Join @arcanabooks for "Show & Tell" Moderated by Jason E.C. Wright
2021-06-30 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online, CA
On Wednesday, June 30th at 5:00 PM, join Arcana: Books on the Arts for an Instagram “Show & Tell” as we welcome back moderator Jason E.C. Wright of @burntsiennaresearchsociety. You are in for a real treat so gather up your art books, design books, coffee table books or rare magazines and come nerd out with Jason.
Here’s how it works: Jason will be live @arcanabooks sharing some of his faves with you. Raise your hand to share and he will tap you in. Chat about your most influential book or bookshop. Enjoy the hour, meet some interesting people, and support your local bookstore. @arcanabooks is a great place to start, online or in person. Shop Local and Love Local. There’s nothing like a little book fun in the middle of the week. Thanks Jason!
ABOUT JASON
Jason E.C. Wright is the Founder of Burntsienna Research Society, a critical-thinking research consultancy for design histories, intangible culture, and reference materials. Jason is Indiana born and raised, who now considers Los Angeles home. Jason is an accomplished designer, researcher, writer, with 20+ years as a retail and fashion professional, who takes his love of books seriously, serving as librarian-in-residence at home in Treehouse Hollywood.

Treehouse and the Building of Community with Prophet Walker, Jason E.C. Wright and Frances Anderton
2021-06-24 18:00 - 20:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
With the 2019 opening of Treehouse Hollywood, a lush, urban oasis with eclectic interior design, co-founder Prophet Walker set a high bar for co-living in Los Angeles. But this is only the start of big plans for development aimed at building a sense of community, in Los Angeles and beyond.
On Thursday, June 24th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM, please join us in conversation with Prophet Walker, Jason E.C. Wright and Frances Anderton where we will talk about Treehouse Hollywood, the rollout of more locations and future concepts for multifamily living.
Sharing the stage with Walker will be Treehouse resident Jason E.C. Wright, founder of Burntsienna Research Society, a design research consultancy. Wright will talk about his experience building “family” at Treehouse during the pandemic, and will answer your questions about what it’s like to share a house with 60 people!
Walker will also talk about how growing up in public housing informed his thinking about residential design, and his work on the redesign of Jordan Downs, the public housing apartment complex in Watts, Los Angeles, currently undergoing a $1 billion redevelopment.
Treehouse Koreatown is currently on display at Low Rise, Mid Rise, High: Housing in LA Today inside the Helms Design Center. It is designed by The California Office with creative direction by Sean Knibb.

ABOUT PROPHET
Prophet Walker, Co-Founder and CEO of Treehouse, grew up in South LA, where amidst poverty, violence, and homelessness in his neighborhood, community was always at its core.
Prophet is deeply involved with both criminal justice and education reform and served on multiple non-profit and civic boards. In 2014, Prophet ran for the California State Assembly, coming in second. This passion for reform was triggered by his personal experience of being incarcerated at 16 and sentenced to spend six years within an adult prison. While incarcerated, he started a state-wide program that allowed inmates to earn a two-year college degree, and today thousands of inmates participate in the program. Prophet was one of the program’s first graduates to come home and he attended Loyola Marymount University, where he received a degree in Civil Engineering. In 2015, President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama invited Prophet to attend the State of the Union to honor his efforts to reform our criminal justice system and for his commitment to our children.
Prophet’s experiences surrounding community strength and human connectedness inspired him to create Treehouse, recognizing the power of community in proximity and shared humanity. Prophet leads the company day to day, with a focus on acquisitions research, property selection, and investor relations.

ABOUT JASON
Jason E.C. Wright is the Founder of Burntsienna Research Society, a critical-thinking research consultancy for design histories, intangible culture, and reference materials. Jason is Indiana born and raised, who now considers Los Angeles home. Jason is an accomplished designer, researcher, writer, with 20+ years as a retail and fashion professional, who takes his love of books seriously, serving as librarian-in-residence at home in Treehouse Hollywood.

Open Studio Exhibition Hours - Low Rise, Mid Rise, High Rise: Housing in L.A. Today
2021-06-21 12:00 - 2021-07-01 16:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
Join us at Low Rise, Mid Rise, High Rise: Housing in L.A. Today, an in-person pop-up exhibition of residential buildings in the pipeline taking place at the Helms Design Center through June 27th from 12:00 to 4:00 PM daily and by Appointment Only until July 1st.
While life slowed down for many Angelenos, the L.A. cityscape did not stay still. For the past year, architects and builders have been busy, working on designs to address L.A.’s biggest need: Housing. And they are doing so in multi-unit buildings, at multiple scales, that advance the idea of home.
30+ design teams will display Low Rise dwellings from ADUs to four-story multifamily dwellings; Mid Rise affordable and market rate housing on transit corridors; High Rise towers for downtown, Hollywood and the Miracle Mile. The show is presented by Helms Bakery District in partnership with Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo LA Metro Program. It is organized by Frances Anderton and Stephen Phillips (Director, Cal Poly LA Metro).
WHAT:
Much of the public dialogue around housing in Los Angeles today has to do with the politics around it, and the crisis of homelessness. But while these debates continue, housing is being built, in a patchwork of starkly different scales and styles. It is shaped in part by zoning, code, and parking requirements, costly land, construction and materials, as well as competing development and neighborhood pressures. Yet despite this web of constraints, designers are building on the tradition of innovative SoCal living.
At Low Rise, Mid Rise, High Rise: Housing in L.A. Today visitors will see dense, high, multi-unit housing with apartments filled with natural light, flowing space and a taste of the outside. Projects will demonstrate planning for sociability, as well as new material and structural solutions to housing affordability. They will show how new developments can still express the distinct and eclectic Los Angeles character. Finally, visitors will see how the pandemic may have altered planning priorities in the homes of tomorrow. The exhibition will feature models and renderings of projects in design or under construction. Displayed alongside these real-world schemes will be an exhibition of designs by Cal Poly LA Metro students.
The pop-up explores what these buildings say about how we live in Los Angeles today.
WHEN:
Open Studio Hours: Monday, June 21st to Sunday, June 27th; 12:00 to 4:00 PM
By Appointment Only: Monday, June 28th to Thursday, July 1st by contacting Angela Anthony.
WHERE: Studio A, Helms Design Center at Helms Bakery District, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, 90232.
COVID RESTRICTIONS: To comply with State and County guidelines for public gatherings, please provide proof of Covid-19 vaccination(s) or mandatory masks will be required upon entry.
BIG THANKS to the participating architects and designers:
Baumgartner + Uriu; Bestor Architecture; Brooks +Scarpa Architects & Plant Prefab; Bureau Spectacular; Byben; City Design Studio; Clive Wilkinson Architects; Connect Homes; Design, Bitches; Egan / Simon Architecture; Eric Owen Moss Architects; Gensler; Keating Architecture; kdA Kevin Daly Architects; KFA Architecture; Koning Eizenberg; Lance Collins (Partner Energy); LA Más; Lehrer Architects; Lorcan O’Herlihy (LOHA); Michael Anderson (Anderson-Barker); Michael W. Folonis Architects; Michael Maltzan Architecture; Mighty Buildings; Neil M. Denari Architects; P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S; Patrick Tighe Architecture; Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS); Studio Antares A+E; THECALIFORNIAOFFICE; Warren Techentin Architecture [WTARCH]
Special Thanks to our sponsors AVRP Studios and ARC Document Solutions.

