This is not a homage. A Mini-Epic Tale of Alien Assault: Yízus the man and the Kiosko Boys | Alejandro Espinoza
2025-06-26 19:00 - 22:00 UTC | Arista 1701, Colonia Nueva, Mexicali, Baja, Mexico
This is not a homage. A Mini-Epic Tale of Alien Assault: Yízus the man and the Kiosko Boys by Alejandro Espinoza is a conversation and virtual walk through both current and vanished sites featured in the narrative journey of the novel Yízus the Man y los Kiosko Boys, with the aim of creating a memory-based map where literary fiction intersects with the recent history of the city of Calexico. This will be based on the reading and presentation of excerpts from the novel, which recounts encounters and missed connections with characters and locations that were part of the life of its author, the recently deceased writer, translator, and musician Juan Di Bella, during the years he clandestinely crossed the border to work in the San Diego State University library.
Drawing from the classic structure of the “hero’s journey” found in The Odyssey and later in James Joyce’s Ulysses, in his novel, Di Bella fashioned himself as an autofictional character who lived out these everyday adventures “on the other side.” After crossing the border—a threshold between two realities—he would enter a world both hyperreal and fantastical. Like Odysseus or Joyce’s Leopold Bloom, Di Bella’s narrative is populated by ghostly figures of the city: the homeless, junkies, street workers—figures who are both present and absent in a borderland reality whose history disperses like dust in the wind.
This is not a homage. A Mini-Epic Tale of Alien Assault: Yízus the man and the Kiosko Boys is a Haunting Present event, a PARA/normal Borders program at Arista 1701 in Mexicali, B.C.
Haunting Present programs curated by Rosela del Bosque, Adrián Pereda Vidal, and Luis G. Hernández for the MexiCali Biennial.

PARA/normal Borders Supper Club #1: Land of Milk & Honey
2025-06-28 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
Please join us for the first in a series of dinner events where guests are invited to share paranormal experiences, urban legends, and personal stories while enjoying a delicious meal. This family-style meal will take place at a private residence in Whittier, CA. Details will be sent prior to the event. Tickets are $100 and include a 3-course meal, drinks and an original artwork (combined $150 value). Purchase tickets below.
PARA/normal Borders Supper Club is a series of happenings centered around the act of consuming food along with casual conversations of the supernatural. Beginning in June 2025, the inaugural Summer Series of the Supper Club will take place at monthly installments throughout Southern California, with invited artists and creatives curating and preparing meals around selected themes. Participants will also receive an original signed print/menu as part of the ticketed event.
The PARA/normal Borders Supper Club is part of the MexiCali Biennial’s Creative Fundraising initiative to fill gaps in funding from recent cuts to arts and humanities grants.
Email info@mexicalibiennial.org with any questions or concerns including dietary restrictions and substitutions before ordering.
PARA/normal Borders Supper Club #1: Land of Milk & Honey
This menu is inspired by the MexiCali Biennial 2022-2023 series, titled Land of Milk & Honey – a series that examined historical, cultural, and political relationships through topics relating to agriculture and foodways. April Lillard-Gomez, the organization’s Director of Special Projects and a classically trained chef, creates a menu reflective of her upbringing in Oklahoma through a selection of hearty, approachable, and a little bit kitschy courses. As a celiac, she has dedicated her passion for food into crafting gluten-free versions of classic Southern “granny-inspired” foods that are just as comforting as the original. The entire menu is gluten free and made in a dedicated gluten free kitchen.
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April Lillard-Gomez is a curator, writer, and program director of the MexiCali Biennial. As a member of the Biennial’s curatorial team, her research and writing on borderlands art and history have featured in numerous exhibitions and catalogs, as well as the Biennial’s recently published research guide with the Library of Congress. She serves as lead grant writer for the Biennial, which has received numerous awards from sponsors such as the Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and California Humanities. A classically trained chef, Lillard-Gomez also organizes food happenings and events across Southern California, including the pop-up dinners “A Feast for Calafia” and “The Island of California.” Originally from Oklahoma, she is based in Los Angeles and co-runs MXCL BNL LAB, the Biennial’s new dedicated research facility and exhibition space.

