders, and resource gatherers at this time. Sign up to the discussion here: https://buff.ly/2I53xNq [Images used in flyer from Lionel Popkin, Six Positions on Uncertainty, 2020. Video stills. Courtesy of the artist.] #FacingDarkness #AlmaRuiz #KarenSherman #PaulBoninRodriguez

#FacingDarkness: The artworks depict the nexus between ourselves and the world around and within us, chaotic strands of our entangled mental, our interconnectedness, algorithm patterns, binary codes, networks all happening in a creative field of infinite potential. We are in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic; we are also at the peak of the country’s 400 year old pandemic of racism and police brutality. At no other time in our lives, have we had the opportunity to see what ...would happen if the world simply stopped. The Great Pause. It has forced us to hold up the mirror to ourselves as human beings to see who we really are. Words and work by artist in residence Ameeta Nanji ameetan Facing Darkness is an online exhibition of 25 varied artists from 18th Street’s artist community that present artworks that address the human capacity to overcome hardships on both global and personal scales. Check out the exhibition here: https://buff.ly/3lipkPS [Ameeta Nanji, Bandhamaya I, 2018. String, acrylic on canvas. 36 x 36. ; Ameeta Nanji, Whose Security?, 2020. Paper collage, acrylic on canvas. 24 x 24.; Ameeta Nanji, Sutra, 2019. Gold thread, acrylic on canvas. 20 x 20. Courtesy of the artist.] #AmeetaNanji

Hyperallergic recommends you see Beatriz Cortez and Kang Seung Lee’s exhibition Becoming Atmosphere, now on view at our Airport Gallery by appointment only. Hyperallergic writes: The significance of breathing both as the basis of life, but also as a pathway for disease has been magnified since the appearance of coronavirus earlier this year. With their two person-exhibition Becoming Atmosphere, Beatriz Cortez and Kang Seung Lee consider breath, air, and atmosphere with... a wide lens as they pertain to ecological, cultural, and political concerns. The show features an array of work, including Lee’s drawings of vaporous figures in front of the Hollywood sign and Twin Towers (after Tseng Kwong Chi’s iconic photos), and Cortez’s Tinguely-like sculpture of piston-driven plants. Check out the rest of their concise art guide for November here: https://buff.ly/2HY7seH #BeatrizCortez #KangSeungLee #BecomingAtmosphere #18thStreetExhibitions #18thStreetArtsCenter [Beatriz Cortez and Kang Seung Lee, Becoming Atmosphere, 2020. Installation view at 18th Street Arts Center’s Airport Gallery. Photo by Marc Walker].

Help Center for the Study of Political Graphics keep their office space and sign the petition to save the Peace Center! Since 1989, the Peace Center, created and funded through the generosity of Aris Anagnos, has provided rent-free offices and meeting spaces to diverse peace and justice groups throughout Los Angeles including Center for the Study of Political Graphics, among others. Since the passing of Aris, his son Demos Anagnos is trying to sell the Peace Center. Center... for the Study of Political Graphics has filed a lawsuit and they are collecting signatures to show the Attorney General that the community DEMANDS the Peace Center remain a FREE space for organizers. Sign here: https://www.politicalgraphics.org/petition #SaveTheLAPeaceCenter