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Within each family are the stories, successes, and hardships of the women who created and cared for them. What are the objects that tell those stories? Now is your chance to be the curator of your family’s past and present. In our first “Be Your Own Archivist” class the Women’s Museum of California invites you to learn how to care for textiles in your own home. Do you have beloved family textiles like quilts, garments, tablecloths or rugs that you want to preserve for future generations? Annabelle Camp from Balboa Art Conservation Center will demonstrate proper techniques to preserve beloved textiles. She will demonstrate the best practice for storing textiles, focusing on low cost, archival methods for hanging and folded storage and provide tips on proper climate and pest prevention. Sample materials will be provided for participants to touch and practice best methods of care.

Even if you don't know burnt ends from a short end, here's a (brief!) introduction for Taylor Swift and the rest of the world to understanding Kansas City and what makes it so enchanting.

Oolong Gallery is happy to invite you to the upcoming show Chiffonnier / Ragpicker — an exhibition in dialogue between two Dutch artists: Bert Frings (Rotterdam, NL) and Bas Louter (Los Angeles, CA). The title cites French artist Edouard Manet’s painting The Ragpicker (1865-1870). The traditional chiffonnier makes a living by picking up and selling rags and junk. Bert and Bas produce art by reusing objects and images for practical or aesthetic purposes and so prolonging their usefulness. Bas Louter and Bert Frings met in Utrecht, Netherlands in 1997, and their ongoing dialogue now continues on view at Oolong Gallery. The exhibition will be about their favorite Dutch artist René Daniëls, the influence of moving to the colossal hybrid city LA and of classical vanitas — still life paintings of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. The following interview between the two artists delves deeper into their practice. Stay Connected with Oolong Gallery: Facebook + Twitter

Sunday, Dec 17, 2023 Posada & Tiagüis You are cordially invited to the Tianguis de la Raza of the year 2023 + our annual Posada. Save the date and let’s celebrate the beginning of the winter with a day of music, raffles and prices, delicious food, natural medicine, and local POC artisans with products for all occasions. Come and celebrate the end of the year with us. View this event on Facebook

A powerfully gifted musician and a scholar of Black American music, Jake Blount speaks ardently about the African roots of the banjo and the subtle, yet profound ways African Americans have shaped and defined the amorphous categories of roots music and Americana. His 2020 album Spider Tales (named one of the year’s best albums by NPR and the New Yorker, earned a perfect 5-star review from the Guardian) highlighted the Black and Indigenous histories of popular American folk tunes, as well as revived songs unjustly forgotten in the whitewashing of the canon. Blount’s new album, The New Faith, is a towering achievement of dystopian Afrofuturism and his first album for Smithsonian Folkways (released September 23, 2022). The New Faith is spiritual music, filled with hope for salvation and righteous anger in equal measure. The album manifests our worst fears on the shores of an island in Maine, where Blount enacts an imagined religious ceremony performed by Black refugees after the collapse of global civilization due to catastrophic climate change. Blount’s music is rooted in care and confrontation. On stage, each song he and his band play is chosen for a reason—because it highlights important elements about the stories we tell ourselves of our shared history and our endlessly complicated present moment. The more we learn about where we’ve been, the better equipped we are to face the future. This is Jake Blount’s San Diego premiere. For more information visit: artpower.ucsd.edu

This May, Distinction Gallery is pleased to present "WALLFLOWER", a new exhibition by celebrated painter Kelly Vivanco. Originally from Southern California, Vivanco has exhibited works across the U.S., including the Portsmouth Museum and Art Basel. Her playful paintings evoke children’s literary illustration as well as vintage photography and dreamlike nostalgia. The new pieces balance familiar themes with new concepts, expanding her oeuvre in a manner sure to delight and intrigue. Meet Kelly Vivanco at our opening reception, Saturday May 13 from 6-10 p.m. There will be live music and drinks for sale from Last Spot by Hidden Hive (21+). Come explore our gallery, visit studios and meet other art lovers! Distinction Gallery is proud to represent Kelly Vivanco. Contact us any time for information regarding her pieces via email. Stay Connected with Kelly on Social Media! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

The FIRE+WATER double bill will couple Hong Sangsoo's "IN WATER" (61 min) with Pedro Costa's "THE DAUGHTERS OF FIRE" (9 min). Both films, fresh of their North American premieres, show consummate artists taking some of the boldest risks of their careers. For Hong it's shooting a feature film in varying focal lengths, a decision that comes fully into focus in the film's indelible final image. For Costa, it's staging a three-screen mini-opera with three incredible performers filmed independently but somehow performing in unison. "THE DAUGHTERS OF FIRE" by Pedro Costa, 2023, 9 min Official Selection - Cannes, TIFF, NYFF Three young sisters are separated by the eruption of Fogo, but they sing: one day, we will know why we live and why we suffer. "IN WATER" by Hong Sangsoo, 2023, 61 min Official Selection - Berlinale, NYFF A trio of friends venture to the rocky shores of a large island to shoot a film together. The director, Seongmo (Shin Seokho), recently gave up acting and has decided to make a film with his own money. His former classmate, Sangguk (Ha Seongguk), will operate the camera and Namhee (Kim Seungyun) will act in it. The only problem: Seongmo hasn’t decided what to make. As he wanders in the rocks and wind, Seongmo searches for a story. What he finds is a young woman picking up trash. And that is all he needs. His most overtly experimental work to date, "In Water" reveals Hong at the height of his allusory powers. The story is simple: three friends set out to make a film, and then they do it. But with bold formal choices and his signature impulse toward the uncanny, Hong evokes infinite mysteries and hints at whole worlds lurking below the surface of everyday reality. Digital Gym Cinema on Facebook / Instagram

“We all get dressed for Bill,” says Vogue editrix Anna Wintour. The “Bill” in question is 80+ New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the Times Style section in his columns “On the Street” and “Evening Hours.” Documenting uptown fixtures (Wintour, Tom Wolfe, Brooke Astor, David Rockefeller—who all appear in the film out of their love for Bill), downtown eccentrics and everyone in between, Cunningham’s enormous body of work is more reliable than any catwalk as an expression of time, place and individual flair. In turn, Bill Cunningham New York is a delicate, funny and often poignant portrait of a dedicated artist whose only wealth is his own humanity and unassuming grace. For more information visit: digitalgym.org Stay Connected on Facebook

The first volume in author-artist Sharee Miller's debut YA graphic novel series reminds us of the many possibilities and excitements interwoven within the challenging years of early teenagerhood.

From the organizers: Our latest installment of the music of J.S. Bach paired with arrangements of great Rock & Roll, including a new rock tune -"Rain Cried Softly" by Gregg Young. With which other Consort's classic arrangements will these talented musicians surprise you? The Beatles? Led Zeppelin? Jimi Hendrix? Nirvana? Come to our concerts to find out. It will be fun!