OPENING RECEPTION | María José Crespo: Screen Memories
2025-07-19 18:00 - 21:00 UTC | MXCL BNL LAB, 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA, 90601
Join us for a public reception for María José Crespo: Screen Memories, an immersive, research-driven installation that explores Tijuana as a haunted city saturated with sensorial excess, systemic violence, and poetic resonance.

María José Crespo: Screen Memories
2025-07-19 18:00 - 2025-08-30 17:00 UTC | MXCL BNL LAB, 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA, 90601
Screen Memories, a solo exhibition by María José Crespo, is an immersive, research-driven installation that explores Tijuana as a haunted city saturated with sensorial excess, systemic violence, and poetic resonance. This project proposes a counter-infrastructure through a speculative data center where ghosts, understood as social figures, lead us into fractured temporalities and hidden memory circuits. This “data center” stages a confrontation between institutional records, found archives, sensorial traces, and fictional artifacts, challenging the ways we construct and access history in a border town defined by control, surveillance, and erasure.
Screen Memories is curated by Rosela del Bosque as part of the MexiCali Biennial’s PARA/normal Borders Lab.
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PARA/normal Borders Supper Club #2: Pulque vs. Chicha: A Chinga-la-Migra Meal
2025-07-26 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
This communal dinner event – imagined by multi-media artist Isidro Perez Garcia – invites guests to dine on traditional foods and drinks from the Americas including tostadas, tlacoyos or tamales de chipilin, and nieve de tuna, pulque, chicha morada, and agua fresca.
This dinner series invites artists/creatives/chefs to craft food and drinks that translocate between distinctive settings in private residences and creative spaces across Southern and Baja Californias. Supper Club attendees are invited to share paranormal experiences, urban legends, and personal stories while enjoying a delicious meal.
The PARA/normal Borders Supper Club is currently by invite only. Click below to join the waitlist.
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Isidro Pérez García (aka ChiloTe) is a borderless artist from Santa Ana, CA and Atotonilco El Grande, Hidalgo, México. He uses various artistic media in his artwork, drawing on his perspective as a formerly undocumented migrant and a campesino urbano. After more than twenty years living undocumented in the US, he received his US residency and quit his job in a furniture-making factory to pursue his BFA from CalArts and his MFA from UCSD. His thesis artwork was awarded the David Antin Prize from UCSD and the Graduating Artist Award from ICA San Diego. He was recently named a California Arts Council, Established Artists Fellow grantee, and his work with maguey plants was featured in a special project with the US Library of Congress. His artwork has been shown at The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture, ICA San Diego, and the University of Virginia, among others.
PARA/normal Borders Supper Club is a special project of the PARA/normal Borders Lab, a multi-year research initiative that examines the U.S.-Mexico borderlands as a supernatural zone. Experimental projects including the Supper Club aim to engage participants in conversations through a series of exhibitions, salon style gatherings, oral histories, and community workshops, with the aim to collect a better understanding of our “borders” both real and metaphoric. The Supper Club Series is organized by April Lillard-Gomez for the MexiCali Biennial.

Art Workshop: Self-Portraits, Poems and Possibility
2025-08-02 13:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | MXCL BNL LAB, 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA, 90601
FREE Art Workshop led by Whittier – based Artist / Educator Luis Vega.
Self-Portraits, Poems and Possibility is a pop-in workshop where participants can explore self-identity through image and text. This workshop is geared toward participants ages 12 & up but can be adapted for all ages.

Art Talk: María José Crespo & Rosela del Bosque
2025-08-22 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | MXCL BNL LAB, 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA, 90601
Join us for a dialogue between artist María José Crespo and curator Rosela del Bosque in regards to Screen Memories currently on view at MXCL BNL LAB. This free program invites the attendees to explore the exhibition through topics related to the border region, including surveillance assets and the otherworldly data centers that hold them.
If you follow a ghost in a border city, where does it lead you? In Screen Memories, the answer is: to a data center.
María José Crespo (b.1991) completed a BA in Fine Art at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California in Tijuana and a MA in Fine Art at Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. Her research looks into the porous space between territory, language, limits, and the body, and how this space can be understood by extending the way they relate to each other as gestures in different materialities. By questioning how she inhabits certain boundaries as a woman, she is interested in studying remains and traces
that administrative powers leave behind in unclear territories.
Rosela del Bosque (Mexicali, 1997) is a curator, art historian, and professor. Her work explores ways of addressing ecological loss and degradation mediated by process-oriented artistic research, archives, and curatorial practice. She holds a BA in ArtHistory from Universidad de las Américas Puebla and a Master of Advanced Studies in Curating from Zurich University of the Arts. She currently serves as Associate Curator at Museo Jumex in Mexico City. Additionally, she is a curator at Planta Libre (Mexicali) and part of the Archivo Familiar del Río Colorado collaborative project.
Alongside curator Daniela Lieja Quintanar, she is co-curating the mid-career survey exhibition Ingrid Hernández, 20 años de arte under construction to be presented at Centro Cultural Tijuana. Additionally, she is a professor at the School of Arts, Mexicali UABC, and assistant curator of the next MexiCali Biennial edition PARA/normal Borders.

