Helms Design District

Book Signing at Arcana with David Shrigley: Get Your Shit Together
2022-11-20 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
Please join us at Arcana: Books on the Arts on Sunday, November 20th, 4:00 – 6:00 PM, for a book signing
David Shrigley: Get Your Shit Together
We are delighted to invite you to attend a special book signing with David Shrigley. Get Your Shit Together is the first book that exclusively features the iconic British artist’s recent artwork in color. It celebrates Shrigley’s absurd, deadpan sensibility through both his signature drawing style and accompanying text.
If you cannot attend but would like a signed copy, please call Arcana at 310-458-1499.
David Shrigley was born in 1968 in Macclesfield, UK. He lives and works in Brighton and Devon. In January 2020 the artist was awarded the decoration of Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire or OBE. Shrigley’s quick-witted drawings and hand-rendered texts are typically deadpan in their humor and reveal chance utterings like snippets of over-heard conversations. Recurring themes and thoughts pervade his storytelling, capturing deliberately two-dimensional views of the world, the perspective of aliens and monsters or the compulsive habits of an eavesdropper shouting out loud. While drawing is at the center of his practice, Shrigley works across an extensive range of media including sculpture, large-scale installation, animation, painting, photography and music. He consistently seeks to widen his audience by operating outside the gallery sphere, including producing artist publications and creating collaborative music projects.

¡AZÚCAR! Sabor Session at Helms Bakery
2022-11-19 13:00 - 15:00 | Helms Walk, 3270 Helms Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90034
Dance and get down with CONTRA-TIEMPO during their Sabor Session!
Join CONTRA-TIEMPO on Saturday, November 19th from 1:00 to 3:00 PM on Helms Walk, our pedestrian plaza on Helms Avenue, as you move through and embody social dance practices rooted in the African and Afro-Latin Diaspora.
These ancestral movement practices were designed and passed down to build resilience, affirm joy, instill hope and to strengthen social and political resistance. From line dancing to comparsa processions from freestyling to Salsa; from cyphering to partnering – their sabor sessions will remind you of your strength, of our complexities as human beings, and your deep connection to others and the world around you.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
Be ready to move your body and join the movement procession from the pedestrian plaza into the gallery space to view the beautiful photo exhibition of CAŃA that was captured by photographer Farah Sosa. The exhibition is available for viewing through November 20th.

Book Celebration + Talk with Michael Boyd and Michael Webb
2022-11-16 18:30 - 20:30 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Wednesday, November 16th from 6:30 – 8:30 PM, please join us for a lively conversation with Michael Boyd and Michael Webb on the launch of Boyd’s new book MILLENNIUM MODERN Living in Design (Lund Humphries, 2022) moderated by architecture journalist Frances Anderton and in partnership with the Wende Museum.
Michael Boyd lives by Le Corbusier’s mantra: “To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be.”
A design connoisseur, successful musician, preservationist, passionate tastemaker, and furniture and rug designer, Boyd believes modernism is a model for new and future design solutions. Boyd’s new book MILLENNIUM MODERN Living in Design (Lund Humphries, 2022) illustrates his holistic design practice and reflects his belief that the tenets of Modernism—honesty and simplicity—developed more than century ago, are still relevant to our pluralistic age. In contrast to those who have wanted to do away with the past, Boyd’s creations and designs are deeply rooted in the history of design.
Originally a film music composer, Michael Boyd is a major collector and curator of modernist design based in Los Angeles, who has evolved into becoming a successful artist and designer of contemporary modernist homes, furniture and landscapes.
Michael Webb Hon. AIA/LA has authored 30 books on architecture and design, most recently Architects’ Houses and Building Community: New Apartment Architecture, as well as a memoir, Moving Around: A Lifetime of Wandering, while editing and contributing essays to a score of monographs. He is also a regular contributor to leading journals in the United States, Asia and Europe. Growing up in London, he was an editor at The Times and Country Life, before moving to the U.S., where he directed film programs for the American Film Institute through the 1970s and curated a Smithsonian exhibition on the history of the American cinema. He now lives in Los Angeles in the Richard Neutra apartment that was once home to Charles and Ray Eames.
In an excerpt taken from Michael Webb’s introduction to MILLENNIUM MODERN:
“An autodidact with strong opinions, Michael Boyd has immersed himself in the history and creativity of modernism. His faith in the fundamentals is unflinching, as is his certainty in a revisionist age. “Modernism is a philosophical approach based on rationality and reality,” he declares. “It grew out of the visual chaos of the 19th century in a quest for honesty, simplicity, and truth in materials.” He shares the idealistic vision of the pioneers and has stayed true to their principles in his own work even as modernism has evolved from a narrow torrent into a broad stream with many tributaries.”
Frances Anderton covers Los Angeles design and architecture in print, podcasts, exhibitions, and public events. She is the author of Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles, just published by Angel City Press. For many years, Anderton hosted DnA: Design and Architecture, broadcast on KCRW, a public radio station. Her honors include the Esther McCoy Award, bestowed by the USC Architectural Guild at USC School of Architecture, for her work in educating the public about architecture and urbanism.
The Wende is an art museum, cultural center, and archive of the Cold War that explores social, political, and cultural change. The Wende reaches beyond the conventional walls of a museum in pursuit of international scholarship, artistic interpretation, community engagement, digital access, and experimental public programming.

¡AZÚCAR! Choreographic Lab at Helms Bakery
2022-11-13 13:00 - 15:00 | Washington Corridor Gallery, 8723 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232, United States
On Sunday, November 13th from 1:00 to 3:00 PM, come participate in the creative process of CONTRA-TIEMPO’S newest work ¡AZÚCAR! during this Choreographic Lab inside Helms Bakery’s Washington Corridor Gallery.
We invite you to witness a small work in progress, create your own movement/theater-based work around the themes explored in the piece (ancestral healing, movement, sugar, sweetness, etc.), and share your own stories connected to the work in council circles. Council is an age-old practice that involves bringing people together in a circle to bear witness and share authentically.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
Join us in building, creating, and imagining the future of this work. The beautiful photo gallery exhibition of CAŃA, captured by photographer Farah Sosa, is available for viewing through November 20th.

Residency Launch, Film Screening + Photo Exhibit with CONTRA-TIEMPO
2022-11-12 18:00 - 20:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Join us on Saturday, November 12th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM for the opening reception of CONTRA-TIEMPO’S gallery show and two week residency. Come help us celebrate the beginning of two powerful weeks of dancing, creating, and grounding!
During this reception, we will be screening the film CAŃA that was created in collaboration with Ana María Alvarez, Meena Murugesan and Anaïs, following with an opportunity to engage in dialogue with the collaborators of CONTRA-TIEMPO’s newest work ¡AZÚCAR! Additionally, this marks the opening of the photo gallery showing of CAŃA that was captured by photographer Farah Sosa. The photos will be up for viewing inside the Washington Corridor Gallery at Helms Bakery District through November 20th.
REGISTER FOR EVENTS HERE
Learn more about ¡AZÚCAR! & all the amazing collaborators HERE.

smART Talks at Helms! For Artists and Creative Professionals
2022-11-12 10:00 - 13:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
Join us on Saturday, November 12th as we partner with Crewest Studio to present smARTtalks: A New Monthly Educational Series for Artists + Creatives with Expert Panelists! smARTalks occur once a month on Saturdays from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm inside the Helms Design Center. smARTtalks are FREE intimate learning sessions with a panel of experts covering timely and important topics vital to artists and creatives working in the 21st Century.
With just 75 tickets available, get your tickets now while supplies last!
RESERVE A SPOT
Here’s the lineup of discussions and panelists for November 12th:

The Power of Story in Selling Art: How Narrative Can Help Artists Drive Sales in a Social Media Landscape with speakers: Shana Nys Dambrot and Miles Regis

Preview:Many artists would prefer for their art to speak for itself without having to talk about it. The reality is artists must know how to communicate their story effectively and impromptu when asked by a potential new collector, curator, gallery owner, journalist or even a group of school children. Artists should be able to clearly answer basic questions such as: Why art matters? Why they became an artist and what drives them as an artist? Learn from the experts about best practices in social media to tell a story, create an on-line persona and promote work online.

Has Digital Art Finally Earned Respect? How Web3, NFTs, AR, VR, AI and The Metaverse Are Impacting The Art World with speakers: Ronnie Pirovino, Heidi Johnson, and Daniel Nomad

Preview:Art and tech comprise exciting new frontiers for art making and selling. And, while the media love to talk about the big sales numbers some artists are getting for their NFTs, most people don’t even have a crypto wallet. Still, NFT’s equipped with built-in resale royalties are a major development. Web3, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and the Metaverse are hyped topics in the media too. Do these innovations truly represent a real and fundamental shift in the art market or are they simply new tools and mediums for artists and art lovers to enjoy? What should artists know and do with these new media?

Can Public + Immersive Art Experiences Save The World? with speakers: Carmen Zella, Shana Nys Drambot, and Isabel Beavers

Preview: In recent years, communities and entrepreneurs have been producing public and immersive visual art experiences for people to enjoy. They took a dive during the pandemic but are on the way back. Some art installations are free to the public through corporate or civic sponsorship while others charge admission as for-profit ventures. Some are temporary pop-ups, while others are semi-permanent or permanent. What is driving this trend? Are these exhibitions for the love of art and the public good or simply making money? Where it is all going and how might artists produce their own public art installations?