Low Rise, Mid Rise, High Rise: Housing in L.A. Today, an Exhibition + Conversation
2021-06-19 13:00 - 17:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
Join us for a public viewing and conversation at Low Rise, Mid Rise, High Rise: Housing in L.A. Today, an in-person, pop-up exhibition of residential buildings in the pipeline taking place at the Helms Design Center on June 19th. The exhibition will remain open to the public through June 27th from 12:00 to 4:00 PM daily and by Appointment Only until July 1st.
While life slowed down for many Angelenos, the L.A. cityscape did not stay still. For the past year, architects and builders have been busy, working on designs to address L.A.’s biggest need: Housing. And they are doing so in multi-unit buildings, at multiple scales, that advance the idea of home.
30+ design teams will display Low Rise dwellings from ADUs to four-story multifamily dwellings; Mid Rise affordable and market rate housing on transit corridors; High Rise towers for downtown, Hollywood and the Miracle Mile. The show is presented by Helms Bakery District in partnership with Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo LA Metro Program. It is organized by Frances Anderton and Stephen Phillips (Director, Cal Poly LA Metro).
WHAT:
Much of the public dialogue around housing in Los Angeles today has to do with the politics around it, and the crisis of homelessness. But while these debates continue, housing is being built, in a patchwork of starkly different scales and styles. It is shaped in part by zoning, code, and parking requirements, costly land, construction and materials, as well as competing development and neighborhood pressures. Yet despite this web of constraints, designers are building on the tradition of innovative SoCal living.
At Low Rise, Mid Rise, High Rise: Housing in L.A. Today visitors will see dense, high, multi-unit housing with apartments filled with natural light, flowing space and a taste of the outside. Projects will demonstrate planning for sociability, as well as new material and structural solutions to housing affordability. They will show how new developments can still express the distinct and eclectic Los Angeles character. Finally, visitors will see how the pandemic may have altered planning priorities in the homes of tomorrow. The exhibition will feature models and renderings of projects in design or under construction. Displayed alongside these real-world schemes will be an exhibition of designs by Cal Poly LA Metro students.
Public Opening and Conversation Schedule
1:00 – 2:00: Meet + Mingle with the Architects
2:00: Welcome with Frances Anderton + Stephen Phillips
2:05: ADUs (Custom) Ben Warwas founder of Byben and Elizabeth Timme, of LA Más
2:20: ADUs (Factory) with Natalya Dobrinyna of Mighty Buildings, Gordon Stott of Connect Homes and Steve Glenn of Plant Prefab
2:35: Low Rise and Zoning with Barbara Bestor of Bestor Architecture and Angela Brooks of Brooks Scarpa
2:50: Low Rise as Equity Opportunity in South LA with Michael Anderson, author of “Urban Magic: Vibrant Black and Brown Communities Are Possible”
3:05: Mid Rise, 5 Over 2s and How to Make Them Lovely with Lance Simon of Egan Simon, Herwig Baumgartner and Scott Uriu of B+ U and Patrick Tighe or Patrick Tighe Architecture
3:20: High Rise, Can we Build an LA-specific Tower? with Farooq Ameen and Pariya Mohammaditamar of City Design Office, Lorcan O’Herlihy of LOHA, Marcello Spina of P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, and Li Wen of Gensler
3:40: Finale – Collapsing Boundaries with Eric Owen Moss
The exhibition will remain open until 5:00 PM.
WHEN:
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 17th; 6:00 to 8:30 PM (Invite Only)
Public Opening and Conversations: Saturday, June 19th; 1:00 to 5:00 PM; TICKETS are Free to the public
Open Studio Hours: Monday, June 21st to Sunday, June 27th; 12:00 to 4:00 PM
By Appointment Only: Monday, June 28th to Thursday, July 1st by contacting Angela Anthony.
WHERE: Studio A, Helms Design Center at Helms Bakery District, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, 90232.
COVID RESTRICTIONS: To comply with State and County guidelines for public gatherings, please provide proof of Covid-19 vaccination(s) or mandatory masks are required at the door.
BIG THANKS to the participating architects and designers:
Baumgartner + Uriu; Bestor Architecture; Brooks +Scarpa Architects & Plant Prefab; Bureau Spectacular; Byben; City Design Studio; Clive Wilkinson Architects; Connect Homes; Design, Bitches; Egan / Simon Architecture; Eric Owen Moss Architects; Gensler; Keating Architecture; kdA Kevin Daly Architects; KFA Architecture; Koning Eizenberg; Lance Collins (Partner Energy); LA Más; Lehrer Architects; Lorcan O’Herlihy (LOHA); Michael Anderson (Anderson-Barker); Michael W. Folonis Architects; Michael Maltzan Architecture; Mighty Buildings; Neil M. Denari Architects; P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S; Patrick Tighe Architecture; Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS); Studio Antares A+E; THECALIFORNIAOFFICE; Warren Techentin Architecture [WTARCH]
Special Thanks to our sponsors AVRP Studios and ARC Document Solutions.

Join Textile Arts L.A. for the Next Virtual Textile Slam on June 9th
2021-06-09 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom, CA
It’s time for the Summer edition of Textile Slam!
Join Textile Arts Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 9th at 7:00 PM as they host the next virtual Textile Slam, an opportunity to enjoy a peek at artists’ work, indulge in some friendly conversation, and spend time with fellow textile enthusiasts. Each of the presenters will deliver a quick and lively six-minute presentation, followed with Q&A and open conversation.
The theme is unusual materials, and the presenters include members and new faces:
Kimberley Morris, Hair
Diane Meyer, Embroidered Photographs
Claire Renaut, Spun Paper
Cindy Rinne, Poet, Upcycled Textile Garments
Tina Linville, Creating Community as an Artist or Art Practice
TICKETS
$15 public; $5 concessions; $Free for members

THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED - Design Your Own Dream Space, A Virtual Community Art Class in Partnership with L.A. GOAL
2021-06-05 11:00 - 12:30 | Zoom, CA
Free
THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED. WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.
Due to technical difficulties at the start of our May Design Your Own Dream Space workshop, it’s possible that some of our registered participants were unable to join the class. We are offering this Virtual Community Art Class again for anyone who would like to join! Whether you couldn’t make it the first time or you would like to participate for a second time, we can’t wait to see you!
On Saturday, June 5th from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM, we are partnering with L.A. GOAL and artist Dani Samson of Calico Flower Studio to bring you a virtual mixed media workshop.
In this workshop, participants will design their own 2-dimensional dream space – for example, a home, a room, a garden – through a mixed media approach. Dani will walk you through creative prompts to help ease the flow of ideas. Dani will demonstrate by creating her own dream space, but the specific design will ultimately be up to each participant.
Grab your family, a friend, or an artist in your life and join the fun! This class is intended to be enjoyable, joyful, and inspirational. A time to explore your creativity, connect with a creative community, and decompress from the stresses of everyday life. No experience necessary.
Read MORE about suggested art materials HERE.
LEARN MORE & REGISTER HERE
Registration closes on Friday, June 4th at 6pm PST. If you register after registration closes, we cannot guarantee that you will be admitted to the workshop.
*Please be punctual! Once Dani begins class, she will not be repeating instructions for late-comers.