PARA/normal Borders Supper Club 3: Asada/Transborder Aesthetics - Part II
2025-09-06 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
This event is at capacity. If you RSVP’d but have not received directions/information, please email info@mexicalibiennial.org. Thank you.
The PARA/normal Borders Supper Club continues by bringing a traditional Mexicali-style asada with an extra-terrestrial twist as imagined by Colectivo Bajaghost and Bibiana Padilla Maltos. Asada/Transborder Aesthetics – Part II will be held at a private residence in Whittier. The evening will include Tortilla borderiza – a durational performance evoking a combination of mail art hand carved stamping and ceremonial tortillas. This border tortilla is meant to summon the period in which the chain link fence was taken down completely to be replaced with the 30-foot metal beam. A brief moment in which there was a ghost of a fence, an invisible force, a nothingness.
Thank you to our drink sponsor Brewjeria Company.
Details will be sent prior to the dinner. Please read this page in its entirety if interested in attending.
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About PARA/normal Borders Supper Club:
This dinner series invites artists/creatives/chefs to craft food and drinks that translocate between distinctive settings in private residences and creative spaces across Southern and Baja Californias. Supper Club attendees are invited to share paranormal experiences, urban legends, and personal stories while enjoying a delicious meal. These happenings are part of the MexiCali Biennial’s PARA/normal Borders Lab, whose aim is to share, listen, and evaluate stories in order to gain a better understanding of our “borders” both real and metaphorical and to inform and shape the upcoming 2026 -27 MexiCali Biennial.
ATTENTION: To attend Supper Club, there is a two-step process. First, please fill out the attendant waiver form. Read through in its entirety and answer the simple prompts. You must fill out the waiver to attend MexiCali Biennial, Inc. food-related event. Second, make sure to RSVP below. If you have not received info by September 5, email info@mexicalibiennial.org. *Supper Club events are currently PAY WHAT YOU CAN. We welcome donations to the MexiCali Biennial through PayPal , Venmo , and Zelle. You can pay before, during, or after the dinner. Any amount helps fund future events. PLEASE RSVP BELOW.

Opening Reception of ANGER IS AN ENERGY with live screenprinting
2025-09-13 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | MXCL BNL LAB, 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA, 90601
Join us for the opening reception of ANGER IS AN ENERGY: The Punk Alchemy of Miyo & Usen Print Editions
Live screenprinting event during opening night led by Dewey Tafoya, lead printer & Assistant Director of the Professional Printmaking Program at Self Help Graphics. Bring your own t-shirt and a $5 donation. All funds donated to CHIRLA.
Read more about the exhibition HERE.

