Barnsdall Art Center Student Advisory Committee

05/17/2025

URGENT ACTION NEEDED!
PLEASE HELP SAVE BARNSDALL ART PARK PROGRAMS!

❤️WAYS TO HELP

The Los Angeles City Council has until May 22 to vote on the proposed 2025-26 budget. Please contact your city councilmember to voice your opposition to these cuts.

☎️Local councilmembers contract info:

Councilmember for the 13th District (Barnsdall Art Park) Hugo Soto-Martinez
[email protected]
213-473-7013

Councilmember for the 4th District Nithya Raman
[email protected]
213-473-7013

✉️To send a message to the Budget and Finance Committee by Tuesday, May 20th:
http://engage.laconservancy.org/hollyhock

To sign a petition against these proposed budget cuts:
https://www.change.org/savebarnsdall

Oppose Proposed Budget Cuts to Barnsdall Art Park + Community Cultural Centers in LA

12/19/2024

Winter 2025 Session Registration Opens January 6th!

This workshop involves the practice of mosaic as a creative art medium. Bringing the many into harmony as a unified one, mosaic is an ancient and engaging process that has great relevance to our busy modern existence. In a calm and alert state of mind we employ gentle hands to find the mosaic as it....

12/19/2024

📣📣 WE'RE HIRING! Help preserve LA's only UNESCO World Heritage site and work on the final phase of Residence A's transformative restoration.

The full-time Preservation Manager oversees preservation projects and site maintenance for the historic structures, collections, and landscape in Barnsdall Park, including Hollyhock House, Residence A, and Schindler Terrace. This position requires expert knowledge and experience with historic preservation theory and practice as well as a thorough knowledge of construction project management. The Preservation Manager will carry out projects requiring the application of historic preservation, engineering, architectural, and landscape architectural standards and methods.

Application deadline is Monday, January 13th. For details, visit hollyhockhouse.org.

08/13/2024

BJAC (kids and teens) Fall Session 2024 registration opens on August 19th! Please visit the link below for details.

BJAC Fall Session 2024 Coming Soon!

08/13/2024

BAC (Adult classes) Fall Session 2024 registration starts on August 19th! Please see the link below for more details.

Barnsdall Arts Center is happy to announce our FALL 2024 Art Classes and Workshops starting September 10th. BAC is thrilled to offer an array of diverse classes and workshops to fulfill your creative curiosity!

05/11/2024

https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/bac-spring-2024-outdoor-classes-workshops-3309699

Join us this Spring 2024 as the Barnsdall Art Center is thrilled to offer an array of diverse classes and workshops to fulfill your creative curiosities!

12/07/2023

Join us this Saturday, December 9th from 2:00 pm to 4:00pm for the opening reception of our winter exhibition, 𝑶𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝑪𝒂𝒍𝒍: 𝑨𝒑𝒐𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒂.

This exhibition is a celebration of the gallery’s 70th year anniversary featuring 350 artists living and/or working in Southern California. This year’s Open Call, subtitled Apophenia (the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things, such as objects or ideas) is derived from an artwork included in the exhibition. The curatorial approach speaks to the show’s ethos of creating connections among artists and practices that celebrate the differences across Southern California. Organized by theme, medium, and color, Open Call: Apophenia generates a conversation mediated by artistic differences to create points of connection. Open Call: Apophenia includes painting, photography, works on paper, and sculpture made by artists living within Imperial, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties.

𝑶𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝑪𝒂𝒍𝒍: 𝑨𝒑𝒐𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒂 is curated by Nancy Meyer and Hugo Cervantes.

Special thanks to the Barnsdall Art Park Foundation.

Please note the updated closing date of the exhibition to Saturday, March 16, 2024.

Image: All City Art Show, 1952. Herald Examiner Collection, The Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection.

10/19/2023

LAMAG’s Open Call exhibition participation forms are now available on our website! Please familiarize yourself with the eligibility and artwork requirements before entry. All artworks that follow the submission guidelines will be accepted.

Open Call Forms Checklist:
☑️Please fill out the Google form.
☑️Print and sign the entry and loan form. Bring this form with your artwork for your in-person submission.

Please note filling out the Open Call Google form does not guarantee participation in the exhibition. These forms are available on lamag.org.

Please bring the printed entry and loan form with you on the day of your artwork drop off. Artists must drop-off artworks on designated drop-off dates at LAMAG. The in-person submission drop off is on a first come first serve basis. In-person artwork drop-off dates and times are:

Wednesday, October 25
Thursday, October 26
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Reasonable accommodation or other auxiliary aids and/or services may be provided upon request by contacting [email protected] or calling (323) 644-6269.

Image: Open Call drop off at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, photographer unknown, 1998. Courtesy of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery.

10/19/2023

Los Angeles area mural artists: DCA is seeking submissions for a collaborative mural project in suburban Paris. This opportunity is part of the French American Mural Art (FAMA) series, and aims to promote French-American shared values of inclusion and equity in the public space. The commission is hosted by HYPERMUR and the City of Paris and will be the final mural premiered before the Paris 2024 Olympics.

This is the first opportunity offered in DCA's new International Participation and Promotion Projects (IPAPP) grant category. Interested Los Angeles-based muralists/visual artists, please respond to a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) by November 4, 2023 at: culturela.org/calls/ipapp.

10/03/2023

BACSAC SEEKS NEW TREASURER FOR OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS

This is a volunteer position to start immediately upon vetting and selection by our board. Requires experience and skill and a commitment to Barnsdall Art Center.

The Treasurer position includes management of all of the BACSAC financial functions and overseeing our Bookkeeper.
Excel, Word skills necessary, Quickbooks
Provide financial reports

For more information and to apply, please send your resume to
[email protected].
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10/03/2023

LA-area actors, dancers, musicians, visual artists, writers and designers, apply now for DCA grants supporting individual artists. Funding is available for community-based projects, collaborations with nonprofit social justice organizations, and for grants directed towards the production and presentation of new bodies of work. Details below.

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

The Neighborhood Engagement Artist Residency (NEAR) Grant Program, supports freelance teaching artists, social-activation artists, and social practice artists in providing community-based, participatory projects in self-selected non-arts venues within the City of Los Angeles.

The Creative Optimism – Uplifting Promises (CO-UP) Grant Program supports collaborations between any nonprofit social justice organization and a creative teaching artist (a freelance artist or an artist already working within a non-profit arts organization in the same community as the social justice organization).

AMOUNT: NEAR $12,000, CO-UP $15,000
DEADLINE: November 6, 2023 at 11:59 p.m.
culturela.org/grants/near-co-op

INDIVIDUAL ARTIST GRANTS

City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Master Artist Project (IMAP) Grant Program

The COLA IMAP Grant Program allows mid-career artists to create a new solo work with the freedom to re-focus on themselves and their core impulses. Six to twelve COLA IMAP grants will be offered for designers/visual artists (including architects, graphic designers, and product designers including fashion designers), literary artists (poets or fiction writers), and performing artists (including choreographers, musicians, and multi-disciplinary theater artists).

AMOUNT: $10,000
DEADLINE: November 6, 2023 at 11:59 p.m.
culturela.org/grants/cola-imap

10/03/2023

In honor of its 70th anniversary, the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG) is pleased to announce an open call for artworks that will be presented in a forthcoming exhibition. After almost a decade, LAMAG is revisiting its popular open call format for an exhibition of artists living and/or working in Southern California. In-person submission dates are Wednesday, October 25, and Thursday, October 26 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Predating the biennial juried exhibitions and founded as the All City Outdoor Festival, Open Call evolved into a recurring exhibition opportunity for youth, students, professional and non-professional artists to exhibit their artwork side by side at LAMAG. Traditionally, Open Calls awarded artists best in show and honorable mentions. This year, in lieu of a cash prize, LAMAG will invite an artist to develop a solo exhibition in the gallery’s project space at a later date. The selection will be made by newly appointed LAMAG Curators Hugo Cervantes and Nancy Meyer. For updates and more information including the Open Call entry form, please visit our website at lamag.org.

Submission instructions, including entry and loan forms, will be made available on Friday, October 13, 2023.

Open Call drop off at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, date and photographer unknown. Courtesy of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery.