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OPEN FORUM is an event space organized by the Hammer Student Association (HSA) in collaboration with UCLA Game Lab, Student Committee for the Arts (SCA), Westwind Literary Journal, UCLA Student Food Collective, 77, Content is Relative, GRAPHITE Interdisciplinary Journal of the Arts, The Shed Beverly Hills, Brynn Shiovitz (DJ D-Lite), Wendy Yao’s DIY Culture Class, and dancers and choreographers from the UCLA World Arts and Cultures Department. 1056 Westwood Boulevard | Los Angeles CA, 90024

Upcoming events:

The SCA NightCAP: Acapella
The Swap: A Student-Run Swap Meet
Nu Approaches to Garment Construction
Food Revolution: Do It Yourself!
Open—Table
Dance Performance Night: OBJECTS




—- Arts ReSTORE LA: Westwood is a Hammer curated retail pop-up in Westwood Village running from November 1-24. Local artisans and designers activate empty storefronts and offer handcrafted, one-of-a-kind items for purchase.

Hours: Thursday–Saturday 11AM-8PM | Sundays 11AM–5PM

Tanya Aguiñiga is a Los Angeles-based furniture designer and artist who was raised in Tijuana, Mexico. She holds an MFA in furniture design from Rhode Island School of Design. Aguiñiga’s space features wall hangings, knitted rope lamps, furniture, jewelry, clothing, and new accessories created on site.

1000 Westwood Boulevard | Los Angeles, CA 90024











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Arts ReSTORE LA: Westwood is a Hammer curated retail pop-up in Westwood Village running from November 1-24. Local artisans and designers activate empty storefronts and offer handcrafted, one-of-a-kind items for purchase.

Hours: Thursday–Saturday 11AM-8PM | Sundays 11AM–5PM

Sonja Rasula and the UNIQUE LA team present a speaker series entitled “Meet the Makers” featuring a different LA artisan each week. They also lead four different craft workshops, each one with its own unique focus.

10899 Wilshire Boulevard | Los Angeles, CA 90024 (Hammer Museum)

Upcoming events:
“Meet the Maker” Talk Featuring Jo Abellera
UNIQUE LA Free Workshop: DIY Gold Leaf
“Meet the Maker” Talk, featuring Hedley & Bennett
UNIQUE LA Free Workshop: DIY Screen Printing
“Meet the Maker” Talk Featuring Casey Caplowe of GOOD
UNIQUE LA Free Workshop: DIY Mood Board




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Arts ReSTORE LA: Westwood is a Hammer curated retail pop-up in Westwood Village running from November 1-24. Local artisans and designers activate empty storefronts and offer handcrafted, one-of-a-kind items for purchase.

Hours: Thursday–Saturday 11AM-8PM | Sundays 11AM–5PM

Started by Westwood residents Rama Bauer and Steve Rohal, Whitman’s Beard Used Books offers thousands of fiction and non-fiction titles in hardcover and paperback.

1000 Westwood Boulevard | Los Angeles, CA 90024









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Arts ReSTORE LA: Westwood is a Hammer curated retail pop-up in Westwood Village running from November 1-24. Local artisans and designers activate empty storefronts and offer handcrafted, one-of-a-kind items for purchase.

Hours: Thursday–Saturday 11AM-8PM | Sundays 11AM–5PM

I have a wandering ‘eye’ that constantly surveys a local terrain in search of something beautiful or strange, something previously hidden. I am an artist and a collector of after-images and oddities of life. The artists’ studio gives me, as the Chinese say, Double Happiness. It is not just a ‘warehouse’ of finished art but also an archeological site where I can unearth and frame my own images from their leftovers. I can show them a part of themselves they perhaps have not seen before. As a curator I not only look for finished artworks to exhibit but also for the processes, accidents, refuse, and raw materials of art and life. The studio is like a drawing. It is a work in flux, one that is created by an artist without thinking about a grand finished object. It is the thing artists do when they don’t ‘think.’

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