ANGER IS AN ENERGY: The Punk Alchemy of Miyo & Usen Print Editions
2025-09-13 18:00 - 2025-10-18 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | MXCL BNL LAB, 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA, 90601
ANGER IS AN ENERGY: The Punk Alchemy of Miyo & Usen Print Editions explores the themes of knowledge/connection with the land, collaboration, and experimentation in the printmaking and collaborative print projects of artists Miyo Stevens-Gandara and Usen Gandara. Based in Whittier, California, these master printmakers are pillars of the printmaking community in Los Angeles.
Known for their attention to quality, generosity of research spirit, and a delicacy of technique capable of printerly punk alchemy, this exhibition celebrates their devotion to the craft, and their commitment to the community of printmakers on LA’s Eastside and beyond. Through curated exhibitions, publications and handmade print portfolios, the artist team have documented and exhibited printmakers from Indiana to Puerto Rico to East Los Angeles. The finely-made print portfolios, as such, are an immutable and movable platform for knowing, sharing and making the worlds we hold in common; connecting us all to the broader graphic universe.
CURATORIAL OVERVIEW HERE
ANGER IS AN ENERGY features collaborative works by:
Pável Acevedo, Kay Brown, Ada Pullini Brown, Leslie Dolin, Alex Fridrich-Ward, Usen Gandara, Miyo Stevens-Gandara, Luis Genaro Garcia, J.Leigh Garcia, Natalie M. Godinez, Margaret Griffith, Rogelio Gutierrez, Jackie Hernandez, Phung Huynh, Dongeun Lee, Kelvin Lopez, Rosalie Lopez, Sandra Low, Poli Marichal, Álvaro D. Márquez, Kimiko Miyoshi, Dalila Paola Mendez, Wayne Perry, Gisela Ramirez, Sandy Rodriguez, Victor Rosas, Marianne Sadowski, Dewey Tafoya, Alex Fridrich-Ward, Christian Salcedo Ward, Andi Xoch, and Joan Zamora
Live screen printing event opening night! Bring a donation and a shirt or tote to for printing! MORE INFO HERE
ANGER IS AN ENERGY is curated by JV Decemvirale.
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Networking + Mixer
2025-10-03 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | MXCL BNL LAB, 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA, 90601
Please join us on Friday, October 3rd from 6 – 9:00 p.m. at the MXCL BNL LAB – Whittier for the second in a series of salons aimed at engaging artists, humanities experts, and community members in cross-cultural exchanges through casual conversations. This event invites stakeholders within the city of Whittier and surrounding areas who are interested in shaping the cultural landscape of the region.
We invite you to participate in a discussion focused on the cultural climate of Whittier through a fun evening with fellow creatives and professionals who live and work in the area. The MXCL BNL LAB is located at 6545 Greenleaf Ave in Uptown Whittier and serves as a research arm of the MexiCali Biennial – a 501c3 arts non-profit that focuses on the cultural production within the borderlands of Mexico and California.
Agenda:
6-9 p.m. Refreshments served throughout event. Thank you to our sponsor Brewjeria Company.
6:00 Doors Open
6:30 Opening Remarks and Ice Breaker
9:00 Doors Close. We encourage you to dine and drink within the small businesses in and around Uptown Whittier.
This event is supported by the California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit www.calhum.org. The MexiCali Biennial and the MXCL BNL LAB is supported by a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation.

Artist Talk and Punk Patch Workshop
2025-10-04 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | MXCL BNL LAB, 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA, 90601
Join us for an artist talk by printmakers Miyo Stevens-Gandara and Usen Gandara followed by a punk patch workshop. All ages welcome. Learn about Miyo and Usen’s processes in making works for Anger is an Energy, showing at MXCL BNL LAB through October 18. Discussion followed by workshop where participants will be able to create their own “punk patch” – emblems used in punk and other subaltern cultures as a symbol of rebellious self expression. This event is free and open to the public. No registration required.
This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit www.calhum.org.

Los Muertos Workshop - Uptown Whittier
2025-10-12 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | MXCL BNL LAB, 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA, 90601
Join us for a hands-on printmaking workshop led by artists Natalie Godinez and inspired by ancestral stories and memories. Participants are invited to create prints based on family legends and traditions. Prints may be added to a communal altar installation, forming a collective tribute to ancestral stories. Materials provided. Event is free and open to the public.
This event is part of the ongoing MXCL BNL LAB program – the research arm of the MexiCali Biennial – that investigates themes around its upcoming program PARA/normal Borders. The LAB hosts rotating exhibitions, public-facing humanities events, the MB archive, and the PARA/normal Borders Podcast.
This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit www.calhum.org.

