The Art Gallery at GCC is pleased to announce its Spring 2021 season, entitled Discover 10.

We’re still on remote at GCC, so the art gallery brings you a line-up of lively evening panels on visual art that you can enjoy from home. Discover 10 focuses on diverse representation in the contemporary arts. Hear from artists, educators and curators as they introduce the innovative artists everyone should get to know.

All of our panels are free for the public. Students, check with your professors to see if extra credit is available. Click the reservation links below to save your place at one or all of our panels. Have any questions? Email us at artgallerygcc@glendale.edu Or visit us at instagram @artgallerygcc.

February 23

10 Black Artists Who Reinvented the Art World,

according to visual artists Lisa Diane Wedgeworth and June Edmonds

Black visual artists are a driving force in remaking the contemporary art world. They continue to author innovative ways for imaging Black experience, history, and culture. Join us as our panelists compare their lists of the most influential Black visual artists everyone should get to know.

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Educators: planning to use the video in your classes? Email us and tell us about it.

March 9

10 Feminist Artists Who Broke the Canon,
according to art historian Emily Haraldson and artist Kristine Schomaker

Since the 1970’s, women artists have challenged the “canon of great art.” These trail blazers paved the way for the next generations of women artists to continue expanding what’s possible. Join us as our panelists compare their lists of the women artists everyone should get to know.

Tuesday, March 9 at 7:00 pm

Free to the public

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March 30

10 Latinx Artists Who Challenge the Culture, according to artists Jose Sanchez, Dulce Soledad Ibarra and Danielle Cansino

Several Latinx contemporary artists - many of whom have roots in Los Angeles - have used art and performance as a tool of social investigation and cultural transformation. Join us as our panelists compare notes on the most influential Latinx artists everyone should know.

Tuesday, March 30 at 7:00 pm

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April 20

10 Armenian Artists Who Bear Witness,
according to artist Ara Oshagan and cultural producer Meldia Yesayan

With the largest population of Armenians outside of Armenia, Glendale is home to a thriving Armenian artist community, who bring experiences from eastern Europe, Lebanon and Iran. Join us as our panelists compare who is on their list of Armenian artists everyone should get to know.

Tuesday, April 20 at 7:00 pm

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May 4

10 API Artists at the Cutting Edge of Art,
according to artist and curator Nica Aquino and artist Diane Williams

Very few places in the nation have Los Angeles’ established Asian and Pacific Islander art scene, with our several important API cultural institutions. For API Heritage month, join us as our panelists compare their lists of the artists that everyone should discover.

Tuesday, May 4 at 7:00 pm

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may 13

10 Alternative Museums Who Are Shifting the Players,

according to curator and scholar

Dr. Carmen Cebreros Urzaiz

Though mega-museums and art fairs dominate the visual art landscape, many of these institutions haven't succeeded in improving access or creating equity in the arts. Join us for a discussion with curator and scholar Dr. Carmen Cebreros Urzaiz as she presents 10 alternative art institutions defining the terms of a more inclusive art world.

Thursday, May 13 at 7:00 PM

Free to the public

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may 18

10 Indigenous Artists Who Correct the Record, according to artist Steph Littlebird and Black Indigenous activist Amber Starks (aka Melanin Mvskoke)

Indigenous creators contend with and must dismantle a legacy of erasure from the historical and cultural record. Join us as our panelists discuss the ten Indigenous artists who everyone should know.

Tuesday, May 18 at 7:00 pm

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June 1

10 LGBTQ Artists Who Break the Silence,
a discussion with curator Aandrea Stang and
artist Paul Pescador

LGBTQ artists have always had an influential presence in the visual arts, ever since the AIDS epidemic of the 1980’s. Now, queer voices continue to expand the cultural possibilities of sex and gender expression. Join our panelists as they compare the LGBTQ artists that you should get to know.

Tuesday, June 1 at 7:00 pm

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OUR PANELISTS

As the Lady in Green (How I sit with my legs open to give my crotch sunlight), acrylic and oil on canvas, 72 x 72in, 2020.

Lisa diane Wedgeworth

Lisa Diane Wedgeworth is an interdisciplinary artist whose large-scale abstract paintings are informed by memory and employ energetic mark-making to interpret psychological and emotional energies. She is a recipient of the 2020 COLA Individual Artist Fellowship and has lectured about her work at NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness, Franklin County, OH), OTIS, California State University Los Angeles, Chapman University and Los Angeles City College where she is a part-time faculty member. A cultural producer, Wedgeworth exhibited emerging artists in her studio-based project space PS 2920 between 2015 - 2016 and recently launched the public platform, Conversations About Abstraction to share the voices of abstract artists historically excluded from the Western canon.

Ufufuo, acrylic on unstretched canvas, 84 in x 120 in, 2018.

June Edmonds

June Edmonds is a Los Angeles-based contemporary artist who uses abstract painting to explore how color, repetition, movement, and balance can serve as conduits to spiritual contemplation and interpersonal connection to her African-American roots. Exploring the psychological construct of skin color or tone through pattern and abstract painting has proven to be a revealing gesture and these ideas are explored in her energy circle paintings and her more recent flag paintings which discuss the alignment of multiple identities such as race, nationality, gender, or political leanings. Edmonds attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and has been awarded several prizes including a 2018 City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Grant (COLA), the 2020 Aware Prize for Women at the Armory Show and a 2020 Harpo Foundation Grant.

Emily Haraldson

Emily Haraldson is an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Art History Department at GCC. Her research interests include 20th-century European and American Modernism, Contemporary Art, Feminist Art, and Political Visual Culture. As an instructor, she uses her classroom to shed light on social and political issues found in historical and contemporary art alike. Emily holds a M.A. with Distinction in Art History from California State University, Northridge and a Graduate Certificate in Curatorial and Museum Studies from California State University, Long Beach.

Mechanism of Change, mixed media, 2020.

Kristine Schomaker

Kristine Schomaker is a Los Angeles based multidisciplinary artist, curator, mentor, art historian and publisher. She received her BA in Art History and a MA in Studio Art from California State University Northridge. In addition to being a practicing artist Schomaker is the founder of Shoebox PR, oversees and curates a residency space, Shoebox Projects at the Brewery in Los Angeles, is the president of the CSUN Arts Alumni Association and is the founder of the online contemporary art magazine Art and Cake. Schomaker has been exhibiting her work since the late 1990’s and has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally

Of Coarse I Am, film still, 2020.

Jose Sanchez

Jose Guadalupe Sanchez III is an interdisciplinary artist with an emphasis on painting. His work is an investigation of the interactions between different value systems found throughout Los Angeles, with a focus on intelligence, legitimacy, and authority. A driving question in his practice asks, “how as artists can we make work that, on the one hand, validates the neglected experiences of the people we care about (i.e., through direct positive representation and intervention) and, on the other, be a critical reflection on those structures that created the conditions of making a people socially, politically, economically invisible?” His projects manifest as pedagogical interventions as an arts educator for marginalized youth, paintings, performance, video, documentary video, and his socially engaged art practice.

9th to Olympic (installation), in collaboration with Carrusel Party Supplies, Kennia’s Party Supplies, and La Mexicanita en L.A, piñatas, various dimensions, 2020.

Dulce Soledad Ibarra

Dulce Soledad Ibarra is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and curator with investments in community and identity-emphasized arts and opportunity. As a practicing artist, Ibarra discusses issues of generational guilt and cultural identities in videos, installations, and performances, and has been inviting the public to partake in the dialogue via workshops and partici5patory work. Looking through queer Xicanx perspective, the work is fueled by emotional labor, personal research and analysis. Currently, the work is centered around the Piñata/Party Supply District of Downtown Los Angeles, engaging in the means of sustaining as a community of businesses and as a place of cultural familiarities and commodities.

Con Safos, oil on plywood, 48 x 72 in, 2021.