ABOUT DANI SAMPSON
Dani Michaux Samson is a scrappy mixed media collage artist. She loves to collect residual material from her art and her day-to-day so that she may give it new life in her collages. Her creative practice stems from thoughts about her living space, the sanctuary that she calls home. Naturally, her cat is one of her muses and her number one studio assistant. Born and raised in Ohio, Dani received her MFA degree from Columbus College of Art & Design just before moving to Los Angeles in 2019. In L.A., she established her business, Calico Flower Studio, where her independent artwork can be viewed and purchased online. In the past, she has facilitated art activities with organizations such as Goodwill Columbus Art Studio & Gallery, Kya’s Krusade, Paint Nite, and Columbus Museum of Art. Her range of experience has allowed her to work with people of various ages and abilities. Currently, Dani brings art into the lives of LAUSD middle schoolers in the Team Prime Time After School Program. Throughout her career, she has maintained the belief that everyone has creative potential. Dani is so excited to meet the Helms Bakery/L.A. GOAL community!

A lecture and live Q+A discussion with Nathaniel Belcher and Stephen Slaughter
2021-06-03 18:00 - 19:30 | Zoom, CA
Join us on Thursday, June 3rd, 6:00 to 7:30 PDT for a lecture and live Q+A discussion with Nathaniel Belcher and Stephen Slaughter
Formerly of PHAT
In collaboration with the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design
Lecture is Free and Open to the Public
Register for the Zoom Webinar

Nathaniel Belcher and Stephen Slaughter
Concurrent to practice, and borne out of the desire to challenge prevailing architectural orthodoxy, Stephen Slaughter and Nathaniel Belcher co-founded PHAT, a four-person, multi-disciplinary design collaborative that pursued work that questioned the role of race and identity in architecture and has shown in venues throughout the world including the Studio Museum in Harlem, the National Gallery of Victoria, Architecture Center in New York, and the Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain’s young Architects Exhibition in Orléans.
Nathaniel Quincy Belcher is Head of School and Professor of Architecture for the School of Design and the Built Environment at Curtin University appointed in 2020. He is a recipient of grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Graham Foundation, and other notable foundations and research entities. Educated at Virginia Tech and Harvard University, Mr. Belcher holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in architecture. He served two-term on the Advisory board for the Graduate School of Design at Harvard and was on national boards for the American Institute of Architects, National Council of Architectural Registration Board as and the Executive Board for the Association of Collegiate School of Architecture, where he served at treasurer. His work has been exhibited and published in many publications including Sites of Memory from Princeton Architectural Press, HarlemWorlds: Metropolis as a metaphor exhibition/ publication through the Studio Museum in New York City and in the Archilab exhibition in Orleans France.
After receiving a Master of Architecture from The Ohio State University, and initiating his career in Thom Mayne’s studio, Morphosis, Stephen Slaughter has worked in close collaboration with a number of highly respected and influential artists and architects, including Wes Jones of Jones, Partners: Architecture, Gary Bates and Gro Bonesmo of Space Group, and artists Edgar Arceneaux, and Tanya Aguiniga while in Los Angeles, with the Watts House Project. As a twenty-year practicing professional Slaughter’s experience spans from presiding over the rollout of retail boutiques, residences, and restaurants to managing large-scale institutional projects. For the past 15 years, along with practicing and producing work for exhibitions, Slaughter has taught in a variety of academic institutions such as SCI-Arc, and Woodbury University in Los Angeles, and the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Kentucky while living in Ohio. Inclusive of the many boards, committees, and non-profit arts organizations, he has chaired, Slaughter additionally served as designer, project manager, and inaugural board member for the Watts House Project, a not-for-profit, art-based neighborhood redevelopment organization that leveraged arts programming and architectural rehabilitation for the purpose of creative placemaking.

Introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and professor, director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
Photos (Left to Right): Image of Nathaniel Belcher and Stephen Slaughter; Image of Curtin University School of Design and the Built Environment (2021); Image of Findlay Market Bag Kiosks (2016).

A lecture and live Q+A discussion with Nader Tehrani and Arthur Chang
2021-05-27 16:00 - 17:30 | Zoom, CA
Join us on Thursday, May 27th 4:00 to 5:30 PDT for a lecture and live Q+A discussion with Nader Tehrani and Arthur Chang
“What Would Wood Do?”
In collaboration with the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design
Lecture is Free and Open to the Public
Register for the Zoom Webinar

Nader Tehrani
For his contributions to architecture as an art, Nader Tehrani is the recipient of the 2020 Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, to which he was also elected as a Member in 2021, the highest form of recognition of artistic merit in The United States. Nader Tehrani is the founding principal of NADAAA and Dean of The Cooper Union’s Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. His research focuses on the transformation of the building industry, innovative material applications, and the development of new means and methods of construction, especially through digital fabrication. Tehrani’s work has received many prestigious awards, including the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award, and eighteen Progressive Architecture Awards. Prior to becoming Dean at the Cooper Union, he taught at RISD, Harvard GSD, Georgia Institute of Technology, and MIT. His office, NADAAA, for the past seven years in a row, has ranked among the top design firms in Architect Magazine’s Top 50 Firms in the United States, ranking as First three years in a row.
Arthur Chang
Arthur Chang, AIA is a Principal of NADAAA. He has been a key part of NADAAA and a collaborator of Nader Tehrani’s since 2004. Chang’s experience in planning and managing all aspects of design projects has led to his work receiving some of the most prestigious national and international awards. Chang has led a variety of institutional and public projects including the Melbourne School of Design, RISD’s Fleet Library, Helios House, the Research + Design Center at Beaver Country Day School, a new MBTA Headhouse in Boston’s Seaport, and North Hall, a new hybrid CLT/Steel residence hall for the Rhode Island School of Design. Chang holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Architecture from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He has served as visiting design critic for Harvard University, Graduate School of Design; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning; Northeastern University, Art & Architecture Department; Rhode Island School of Design; the University of Melbourne, Faculty of Architecture, Building, and Planning; and Boston Architectural College.

Introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and professor, director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
Photos (Left to Right): Image of Nader Tehrani; Image of NADAAA Section; Image of Arthur Chang.

