Free
On Thursday, February 27th, from 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Helms Bakery District and the Cal Poly L.A. Metropolitan Program in Architecture and Urban Design are excited to host a reception, lecture, and discussion with Jimenez Lai of Bureau Spectacular.
On Saturday, March 7th from 4:00 to 6:00 pm, please stop by Arcana: Books on the Arts for a very special afternoon with Bruce Licher and Karen Nielsen Licher of Independent Project Press & Records as they celebrate the release of Savage Impressions with a book signing, one-day exhibition and sale of printed matter, and a musical performance at 5:00 PM sharp by SR2.
On Saturday, March 14th from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, please join us in welcoming Textile Arts Los Angeles and artist and natural dye explorer Trudy Barnes for an in depth session on natural dyeing: Nurturing Your Natural Dye Practice: Spring Color.
On Saturday and Sunday, March 14th and 15th from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, please join us in hosting Textile Arts LA's Carrie Burckle for a weekend-long screen printing workshop where you’ll explore chance and improvisation as playful strategies incorporating collage, stamping, cut outs, and painting for designing prints.
On Sunday, March 15th from 1:00 to 4:00 pm, please join Textile Arts Los Angeles and local fiber artist and spinning expert Anna Zinsmeister for The Art of Spinning, a hands-on experience spinning Karakul sheep wool sourced from a ranch in the northern edge of Los Angeles County. We’ll discuss the method and challenges of processing fleece into spin-able material, practice spinning with a hand spindle, and learn a bit about the various types of wool fibers and their uses.
On Wednesday, March 18th from 7:30 to 9:00 am, please join us in welcoming Urban Land Institure for the ULI Los Angeles StimULI Breakfast discussion, From Urban Shopping Mall to Tech Campus: The Creative Office Conversion of Westside Pavilion.
On Wednesday, March 25th from 7:30 to 9:00 pm (Doors at 7:00 pm), please join us in welcoming Textile Arts Los Angeles and Christopher Bardt for practiceLAB, a conversation and in-depth exploration of the interaction between mind and material world, mediated by language, image, and making—in design, the arts, culture, and science.
Join us for a free Zoom webinar with Anda French and Jenny French of French 2D. Hosted by the Cal Poly Los Angeles Metropolitan Program in Architecture and Urban Design — California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
Please join us Thursday, April 16th, 4pm PST for a lecture and live Q+A discussion with Lydia Kallipoliti of Cooper Union. Available via Zoom. Hosted by the Cal Poly Los Angeles Metropolitan Program in Architecture and Urban Design.
