Mexicali Biennial
We warmly invite you to a special exhibition preview of The Land of Milk and Honey, a traveling multidisciplinary arts and culture program focused on the ideological concept of agriculture in the regions of California and Mexico.
Join us for an Opening Celebration for The Land of Milk and Honey at the Santa Cruz MAH. First Friday festivities include a curator walk-through, artist one-on-ones and Tarot Readings by Enid Baxter Ryce and Florence. Custom El Otro Lado cards created by Enid Baxter Ryce, Luis Camara and Gabrielle Galanter.
Virtual talk that examines agricultural practices, in which Land of Milk and Honey artists have created new visual forms to examine their relationship to the land and forge new communities.
Join us with collaborators Revolution Carts and Brewjeria Company along with food vendors who will be serving regionally diverse styles of tamales. Enjoy music, activities and performances free to the public including a performance by VisRats Mobile (aka La Carcachita), a low-rider inspired golf cart by artist Ruben Ortiz Torres.
This virtual event will launch the Borderlands Research Initiative (BRI), a partnership between the MexiCali Biennial and the Library of Congress Hispanic Reading Room.
Artist Fred Brashear, Jr.'s solo exhibition Handle with Care: A special project of the MexiCali Biennial program, Land of Milk and Honey, presented by the San Bernardino County Museum. This exhibition researches and explores the use of the Opuntia, a genus in the family of Cactaceae that includes the prickly pear (nopal), as an alternative […]
The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Arts and Culture of the Riverside Art Museum will host TWO MexiCali Biennial exhibitions, 'Land of Milk & Honey' and 'MexiCali Biennial: Art, Action, Exchanges.'
Land of Milk & Honey activities for the Riverside Artswalk including a performance by Rancho Shampoo and the Indian Dub Orchestra and a paper making demonstration by Fred Brasher at the Cheech Center.
The MexiCali Biennial presents 'UN/belonging in the Land of Milk & Honey' guest curated by Emmanuel Ortega. This two-person exhibition explores belonging and place through Landscape representation by biennial co-founders and artists Ed Gomez and Luis G. Hernandez.
Presenting 'Aqui y Alla', a collaborative beer project by MexiCali Biennial and Brewjeria Company.
This event will host artists, curators, and scholars to discuss the MexiCali Biennial and its importance to the history of Latin American, Latinx, and U.S-Mexico borderlands art.. The event will feature three panels of speakers, organized by major themes.
Join us at the Cheech Center for a day of video programming where guest curators Annette Rodriguez and Emmanuel Ramos Barajas of Borderless Cultures explore cinematic tropes of identity relating to Steinbeck and themes addressed in 'Land of Milk & Honey.'