BIDs In View: What do Business Improvement Districts do and who do they represent?
2022-10-27 07:45 - 09:30 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
On Thursday, October 27th, from 8:30 am – 9:30 am, please join Westside Urban Forum for their monthly breakfast and panel discussion inside the Helms Design Center.
Doors open at 7:45 for breakfast and mingling before the panel begins | RSVP Required
On the Westside and throughout Greater Los Angeles, Business Improvement Districts provide placemaking services to commercial neighborhoods. BIDs are tasked with making their districts cleaner, safer, and more prosperous, and studies show they often succeed. But for BIDs funded by commercial assessments, there can be a tension between the desires and goals of the businesses in the district and those of the broader community. Whom do BIDs serve and whom should BIDs serve? Join WUF as we explore the role played by BIDs in Los Angeles, what they do well, who they represent and what the recent frictions between BIDs and their communities might mean for their future.
Panelists
Kathleen Rawson – President and CEO of Hollywood partnership, former Chair of International Downtown Association
Keith Corbin – Business Owner, West Adams BID Board President
Christopher Garcia – City of Los Angeles, Office of the City Clerk – Business Improvement Districts
Dr. Fernando Guerra – Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Loyola Marymount University and Director of the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles
Moderator
Thomas Aujero Small – President and CEO of Culver City Forward, former Mayor of Culver City
Registration Fees
$50 Members
$65 Non-Members
$10 Student Members
$15 Student Non-Members
(Members Register Here) & (Non-Members Register Here)
Pre-registration closes on Wednesday, October 26th, at 4:00 PM. After Wednesday, October 26th, onsite registration will be available at the cost of an additional $10. No refunds or credits will be provided after this day.
Event Time
7:45 am – 9:30 am
7:45 am – Registration & Light Breakfast
8:30 am – Panel Discussion
COVID UPDATE
Please note that while the use of a face mask will not be mandated, Westside Urban Forum highly encourages all of their attendees to wear a mask at all times while indoors.
Thanks to the generosity of annual Sponsors, WUF has a small number of free tickets available to members of the community. If you are not able to join as a member or purchase a ticket for this month’s panel presentation, but would like to join us, please write to WUF at info@westsideurbanforum.com to inquire if we have any remaining sponsor provided tickets.

POSTPONED - smART Talks at Helms! For Artists and Creative Professionals
2022-10-22 10:00 - 13:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED UNTIL A FUTURE DATE.
Join us on Saturday, October 22nd as we partner with Crewest Studio to present smARTtalks: A New Monthly Educational Series for Artists + Creatives with Expert Panelists! smARTalks occur once a month on Saturdays from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm inside the Helms Design Center.
smARTtalks are intimate learning sessions with a panel of experts covering timely and important topics vital to artists and creatives working in the 21st Century.
Each smARTtalk event costs $20 to attend. Only 75 tickets are available for each month’s event.
BUY TICKETS NOW

Here’s the lineup of discussions and panelists for October 22nd:

Is Art School Worth The Money? The Truth About Arts Education in America + it’s Impact on the Creative Economy with speakers Lorne Buchman, Erin Yoshi, Ibuki Kuramochi, and Cara Levine.

Preview: Experts say kids who get an arts education do better in school and life, and the professional tier in the arts is hot; the creative economy is valued at $2T. But, primary arts education in the U.S. has been defunded over the last 30 years. Meanwhile, at the college level, the cost of an arts degree can put an undergrad in debt for life. Is the ROI worth it? What should artists, designers, creatives and educators do with this information? With that much cash in the creative economy, why do artists, designers and creatives often continue to struggle economically?

Art in an Age of Political Unrest: How Current Events and Cultural Trends Drive Artistic Expression with speakers Brian McCarty, Karen Fiorito, Linda Vallejo, Marianne Sadowski, and Olga Severina.

Preview: The social and political tumult of the last five years inspired many artists to express themselves politically about racism, politics, social injustice, police brutality, gun rights, climate change, LGBTQ+ rights, and more. What is the impact and proper role of political art? Where is it most relevant and effective? And, how is freedom of expression in the arts impacted by cultural trends around language about gender coding, sexual identity, race and privilege? Does the art world have room for conservatives?
For information, click HERE!

The Art Walk and Roll Festival is Back!
2022-10-08 11:00 - 18:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Saturday, October 8th from 11 am to 6 pm, Helms Bakery is excited to partner with the Culver City Arts District for their annual Art Walk and Roll Festival, a self-guided tour and celebration of art, culture, mobility, and our creative community.
Begin at Helms Avenue where you’ll enter a dream-like world inhabited by playful and curious mythical creatures from Dragon Knights Inc. Then move on to creating “cardboard” sculptures with our friends at reDiscover Center or join in the fun with Studio 203 and artist collective Spool to create a community art journal, plus Cadfab Creative pops up with workshops, live drawing, and more art-centered fun inside the Helms Design Center.
Then off on your journey through the Arts District along Washington Boulevard to visit galleries, enjoy live music, grab a bite, or stop at the mobility test area. It’s a full day of fun festivities for the entire family. Complete details to follow.
Come on out and show your love for Culver City!

Join us for Frances Anderton's book release celebration!
2022-10-01 14:00 - 16:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Join us on Saturday, October 1st at 2:00 pm as we celebrate the release of Frances Anderton’s book Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles, published by Angel City Press. Stop in for a reception, a lively talk and Q&A.
PLEASE RSVP
Living in Los Angeles has always been equated with the suburban single-family home with a big backyard. But for decades, L.A. has also been the consummate laboratory for exceptional experiments in multifamily housing — dwellings centered on shared open space, from the central courtyard to the rooftop garden. In Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles, author Frances Anderton explores that fascinating history— from the bungalow courts and apartment-hotels of the 1910s, through the development of garden apartments, to contemporary mid-rise “urban villages” and co-living spaces. Common Ground features the work of the Zwebells, R.M. Schindler, Richard Neutra, John Lautner, Ralph Vaughn, Koning Eizenberg, Sean Knibb, Michael Maltzan, Brooks + Scarpa, Lorcan O’Herlihy, Shin Shin, and many more. In a time of housing crisis, Frances Anderton makes the case that well-designed, equitable, connected living is tomorrow’s American dream.

ABOUT FRANCES
Frances Anderton covers Los Angeles design and architecture in print, podcasts, exhibitions, and at public events. For many years Anderton hosted DnA: Design and Architecture, broadcast on KCRW, a public radio station. Her honors include the Esther McCoy Award, bestowed by the USC Architectural Guild at USC School of Architecture, for her work in educating the public about architecture and urbanism. Anderton resides in Santa Monica, California.

Book Signing + Talk with Joseph Giovannini
2022-09-29 18:30 - 20:30 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
Join us on Thursday, September 29th from 6:30 to 8:30 pm for a conversation and book signing with Joseph Giovannini and architectural journalist Frances Anderton about the new authoritative history of the Avant-Garde architecture of our times.
Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Garde (Rizzoli), by noted critic and designer Joseph Giovannini, has been called “an amazing achievement,” “a masterpiece,” and “an instant classic.” The book chronicles the century-long influence of avant-garde art and the theories of the oblique on prominent architects and some of their highest-profile projects—many of which are in Los Angeles. Don’t miss this lively discussion of architecture that is transgressive, oblique, aberrant, deconstructed, and digital.
Arcana: Books on the Arts will be at the event selling books.

ABOUT JOSEPH
Joseph Giovannini, author of Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Garde, is a practicing designer who has written on architecture and design for such publications as the New York Times, Architectural Record, Art in America, and Art Forum, and was architecture critic for New York Magazine, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and Los Angeles Review of Books. He has also taught widely in graduate architecture programs.
Photo credit: photographer Tom Bonner

ABOUT FRANCES
Frances Anderton covers Los Angeles design and architecture in print, broadcast media and public events. Her book, Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles, will be published in fall, 2022, by Angel City Press. Anderton also co-creates talks and events at Helms Bakery District. Recent programs included the public symposium Seeding The City; In Harmony With Nature, a show of architectural work by James Hubbell; and the 2021 exhibition Low Rise Mid Rise High Rise: Housing in LA Today. She is producing Art For Earth’s Sake, a series of conversations about the art world and its environmental footprint, to take place at MOCA in fall, 2022. For many years Anderton hosted DnA: Design and Architecture for KCRW public radio station, having got her start at KCRW producing Warren Olney’s current affairs shows Which Way, LA? and To The Point.

smART Talks at Helms! FREE For Artists and Creative Professionals
2022-09-24 10:00 - 13:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Starting on Saturday, September 24th, we are excited to partner with Crewest Studio to present smARTtalks: A New Monthly Educational Series for Artists + Creatives with Expert Panelists! smARTalks occur once a month on Saturdays from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm inside the Helms Design Center.
smARTtalks are intimate learning sessions with a panel of experts covering timely and important topics vital to artists and creatives working in the 21st Century.
Thanks to the wonderful generosity of an arts patron, smARTtalks is now FREE to all artists in Los Angeles. Simply register to reserve your seat now as it is an intimate event with only 75 seats available. Free coffee and refreshments (donuts!) will be served starting at 9:30 and Parking is located at 8711 Washington Boulevard, just east of the event venue.
REGISTER FOR TICKETS!
Here’s the lineup of discussions and panelists for September 24th:
10:00 am

Who Are We Now? Artists Discuss COVID + Creativity. How Did The Pandemic Help or Hurt Artists with speakers Dr. Kim Cookson and Eric Weiss, LMFT.