Join @arcanabooks for "Show & Tell" Moderated by Jason E.C. Wright
2021-05-26 17:00 - 18:00 | Online, CA
On Wednesday, May 26th at 5:00 PM, join Arcana: Books on the Arts for an Instagram “Show & Tell” moderated by Jason E.C. Wright of @burntsiennaresearchsociety. You are in for a real treat so gather up your art books, design books, coffee table books or rare magazines and come nerd out with Jason.
Here’s how it works: Jason will be live @arcanabooks sharing some of his faves with you. Raise your hand to share and he will tap you in. Chat about your most influential book or bookshop. Enjoy the hour, meet some interesting people, and support your local bookstore. @arcanabooks is a great place to start, online or in person. Shop Local and Love Local. There’s nothing like a little book fun in the middle of the week. Thanks Jason!
ABOUT JASON
Jason E.C. Wright is the Founder of Burntsienna Research Society, a critical-thinking research consultancy for design histories, intangible culture, and reference materials. Jason is Indiana born and raised, who now considers Los Angeles home. Jason is an accomplished designer, researcher, writer, with 20+ years as a retail and fashion professional, who takes his love of books seriously, serving as librarian-in-residence at home in Treehouse Hollywood.

A lecture and live Q+A discussion with Jeannette Kuo
2021-05-20 12:00 - 13:30 | Zoom, CA
Join us on Thursday, May 20th 12:00 to 1:30 PDT for a lecture and live Q+A discussion with Jeannette Kuo of Karamuk Kuo
In collaboration with the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design
Lecture is Free and Open to the Public
Register for the Zoom Webinar

Jeannette Kuo
Jeannette Kuo is a founding partner of KARAMUK KUO based in Zurich. Established in 2010 with Ünal Karamuk, the work of the office focuses on the intersection of spatial concepts and constructive technologies, recognizing architecture as a social and material discipline. The office works on projects of a range of scales, from schools and housing to complex cultural projects, and has been published in numerous international journals including Archithese, Werk, Bau + Wohnen, Metropolis, and Casabella. In 2018, KARAMUK KUO was documented in issue 196 of El Croquis monographs. Recent projects include the International Sports Sciences Institute in Lausanne, the Augusta Raurica Archaeological Center, Weiden Secondary School, and Cham Apartments. This year they were recognized by Domus as one of the 50 best architectural firms of 2020.
Beyond her practice, Kuo regularly contributes to the architectural discourse through her academic commitments and writings, as well as participation in conferences and symposia. Her publication, A-Typical Plan: Projects and Essays on Identity, Flexibility, and Atmosphere in the Office Building, received the 2013 Most Beautiful Swiss Book award. This was followed by the critically acclaimed Space of Production: Projects and Essays on Rationality, Atmosphere, and Expression in the Industrial Building in 2015. She regularly serves on international competition juries and most recently was European jury president for the LafargeHolcim Awards for Sustainable Construction.
In 2006, Kuo was the recipient of the competitive Maybeck Teaching Fellowship at UC Berkeley and has also taught at MIT. From 2011 to 2014 she held a visiting professorship at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) before joining the faculty at the GSD in 2016. In addition, she has lectured and been a guest critic at numerous institutions such as ETH Zurich, Columbia University, The Cooper Union, Rhode Island School of Design, Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio, Pratt Institute, Hong Kong University, and the University of Toronto. Kuo received her Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from U.C. Berkeley, a Master of Architecture with Distinction from the Harvard GSD, and a Master of Advanced Studies from the ETH Zurich.

Introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and professor, director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
Photos (Left to Right): Image of Jeannette Kuo and Unal Karamuk; Image of House on a Slope (2020); Image of International Sports Sciences Institute, University of Lausanne (2018).

Reading Materials, A Book Club Hosted by Textile Arts
2021-05-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom, CA
Textile Arts | Los Angeles invites you to join READING MATERIALS, a book club with an art and material focus. We will be reading books about the artist’s life, about ways of seeing and reasons for making, and about our inextricable relationship with material. The titles and conversations should appeal to all creatives, regardless of medium. Offered in partnership with Studio203, an art gallery / creative space in Mar Vista, they will gather on Tuesdays at 7pm. Admission free for members; $40 for the public (for the year). Please consider purchasing your books from Arcana: Books on the Arts in Culver City, or your favorite local indie shop, or bookshop.org
On Tuesday May 18th from 7:00 – 8:30pm the book selection is THE CREATIVE HABIT: LEARN IT AND USE IT FOR LIFE by Twyla Tharp. JOIN THE CLUB!
All it takes to make creativity a part of your life is the willingness to make it a habit. It is the product of preparation and effort, and is within reach of everyone. Whether you are a painter, musician, businessperson, or simply an individual yearning to put your creativity to use, The Creative Habit provides you with thirty-two practical exercises based on the lessons Twyla Tharp has learned in her remarkable thirty-five-year career.

Studio Tour with Artist Ann B. Coddington
2021-05-14 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom, CA
On Friday, May 14th at 12 noon, please join Textile Arts Los Angeles for a fascinating look into artist Ann B. Coddington‘s practice and studio.
$10 public / Free for members
ARTIST STATEMENT
My artwork borrows the technique twining from the traditional craft of basketry to create a sculptural expression of my beliefs and experiences and how they are sensed by the body. I am intrigued by the process of and differences between feeling and knowing; body and mind. Ineffable memories held by the body are more potent, penetrating and enduring than those in the mind. My forms are actuated by this somatic memory in conjunction with an investigation of the dichotomies: eternal and ephemeral, strength and fragility, masculine and feminine, free and captive, old and young, living and dead.
As the world becomes increasingly technological, my work moves in the opposite direction to the point where now I tie two pieces of string together, bend some sticks, form plaster in my hands, and mold clay. Reducing art-making down to the most elemental means of expression, the simplest creative task challenges and satisfies me. Much of my current artwork pushes back against the world of increasingly complex technologies that, paradoxically, in an effort to connect us, instead separates and isolates us, removing us from authentic experience. The slow building of one stitch upon another exists within an ancient time frame, virtually un-experienced in the contemporary, digital society. My art is my voice, more than my words and in my work, feeling overshadows knowing.

