Happy New Year!

CAAM: 2022 in Review

Warm wishes from all of us at CAAM! Please enjoy this look back at 2022 and we look forward to seeing you in 2023.

Public Programs

Wed, Jan 11 | 7:00–7:30 p.m.
Artist Walkthrough: Justen LeRoy @ A+P

Artist Justen LeRoy offers insights into Lay Me Down in Praise, his three-channel film installation at Art + Practice that asks how the scream, moan, and melisma—also known as the vocal run—provide a sonic route toward Black environmentalism.

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Sat, Jan 14 | 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Self Care: Yoga

Start 2023 right at the first of this year’s monthly yoga sessions at CAAM! Move through a 60-minute flow with yoga and meditation teacher Constance Hartwell. No previous experience necessary. We’re moving the class indoors for the winter; please bring your own yoga mat.

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Mon, Jan 16 | 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
King Day 2023

Come together to honor Martin Luther King Jr. and celebrate the return of CAAM’s in-person King Day festivities! This year’s theme is “MLK: A Legacy of Service” and the program includes a performance by the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles, the King Study Group, family activities provided by the Los Angeles Public Library, food trucks, and more!

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Wed, Jan 18 | 7:00–8:00 p.m.
A Conversation with Chloë Bass at the Skirball Cultural Center

Hear Chloë Bass—the artist behind two concurrent projects in Los Angeles at the Skirball Cultural Center and CAAM at A+P—in conversation with curators Cate Thurston of the Skirball and Taylor Renee Aldridge of CAAM about the roles of institutions and artists with respect to the creation and stewardship of memory, memorials, and the presentation of private feelings in public spaces.

Bass, Thurston, and Aldridge will examine the ways in which diverse cultural contexts present different, if overlapping, modes of institutional and individual responsibility, touchpoints for connection and friction, and human-level opportunities for encounter.

Tickets:
$10 General
$5 Skirball Members, Seniors, and Full-Time Students

Co-presented with the Skirball Cultural Center

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Thu, Jan 26 | 7:00–8:00 p.m.
In Conversation: On Doyle Lane

Celebrate the launch of Doyle Lane: Weed Pots, a new catalogue of the 2020 exhibition curated by Ricky Swallow at David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles that features an essay by Swallow, a text by Lee Whitten with images by Ben Serar, and a conversation between Dale Brockman Davis and Stanley C. Wilson on their relationship and history with the late artist. The publication also includes archival material and full-color reproductions of Lane's iconic Weed Pots. Join us for a conversation moderated by CAAM Visual Arts Curator, Taylor Renee Aldridge.

Copies of the publication will be available for purchase at the event.

Presented in partnership with David Kordansky Gallery

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Sat, Jan 28 | 1:00–4:00 p.m.
Losing Ground @ 40

Losing Ground, one of the first feature-length motion pictures directed by a Black American woman, tells the story of a Black female philosophy professor and her abstract painter husband drifting apart as they experience separate creative evolutions. It won first prize at the Figueroa International Film Festival in Portugal in 1982 but didn’t receive an official release until it was restored in 2015, long after director Kathleen Collins died from breast cancer in 1988.

This two-day, multi-site program brings together luminary Black women filmmakers, scholars, and curators to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the path-breaking film, introduce new audiences to Collins’s innovative practice, and convene those long inspired by it. Explore the film’s themes, making, and legacy at CAAM on day two of the program with a panel featuring USC professor of English and award-winning author Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, USC School of Cinematic Arts PhD candidate Alex Hack, UCSD professor of communication and documentary filmmaker Zeinabu irene Davis, Georgetown professor of African American studies and author LaMonda Horton-Stallings, USC professor A.E. Stevenson, and USC PhD student Adrienne Adams. Reception to follow.

Presented in partnership with USC

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