Preview: Given the tumult of the last 24 months, we are changed people — and artists. What have we learned? How do we best process the impact of the pandemic? And where do we go from here? Part collective group therapy session, this discussion will address these relevant, existential questions touching all of us. We will also address personal wellness in the arts.
11:00 am

How To Launch Your First Collectible Art Toy with speakers Ben Goretsky and kaNO

Preview: Collectible art toys and vinyls represent a small but hot and growing segment of the contemporary art market. If you’re an artist interested in launching your first collectible art toy, don’t miss this smARTalk. You learn about toy design, fabrication, packaging and marketing process. You’ll learn how a 2D concept drawing becomes a 3D product, where to have it manufactured and how to budget the costs. You will get the answers to these and other important questions from top industry experts.
12:00 Noon

The Long Overdue and Beautiful Rise of BIPOC Artists in the Primary Art Market: A Sincere and Permanent Correction or Cynical Opportunism by Art Dealers? with speakers April Banks, Badir McCleary, Sarah Mantilla Griffin, and Man One.

Preview: Artists of color are hot in the art market right how — and it’s about time. But why did it take so long for the mainstream art world to rightfully recognize them? What did it take for the art world to finally give artists of color a platform? And, most importantly, will it last? How will it be sustained? Or will the fickle and profit-driven art world eventually get bored and move on?

Westside Urban Forum Returns to In-Person Events!
2022-09-22 07:45 - 09:30 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
On Thursday, September 22nd from 8:30 to 9:30 am, please join Westside Urban Forum for Piece by Piece – Modular Construction’s Future in the LA Region, a discussion about present and future obstacles for modular construction and the exploration of its potential for transformative change.
With panelists Margaux Rotter, Director of Development, BLVD Hospitality, Scott Baldridge, President, Aedis Real Estate Group and Hope Street Development Group Partner, Lana Cook, Business Development Manager, Prefab Logic, and moderated by Shane Phillips, Housing Initiative Project Manager, UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies. (An Architectural Consultant to be announced.)
Doors open at 7:45 for breakfast and mingling before the panel begins and RSVP Required.
Modular construction has been long promoted as the future of real estate development, but still has yet to widely and significantly break ground for how we build in Los Angeles. However, with skyrocketing construction costs, a historic housing supply crisis, and advances in technology, is this sector poised to reenter the mainstream and become a widespread method of construction? As property prices and market rate rents soar, and with affordable housing construction costs regularly exceeding $500,000/unit, governments, community leaders, and real estate professionals are eager to find ways to reduce the cost of building and bring more units to market. Can modular construction reduce costs and usher in a future of housing abundance? Are city governments and the State welcoming this new technology? Or are the cost savings not so clear, is implementation easier said than done, and are our building codes and lending practices too rigid to meet this new opportunity?
(Members Register Here)
(Nonmembers Register Here)
Registration Fees
$50 Members
$65 Non-Members
$10 Student Members
$15 Student Non-Members
Pre-registration closes on Wednesday, September 21st, at 4:00 PM. After Wednesday, September 21st, onsite registration will be available at the cost of an additional $10. No refunds or credits will be provided after this day.
Event Time
7:45 am – 9:30 am
7:45 am – Registration & Light Breakfast
8:30 am – Panel Discussion
COVID UPDATE
Please note that while the use of a face mask will not be mandated, we highly encourage all of our attendees to wear a mask at all times while indoors.
Thanks to the generosity of our annual Sponsors, WUF has a small number of free tickets available to members of the community. If you are not able to join as a member or purchase a ticket for this month’s panel presentation, but would like to join us, please write us at info@westsideurbanforum.com to inquire if we have any remaining sponsor provided tickets.

Welcome Back! Balloon Installation & Community Dialogue with Frances Anderton
2022-09-18 14:00 - 16:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
We’ve been through unprecedented times, marked by a retreat from public spaces and by a reevaluation of intimate spaces. On Sunday, September 18th from 2:00 to 4:00 pm, join Frances Anderton and The L.A. Forum for Architecture and Urban Design as we welcome you back and we’ve blown up big balloons! Thought balloons with your messages and observations about how you occupied space over the last 2 ½ years are on display. Welcome to the conversation.
For over two years, we have been confronted with a novel approach to living in space, one that is unfamiliar and mostly unprecedented. Social distancing and isolation have had a multitude of effects on the global population, on how we relate to each other and to space. During this pandemic, (personal) space has increased for some and decreased for others, with access to and options for different safe physical and mental spaces being sadly granted on the basis of income and privilege.
The L.A. Forum for Architecture and Urban Design invites the Los Angeles community to join the conversation about space in a “post-pandemic” world. Two and half months ago L.A. Forum released their limited edition Welcome Back! newsletter that included big balloons! They asked you to write or draw your perception of space during the pandemic on this pneumatic object.
What do you define as a safe space, physical or mental? | What felt like home during this time, and how it felt to be (forced) at home? | What spaces did you wish to have more access to or were grateful for? | How did your spatial routine change?
With this Welcome Back! Balloon Installation and Community Dialogue, we’ve created an exhibit with your responses, celebrating you and your reflections at this public gathering, one honoring the special exchange that naturally occurs when humans interact in space together.
“Alone in the empty city. So vast, so quiet, for me alone.”
“2022, we are ‘normal’ again but I hold space for the new ‘me’ I found.”

Welcome Blanket Exhibition Closing Event
2022-09-17 12:00 - 16:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
Join us! For the closing of Welcome Blanket on Saturday September 17 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Welcome Blanket is a platform for engagement that transforms the abstract concept of immigration into a tangible crowd-sourced artistic action. Handcraft makers are invited to make Welcome Blankets that include notecards with stories important to their families about immigration/migration/relocation to create symbolic and practical gifts of welcome for new refugees coming to the United States. These gifts are collected, catalogued, and displayed at art institutions and exhibitions. After each show’s close, Welcome Blanket’s 30+ partner refugee resettlement groups present these tangible gifts of welcome to our newest neighbors.
Welcome Blanket makes its inaugural Los Angeles exhibit at Helms Bakery District and will continue at Skirball Cultural Center and LAX airport. A national initiative in partnership with other museums and cultural institutions will continue in the years to follow.
Exhibition Dates
August 4th through September 17th
Viewing Hours on Saturdays from 12:00 to 4:00 PM

ABOUT WELCOME BLANKET
Woven into the fabric of our country is the fundamental idea that our diversity and individual freedoms, together, allow for our personal stories that collectively make the United States a great nation. The diverse migration stories are human stories; yet the abstraction of immigration, from sweeping government policies to the use of language, particularly by the media, perpetuates “otherness,” removing us from these human stories, ones that we all have. Welcome Blanket is a platform for engagement that transforms this abstraction into a tangible, crowd-sourced, artistic action. Participants use their heads, hearts, hands, and histories to craft the country they wish to see.
Welcome Blanket was initially a response to the proposed 2000-mile border wall between Mexico and the United States. The project reimagined the 2000-mile length, one of exclusion, as 2000 miles of yarn to make individual welcome blankets for refugees coming to the United States. Handcraft makers who knit, sew, quilt, crochet, weave, felt, etc., use any textile to make 40 inch x 40 inch blankets that are easy to care for and hard to give away. They included stories important to their families about immigration, migration, or relocation, creating symbolic and practical gifts of welcome for new refugees coming to the United States. These gifts are collected, cataloged, and displayed at art and cultural institutions. During these exhibits, the message of welcome is amplified through hosting craft circles, performances, discussions, forums, and legal assistance for immigrants. Post-show, our 30+ partner refugee resettlement groups present these tangible gifts of welcome to our newest neighbors. Over 6500 have been made and distributed.
After reaching our initial goal of 2000 miles of yarn, resulting in 3400 blankets, the impact was clear. New immigrants felt the welcome; they felt seen as they were gifted these heartfelt, handmade blankets–a symbol of home, itself. And the makers reflected the diversity of this country: the youngest was 4 and the oldest 104; there were evangelical Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists; and there were makers from a wide range of political leanings. Many participants had diverse migration stories, from being descendants of slaves to displaced Native Americans, from recent refugees to descendants of the Mayflower.
Welcome Blanket’s impact reflected a sense of inclusion and we set a new goal–to bring people together to develop a new American tradition of welcome. We aim to create an enduring project and build a community of connection, a network that creates thresholds of welcome that is a public visual pronouncement and a private and tactile experience. We are building a tapestry of American migration history, connecting the stories of past migrations with people coming to the United States right now, and creating a space to discuss the complex issues around immigration with humanity.
Make a Welcome Blanket, share your story, come together and craft. Join us.
For more information: welcomeblanket.org and @welcomeblanket
Previous Exhibitions
Museum of Design Atlanta (Atlanta, GA)
Smart Museum of Art (Chicago, IL)
Fuller Craft Museum (Boston, MA)
Build Peace Conference (San Diego and Tijuana)
Welcome Blanket Brookline
Upcoming Exhibitions
San Francisco International Airport (San Francisco, CA)
Heritage Winooski Mill Museum (Winooski, VT)
Revere History Museum (Revere, MA)

ABOUT JAYNA
Jayna Zweiman is an architecturally-trained multidisciplinary artist and designer. Her independent practice combines architecture, art, craft, and new media to focus on experiences that overlap physical, virtual, and conceptual spaces.
Perhaps best known as the co-creator and co-founder of Pussyhat Project, an international network and movement of women’s rights supporters, Zweiman has become a leading advocate of utilizing design innovation to enact social change. Pussyhat Project became a worldwide phenomenon at the 2017 Women’s Marches with one of the largest crowd-sourced art advocacy projects ever. She is also the creator and founder of Welcome Blanket, a reconceptualization of the 2000-mile length of the proposed border wall as 2000-mile length of yarn to make individual welcome blankets for new immigrants coming to the United States.
Zweiman’s work has been exhibited and published internationally. Her work has been nominated for the Beazley Design of the Year by the Design Museum in London, has been acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum, and has been awarded the first ever Brand of the Year by the School of Visual Arts. Zweiman was awarded in 2017 as one of “The 25 People Who Defined Visual Culture” by Artsy.
Jayna earned her AB from Brown University with concentrations in visual arts and economics and her Master in Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
Special thanks to Welcome Blanket sponsors:

Conversation with Documentary Filmmaker Khadim Dai
2022-09-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
As part of the Welcome Blanket exhibition at the Helms Design Center, please join us on Thursday, September 15th from 7:00 to 8:30 pm for a conversation, film screening and Q+A with filmmaker Khadim Dai. Khadim will be joining us remotely from Pakistan. He will be sharing two shorts: “Your Dust Will Carry” and “Machid.”
Your Dust Will Carry
A sense of obligation to keep the memories of his friends and classmates alive, Dai films at his friends’ graveyard on the seventh anniversary of their deaths. As he begins filming, a stranger approaches and gives him some news.
Machid
Machid, 12 years old, is the second generation of Hazaras refugees living in Pakistan. Confined in the ghetto built for Hazaras in Quetta, Machid explores her surroundings as she is growing from a careless child into a curious teen. Growing in the middle of ongoing genocide, Machid is beginning to question the “normal life” in her community.

About Khadim
Khadim Dai is a filmmaker from Afghanistan. His family fled to Pakistan when he was two years old to escape Taliban persecution of his minority group, the Hazara people. He has lived most of his life as a refugee in Pakistan and, after surviving a school bombing in 2013, he fled on his own to Indonesia. There, he lived in a refugee settlement for three years and started documenting his experience. Khadim has been making documentary films since 2014. He worked as a cinematographer for the “The Staging Post” and “Chasing Asylum.” His films have been shown at the Van Abbemuseum, Ian Potter Museum of Art, QUT Art Museum, and the REDCAT.

Welcome Blanket Craft Along & Helms Exhibition Tour
2022-09-13 16:00 - 17:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
The Second Tuesday of every month, Welcome Blanket founder Jayna Zweiman hosts a virtual Welcome Blanket craft along. People join from Alaska to Florida, and from California to Maine. Whether you’re crafting, craft curious, or just want to connect, everyone is welcome!
This Tuesday, September 13, Jayna will hosting from the Welcome Blanket exhibition at the Helms Design Center. If you haven’t been able to see the show in person, this is a great way to see it! And if you’re in LA, please join us in person — the doors at Helms will be open.
Sign in virtually HERE.
For more information on Welcome Blanket, please visit WelcomeBlanket.org
Welcome Blanket is a platform for engagement that transforms the abstract concept of immigration into a tangible crowd-sourced artistic action. Handcraft makers are invited to make Welcome Blankets that include notecards with stories important to their families about immigration/migration/relocation to create symbolic and practical gifts of welcome for new refugees coming to the United States. These gifts are collected, catalogued, and displayed at art institutions and exhibitions. After each show’s close, Welcome Blanket’s 30+ partner refugee resettlement groups present these tangible gifts of welcome to our newest neighbors.
Welcome Blanket makes its inaugural Los Angeles exhibit at Helms Bakery District and will continue at Skirball Cultural Center and LAX airport. A national initiative in partnership with other museums and cultural institutions will continue in the years to follow.
Exhibition Dates
August 4th through September 18th
Viewing Hours on Saturdays from 12:00 to 4:00 PM

ABOUT WELCOME BLANKET
Woven into the fabric of our country is the fundamental idea that our diversity and individual freedoms, together, allow for our personal stories that collectively make the United States a great nation. The diverse migration stories are human stories; yet the abstraction of immigration, from sweeping government policies to the use of language, particularly by the media, perpetuates “otherness,” removing us from these human stories, ones that we all have. Welcome Blanket is a platform for engagement that transforms this abstraction into a tangible, crowd-sourced, artistic action. Participants use their heads, hearts, hands, and histories to craft the country they wish to see.
Welcome Blanket was initially a response to the proposed 2000-mile border wall between Mexico and the United States. The project reimagined the 2000-mile length, one of exclusion, as 2000 miles of yarn to make individual welcome blankets for refugees coming to the United States. Handcraft makers who knit, sew, quilt, crochet, weave, felt, etc., use any textile to make 40 inch x 40 inch blankets that are easy to care for and hard to give away. They included stories important to their families about immigration, migration, or relocation, creating symbolic and practical gifts of welcome for new refugees coming to the United States. These gifts are collected, cataloged, and displayed at art and cultural institutions. During these exhibits, the message of welcome is amplified through hosting craft circles, performances, discussions, forums, and legal assistance for immigrants. Post-show, our 30+ partner refugee resettlement groups present these tangible gifts of welcome to our newest neighbors. Over 6500 have been made and distributed.
After reaching our initial goal of 2000 miles of yarn, resulting in 3400 blankets, the impact was clear. New immigrants felt the welcome; they felt seen as they were gifted these heartfelt, handmade blankets–a symbol of home, itself. And the makers reflected the diversity of this country: the youngest was 4 and the oldest 104; there were evangelical Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists; and there were makers from a wide range of political leanings. Many participants had diverse migration stories, from being descendants of slaves to displaced Native Americans, from recent refugees to descendants of the Mayflower.
Welcome Blanket’s impact reflected a sense of inclusion and we set a new goal–to bring people together to develop a new American tradition of welcome. We aim to create an enduring project and build a community of connection, a network that creates thresholds of welcome that is a public visual pronouncement and a private and tactile experience. We are building a tapestry of American migration history, connecting the stories of past migrations with people coming to the United States right now, and creating a space to discuss the complex issues around immigration with humanity.
Make a Welcome Blanket, share your story, come together and craft. Join us.
For more information: welcomeblanket.org and @welcomeblanket
Information about additional Welcome Blanket events will be posted shortly.
Previous Exhibitions
Museum of Design Atlanta (Atlanta, GA)
Smart Museum of Art (Chicago, IL)
Fuller Craft Museum (Boston, MA)
Build Peace Conference (San Diego and Tijuana)
Welcome Blanket Brookline
Upcoming Exhibitions
San Francisco International Airport (San Francisco, CA)
Heritage Winooski Mill Museum (Winooski, VT)
Revere History Museum (Revere, MA)

ABOUT JAYNA
Jayna Zweiman is an architecturally-trained multidisciplinary artist and designer. Her independent practice combines architecture, art, craft, and new media to focus on experiences that overlap physical, virtual, and conceptual spaces.
Perhaps best known as the co-creator and co-founder of Pussyhat Project, an international network and movement of women’s rights supporters, Zweiman has become a leading advocate of utilizing design innovation to enact social change. Pussyhat Project became a worldwide phenomenon at the 2017 Women’s Marches with one of the largest crowd-sourced art advocacy projects ever. She is also the creator and founder of Welcome Blanket, a reconceptualization of the 2000-mile length of the proposed border wall as 2000-mile length of yarn to make individual welcome blankets for new immigrants coming to the United States.
Zweiman’s work has been exhibited and published internationally. Her work has been nominated for the Beazley Design of the Year by the Design Museum in London, has been acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum, and has been awarded the first ever Brand of the Year by the School of Visual Arts. Zweiman was awarded in 2017 as one of “The 25 People Who Defined Visual Culture” by Artsy.
Jayna earned her AB from Brown University with concentrations in visual arts and economics and her Master in Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
Special thanks to Welcome Blanket sponsors:

Welcome Blanket Exhibition in the Design Center Copy
2022-09-10 12:00 - 16:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
Join us! Open gallery hours Saturday, September 10 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Welcome Blanket is a platform for engagement that transforms the abstract concept of immigration into a tangible crowd-sourced artistic action. Handcraft makers are invited to make Welcome Blankets that include notecards with stories important to their families about immigration/migration/relocation to create symbolic and practical gifts of welcome for new refugees coming to the United States. These gifts are collected, catalogued, and displayed at art institutions and exhibitions. After each show’s close, Welcome Blanket’s 30+ partner refugee resettlement groups present these tangible gifts of welcome to our newest neighbors.
Welcome Blanket makes its inaugural Los Angeles exhibit at Helms Bakery District and will continue at Skirball Cultural Center and LAX airport. A national initiative in partnership with other museums and cultural institutions will continue in the years to follow.
Exhibition Dates
August 4th through September 24th
Viewing Hours on Saturdays from 12:00 to 4:00 PM