A lecture and live Q+A discussion with Ernestina Osorio
2021-05-13 16:00 - 17:30 | Zoom, CA
Join us on Thursday, May 13th, for a lecture and live Q+A discussion with Ernestina Osorio
Interdependence and the Construction of a Transnational Discourse of Mexican Modernism
In collaboration with the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design
Lecture is Free and Open to the Public
Register for the Zoom Webinar

Ernestina Osorio
Ernestina Osorio teaches courses on the history and theory of architecture, art, and visual culture. She completed her Ph.D. in the History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University after finishing her undergraduate studies with Distinction in Art History and Spanish literature at UC Santa Barbara, earning a professional degree in Architecture at UCLA, and practicing architecture and urban design. Her writing focuses on Mexico and studies architecture’s relation to cultural memory, visual culture, media, and urbanism. Osorio’s interests have been augmented by migration and travel experiences and the notion of constructed boundaries in the landscape and horizon. Her work explores built environments in Latin America and their diverse influences and tendencies, from Indigenous knowledge systems, the effects of ideological and technological developments, to the dissemination of architectural ideas across geographical and theoretical terrains. This presentation is part of an interdisciplinary project that examines the transnational and intercultural provocations, exchange, reception, and representation of Mexican architectural modernisms and the intellectual genealogies that shaped them. Osorio discusses how a convergence of architecture, art, photography, traditional arts, and anthropology in the early to mid-twentieth century represented attempts within these areas to highlight the inextricable link between Indigenous knowledge and Modernism in Mexico.

Introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and professor, director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
Photos (Left to Right): Image of Ernestina Osorio; Image of the Pyramid of Cuicuilco; Image of Modotti Stairs.

A lecture and live Q+A discussion with Michael Anderson and Frances Anderton
2021-05-06 16:00 - 17:30 | Zoom, CA
Join us on Thursday, May 6th, for a lecture and live Q+A discussion with Michael Anderson and Frances Anderton
How to Create Accelerated Equity Housing and Transit Communities
In collaboration with the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design
Lecture is Free and Open to the Public
Register for the Zoom Webinar

Michael Anderson
Michael Anderson is a principal architect of Anderson Barker, an architecture, urban economic development firm in Los Angeles. His expertise is transit stations, communities, aviation, civic, commercial, residential, and municipal infrastructure projects such as streetscapes, parking structures, community centers, and parks. He focuses to aid municipalities to modernize underserved communities and increase ownership utilizing business strategies that are mutually beneficial to all parties.
He is currently working on a pilot project for accelerated equity housing and transit-oriented community (TOC) solutions by collaborating with public funding, private capital sources, and real estate development companies. He is currently completing a book, Urban Magic: Vibrant Black and Brown Communities Are Possible.
Anderson Barker’s Notable Projects include:
· LA Clippers Arena Plaza Buildings and Parking Garages, Inglewood, CA
· Hollywood Park, Inglewood, CA
· Tom Bradley Terminal West
· Martin Luther King Jr. Transit Center, Compton, CA
· Compton Senior Center, Compton, CA

Frances Anderton
Frances Anderton covers Los Angeles design and architecture in print, radio, podcasts, and public events. She is currently writing a book, Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles, for Angel City Press. She produced and co-hosted the radio series Wasted: Neat Solutions to the Dirty Problem of Waste. It recently aired on KCRW’s Greater LA. For many years she hosted DnA: Design and Architecture radio show, and before that Warren Olney’s current affairs show Which Way, LA? and To the Point, all broadcast on KCRW public radio station.
Anderton also programs talks, exhibitions, and events at Helms Bakery District. She previously curated the exhibition Sink or Swim: Designing for a Sea Change, about resilient architecture, shown at the Annenberg Space for Photography. Honors include the 2020 ICON Award for the Los Angeles Design Festival.

Introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and professor, director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
Free Parking is available at the corner of Helms Ave. and Venice Blvd.
Photos (Left to Right): Image of Michael Anderson; Image of Crenshaw/LAX Light Rail Transit Corridor; Image of Frances Anderton.

Textile Arts LA Presents practiceLAB with Nathalie Miebach
2021-05-05 17:00 - 18:30 | Zoom, CA
On Wednesday, May 5th from 5:00 to 6:30 PM, join Textile Arts Los Angeles for the next iteration of practiceLAB with Nathalie Miebach -artist, environmental commentator, educator, collaborator, woman of many hats!
practiceLAB is a series of conversations exploring the nature of practice. We invite artists, curators, designers, authors, and creatives to present their work, their relationship to the work, and sometimes to engage our hands in small acts of creativity, too.
Tickets: members $8 / public $14 / students/concessions $6
ABOUT NATHALIE
My work focuses on the intersection of art and science and the visual articulation of scientific observations. Using the methodologies and processes of both disciplines, I translate scientific data related to ecology, climate change and meteorology into three-dimensional structures. My method of translation is principally that of weaving – in particular basket weaving – as it provides me with a simple yet highly effective grid through which to interpret data in three-dimensional space. Central to this work is my desire to explore the role visual aesthetics play in the translation and understanding of scientific information. By utilizing artistic processes and everyday materials, I am questioning and expanding the traditional boundaries through which science data has been visually translated (ex: graphs, diagrams), while at the same time provoking expectations of what kind of visual vocabulary is considered to be in the domain of ‘science’ or ‘art’.

Design Your Own Dream Space, A Virtual Community Art Class in Partnership with L.A. GOAL
2021-05-01 11:00 - 12:30 | Zoom, CA
Free
On Saturday, May 1st from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM, we are partnering with L.A. GOAL and artist Dani Samson of Calico Flower Studio to bring you a virtual mixed media workshop.
In this workshop, participants will design their own 2-dimensional dream space – for example, a home, a room, a garden – through a mixed media approach. Dani will walk you through creative prompts to help ease the flow of ideas. Dani will demonstrate by creating her own dream space, but the specific design will ultimately be up to each participant.
Grab your family, a friend, or an artist in your life and join the fun! This class is intended to be enjoyable, joyful, and inspirational. A time to explore your creativity, connect with a creative community, and decompress from the stresses of everyday life. No experience necessary.
Read MORE about suggested art materials HERE.
REGISTER HERE
***Please be punctual! Once Dani begins class, she will not be repeating instructions for late-comers.***

ABOUT DANI SAMPSON
Dani Michaux Samson is a scrappy mixed media collage artist. She loves to collect residual material from her art and her day-to-day so that she may give it new life in her collages. Her creative practice stems from thoughts about her living space, the sanctuary that she calls home. Naturally, her cat is one of her muses and her number one studio assistant. Born and raised in Ohio, Dani received her MFA degree from Columbus College of Art & Design just before moving to Los Angeles in 2019. In L.A., she established her business, Calico Flower Studio, where her independent artwork can be viewed and purchased online. In the past, she has facilitated art activities with organizations such as Goodwill Columbus Art Studio & Gallery, Kya’s Krusade, Paint Nite, and Columbus Museum of Art. Her range of experience has allowed her to work with people of various ages and abilities. Currently, Dani brings art into the lives of LAUSD middle schoolers in the Team Prime Time After School Program. Throughout her career, she has maintained the belief that everyone has creative potential. Dani is so excited to meet the Helms Bakery/L.A. GOAL community!

