Workshop: Alternative to What? Starting Your Own Art Space

JAN 30 SAT: January 30 2010, 10:00am; Hammer Lectures

: Machine Project storefront. Photo: Michele Yu.; Mark Allen; Lauri Firstenberg; Julie Deamer; Yoshua Okón

Workshop: Alternative to What? Starting Your Own Art Space

Under the guidance of Mark Allen, founder and director of Machine Project; Julie Deamer, founding director of Outpost for Contemporary Art; Lauri Firstenberg, founder and director/curator of LA><ART; Daniel Joseph Martinez, artist and founding director of Deep River, an artists’ gallery experiment that lasted from 1997-2002; and Yoshua Okón, artist and founder of SOMA, a new alternative arts graduate school; artists, graduate students, and post-graduate cultural practitioners will debate the meaning and viability of the so-called “alternative” art space in a contemporary context, and will be invited to workshop their own ideas for art spaces.

Each workshop costs $10 to enroll and includes lunch. Enrollment is limited; please call 310-443-7047 for further information or to reserve your spot.

In conjunction with the exhibition Rachel Whiteread Drawings.

Parking is available under the museum for $3 for 3 hours.

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Public programs are made possible, in part, by a major gift from Ann and Jerry Moss.

Additional support is provided by Bronya and Andrew Galef, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, an anonymous donor, and the Hammer Programs Committee.