Natalie M. Godinez (she/her/ella) is a Los Angeles-based artist, educator, and community advocate raised in Tijuana, México. Her multidisciplinary practice—spanning textiles, printmaking, and collaborative projects—explores memory, identity, and the relationships between place and language. As a transborder dweller and immigrant mother, Godinez reflects on her dual identities through written language, visual metaphors, and process-based art. Her work invites dialogue about shared experiences, imagination, and collective transformation.
Godinez is a member of AMBOS Project (Art Made Between Opposite Sides), an artist-led initiative amplifying binational voices on border issues. She has exhibited at institutions including the Hammer Museum, Sun Valley Museum of Art, Vincent Price Art Museum, San Diego State University Gallery, Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, and the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles. In 2025, she served as Mass Creativity Artist in Residence at The New Children’s Museum and joined the Artists at Work 2025–26 cohort.

Artist in Residence | Guillermo Estrada
2025-11-01 18:00 - 2026-01-10 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | MXCL BNL LAB, 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA, 90601
Almendroides, Aliens & Indígenas delves into the universe of border-based artist Guillermo Estrada, guided by his fictional character, Rancho Shampoo. The exhibition explores the use of a substance called Almendroide—a biological “cookie” that holds a significant ceremonial role within this universe as a medium for connecting with other dimensions. The show examines notions of a person’s paranormal/residential/alien status, the origins of a native person from a specific territory, and how we engage with our personal narratives to bridge realities and dimensions. These ideas unfold through a range of artistic media, including installations, video, drawings, and sculpture.
During his MFA studies at UC San Diego, Estrada coined the concept of aliendigenismo, a term combining “alien” and “indigenous.” It refers to “a way or channel used to move from one place to another.” From this idea, the term aliendígena emerges to describe a person capable of crossing natural, man-made, spiritual, cosmic, and underworld barriers. Drawing from Gloria Anzaldúa’s concept of autohistoria, Estrada presents this exhibition as a means of offering insight into the world of Rancho Shampoo.
Estrada draws from his own lived experiences, fictionalizing them to construct a universe that others can enter and inhabit. To understand his work, one must recognize that three figures coexist within one person: Guillermo Estrada, Memo Navajas, and Rancho Shampoo. Their intertwined identities invite viewers to explore the boundaries between self and other, territory and belonging, story and dimension.
The bridge (boundary between the world you’ve just left and the one ahead) is both a barrier and a point of transformation. – Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Visit guillermoestrada.com to learn more about the artist’s practice.
A photo essay of this exhibition can be found HERE.
Special events related to this exhibition:
January 10, 2025 | Artist Talk with Guillermo Estrada & Rubén Ortiz-Torrez
This event was previously scheduled for Saturday, November 15
December 6 – January 10, 2025 | Front window activation by Guillermo Estrada at MXCL BNL LAB.
*Note that the gallery will be closed from December 20 – January 9, 2025 for the holidays. During this time, the exhibition can be accessed through the street “portal” allowing viewers to become spectators to the artist’s installation through the front window.

Window Installation by Guillermo Estrada and Holiday Hours
2025-12-06 14:00 - 2026-01-10 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | MXCL BNL LAB, 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA, 90601
Beginning December 6, MexiCali Biennial artist-in-residence Guillermo Estrada, will create a window installation at the MXCL BNL LAB. As part of Estrada’s current exhibition Almendroides, Aliens & Indígenas, the artist will create a graphic window “portal” as a parallax experience of the artwork, while also referencing the liminality and impermanence of borders.
Please note that the LAB will be closed from December 20 through January 9th for the holidays. We will be reopen January 10, noon – 5 p.m. for the closing of Almendroides, Aliens & Indígenas. The exhibition can be accessed through the street side window installation.
This artist-in-residency is part of the MexiCali Biennial and its research arm, MXCL BNL LAB as an investigation toward the upcoming program PARA/normal Borders.

Artist Talk | Guillermo Estrada & Rubén Ortiz-Torres
2026-01-10 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | MXCL BNL LAB, 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA, 90601
Join us for a discussion by transborder artist Guillermo Estrada and Rubén Ortiz-Torres. The artists will discuss Estrada’s current residency at the MXCL BNL LAB and themes around topics related to the border as a supernatural zone.
This event is part of an artist residency and exhibition, Guillermo Estrada: ALMENDROIDS, ALIEN & INDÍGENA on view through January 10 at MXCL BNL LAB. Light refreshments served. The artist discussion is free and open to the public. This project made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit www.calhum.org. Additional support by Mellon Foundation and Teiger Foundation.