Room & Board Features an Artist Each Month in Support of LA Family Housing
2021-05-01 - 2021-05-07 | Room&Board, 3231 Helms Avenue, Culver City, CA, 90034
Please join Room & Board in support of LA Family Housing (LAFH) in an effort to help our homeless neighbors obtain permanent housing and a place to call home. When you purchase an artwork by the featured artist – this month is Jill Sykes – a 50% donation will be made on your behalf to continue the critical and life-saving services LAFH provides. Jill’s art may be found inside the Room & Board showroom through the month of May.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jill Sykes is a painter living in Los Angeles. Her work is included in many private and corporate collections including Omgivning Architecture Interiors, Kelly Wearstler, Kovac Design Studios, Saks Fifth Avenue as well as many others. Her paintings have been featured in exhibitions throughout Southern California and across the country including Tobey C. Moss Gallery in Los Angeles, Museum of Art + History (MOAH) in Lancaster, CA, the Santa Paula Art Museum in Santa Paula, CA, El Camino College Art Gallery in Torrance, CA and The Brand Library and Art Center in Glendale, CA.
“We as artists create objects that nourish and enrich existence, and as such what we do, consciously or not, has profound effect. The images I create are about life and the sheltering aspects of Nature – I focus on botanical forms and the abstracted spaces I find between individual branches and leaves. These paintings are sophisticated in terms of color and form, and yet remain incredibly soothing and serene to look at.”

Studio Tour with Artist Lesley Kice Nishigawara
2021-04-30 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom, CA
On Friday, 4/30 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM, please join Textile Art Los Angeles for a studio tour with artist, educator, weaver, and keen observer Lesley Kice Nishigawara.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work explores the world around us with a system of visual examination. The grid frames my work in both a conceptual and practical manner. Conceptually, the grid reflects a need for regulation and perfection; a method or system of organization. With the aim for exacting and ordered spaces, slippages in the grid appear within varied applications and renditions. Explorations into these concepts present misalignments that occur within a desire for order. Through various translations including reflections and shadows, each articulation is created following a system of self-imposed rules to shift into new forms, images, and ideas. Practically, it creates a structure for my ideas to unfold.
The work takes on multiple formal configurations to probe these ideas. Large-scale tiled textile works produce a soft and elegant interpretation of misaligned urban patterns. Layered drawings create space to activate the work through shadows and perspectival shifts. Throughout the work, the complexity of order and structure is exposed through these iterations.
Translating the grid and patterns that appear through human intervention in our built environment produces an expanded view of the world. Highlighting and refiguring the nuanced visual elements—from the regularity of a chain link fence to a shadow projected from an overpass—this work is developed through a series of iterative examinations that develop beyond their original form and meaning. It acknowledges that the simple is often more complex as it is explored; the perfect is often more imperfect than at first glance. It exposes that the limits of perfection have endless possibilities.
Tickets: $10 public / Free for members

Better Together: a Virtual Showcase and Collaboration with L.A. GOAL
2021-04-28 08:00 - 2021-05-01 17:00 | Online, CA
Since 2016, Helms Bakery District has hosted an annual integrative art exhibit each spring that showcases the artwork of L.A. GOAL artists and artwork from L.A. GOAL Staff members and Volunteers. This collaboration is always such a treat as L.A. GOAL and Helms Bakery District introduce our ever-growing communities to one another through our shared passion (art & design) and an in-person exhibition/reception.
Although this last year we have been unable to partner for what would normally be an in-person event, one thing has remained true: We Are Better Together. The community partnership between Helms Bakery District and L.A. GOAL has remained strong, and although so much has changed over this past year, we are collaborating in the form of a virtual art showcase featuring functional artwork for the home & garden. The virtual art showcase begins on April 28th and runs through June 5th, an entire month to find ways to support L.A. GOAL and their mission.
We hope you will help us kick off this fun collaboration on May 1st for a FREE Virtual Community Art Class titled: Create Your Own Dream Space with artist Dani Samson.
Working together as community partners we can teach the world about how the people we meet can better our lives, creating a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable art & design sector through our continued collaboration. We Are Better Together.
ABOUT L.A. GOAL
L.A. GOAL provides opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities to increase their independence and employability through educational, vocational and recreational programs. L.A. GOAL’s art and outreach activities educate the community about the abilities of people with disabilities. Our vision is to create a more open society where people with developmental disabilities can enjoy full inclusion in their communities. To accomplish this, L.A. GOAL teaches the world about how people with developmental disabilities can better our lives. It is a magical reciprocity that we believe has long been overlooked.

A lecture and live Q+A discussion with Adam Nathaniel Furman
2021-04-15 12:00 - 13:30 | Zoom, CA
Join us on Thursday, April 15th, for a lecture and live Q+A discussion with Adam Nathaniel Furman
Joyful Deviance
In collaboration with the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design
Lecture is Free and Open to the Public
Register for the Zoom Webinar

Adam Nathaniel Furman
Adam Nathaniel Furman is a London-based designer & artist of Argentine and Japanese heritage whose practice ranges from Architecture & interiors to sculpture, installation, writing, and product design. He co-runs the Saturated Space research group on colour at the Architectural Association, and was a studio master of Productive Exuberance at Central Saint Martins College of Art. Furman published the book Revisiting Postmodernism with Sir Terry Farrell for the Royal Institute for British Architects in 2018, and has written for numerous publications internationally. Presently, he is writing a new work for RIBA — “Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQ+ Places and Stories”. Furman is also the recipient of several awards, including the Blueprint prizes for Design Innovation in 2014, Best Small Project in 2018, the UK Rome Prize for Architecture 2014-15, and FX Product Designer of the Year 2019. Furman’s work is in the collections of the Sir John Soane Museum, the Design Museum (London), the Abet Laminate Museum, the National Gallery of Victoria, and the Carnegie Museum of Art, and continues to be exhibited in numerous cities around the world.

Introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and professor, director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
Free Parking is available at the corner of Helms Ave. and Venice Blvd.
Photos (Left to Right): Image of Adam Nathaniel Furman; Image of Gateways at London Design Festival (2017); Image of Nagatacho in Tokyo (2017).

Arcana Presents a Ruskin Art Club Discussion + Book Signing, "The Spanish Style House"
2021-04-08 17:00 - 18:30 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
On Thursday, April 8th from 5:00 to 6:30 PM, join photographer Melba Levick and author Ruben G. Mendoza for the launch of The Spanish Style House: From Enchanted Andalusia To The California Dream published by Rizzoli, presented by The Ruskin Art Club.
This will be an online discussion celebrating the book’s launch with photographer Melba Levick and writer Rubén G. Mendoza moderated by Dr. William Deverell, director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. Both authors will be signing copies especially for Arcana: Books on the Arts on April 9th that will begin shipping Tuesday, April 13th. Order your signed copy here!
Join the Ruskin Art Club online discussion April 8th at 5:00 PM by clicking here
”Luminous new photography showcases contemporary and historic homes in the beloved Spanish Style in Southern California, while offering, as well, a rare look at the original inspirations to the style born in Andalusia, Spain. This presentation will include photographs of the Ruskin Art Club’s historic 1922 clubhouse designed by Frank Meline (now a private residence), and review a host of 12th through 18th century palatial Spanish estates, and their Andalusian expressions in southern California for the period spanning the 1920s through the present.”