ABOUT WELCOME BLANKET
Woven into the fabric of our country is the fundamental idea that our diversity and individual freedoms, together, allow for our personal stories that collectively make the United States a great nation. The diverse migration stories are human stories; yet the abstraction of immigration, from sweeping government policies to the use of language, particularly by the media, perpetuates “otherness,” removing us from these human stories, ones that we all have. Welcome Blanket is a platform for engagement that transforms this abstraction into a tangible, crowd-sourced, artistic action. Participants use their heads, hearts, hands, and histories to craft the country they wish to see.
Welcome Blanket was initially a response to the proposed 2000-mile border wall between Mexico and the United States. The project reimagined the 2000-mile length, one of exclusion, as 2000 miles of yarn to make individual welcome blankets for refugees coming to the United States. Handcraft makers who knit, sew, quilt, crochet, weave, felt, etc., use any textile to make 40 inch x 40 inch blankets that are easy to care for and hard to give away. They included stories important to their families about immigration, migration, or relocation, creating symbolic and practical gifts of welcome for new refugees coming to the United States. These gifts are collected, cataloged, and displayed at art and cultural institutions. During these exhibits, the message of welcome is amplified through hosting craft circles, performances, discussions, forums, and legal assistance for immigrants. Post-show, our 30+ partner refugee resettlement groups present these tangible gifts of welcome to our newest neighbors. Over 6500 have been made and distributed.
After reaching our initial goal of 2000 miles of yarn, resulting in 3400 blankets, the impact was clear. New immigrants felt the welcome; they felt seen as they were gifted these heartfelt, handmade blankets–a symbol of home, itself. And the makers reflected the diversity of this country: the youngest was 4 and the oldest 104; there were evangelical Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists; and there were makers from a wide range of political leanings. Many participants had diverse migration stories, from being descendants of slaves to displaced Native Americans, from recent refugees to descendants of the Mayflower.
Welcome Blanket’s impact reflected a sense of inclusion and we set a new goal–to bring people together to develop a new American tradition of welcome. We aim to create an enduring project and build a community of connection, a network that creates thresholds of welcome that is a public visual pronouncement and a private and tactile experience. We are building a tapestry of American migration history, connecting the stories of past migrations with people coming to the United States right now, and creating a space to discuss the complex issues around immigration with humanity.
Make a Welcome Blanket, share your story, come together and craft. Join us.
For more information: welcomeblanket.org and @welcomeblanket
Information about additional Welcome Blanket events will be posted shortly.
Previous Exhibitions
Museum of Design Atlanta (Atlanta, GA)
Smart Museum of Art (Chicago, IL)
Fuller Craft Museum (Boston, MA)
Build Peace Conference (San Diego and Tijuana)
Welcome Blanket Brookline
Upcoming Exhibitions
San Francisco International Airport (San Francisco, CA)
Heritage Winooski Mill Museum (Winooski, VT)
Revere History Museum (Revere, MA)

ABOUT JAYNA
Jayna Zweiman is an architecturally-trained multidisciplinary artist and designer. Her independent practice combines architecture, art, craft, and new media to focus on experiences that overlap physical, virtual, and conceptual spaces.
Perhaps best known as the co-creator and co-founder of Pussyhat Project, an international network and movement of women’s rights supporters, Zweiman has become a leading advocate of utilizing design innovation to enact social change. Pussyhat Project became a worldwide phenomenon at the 2017 Women’s Marches with one of the largest crowd-sourced art advocacy projects ever. She is also the creator and founder of Welcome Blanket, a reconceptualization of the 2000-mile length of the proposed border wall as 2000-mile length of yarn to make individual welcome blankets for new immigrants coming to the United States.
Zweiman’s work has been exhibited and published internationally. Her work has been nominated for the Beazley Design of the Year by the Design Museum in London, has been acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum, and has been awarded the first ever Brand of the Year by the School of Visual Arts. Zweiman was awarded in 2017 as one of “The 25 People Who Defined Visual Culture” by Artsy.
Jayna earned her AB from Brown University with concentrations in visual arts and economics and her Master in Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
Special thanks to Welcome Blanket sponsors:

Welcome Blanket Knit-Alongs during the Month of September Copy
2022-09-08 12:00 - 14:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
Thursdays in September! Please join us for an afternoon knit-along from 12:00 -2:00 pm with Welcome Blanket Founder, Jayna Zweiman.
Welcome Blanket is a platform for engagement that transforms the abstract concept of immigration into a tangible crowd-sourced artistic action. Handcraft makers are invited to make Welcome Blankets that include notecards with stories important to their families about immigration/migration/relocation to create symbolic and practical gifts of welcome for new refugees coming to the United States. These gifts are collected, catalogued, and displayed at art institutions and exhibitions. After each show’s close, Welcome Blanket’s 30+ partner refugee resettlement groups present these tangible gifts of welcome to our newest neighbors.
Welcome Blanket makes its inaugural Los Angeles exhibit at Helms Bakery District and will continue at Skirball Cultural Center and LAX airport. A national initiative in partnership with other museums and cultural institutions will continue in the years to follow.
Exhibition Dates
August 4th through September 24th
Viewing Hours on Saturdays from 12:00 to 4:00 PM

ABOUT WELCOME BLANKET
Woven into the fabric of our country is the fundamental idea that our diversity and individual freedoms, together, allow for our personal stories that collectively make the United States a great nation. The diverse migration stories are human stories; yet the abstraction of immigration, from sweeping government policies to the use of language, particularly by the media, perpetuates “otherness,” removing us from these human stories, ones that we all have. Welcome Blanket is a platform for engagement that transforms this abstraction into a tangible, crowd-sourced, artistic action. Participants use their heads, hearts, hands, and histories to craft the country they wish to see.
Welcome Blanket was initially a response to the proposed 2000-mile border wall between Mexico and the United States. The project reimagined the 2000-mile length, one of exclusion, as 2000 miles of yarn to make individual welcome blankets for refugees coming to the United States. Handcraft makers who knit, sew, quilt, crochet, weave, felt, etc., use any textile to make 40 inch x 40 inch blankets that are easy to care for and hard to give away. They included stories important to their families about immigration, migration, or relocation, creating symbolic and practical gifts of welcome for new refugees coming to the United States. These gifts are collected, cataloged, and displayed at art and cultural institutions. During these exhibits, the message of welcome is amplified through hosting craft circles, performances, discussions, forums, and legal assistance for immigrants. Post-show, our 30+ partner refugee resettlement groups present these tangible gifts of welcome to our newest neighbors. Over 6500 have been made and distributed.
After reaching our initial goal of 2000 miles of yarn, resulting in 3400 blankets, the impact was clear. New immigrants felt the welcome; they felt seen as they were gifted these heartfelt, handmade blankets–a symbol of home, itself. And the makers reflected the diversity of this country: the youngest was 4 and the oldest 104; there were evangelical Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists; and there were makers from a wide range of political leanings. Many participants had diverse migration stories, from being descendants of slaves to displaced Native Americans, from recent refugees to descendants of the Mayflower.
Welcome Blanket’s impact reflected a sense of inclusion and we set a new goal–to bring people together to develop a new American tradition of welcome. We aim to create an enduring project and build a community of connection, a network that creates thresholds of welcome that is a public visual pronouncement and a private and tactile experience. We are building a tapestry of American migration history, connecting the stories of past migrations with people coming to the United States right now, and creating a space to discuss the complex issues around immigration with humanity.
Make a Welcome Blanket, share your story, come together and craft. Join us.
For more information: welcomeblanket.org and @welcomeblanket
Information about additional Welcome Blanket events will be posted shortly.
Previous Exhibitions
Museum of Design Atlanta (Atlanta, GA)
Smart Museum of Art (Chicago, IL)
Fuller Craft Museum (Boston, MA)
Build Peace Conference (San Diego and Tijuana)
Welcome Blanket Brookline
Upcoming Exhibitions
San Francisco International Airport (San Francisco, CA)
Heritage Winooski Mill Museum (Winooski, VT)
Revere History Museum (Revere, MA)

ABOUT JAYNA
Jayna Zweiman is an architecturally-trained multidisciplinary artist and designer. Her independent practice combines architecture, art, craft, and new media to focus on experiences that overlap physical, virtual, and conceptual spaces.
Perhaps best known as the co-creator and co-founder of Pussyhat Project, an international network and movement of women’s rights supporters, Zweiman has become a leading advocate of utilizing design innovation to enact social change. Pussyhat Project became a worldwide phenomenon at the 2017 Women’s Marches with one of the largest crowd-sourced art advocacy projects ever. She is also the creator and founder of Welcome Blanket, a reconceptualization of the 2000-mile length of the proposed border wall as 2000-mile length of yarn to make individual welcome blankets for new immigrants coming to the United States.
Zweiman’s work has been exhibited and published internationally. Her work has been nominated for the Beazley Design of the Year by the Design Museum in London, has been acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum, and has been awarded the first ever Brand of the Year by the School of Visual Arts. Zweiman was awarded in 2017 as one of “The 25 People Who Defined Visual Culture” by Artsy.
Jayna earned her AB from Brown University with concentrations in visual arts and economics and her Master in Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
Special thanks to Welcome Blanket sponsors:

Book Signing at Arcana with Gregory Bojorquez for Eastsiders
2022-09-03 16:00 - 18:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
Please join us at Arcana: Books on the Arts on Saturday, September 3rd, 4:00 – 6:00 PM, for a book signing
Gregory Bojorquez: Eastsiders
If you cannot attend but would like a signed copy of the brand new, second printing of Eastsiders, please place your order here, or call Arcana at 310-458-1499. They have a few copies remaining of the quickly sold out first edition that can be ordered while supplies last.
Eastsiders is the brand new collection of Gregory Bojorquez’ images spanning over twenty-five years of the noted Los Angeles photographer’s vision. “This book showcases the robust body of work of Bojorquez, photographs depicting the complex, but also celebratory, reality of Los Angeles’s vast Eastside. Not only the tattoos, clothing, and walls related to La Vida Loca, but also the mothers, the gardens, the children, the working men, the decorated lowrider cars, the spirit of resiliency.” – Luis J Rodriguez
Gregory Bojorquez was born in Los Angeles in 1972. He started photographing in his teens, and set about documenting the subjects and stories that interested him personally. The intimate images he captured in East L.A. were not the product of structured photo sessions or assignments. They were shot from the perspective of a young man hanging out with friends and neighbors. In the late 1980s Gregory began photographing for the L.A. Weekly and was added as a staff photographer. Assignments for magazines and commercial work for major record labels naturally followed. His portraits of personalities such as Snoop Dogg and Mike Tyson appeared in publications such as Rolling Stone and For His magazine. In 1999 Gregory became instrumental in the early beginnings of DUB Magazine where he was brought on as Photo Editor and a feature photographer for a period of more than seven years. Since that time, Gregory’s photographs have been exhibited internationally in gallery shows, museum exhibitions, and art fairs including Photo London, Paris Photo, and Art Düsseldorf. His work is represented by Galerie Bene Taschen in Koln, and by Little Big Man in Los Angeles; who has published this spectacular volume.

Welcome Blanket Exhibition in the Design Center
2022-09-03 12:00 - 16:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
Join us! Open gallery hours Saturday, September 3 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Welcome Blanket is a platform for engagement that transforms the abstract concept of immigration into a tangible crowd-sourced artistic action. Handcraft makers are invited to make Welcome Blankets that include notecards with stories important to their families about immigration/migration/relocation to create symbolic and practical gifts of welcome for new refugees coming to the United States. These gifts are collected, catalogued, and displayed at art institutions and exhibitions. After each show’s close, Welcome Blanket’s 30+ partner refugee resettlement groups present these tangible gifts of welcome to our newest neighbors.
Welcome Blanket makes its inaugural Los Angeles exhibit at Helms Bakery District and will continue at Skirball Cultural Center and LAX airport. A national initiative in partnership with other museums and cultural institutions will continue in the years to follow.
Exhibition Dates
August 4th through September 24th
Viewing Hours on Saturdays from 12:00 to 4:00 PM

ABOUT WELCOME BLANKET
Woven into the fabric of our country is the fundamental idea that our diversity and individual freedoms, together, allow for our personal stories that collectively make the United States a great nation. The diverse migration stories are human stories; yet the abstraction of immigration, from sweeping government policies to the use of language, particularly by the media, perpetuates “otherness,” removing us from these human stories, ones that we all have. Welcome Blanket is a platform for engagement that transforms this abstraction into a tangible, crowd-sourced, artistic action. Participants use their heads, hearts, hands, and histories to craft the country they wish to see.
Welcome Blanket was initially a response to the proposed 2000-mile border wall between Mexico and the United States. The project reimagined the 2000-mile length, one of exclusion, as 2000 miles of yarn to make individual welcome blankets for refugees coming to the United States. Handcraft makers who knit, sew, quilt, crochet, weave, felt, etc., use any textile to make 40 inch x 40 inch blankets that are easy to care for and hard to give away. They included stories important to their families about immigration, migration, or relocation, creating symbolic and practical gifts of welcome for new refugees coming to the United States. These gifts are collected, cataloged, and displayed at art and cultural institutions. During these exhibits, the message of welcome is amplified through hosting craft circles, performances, discussions, forums, and legal assistance for immigrants. Post-show, our 30+ partner refugee resettlement groups present these tangible gifts of welcome to our newest neighbors. Over 6500 have been made and distributed.
After reaching our initial goal of 2000 miles of yarn, resulting in 3400 blankets, the impact was clear. New immigrants felt the welcome; they felt seen as they were gifted these heartfelt, handmade blankets–a symbol of home, itself. And the makers reflected the diversity of this country: the youngest was 4 and the oldest 104; there were evangelical Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists; and there were makers from a wide range of political leanings. Many participants had diverse migration stories, from being descendants of slaves to displaced Native Americans, from recent refugees to descendants of the Mayflower.
Welcome Blanket’s impact reflected a sense of inclusion and we set a new goal–to bring people together to develop a new American tradition of welcome. We aim to create an enduring project and build a community of connection, a network that creates thresholds of welcome that is a public visual pronouncement and a private and tactile experience. We are building a tapestry of American migration history, connecting the stories of past migrations with people coming to the United States right now, and creating a space to discuss the complex issues around immigration with humanity.
Make a Welcome Blanket, share your story, come together and craft. Join us.
For more information: welcomeblanket.org and @welcomeblanket
Information about additional Welcome Blanket events will be posted shortly.
Previous Exhibitions
Museum of Design Atlanta (Atlanta, GA)
Smart Museum of Art (Chicago, IL)
Fuller Craft Museum (Boston, MA)
Build Peace Conference (San Diego and Tijuana)
Welcome Blanket Brookline
Upcoming Exhibitions
San Francisco International Airport (San Francisco, CA)
Heritage Winooski Mill Museum (Winooski, VT)
Revere History Museum (Revere, MA)

ABOUT JAYNA
Jayna Zweiman is an architecturally-trained multidisciplinary artist and designer. Her independent practice combines architecture, art, craft, and new media to focus on experiences that overlap physical, virtual, and conceptual spaces.
Perhaps best known as the co-creator and co-founder of Pussyhat Project, an international network and movement of women’s rights supporters, Zweiman has become a leading advocate of utilizing design innovation to enact social change. Pussyhat Project became a worldwide phenomenon at the 2017 Women’s Marches with one of the largest crowd-sourced art advocacy projects ever. She is also the creator and founder of Welcome Blanket, a reconceptualization of the 2000-mile length of the proposed border wall as 2000-mile length of yarn to make individual welcome blankets for new immigrants coming to the United States.
Zweiman’s work has been exhibited and published internationally. Her work has been nominated for the Beazley Design of the Year by the Design Museum in London, has been acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum, and has been awarded the first ever Brand of the Year by the School of Visual Arts. Zweiman was awarded in 2017 as one of “The 25 People Who Defined Visual Culture” by Artsy.
Jayna earned her AB from Brown University with concentrations in visual arts and economics and her Master in Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
Special thanks to Welcome Blanket sponsors:

Welcome Blanket Exhibition in the Design Center
2022-08-27 12:00 - 16:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
Join us! Open gallery hours Saturday, August 27 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Welcome Blanket is a platform for engagement that transforms the abstract concept of immigration into a tangible crowd-sourced artistic action. Handcraft makers are invited to make Welcome Blankets that include notecards with stories important to their families about immigration/migration/relocation to create symbolic and practical gifts of welcome for new refugees coming to the United States. These gifts are collected, catalogued, and displayed at art institutions and exhibitions. After each show’s close, Welcome Blanket’s 30+ partner refugee resettlement groups present these tangible gifts of welcome to our newest neighbors.
Welcome Blanket makes its inaugural Los Angeles exhibit at Helms Bakery District and will continue at Skirball Cultural Center and LAX airport. A national initiative in partnership with other museums and cultural institutions will continue in the years to follow.
Exhibition Dates
August 4th through September 24th
Viewing Hours on Saturdays from 12:00 to 4:00 PM

ABOUT WELCOME BLANKET
Woven into the fabric of our country is the fundamental idea that our diversity and individual freedoms, together, allow for our personal stories that collectively make the United States a great nation. The diverse migration stories are human stories; yet the abstraction of immigration, from sweeping government policies to the use of language, particularly by the media, perpetuates “otherness,” removing us from these human stories, ones that we all have. Welcome Blanket is a platform for engagement that transforms this abstraction into a tangible, crowd-sourced, artistic action. Participants use their heads, hearts, hands, and histories to craft the country they wish to see.
Welcome Blanket was initially a response to the proposed 2000-mile border wall between Mexico and the United States. The project reimagined the 2000-mile length, one of exclusion, as 2000 miles of yarn to make individual welcome blankets for refugees coming to the United States. Handcraft makers who knit, sew, quilt, crochet, weave, felt, etc., use any textile to make 40 inch x 40 inch blankets that are easy to care for and hard to give away. They included stories important to their families about immigration, migration, or relocation, creating symbolic and practical gifts of welcome for new refugees coming to the United States. These gifts are collected, cataloged, and displayed at art and cultural institutions. During these exhibits, the message of welcome is amplified through hosting craft circles, performances, discussions, forums, and legal assistance for immigrants. Post-show, our 30+ partner refugee resettlement groups present these tangible gifts of welcome to our newest neighbors. Over 6500 have been made and distributed.
After reaching our initial goal of 2000 miles of yarn, resulting in 3400 blankets, the impact was clear. New immigrants felt the welcome; they felt seen as they were gifted these heartfelt, handmade blankets–a symbol of home, itself. And the makers reflected the diversity of this country: the youngest was 4 and the oldest 104; there were evangelical Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists; and there were makers from a wide range of political leanings. Many participants had diverse migration stories, from being descendants of slaves to displaced Native Americans, from recent refugees to descendants of the Mayflower.
Welcome Blanket’s impact reflected a sense of inclusion and we set a new goal–to bring people together to develop a new American tradition of welcome. We aim to create an enduring project and build a community of connection, a network that creates thresholds of welcome that is a public visual pronouncement and a private and tactile experience. We are building a tapestry of American migration history, connecting the stories of past migrations with people coming to the United States right now, and creating a space to discuss the complex issues around immigration with humanity.
Make a Welcome Blanket, share your story, come together and craft. Join us.
For more information: welcomeblanket.org and @welcomeblanket
Information about additional Welcome Blanket events will be posted shortly.
Previous Exhibitions
Museum of Design Atlanta (Atlanta, GA)
Smart Museum of Art (Chicago, IL)
Fuller Craft Museum (Boston, MA)
Build Peace Conference (San Diego and Tijuana)
Welcome Blanket Brookline
Upcoming Exhibitions
San Francisco International Airport (San Francisco, CA)
Heritage Winooski Mill Museum (Winooski, VT)
Revere History Museum (Revere, MA)

ABOUT JAYNA
Jayna Zweiman is an architecturally-trained multidisciplinary artist and designer. Her independent practice combines architecture, art, craft, and new media to focus on experiences that overlap physical, virtual, and conceptual spaces.
Perhaps best known as the co-creator and co-founder of Pussyhat Project, an international network and movement of women’s rights supporters, Zweiman has become a leading advocate of utilizing design innovation to enact social change. Pussyhat Project became a worldwide phenomenon at the 2017 Women’s Marches with one of the largest crowd-sourced art advocacy projects ever. She is also the creator and founder of Welcome Blanket, a reconceptualization of the 2000-mile length of the proposed border wall as 2000-mile length of yarn to make individual welcome blankets for new immigrants coming to the United States.
Zweiman’s work has been exhibited and published internationally. Her work has been nominated for the Beazley Design of the Year by the Design Museum in London, has been acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum, and has been awarded the first ever Brand of the Year by the School of Visual Arts. Zweiman was awarded in 2017 as one of “The 25 People Who Defined Visual Culture” by Artsy.
Jayna earned her AB from Brown University with concentrations in visual arts and economics and her Master in Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
Special thanks to Welcome Blanket sponsors:

Join Arcana Books for a book signing with Eric Kroll: The New York Years, 1971 to 1994
2022-08-20 16:00 - 18:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
Please join us for a Book Signing with Eric Kroll at Arcana on Saturday, August 20th, 4:00 – 6:00 PM.
If you cannot attend but would like a signed copy of The New York Years, 1971 to 1994 please place your order here!
Eric Kroll is a name familiar to anyone with even the vaguest interest in contemporary photography, he has several high-profile best-selling books with houses like Taschen to his name (Fetish Girls anyone?) and his work has been featured in countless magazines over the years.
Timeless is extremely pleased to showcase a side of his work that hasn’t been widely publicized before. In the late ’70s and early ’80s Eric found himself at the very heart of a cultural eruption in NYC, with his camera ever at the ready he has documented the work and private pursuits of luminaries from the Stones to the Dead Boys, Blondie, Warhol and Haring. Madonna, Kenneth Anger, Grace Jones and Robert Mapplethorpe all feature in this stunning collection of mostly never-before seen photos. Dive into a world that no longer exists from the sleazy underbelly to the high-brow art galleries Timeless and Eric Kroll invite you to a New York at the height of its decadence and its cultural importance. A unique book, a journey, an experience!

It's the Summer of "Love Local" in Culver City
2022-08-20 12:00 - 18:00 | Helms Design District, 8800 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90034, United States
Free
Saturday, August 20, 2022
12:00 – 6:00 PM
Campus-Wide Event
In partnership with the City of Culver City, we invite you to join us on Saturday, August 20th for a campus-wide celebration of Summer. Stop by and explore the center featuring music, poetry, art, dining, demos, shopping, book signing, and sipping.
We have a jam-packed day in support of all things local, with featured fun including a film screening of the GOONIES, Live Music on Helms Walk with artists The Desperate Measures and The Black Heartthrobs, a book signing with Eric Kroll, poetry writing with The Poetry Society L.A., family crafts, T-shirt design, Welcome Blanket exhibition and so much more! Plus Enter-To-Win a Pasta Sisters gift certificate at the City of Culver City’s Welcome Booth with free buttons, stickers, Helms Bakery merch and beach balls.
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Come out and show your love for Culver City!

Welcome Blanket Exhibition in the Design Center
2022-08-20 12:00 - 16:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
Join us! Open gallery hours Saturday, August 20 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Welcome Blanket is a platform for engagement that transforms the abstract concept of immigration into a tangible crowd-sourced artistic action. Handcraft makers are invited to make Welcome Blankets that include notecards with stories important to their families about immigration/migration/relocation to create symbolic and practical gifts of welcome for new refugees coming to the United States. These gifts are collected, catalogued, and displayed at art institutions and exhibitions. After each show’s close, Welcome Blanket’s 30+ partner refugee resettlement groups present these tangible gifts of welcome to our newest neighbors.
Welcome Blanket makes its inaugural Los Angeles exhibit at Helms Bakery District and will continue at Skirball Cultural Center and LAX airport. A national initiative in partnership with other museums and cultural institutions will continue in the years to follow.
Exhibition Dates
August 4th through September 24th
Viewing Hours on Saturdays from 12:00 to 4:00 PM

ABOUT WELCOME BLANKET
Woven into the fabric of our country is the fundamental idea that our diversity and individual freedoms, together, allow for our personal stories that collectively make the United States a great nation. The diverse migration stories are human stories; yet the abstraction of immigration, from sweeping government policies to the use of language, particularly by the media, perpetuates “otherness,” removing us from these human stories, ones that we all have. Welcome Blanket is a platform for engagement that transforms this abstraction into a tangible, crowd-sourced, artistic action. Participants use their heads, hearts, hands, and histories to craft the country they wish to see.
Welcome Blanket was initially a response to the proposed 2000-mile border wall between Mexico and the United States. The project reimagined the 2000-mile length, one of exclusion, as 2000 miles of yarn to make individual welcome blankets for refugees coming to the United States. Handcraft makers who knit, sew, quilt, crochet, weave, felt, etc., use any textile to make 40 inch x 40 inch blankets that are easy to care for and hard to give away. They included stories important to their families about immigration, migration, or relocation, creating symbolic and practical gifts of welcome for new refugees coming to the United States. These gifts are collected, cataloged, and displayed at art and cultural institutions. During these exhibits, the message of welcome is amplified through hosting craft circles, performances, discussions, forums, and legal assistance for immigrants. Post-show, our 30+ partner refugee resettlement groups present these tangible gifts of welcome to our newest neighbors. Over 6500 have been made and distributed.
After reaching our initial goal of 2000 miles of yarn, resulting in 3400 blankets, the impact was clear. New immigrants felt the welcome; they felt seen as they were gifted these heartfelt, handmade blankets–a symbol of home, itself. And the makers reflected the diversity of this country: the youngest was 4 and the oldest 104; there were evangelical Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists; and there were makers from a wide range of political leanings. Many participants had diverse migration stories, from being descendants of slaves to displaced Native Americans, from recent refugees to descendants of the Mayflower.
Welcome Blanket’s impact reflected a sense of inclusion and we set a new goal–to bring people together to develop a new American tradition of welcome. We aim to create an enduring project and build a community of connection, a network that creates thresholds of welcome that is a public visual pronouncement and a private and tactile experience. We are building a tapestry of American migration history, connecting the stories of past migrations with people coming to the United States right now, and creating a space to discuss the complex issues around immigration with humanity.
Make a Welcome Blanket, share your story, come together and craft. Join us.
For more information: welcomeblanket.org and @welcomeblanket
Information about additional Welcome Blanket events will be posted shortly.
Previous Exhibitions
Museum of Design Atlanta (Atlanta, GA)
Smart Museum of Art (Chicago, IL)
Fuller Craft Museum (Boston, MA)
Build Peace Conference (San Diego and Tijuana)
Welcome Blanket Brookline
Upcoming Exhibitions
San Francisco International Airport (San Francisco, CA)
Heritage Winooski Mill Museum (Winooski, VT)
Revere History Museum (Revere, MA)

ABOUT JAYNA
Jayna Zweiman is an architecturally-trained multidisciplinary artist and designer. Her independent practice combines architecture, art, craft, and new media to focus on experiences that overlap physical, virtual, and conceptual spaces.
Perhaps best known as the co-creator and co-founder of Pussyhat Project, an international network and movement of women’s rights supporters, Zweiman has become a leading advocate of utilizing design innovation to enact social change. Pussyhat Project became a worldwide phenomenon at the 2017 Women’s Marches with one of the largest crowd-sourced art advocacy projects ever. She is also the creator and founder of Welcome Blanket, a reconceptualization of the 2000-mile length of the proposed border wall as 2000-mile length of yarn to make individual welcome blankets for new immigrants coming to the United States.
Zweiman’s work has been exhibited and published internationally. Her work has been nominated for the Beazley Design of the Year by the Design Museum in London, has been acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum, and has been awarded the first ever Brand of the Year by the School of Visual Arts. Zweiman was awarded in 2017 as one of “The 25 People Who Defined Visual Culture” by Artsy.
Jayna earned her AB from Brown University with concentrations in visual arts and economics and her Master in Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
Special thanks to Welcome Blanket sponsors:

Knitting Workshop with Welcome Blanket's Linda Preuss and Joanne Poyourow
2022-08-14 13:30 - 15:30 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
Are you learning to knit? Have you been knitting for years? On Sunday August 14th from 1:30 to 3:30 PM, please join us for a FREE workshop led by Linda Preuss and Joanne Poyourow who over the years have knitted 9 blankets with a group of friends for the Welcome Blanket project. Come be part of making a Welcome Blanket, meet new friends from the fiber community, and share your immigration stories.
Pattern and yarn will be supplied, although you may also bring yarn from your stash (DK gauge acrylic or superwash-wool, please; any color.) If you have #7 or #8 needles, pop them in your bag as well. Otherwise we’ll have some for you to borrow.
This is a knitting workshop and although we won’t be mentoring crocheting or quilting skills at this workshop, feel free to join us. The more the merrier!
This workshop will be an indoor event. Out of consideration for others we kindly ask that participants wear masks.
Questions? Contact welcomeblanketvolunteer@gmail.com

Join Arcana Books for a book signing with Peter Fetterman: The Power of Photography
2022-08-13 16:00 - 18:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
Please join us for a Book Signing and discussion with Peter Fetterman at Arcana Saturday, August 13th, 4:00 – 6:00 PM.
If you cannot attend but would like a signed copy of The Power of Photography please place your order here!
The power of photography lies in its ability to ignite emotions across barriers of language and culture. This selection of iconic images, compiled by pioneering collector and gallerist Peter Fetterman, celebrates the photograph’s unique capacity for sensibility.
Peter has been championing the photographic arts for over 30 years. He runs what is arguably the most important commercial photography gallery in the world. During the long months of lockdown, Peter ‘exhibited’ one photograph per day, accompanied by inspirational text, quotes and poetry. This digital collection struck a chord with followers from around the world. The Power of Photography presents 120 outstanding images from the series, along with Peter’s insightful words.
This carefully curated selection offers an inspiring overview of the medium while paying homage to masters of the art. From the bizarre Boschian fantasies of Melvin Sokolsky to the haunting humanity of Ansel Adams’s family portraits; from Miho Kajioka’s interpretation of traditional Japanese aesthetics of to the joyful everyday scenes of Evelyn Hofer; from rare interior shots by famed nude photographer Ruth Bernhard to Bruce Davidson’s wistful depiction of young men playing ballgames on a street; this book gathers some of the most unique and heartening photographs from the 20th century. Each image is a time capsule, offering us a glimpse into days gone past. Yet each photograph also speaks of tranquility, peace, and hope for the future.

Welcome Blanket Exhibition in the Design Center
2022-08-13 12:00 - 16:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
Join us! Open gallery hours Saturday, August 13 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Welcome Blanket is a platform for engagement that transforms the abstract concept of immigration into a tangible crowd-sourced artistic action. Handcraft makers are invited to make Welcome Blankets that include notecards with stories important to their families about immigration/migration/relocation to create symbolic and practical gifts of welcome for new refugees coming to the United States. These gifts are collected, catalogued, and displayed at art institutions and exhibitions. After each show’s close, Welcome Blanket’s 30+ partner refugee resettlement groups present these tangible gifts of welcome to our newest neighbors.
Welcome Blanket makes its inaugural Los Angeles exhibit at Helms Bakery District and will continue at Skirball Cultural Center and LAX airport. A national initiative in partnership with other museums and cultural institutions will continue in the years to follow.
Exhibition Dates
August 4th through September 24th
Viewing Hours on Saturdays from 12:00 to 4:00 PM

ABOUT WELCOME BLANKET
Woven into the fabric of our country is the fundamental idea that our diversity and individual freedoms, together, allow for our personal stories that collectively make the United States a great nation. The diverse migration stories are human stories; yet the abstraction of immigration, from sweeping government policies to the use of language, particularly by the media, perpetuates “otherness,” removing us from these human stories, ones that we all have. Welcome Blanket is a platform for engagement that transforms this abstraction into a tangible, crowd-sourced, artistic action. Participants use their heads, hearts, hands, and histories to craft the country they wish to see.
Welcome Blanket was initially a response to the proposed 2000-mile border wall between Mexico and the United States. The project reimagined the 2000-mile length, one of exclusion, as 2000 miles of yarn to make individual welcome blankets for refugees coming to the United States. Handcraft makers who knit, sew, quilt, crochet, weave, felt, etc., use any textile to make 40 inch x 40 inch blankets that are easy to care for and hard to give away. They included stories important to their families about immigration, migration, or relocation, creating symbolic and practical gifts of welcome for new refugees coming to the United States. These gifts are collected, cataloged, and displayed at art and cultural institutions. During these exhibits, the message of welcome is amplified through hosting craft circles, performances, discussions, forums, and legal assistance for immigrants. Post-show, our 30+ partner refugee resettlement groups present these tangible gifts of welcome to our newest neighbors. Over 6500 have been made and distributed.
After reaching our initial goal of 2000 miles of yarn, resulting in 3400 blankets, the impact was clear. New immigrants felt the welcome; they felt seen as they were gifted these heartfelt, handmade blankets–a symbol of home, itself. And the makers reflected the diversity of this country: the youngest was 4 and the oldest 104; there were evangelical Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists; and there were makers from a wide range of political leanings. Many participants had diverse migration stories, from being descendants of slaves to displaced Native Americans, from recent refugees to descendants of the Mayflower.
Welcome Blanket’s impact reflected a sense of inclusion and we set a new goal–to bring people together to develop a new American tradition of welcome. We aim to create an enduring project and build a community of connection, a network that creates thresholds of welcome that is a public visual pronouncement and a private and tactile experience. We are building a tapestry of American migration history, connecting the stories of past migrations with people coming to the United States right now, and creating a space to discuss the complex issues around immigration with humanity.
Make a Welcome Blanket, share your story, come together and craft. Join us.
For more information: welcomeblanket.org and @welcomeblanket
Information about additional Welcome Blanket events will be posted shortly.
Previous Exhibitions
Museum of Design Atlanta (Atlanta, GA)
Smart Museum of Art (Chicago, IL)
Fuller Craft Museum (Boston, MA)
Build Peace Conference (San Diego and Tijuana)
Welcome Blanket Brookline
Upcoming Exhibitions
San Francisco International Airport (San Francisco, CA)
Heritage Winooski Mill Museum (Winooski, VT)
Revere History Museum (Revere, MA)

ABOUT JAYNA
Jayna Zweiman is an architecturally-trained multidisciplinary artist and designer. Her independent practice combines architecture, art, craft, and new media to focus on experiences that overlap physical, virtual, and conceptual spaces.
Perhaps best known as the co-creator and co-founder of Pussyhat Project, an international network and movement of women’s rights supporters, Zweiman has become a leading advocate of utilizing design innovation to enact social change. Pussyhat Project became a worldwide phenomenon at the 2017 Women’s Marches with one of the largest crowd-sourced art advocacy projects ever. She is also the creator and founder of Welcome Blanket, a reconceptualization of the 2000-mile length of the proposed border wall as 2000-mile length of yarn to make individual welcome blankets for new immigrants coming to the United States.
Zweiman’s work has been exhibited and published internationally. Her work has been nominated for the Beazley Design of the Year by the Design Museum in London, has been acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum, and has been awarded the first ever Brand of the Year by the School of Visual Arts. Zweiman was awarded in 2017 as one of “The 25 People Who Defined Visual Culture” by Artsy.
Jayna earned her AB from Brown University with concentrations in visual arts and economics and her Master in Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
Special thanks to Welcome Blanket sponsors:

Room & Board Features Artists in Support of LA Family Housing
2022-08-08 - 2022-08-12 | 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 Richard Bruland – a 50% donation will be made on your behalf to continue the critical and life-saving services LAFH provides. Bruland’s art may be found inside the Room & Board showroom through the months of July and August.
For inquiries, please contact the artist at 323.422.9071 or email richardbruland@sbcglobal.net.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Richard Bruland was born in Lima, Peru and grew up in Geneva, Switzerland. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is a graduate (BFA) of California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. He has exhibited extensively throughout the U.S.
From 1982 -1990 he was owner/operator of Bebop Records & Fine Art, a combination retail record store, art gallery, and performance place. The gallery regularly hosted shows by artists, musicians, and poets, becoming known as one of the finest small venues in the L.A. area.
Bruland is married to artist Dori Atlantis, and works out of his studio in their Silver Lake home. He teaches painting at Whizen Center for Continuing Education at the American Jewish University, Los Angeles, and lectures and speaks about art in the Los Angeles area.

Knitting and Crocheting Workshop with Welcome Blanket
2022-08-07 11:00 - 14:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
On Sunday, August 7th from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM stop in at the Helms Design Center to join in the knitting and crocheting workshop with the Welcome Blanket team. Beginning knitting will be taught by fiber artist and instructor Andrea Roth-Fedida. Yarn, needles and pattern supplied for novice knitters, but feel free to bring your own!
Suggested yarn: worsted weight and size US8-US11 knitting needles.
All levels of knitting/crochet are welcome to join the Welcome Blanket community knitting gatherings.
