Hammer Blog

Artist and L.A.-native Devon Tsuno welcomed us into his studio for a demonstration of his Family Day workshop.

In honor of this month's Shake It Off dance movies series, two Hammer staff members decided to write a blog post (that very quickly turned into a three-parter) about their favorite dance movies, and some guilty pleasures.

Walking though Oliver Payne and Keiichi Tanaami’s collaborative exhibition, I was immediately drawn in by the way Payne pulled his iconography from video games, and by the relationship I saw between Tanaami’s work and manga.

We met up with another one of this year's participating artists, Jennifer Moon, for an interview and demonstration of her Family Day workshop.

"Black Male" was a seed, a catalyst for further introspection into the ways in which black masculinity is addressed in contemporary art,