A lecture and live Q+A discussion with John May and Zeina Koreitem
2021-04-08 16:00 - 17:30 | Zoom, CA
Join us on Thursday, April 8th, for a lecture and live Q+A discussion with John May and Zeina Koreitem
A Loose Collection of Objects, Images and Texts
In collaboration with the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design
Lecture is Free and Open to the Public
Register for the Zoom Webinar

MILLIØNS
MILLIØNS is a Los Angeles-based experimental design practice, founded by MILLIØNS and Zeina Koreitem. MILLIØNS conceives of architecture as a speculative medium for exploring the central categories of contemporary life: technology, politics, energy, media, and information. Their approach insists on an expansive parallel project of technical, historical, and cultural analysis, which surrounds and informs their work.
MILLIØNS’ work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including a commissioned furniture set by Friedman Benda Gallery NYC and Chamber, a commissioned display system for the Taipei Biennial, shows at La Triennale Di Milano, the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, The Architecture + Design Museum of Los Angeles, the MIT Keller Architecture Gallery, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, among others. Recent work includes completed and ongoing projects in California, New York, Boston, Taipei, and Beirut. Recently they were selected as the winner of an international competition to reimagine the east wing of I.M. Pei’s Everson Museum, in Syracuse, NY, and to restore other aspects of the museum.
Zeina Koreitem is a registered architect in Beirut, Lebanon, and Design Faculty at SCI-Arc. John May is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and author of Signal. Image. Architecture. (Columbia, 2019) and Design Technics: Archaeologies of Architectural Practice (Minnesota, 2019; co-edited with Zeynep Çelik Alexander).

Introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and professor, director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
Free Parking is available at the corner of Helms Ave. and Venice Blvd.
Photos (Left to Right): Image of John May and Zeina Koreitem; Image of The Ghosts Acres of Architecture (2020); Image of the Everson Museum of Art Renovation.

Textile Arts Presents Textile Slam!
2021-04-07 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom, CA
On Wednesday, April 7th from 7:00 to 8:30 PM, Textile Arts | Los Angeles invites you to join them for Textile Slam! We are excited to partner with Textile Arts for this casual, community, conversation-oriented event featuring artists, designers, architects, educators, and all-around neat thinkers talking about their work, the ideas that interest them, and the projects they are exploring. Textile Slam! occurs four times a year, and is an opportunity for friendly conversation and networking, featuring a rotating slate of presenters, each of whom will deliver an informal six-minute (or less!) slide show / improv / show-and-tell presentation.
REGISTER Here
$20 public; $0 members, students, and concessions
Upcoming Slams on June 9th and October 27th.

Arcana Presents a Deanna Templeton Remote Book Signing for ”What She Said”
2021-04-06 08:00 - 2021-04-17 17:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
Already a “Best of 2021” photobook, Deanna Templeton’s truly excellent new MACK offering What She Said is now available! Arcana: Books on the Arts hoped to have a real-life signing event for this launch, but as we’re all still playing it safe, Deanna will be specially personalizing copies with your choice of inscription (within reason of course) and a special rubber stamp created for the occasion.
Order by April 17th, while supplies last! Order now on Arcana’s website here.
“What She Said takes its title from a song by The Smiths: “What she said was sad / But then, all the rejection she’s had / To pretend to be happy / Could only be idiocy. The work originates in portraits Deanna Templeton made on the streets of the US, Europe, Australia and Russia, in which she captured women in their adolescence: punks and outcasts whose ripped jeans and tights, tattoos, and hairstyles stand as testament to this transitional moment in their lives as they navigate the intensity of teenage life. Templeton grew up in an ostensibly different environment in 1980s youth, but she recognized in them something of the universality of female adolescence, as they struggled with similar disappointments and challenges she encountered as a young woman. The book combines these modern portraits with gig flyers and Templeton’s own teenage journal entries from the mid to late 80s, in which the familiar experience of growing up is laid bare in all its antagonism, humor and pathos.”

A Convo with Jiseon Lee Isbara, Provost of OTIS College of Art and Design
2021-03-17 18:30 - 20:00 | Zoom, CA
On Wednesday, March 17th from 6:30 to 8:00 PM, Textile Arts | Los Angeles invites you to join them for Displaced, a conversation with the new provost of OTIS College of Art and Design, artist, and curator Jiseon Lee Isbara.
Jiseon Lee Isbara will speak about the inquiries addressed in her work and the use of visual languages and processes developed over time to communicate her concepts and emotions. Her work mirrors her life and its complexities of a displaced person in two countries: conversant in the language and culture of both places, but not considered a full-fledged member of either one. Through her work, she embodies two cultures, times and identities colliding and merging together.
TICKETS
$10 members; $20 public
PracticeLAB is a series of talks exploring the ideas, issues, and inspiration that inform a robust creative practice. Textile Arts | Los Angeles invites artists, authors, architects, and creatives to present content that addresses the nature of a practice, as well as educational sessions that offer an opportunity to practice. We look forward to meeting more of LA’s creative community with these engaging sessions.

ABOUT JISEON LEE ISBARA
Jiseon Lee Isbara is an artist and educator who serves as the Provost at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, CA. She exhibits nationally, engages with viewers through lectures and discussions, and collaborates with and contributes to the community by serving in various roles for regional and national art and education organizations. Amplified by her experience as a first-generation immigrant, she engages with socially and culturally charged dialogue through the accumulated aesthetics, materials, and processes she has garnered as an emigrant from her native culture. Through her artwork, Jiseon questions the congruity around her emotions and cultural topics. Jiseon earned her MFA in Fibers, one from Colorado State University and one from Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, South Korea. She is Professor and Dean of Academic Affairs at Oregon College of Art and Craft.

Reading Materials, A Book Club Hosted by Textile Arts
2021-03-16 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom, CA
Textile Arts | Los Angeles invites you to join READING MATERIALS, a book club with an art and material focus. We will be reading books about the artist’s life, about ways of seeing and reasons for making, and about our inextricable relationship with material. The titles and conversations should appeal to all creatives, regardless of medium. Offered in partnership with Studio203, an art gallery / creative space in Mar Vista, they will gather on Tuesdays at 7pm. Admission free for members; $40 for the public (for the year). Please consider purchasing your books from Arcana: Books on the Arts in Culver City, or your favorite local indie shop, or bookshop.org
On Tuesday March 16th from 7:00 – 8:30pm the book selection is ART & FEAR: OBSERVATIONS ON THE PERILS (AND REWARDS) OF ARTMAKING by Ted Orland, and David Bayles
Art & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn’t get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. This is an old favorite, and a quick read (and worth re-reading several times).
JOIN THE CLUB!

Join Textile Arts for an Intimate Studio Tour with artist Ruth Katzenstein Souza
2021-03-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom, CA
Textile Arts | Los Angeles invites you to join them in a series of intimate, behind-the-scenes looks at artists’ studios, and a discussion of the habits and practices that allow them to thrive and make new work.
On Friday, March 12th from 12:00 to 1:00 PM take a lunch time walk-and-talk-about through the studio of artist, gleaner, mender Ruth Katzenstein Souza. Ruth is a practicing artist, as well as the force behind Mending as Metaphor. Ruth will walk us through her studio – if you’ve seen it before, you know it’s a real treat.
TICKETS
$10 public; $Free for members
UPCOMING STUDIO TOURS
Friday, April 30th: Lesley Kice Nichigawara
Friday, May 14th: Ann B.
ABOUT TEXTILE ARTS
Textile Arts | Los Angeles cultivates and promotes textile art and design. As a professional membership organization, we encourage dialogue, share resources, and build community in order to elevate the practice of the textile arts, create opportunity for our members, and advocate for this vibrant and enduring artform.

A lecture and live Q+A discussion with Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman
2021-03-04 16:00 - 17:30 | Zoom, CA
Join us on Thursday, March 4th, for a lecture and live Q+A discussion with Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman
Unwalling Citizenship
In collaboration with the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design
Lecture is Free and Open to the Public
Register for the Zoom Webinar

Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman
Teddy Cruz (MDes Harvard) is a professor of Public Culture and Urbanism in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego. He is known internationally for his urban research of the Tijuana/San Diego border, advancing border neighborhoods as sites of cultural production from which to rethink urban policy, affordable housing, and public space.
Fonna Forman (PhD Chicago) is a professor of Political Theory and Founding Director of the Center on Global Justice at the University of California, San Diego. A theorist of ethics and public culture, her work focuses on human rights, climate justice, border ethics, and equitable urbanization.
Together Cruz + Forman are principals in Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, a research-based practice, investigating issues of borders, informal urbanization, civic infrastructure, and public culture, with a special emphasis on Latin American cities. Blurring conventional boundaries between theory and practice, and merging the fields of architecture and urbanism, political theory and urban policy, visual arts, and public culture, Cruz + Forman lead a variety of urban research agendas and civic/public interventions in the San Diego-Tijuana border region and beyond. From 2012-13 they served as special advisors on civic and urban initiatives for the City of San Diego and led the development of its Civic Innovation Lab. Together they lead the UCSD Community Stations, a platform for community-based research and teaching on poverty and social equity in the border region.
Their work has been exhibited widely in cultural venues across the world, including the Museum of Modern Art; the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum; Das Haus der Kulturen der Welt; and M+ Hong Kong. They represented the United States in the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. They have two forthcoming monographs: Top-Down / Bottom-Up: The Research and Practice of Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman (Berlin: Hatje Cantz); and The Political Equator: Unwalling Citizenship (London: Verso)

Introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and professor, director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
Free Parking is available at the corner of Helms Ave. and Venice Blvd.
Photos (Left to Right): Image of Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman, Image of The UCSD-CASA Community Station at Living Rooms at the Border (2019), Image of The UCSD-Alacran Community Station + Migrant Sanctuary (2020).

Architecture is a Social Act with Lorcan O'Herlihy + Frances Anderton
2021-02-18 18:30 - 19:30 | Zoom, CA
Free
On Thursday, February 18th from 6:30 to 7:30PM, please join Lorcan O’Herlihy, FAIA, and Frances Anderton for a livestream discussion about LOHA’s latest monograph Architecture Is a Social Act. Lorcan and Frances will talk about his work, and how he navigates tight budgets and stakeholder needs to integrate common space. He will also share insights into 410 Rossmore, his latest Los Angeles project, where he will add five new floors of co-living space to the 90-year-old apartment building in Hancock Park.
Register here. Once you register, a Zoom link will be emailed prior to the event date.
To purchase a signed copy of the book, please visit Arcana: Books on the Arts.

Lorcan O’Herlihy is the founder and design principal of Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects [LOHA], a Los Angeles/Detroit based architecture and urban design firm.
Lorcan O’Herlihy spent his childhood as a thespian’s son. His father Dan O’Herlihy was an actor and took his family on overseas shoots. From time spent hanging out in Rome, London and other great urban cities, Lorcan developed a deep appreciation for social space.
He has since made his mark as an architect with housing, workplaces and cultural buildings that put human connectivity at their center, while emphasizing bold design. Formosa 1140 in West Hollywood, for example, connects residents and neighbors in a pocket park, and it bursts with the color and spirit of the nearby Formosa Cafe, a one time drinking haunt of Dan O’Herlihy and his buddy Orson Welles. O’Herlihy has tackled social inequity in Detroit with a conversion of the African Bead Museum, new housing and neighborhood plans. At Isla Intersections in South LA, he has put supportive housing in a complex of prefabricated structures attached to a paseo. These are just some of the projects featured in his latest monograph, Architecture Is a Social Act published by Frame, with an introduction by Frances Anderton.

Frances Anderton covers design and architecture in Los Angeles for radio, podcast and print. A series she co-produced, Wasted: Neat Solutions to the Dirty Problem of Waste, is currently airing on KCRW public radio station. She is writing a book entitled Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles; and she is working with Helms Bakery District on the programming of events and talks about design, architecture and art.

A lecture and live Q+A discussion with Skylar Tibbits of the MIT Self-Assembly Lab
2021-02-11 16:00 - 17:30 | Zoom, CA
Join us on Thursday, Feb 11th, for a lecture and live Q+A discussion with Skylar Tibbits of the MIT Self-Assembly Lab
In collaboration with the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design
Lecture is Free and Open to the Public
Register for the Zoom Webinar

Skylar Tibbits
Skylar Tibbits is a designer and computer scientist whose research focuses on developing self-assembly and programmable materials within the built environment. Tibbits is the founder and co-director of the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, and Associate Professor of Design Research in the Department of Architecture.
Tibbits has a professional degree in architecture and a minor in experimental computation from Philadelphia University, as well as a masters in design computation and computer science from MIT. He has worked at a number of design offices including Zaha Hadid Architects, Asymptote Architecture, and Point b Design.
He has designed and built large-scale installations and exhibited in galleries around the world, including the Centre Pompidou, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, and various others. He is the author of the book Self-Assembly Lab: Experiments in Programming Matter (Routledge, 2016), Active Matter (MIT Press, 2017), co-editor of Being Material (MIT Press 2019), and the Editor-In-Chief of the journal 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing.
Awards include LinkedIn’s Next Wave Award for Top Professionals under 35 (2016), R&D Innovator of the Year (2015), National Geographic Emerging Explorer (2015), an Inaugural WIRED Fellowship (2014), the Architectural League Prize (2013), Ars Electronica Next Idea Award (2013), TED Senior Fellow (2012) and 2008 he was named a Revolutionary Mind by SEED magazine.

Introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and professor, director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
Free Parking is available at the corner of Helms Ave. and Venice Blvd.
Photos (Left to Right): Image of Skylar Tibbits, Image of Macrobot & Decibot, Image of Self-Folding Straw.