Danielle Cansino

Danie Cansino is an educator and resident artist at Mi Familia Tattoo Studio, where she specializes in color, and Chicanx style black and grey realism. In fall of 2019, Danie began her candidacy for Master of Fine Arts, attending the University of Southern California. In examining her own cultural history, and her experience around tattooed people, Danie Cansino is interested in the comradery - and also prejudices - that tattooed people encounter. Growing up in the greater East Los Angeles area, Cansino explores the notion that clients, peers, and her personal mentors all have stories to tell-- showing the impact a tattoo can have on lifestyle, family, education, employment, and careers. Danie Cansino shares these stories; and shines light on lineage, tradition, and the hardships of this practice.

iwitness (with Levon Parian and Vahagn Thomassian), public art installation, Grand Park, Los Angeles, 2015.

Ara Oshagan

Ara Oshagn is a multi-disciplinary artist and curator working in documentary photography, collage, public art, portraiture, and film. His work, curatorial practice, and research live at the intersection of generational displacement, identity, and marginalized communities. He has published 2 monographs, has exhibited his work internationally, and is the winner of multiple awards, most recently as a “Cultural Trailblazer” by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. He is also a curator at ReflectSpace Gallery at the Glendale Central Library.

Meldia Yesayan

Meldia Yesayan is a cultural producer living in Los Angeles. Born in Tehran, Iran, Yesayan is a first-generation Armenian-American immigrant raised in Glendale. Yesayan is currently the Director of Oxy Arts, the art center for Occidental College, where she oversees all aspects of the programming, public engagement, and partnerships with artists and cultural institutions. Previously, Yesayan served as the Managing Director of Machine Project, a groundbreaking Los Angeles arts collective nationally recognized for its inventive engagement based programming and partnerships with museums and academic institutions across the country. Yesayan has contributed to the publications Art Papers and the Los Angeles Review of Books. and holds a JD and BA from UCLA, and a certificate in Art Appraisal Studies from NYU.

Not for Sale (Highland Park, Los Angeles), 35mm photograph, 2019.

Nica Aquino

Nica Aquino (b. 1990, Los Angeles) is a practicing visual artist and curator. She received her BFA in Photo from the Pacific Northwest College of Art (Portland, OR) and her MA in Contemporary Visual Culture from the School of Art at Manchester Metropolitan University (United Kingdom). Her work has been shown locally, nationally and internationally. In her artwork, she primarily experiments with 35mm analogue photography, just documenting life as she sees it. No fancy bells and whistles, no manipulations, just a cheap point and shoot camera (the exact same model from her childhood), cheap film and what's in front of her at the time. She believes art making should be accessible, and that you don't always need the newest fanciest toys to create something impactful.

Curtain of Illegibility, fabric, yarn, plastic netting, plastic bags, ribbon, jute, acrylic, silkscreen ink on wooden dowel, 84 in x 204 in, 2020.

Diane Williams

Diane Williams is a Filipinx-American artist, researcher, and organizer based in Los Angeles, CA. In her work, she examines colonial legacies and the roles people play in systems and institutions of power. Williams explores this idea by drawing her audience into a deconstructed and hybrid space, real and imagined, familiar and unfamiliar, creating a counter-narrative based on her diasporic positionality. Her work has been featured in select publications and radio interviews including Artforum, Hyperallergic, Los Angeles Magazine, LA Weekly, Artillery, Eastsider LA, Art and Cake, and KPFK. Williams has also exhibited in several solo and group shows at the Armory Center for the Arts, 18th Street Art Center, Walter Maciel Gallery, Museum of Art and History MOAH, PØST, Cerritos College Gallery, Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art RAFFMA, California State University San Diego, Children's Museum of the Arts New York, Berkeley Art Center, San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries SFAC and Grafiska Sällskapet Stockholm, Sweden among others.

DR. CARMEN CEBREROS URZAIZ

Carmen Cebreros Urzaiz is a curator and scholar based in Mexico City, who specializes in museum studies and institutional history. She received her PhD in Culture and Performance from UCLA and her MA in Curating from Goldsmiths College-University of London. Her dissertation, entitled History, Locality, and Art Worlds: A Case Study of the Center for the Arts at San Agustín Etla (CASA), Oaxaca, México, examines the transformation of a regenerated 19th century textile mill into an arts center in a semi-rural town in Southern Mexico by the turn of the millennium. Dr. Urzaiz has won several awards including, the Fulbright-García Robles Scholarship (2012-15) and the Phi Beta Kappa Scholarship for International Students of Southern California (2017). She has recently curated A Trilogy of Caves, a solo show by Naomi Rincón Gallardo (MACO, Oaxaca, 2020) and Iconografika: Contemporary Prints, Photos and Works on Paper (Rubin Art Center, University of Texas at El Paso, 2018).

Native Women Earn 57 Cents on the Dollar, design, 2021.

STEPH LITTLEBIRD

Steph Littlebird is an artist, writer, curator and registered member of Oregon’s Grand Ronde Confederated Tribes. Steph earned her B.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the Pacific Northwest College in Portland, Oregon, she currently lives and works in Las Vegas. Littlebird is known for her graphic and vibrant imagery that combines the traditional totem styles of her Indigenous ancestors with contemporary illustration aesthetics. Her work frequently touches upon issues of contemporary tribal identity, cultural survivance, and responsible land stewardship. Steph has received three creative grants from the Art + Science Initiative and is the 2020 N.O.A.A. National Artist Fellow. She is also the recent recipient of a writing grant from the Oregon Cultural Trust, and her work has been featured by brands like Luna Bar, U.S.P.S. the Wild and Scenic Film Festival, and Wells Fargo.

amber Starks (aka Melanin Mvskoke)

Amber Starks (aka Melanin Mvskoke) is an Afro Indigenous (African-American and Native American) activist, organizer, cultural critic, decolonial theorist, and abolitionist. She is an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and is also of Shawnee, Yuchi, Quapaw, and Cherokee descent.

Her passion is the intersection of Black and Native American identity. Her activism seeks to normalize, affirm, and uplift the multidimensional identities of Black and Native peoples through discourse and advocacy around anti-Blackness, abolishing blood quantum, Black liberation, and Indigenous sovereignty. She hopes to encourage Black and Indigenous peoples to prioritize one another and divest from compartmentalizing struggles. She ultimately believes the partnerships between Black and Indigenous peoples (and all POC) will aid in the dismantling of anti-blackness, white supremacy, and settler colonialism, globally.

Aandrea Stang

Aandrea Stang is the University Art Gallery Director and Assistant Professor of Art at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Stang has diverse professional experience including education, curatorial, and management roles at museums, galleries, and academic institutions with additional experience in non-profit galleries and government agencies. She has developed and launched contemporary art and arts education programs for a variety of audiences at major cultural organizations including Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, Occidental College, and MOCA, Los Angeles. Stang is best known for her innovative programs and strong cross-institutional collaborations. She holds a Master's Degree from USC and a Bachelor's Degree from Oberlin College.

The Emancipation of P.P. (1), digital c-print, 2021.

Paul Pescador

Paul Pescador (they/them) is an artist, filmmaker, performer, and writer discussing social interactions and intimacy as they pertain to their own personal identity and history. Select exhibitions and screenings include Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Deslave, Tijuana;  LADRÓNgalería, Mexico City; UV Estudios, Buenos Aires; 5 Car Garage; 18th Street Art Center; Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena; Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro; Human Resources; Institute Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Main Museum; The Pit; LAND at The Gamble House; Park View;  X-tra Online; all within Los Angeles County. Select performances include Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University, Orange; LADRÓNgalería, Mexico City; Performa New York; University of California, BerkeleyDurham Studio Theater; Los Angeles Contemporary Archives; Machine Projects; PAM Residencies; Hammer Museum (with KCHUNG TV); REDCAT; and ForYourArt at 6020 Wilshire Blvd. Their first collection of writing, CRUSHES: A NOVELLA, was published by Econo Textual Objects in Spring 2017. They received a BA from the University of Southern California and an MFA from the University of California, Irvine.

THE LIST

Introduced by Lisa Diane

Wedgeworth and June Edmonds on 2/23/2021

Malick Sidibé

Lorna Simpson

Tomás Esson

Art Smith

El Anatsui

Suzanne Jackson

Zenobia Bailey

Chakaia Booker

Sylvia Snowden

Mcarthur Binion

Charles White

Varnette Honeywood

Sandra Rowe

Alison Saar

Mary Lovelace O'Neal

Rosie Lee Thompkins

Philamona Williamson

María Magdelena Compos-Pons

James Little

Mildred Thompson

Introduced by Emily Haraldson

and Kristine Schomaker on 3/9/2021

Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro

Sofonisba Anguissola

Maria Sibylla Merian

Rosa Bonheur

Hannah Höch

Yoko Ono

Ana Mendieta

Shirin Neshat

Xenobia Bailey

Faith Ringgold

Guerrilla Girls

Artemisia Gentileschi

Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Meret Oppenheim

Yayoi Kusama

Louise Bourgeois

Lynn Hershman-Leeson

Wangechi Mutu

Carrie Mae Weems

Jenny Saville

Lee Bontecou

Micol Hebron

Introduced by Jose Sanchez Guadalupe III, Dulce Soledad Ibarra, and Danie Cansino on 3/20/2021

Coco Fusco

Guillermo Gómez-Peña

María Magdalena Campos-Pons

Graciela Iturbide

Laura Aguilar

James Luna

Salvador de la Torre

Xandra Ibarra

rafa esparza

Jose Villalobos

Shizu Saldamando

Jay Lynn (Ramiro) Gomez

Moises Salazar

Chuco Moreno

Juana Valdes

Elia Alba

Sula Bermudéz-Silverman

Carmen Argote

Introduced by Ara Oshagan and Meldia Yesayan on 4/20/2021

Anna Boghiguian

Aram Jibilian

Charlie Hachadourian

Diana Markosian

Harry Vorperian

Hrair Sarkissian

Haig Aivazian

Nairy Baghramian

Nina Katchadourian

Scout Tufankjian

Ara Oshagan

Silvina Der Meguerditchian

Introduced by Nica Aquino and Diane Williams on 5/4/2021

Ai Weiwei

Yayoi Kusama

Rirkrit Tiravanija

Chiraag Bhakta - (Pardon My Hindi)

Manuel Ocampo

Sara Jimenez

Maia Cruz Palileo

Janna Añonuevo Langholz

Patty Chang

Tehching Hsieh

Kidlat Tahimik

Introduced by Steph Littlebird and Amber Starks (aka Melanin Mvskoke) on 5/18/21

OTAES / @ndn.o

Ka’ila Ferrell-Smith

Angelica Trimble Yanu

Jay Soule / @chippewar

Adam Sings in the Timber

@beads_by_adeline

@chilkat_tattoo

Kellen Trenal

DEONÉ (@getdeone/@blk.native)

Yasmine (@yazzzyx)

Adrina Wekontash Smith

Joyelle Joyner

Deonoveigh (Deon) Mitchell

James Harvin (@_astoldby_j)

Introduced by Aandrea Stang and Paul Pescador on 6/1/2021

Cathy Opie

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Mark Bradford

rafa esparza

Paul Mpagi Sepuya

Paul Pescador

Yann Novak

Amir Nikravan

David Gilbert

EJ Hill

John Burtle

Laura Aguilar

Mark McKnight

Monica Majoli

Richard Hawkins

Zackary Drucker

Introduced by Dr. Carmen Cebreros Urzaiz on 6/1/2021

International Council of Museums (ICOM)

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Argentina)

Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo (Madrid)

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Chile)

Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum

Center for the Arts at San Agustín (CASA)

Art Division (Los Angeles)

District Six Museum (Capetown, South Africa)

Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende (Santiago, Chile)

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The Art Gallery at GCC is pleased to announce its Spring 2021 season, entitled Discover 10.

February 23

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March 30

April 20

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June 1

Lisa diane Wedgeworth

June Edmonds

Emily Haraldson

Kristine Schomaker

Jose Sanchez

Dulce Soledad Ibarra

Danielle Cansino

Ara Oshagan

Meldia Yesayan

Nica Aquino

Diane Williams

DR. CARMEN CEBREROS URZAIZ

STEPH LITTLEBIRD

amber Starks (aka Melanin Mvskoke)

Aandrea Stang

Paul Pescador

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