Guillermo Estrada, aka Rancho Shampoo is a multidisciplinary artist and performer who lives and works between Tecate, Mexicali, and San Diego. His work in installation, performance, music, and video explores borders, transcendence, and pluri-dimensional connections between the Earth, the Cosmos, and the Underground. He has exhibited and performed work in numerous venues, including the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City, Centro Cultural España in Mexico City, Museo Raúl Anguiano in Guadalajara Jalisco, and Coaxial Arts in Los Angeles. For the MexiCali Biennial’s 2023 program at the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture in Riverside, he created an immersive installation centered on his concept “aliendígena” and staged a musical performance with the Indian Dub Orchestra. Estrada earned degrees in history from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (BA) and in studio art from the University of California, San Diego (MFA).
Rubén Ortiz-Torres is an artist who lives and works between Los Angeles and San Diego. Originally from Mexico City, he studied at Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City, and California Institute of the Arts (MFA). His work ranges widely across media: photographs, altered readymades, a feature film, 3D videos, large scale video installations, painting series, sculptures, customized cars, photocollages, performances, and curated exhibitions. Ortiz Torres has participated widely in solo and group shows, international exhibitions, and film festivals, and his work is held in collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City. As part of the 2022/23 MexiCali Biennial program, his lowrider-inspired cart was featured in a public performance by VisRats Mobile (a.k.a. La Carcachita). He is a Professor in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego.

Artist Reception | Alien Excavations
2026-01-31 17:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | MXCL BNL LAB, 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA, 90601
Join us for Alien Excavations opening reception and book launch. This group exhibition highlights ALIEN – a multi-part artist publication that brings together five artists to investigate the meaning of “alienness” within the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. The book consists of three interlocking books produced with Taller California and MexiCali Biennial. Rather than looking to outer space, the artists turn toward the land itself, surfacing buried histories of extraction, migration, and Indigenous memory to reveal how colonial and imperial systems have rendered both people and environments “alien.”
The publication will be available for sale at MXCL BNL LAB during the opening and throughout the exhibition.

Alien Excavations
2026-01-31 17:00 - 2026-03-07 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | MXCL BNL LAB, 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA, 90601
Alien Excavations is an exhibition built around the small-run artist book ALIEN, unfolding through ephemeral source materials, and interactive stations.
PURCHASE ALIEN HERE.
ALIEN began as an idea “in space,” emerging from the MexiCali Biennial’s PARA/normal Borders Lab as a speculative publishing project that both embodies and interrogates the concept of alienness within and beyond the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. Designed by Taller California with curator Armando Pulido the publication takes the form of a three-book architecture—interlocking yet separable volumes printed in offset, glow-in-the-dark, and Risograph processes. Artists Ed Gómez, Luis G. Hernandez, Lorena Gómez Mostajo, Omar Pimienta, and Jessica Sevilla each produced distinct image series that are pulled apart, recombined, and reorganized. In this way, ALIEN functions as a curatorial archive: a modular documentation system where meaning is produced through assembly, misalignment, and reconfiguration.
The publication situates the term “alien” within overlapping historical registers: from the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, which codified the legal dehumanization of non-citizens, to the science-fiction mythology of Alien (1979), which aestheticized fear of the unknown. Rather than treating “alienness” as extraterrestrial fantasy, the artists excavate terrestrial histories embedded in Baja California and the American Southwest—resource extraction, Indigenous knowledge systems, ecological transformation, and contemporary border enforcement. Through this lens, ALIEN reframes the archive itself as haunted: a site where legal language, pop culture, and material landscapes converge to produce enduring structures of othering.
ALIEN will be available for purchase during the exhibition.
Artist Reception January 31 at 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Taller California is a small press & printing workshop located in the San Diego-Tijuana region. It publishes vibrant artist books that engage with the border as a sociopolitical place and as a liminal and creative space. It is committed to hybrid forms and multilingualism. Taller California’s collaborative and experimental ethos creates new modes of production and distribution of printed matter and books. Visit tallercalifornia.org for more info.
This publication was made possible through generous support
from the American Council of Learned Societies.

Alien Excavations Closing & Pop-up
2026-03-07 12:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | MXCL BNL LAB, 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA, 90601
To mark the closing of Alien Excavations at the MXCL BNL LAB, