Archana Horsting: Closing Reception

Last call to see the amazing 50 year survey exhibition of work by Archana Horsting at the Kala Gallery through July 7th, On the Fringe of the Field, A Survey of Works 1972–2022.

Mark your calendars for the closing reception Friday, July 7th, 4-6pm that will include a celebration of the work and of Archana herself! 

Archana retired at the end of 2021, but because of the pandemic we did not have a chance to truly honor her then and are putting together a short program for July 7th to thank her for creating and then sustaining Kala for close to fifty years. We have a handful of speakers who will share stories and appreciation about Archana's friendship, leadership at Kala, and impact supporting artists over the long arc of her career. We'll raise a toast to Archana and celebrate her creativity, accomplishments, and work to come!

Please join us on Friday, July 7th. The closing reception will start at 4pm with the short program honoring Archana starting at 5pm. You are also invited to email [email protected] with an appreciation, memory, or personal story celebrating Archana for us to put together for her. 

Exhibition catalogs are available at the Kala gallery for $30 + tax or online $45 (shipping/tax included).

Digital prints of a small selection of Archana's oil stick paintings are available on Artsy.

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New Exhibition at Milvia Windows - Angelica Trimble-Yanu, Strata

Angelica Trimble-Yanu, Strata

Exhibition: May 1 - October 31, 2023

Artist Reception: Thursday, July 13, 5-6pm at 2100 Milvia St, Berkeley, CA 94704

Kala Art Institute is excited to present Strata, a new installation by Angelica Trimble-Yanu at Milvia/ Addison Windows located at 2100 Milvia Street, Berkeley CA 94704. There will be an artist reception outside at Milvia/ Addison Windows on Thursday, July 13, 5-6pm. Stop by and say hello!

"As an Indigenous Oglála Lak?óta Artist, My interdisciplinary approach to printmaking and sculpture evokes an ancestral remembrance through the careful consideration of my sacred homelands in the Mak?óši?a (Badlands) and the ?e Sápa (Black Hills). My Monotypes feature graphic black and white strokes that linger between representation and abstraction, absence and presence, and the tangible and intangible. This in-between space that my work exists in, is a reclamation of Indigenous worldview, landscape, and history. I look to explore physicality and spirituality by merging the site-specific processes of sculpture and printmaking and examining the Lak?óta relationship between the human and non-human world. I look to bridge the spiritual and physical world together into an enticing embodiment of ceremony through a Lak?óta perspective, Mitákuye Oyás’i? (“All My Relations”). These acknowledgments of Lakota kinship while respecting and evoking protection of our sacred is at the heart of my work and is a powerful container to hold these traditional Lakota positions around shape, color and sacred numerical theologies" - Angelica Trimble-Yanu

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2023-2024 Media Arts Residency

Apply today for Kala's Media Arts Fellowship supporting artists working on innovative projects in and across film + video, sound, animation, performance cinema, and media arts installation. This opportunity is open to local, national, and international artists. Kala will award 4 artists a $3,000 stipend, unlimited access to Kala’s facilities for up to 9 months, one-month artist housing at the Higby (for artists outside of the area), one free Kala art class or workshop, and a culminating group exhibition with the 2023-2024 Fellowship and Media Arts Cohort in the Kala Gallery.

Don't forget Kala's Artist-in-Residence application, including the Jen Cole Award, is also open in SlideRoom, deadline to apply is July 15th, 9pm PDT.

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Date & Time: Monday, July 24, 6-9pm

Location: Kala Gallery and Classroom

Facilitators: Kala Staff

Come draw with us in the spacious Kala gallery! We will have a model for the full 3 hours during which participants can practice their figure drawing at their own pace, work on incorporating a figure into an existing piece, or however they’d like to use their time! Kala staff members – who are also practicing artists – will facilitate the session and offer any desired feedback or support. Kala will provide drawing boards and standing easels, but recommend that participants bring tools and surfaces of their choice to the session. Kala will have limited basic materials for general use (such as charcoal, graphite, and newsprint). The session will include a series of short poses (1 – 5min) as well as some longer poses (10 – 20min).

This community workshop is open to all 18 and above. The figure model will be unclothed for the duration of the drawing session. As of this month, mask-wearing is recommended but optional for all visitors in Kala’s gallery and community classroom. Space limited, please RSVP via Eventbrite.

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