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Thursdays, 12:30–1 PM PDT

Free weekly drop-in sessions are open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

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Two photographs of men in black and white, seen from the waist up. The man on the left is dressed in native American dress, and the man on the right is dressed in a suit and tie.

Wendy Red Star: UCLA Department of Art Lecture

With a practice spanning photography, sculpture, video, fiber arts, and performance, artist Wendy Red Star creates work that is at once inquisitive, witty, and unsettling.

Thu Feb 4 6:30 PM

A colorful painting of five figures before a building

Lunchtime Art Talk on Brandon D. Landers

Associate curator Erin Christovale leads a live, online discussion of Brandon D. Landers' work.

Wed Feb 10 12:30 PM

Tears streaming from a brown eye in a close detail of a painting entitled "Mr. Rene # MAN POWER" (2011) by Fulton Leroy Washington (aka "MR. WASH")

Fulton Leroy Washington (aka MR. WASH) & Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi

A discussion of MR. WASH's paintings, focused on portraits of public figures and individuals he met while incarcerated.

Thu Feb 11 5:00 PM

View of a room with white walls and a dark floor, with various objects sitting on the floor.

Lunchtime Art Talk on Ser Serpas

Chief curator Connie Butler leads a live, online discussion of Ser Serpas' work.

Wed Feb 17 12:30 PM

Constitution Happy Hour

Special Programs

Constitution Happy Hour: Impeachment

This guided, topical conversation about the US Constitution focuses on the historic second impeachment of former President Donald Trump.

Thu Feb 18 5:00 PM

A rectangular image is divided into three segments. The bottom segment spans the full width and depicts three figures wearing dark clothes in a room with a yellow floor. Two figures lie on the floor and the third stands against the back wall. On the upper left, an arm extends into the frame, with the hand lightly cupped. The image in the upper right shows an detail of the image at bottom, showing the two figures on the right end of that image.

deader than dead, with Ligia Lewis & Mlondi Zondi

A conversation and a screening of Lewis’s dance performance “deader than dead," conceived for Made in L.A. 2020.

Sun Feb 21 1:00 PM

A family portrait of four preteens, arranged in a living room

Lunchtime Art Talk on Buck Ellison

Curatorial assistant Nicholas Barlow leads a live, online discussion of Buck Ellison's work.

Wed Feb 24 12:30 PM

A black marble notebook cover that reads Back to School: Vaccinating Teachers

Back to School: Vaccinating Teachers

Amid the push to reopen schools in the United States, how are educators being factored into the national vaccination strategy?

Tue Mar 2 5:00 PM

A white ceiling corner with ACT I embossed on it

Lunchtime Art Talk on Niloufar Emamifar

Made in L.A. 2020 assistant curator of performance Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi, leads a live online discussion of Niloufar Emamifar's work.

Wed Mar 3 12:30 PM

A photograph of two videos projected side-by-side against a black wall that takes up two-thirds of the image. The carpet in the lower third of the photograph is blue.

Lunchtime Art Talk on Kahlil Joseph

Made in L.A. 2020 assistant curator of performance Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi leads a live online discussion of Kahlil Joseph's work.

Wed Mar 10 12:30 PM