Upcoming Exhibitions

• Chapters: Book Arts in Southern California

  January 29 - May 7, 2017

  Although Los Angeles/Southern California is often overshadowed by New York and San Francisco as a books arts center in the United States, the region has a long history of innovation in the medium. This exhibition will explore the development of book arts in Southern California starting in the 1960-70s to today. The exhibition will investigate the range of works that can be defined as “book arts” with an emphasis on innovative formats, hand-made works, and small editions. Additionally, an onsite bookmaking shop will be activated with demos and workshops by exhibition artists, area book arts instructors, and local students.

• Focus Iran 2: Contemporary Photography and Video

  January 29 - May 7, 2017

  Focus Iran 2: Contemporary Photography and Video is the second biennial juried exhibition of photography and video works that relate to Iranian culture or heritage. The call for entries is international in scope and invites artists 18 years of age or older to submit for a chance to exhibit at the Craft & Folk Art Museum. The exhibition provides an opportunity to feature and expose mid-career and emerging artists from around the world. For more information, visit www.farhang.org/focusiran

  See the press release here.

• Betye Saar: Keepin' It Clean

  May 28 - August 20, 2017

  Solo exhibition of seminal contemporary artist Betye Saar, featuring a collection of the artist's washboard assemblage sculptures. Born in 1926, Saar is a significant figure in the Black Arts Movement of the 1970s who has addressed racism, memory, and Black consciousness through complex assemblages that are at once confrontational, spiritual, and familial.

• The US-Mexico Border: Place, Imagination, and Possibility

  September 10, 2017 – January 7, 2018

  Since the 1990s, the US-Mexico border has become an important site for creative exploration of issues related to emigration, immigration, labor conditions, hybrid identities, and transformation. The US-Mexico Border: Place, Imagination, and Possibility presents the work of contemporary artists who explore the border as a physical reality (place), as a subject (imagination), and as a site for production and solution (possibility). The inclusion of artists from various disciplines, including design, architecture, sculpture, painting, and photography, reflects the ways in which contemporary artists and designers themselves cross disciplinary borders. Many of the artists featured in the exhibition pursue a creative problem-solving process sometimes described as “design thinking,” which involves invention, social engagement, and the task of making. The exhibition will include work by artists and designers such as Teddy Cruz, Adrian Esparza, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, and Ana Serrano.