War Time Graphics Poster Exhibition
Washington Corridor Gallery 8723 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesFree
Graphic arts were always one of the quickest forms of creative response to current social and political issues. War Time Graphics is an exhibition of war posters featuring anti-war 50 posters by contemporary Ukrainian artists. Organized by The 4th Block association and PosterTerritory. By appointment only.
Path of Resistance Charity Event
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAFree
Support Ukraine! Path of Resistance is a pop-up exhibition and a silent auction featuring a selection of fine art pieces by contemporary Ukrainian artists that celebrate creative authenticity and share with the audience their vision of beauty, hope, freedom, and love.
Groundwork: So Cal Fibershed Symposium
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAThe inaugural Groundwork: So Cal Fibershed Symposium will bring together ranchers and farmers, designers, advocates, academics, and changemakers for a day of project presentations and networking. If you’re interested in regen ag and local fiber (or sheep and goat grazing for fire mitigation), please join us.
Westside Urban Forum Breakfast Talk: Intended Taxes & Unintended Consequences: Measure ULA’s Real Estate Transfer Tax
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAOn Thursday, March 23rd at 7:45 am, please join Westside Urban Forum for a breakfast reception and panel discussion about Measure ULA, affordable housing and homelessness initiatives.
Book Signing for Family: The Source Family Scrapbook
Arcana: Books on the Arts 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CAFree
Join us for a very special Sunday afternoon presentation with authors Isis Aquarian, Jodi Wille, and Charlie Kitchings to celebrate the publication of Family: The Source Family Scrapbook. For the event the three will host an exhibition of rare photographs and printed materials from the Source Family Archive housed at the UC Santa Barbara Library's Special Research Collections, engage in a discussion about the Family and the book, and sign copies afterwards.
Material and Mind: An Author Talk with Chris Bardt
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAMaterial Encounters in partnership with PLP So Cal is delighted to welcome Christopher Bardt, AIA, to discuss his recent book, Material and Mind in which he delves deeply into the interaction of mind and material world, mediated by language, image, and the process of making.
Small Infrastructures: Exhibition & Panel Discussion
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAFree
Small Infrastructures is an exhibition of ADU designs that uses the economics of building assembly as the groundwork for experimentation and addresses how cities can work with architects to build quality, affordable housing under the American Jobs Plan. Ten architects teaching at Harvard GSD and Berkeley CED consider the overlaps between academia, where cost is often external to conceptual work, and practice, where budgeting is an integral task.
Book Signing with Melba Levick and Rubén Mendoza for Casa Santa Fe
Arcana: Books on the Arts 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CAFree
Join us art Arcana Books on Saturday, April 8th, 4:00 - 6:00 pm, for a book signing with Melba Levick and Rubén Mendoza for Casa Santa Fe!
Seeding the City: Nature’s Story
Helms Bakery District 8800 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, United StatesFree
Join us on Earth Day, Saturday, April 22nd, 2023 from 12:00 noon to 5:00 PM for a full day of playful visualizations to spark your (re)connection with nature.
Westside Urban Forum Breakfast Talk: Mayor Bass’ State of the City
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAOn Thursday, April 27th at 7:45 am, please join Westside Urban Forum at the Helms Design Center for a breakfast reception and panel discussion about Mayor Bass's State of the City Address.
Kohler Design Open House
Kohler Signature Store 3250 Helms Ave, Los Angeles, CAJoin Kohler Signature Store on April 28th and 29th for a complimentary private consultation on bathroom design.
Creative Perspectives Art Exhibition at HD Buttercup | Coco Republic
H.D. Buttercup | Coco Republic 3225 Helms Avenue, Los Angeles,, CA, United StatesFree
A series of art exhibitions exploring the talents of creatives across California by Coco Republic. Explore the work of the first inaugural artist, Monica Perez.
Book Signing at Arcana with Ed Templeton for Wires Crossed
Arcana: Books on the Arts 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CAFree
Please join us Saturday, May 6th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM for a very special book signing with artist / photographer / skate legend – and all-around awesome human being – Ed Templeton! Hot off the presses, his latest is the years-in-the-works Wires Crossed, which documents nearly twenty years of life on the road with some of the most notable skaters of his generation.
A reception, lecture, and discussion with Lorcan O’Herlihy, FAIA
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAFree
Join renowned architect Lorcan O’Herlihy and Stephen Phillips, Director of Cal Poly Metro Program, for an innovative discussion about Architecture and Design. O’Herlihy has built a robust portfolio of work rooted in embracing architecture’s role as a catalyst for change. Enacting a powerful alliance of inventive designs with vigorous social ideals, O’Herlihy’s work prospers whether it is supportive affordable housing in South Los Angeles, working with grassroots neighborhood advocates in Detroit, or designing cultural institutions like Chapman University Dance School.
Westside Urban Forum Breakfast Talk: Al Fresco Dining in the Public Right-of-Way: Whose Space is it?
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAOn Thursday, May 18th at 7:45 am, please join Westside Urban Forum at the Helms Design Center for a breakfast reception and discussion about how different cities are responding to the shifting landscape of outdoor dining.
A reception, lecture, and discussion with Nima Javidi and Behnaz Assadi of JA Architecture Studio
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAFree
JA Architecture Studio, a Toronto-based practice led by Iranian-Canadian architect Nima Javidi and landscape designer Behnaz Assadi, combines the rootedness of a local architecture firm with the broad interests of an international design studio. From small to medium sized buildings that confront detail-level building constraints to ambitious international competitions, the studio’s work tries to find meaningful tangencies between iconographic, geometrical and formal properties of architecture of different backgrounds and invests in inventing new architectural hybrids as responses to the diverse realities of 21st century cities.
A reception, lecture, and discussion with Jennifer Bonner from MALL
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAFree
Join Cal Poly SLO LA Metro for a reception, lecture, and discussion with Jennifer Bonner: “Dollhouses, Candy, and Blanks OR Roof Plans, Domestic Still Lifes and Cross Laminated Timber”
Creative / Perspectives: Exhibit (02) Visual Contrast Studio
H.D. Buttercup | Coco Republic 3225 Helms Avenue, Los Angeles,, CA, United StatesJoin us Thursday, June 8th, for opening night of the second installment of Coco Republic’s newest art exhibition, featuring Los Angeles based art studio Visual Contrast as they display their custom collection at H.D. Buttercup | Coco Republic.
L.A. GOAL and Helms Bakery District present Moving Together, an Inclusive Art Exhibit
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAFree
L.A. GOAL, a non-profit organization committed to creating opportunities and equity for adults with developmental disabilities so they can live more fulfilling lives, presents Moving Together, an inclusive art exhibit exploring the theme of "movement" through various art forms.
Book Signing at Arcana with Jason Lee: CA | TX 17
Arcana: Books on the Arts 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CAFree
For the past fourteen years, artist, actor, and skateboarder Jason Lee has traversed America making quiet, reflective photographs detailing the landscape and its oft-overlooked and forgotten places. TX | CA 17 is the first time Lee has published images from a single outing.
Design & Art In California, a curated collection of books by Cisco Home & Burntsienna Research Society
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAFree
Cisco Home and Burntsienna Research Society have curated a collection of books centered around Design & Art in California for the Los Angeles Design Festival.
Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture
Close to the Edge Exhibition 8707 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAFree
Exploring the multidimensional influence of hip-hop on our urban fabric. This dynamic exhibition dives into the rich and vibrant world of hip-hop, from its fundamental elements of emceeing, b-boying, and graffiti, to its influence on the world of design and architecture.
Susan Maddux Art Exhibition
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAFree
Los Angeles artist Susan Maddux uses origami-inspired folding to transform paintings, creating hybrid objects that exist in the space between painting and sculpture.
The Latinx/e Experience in Design
Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CAFree
A panel of Latinx/e Designer/Educators discuss their pathway to graphic design as students, professionals and educators.
Wine and Weave with George Haroonian of The Rug Warehouse
The Rug Warehouse 3260 Helms Ave., Culver City, CAFree
Join George Haroonian for a design talk about the rug industry today, in addition to The Rug Warehouse’s creative offerings.
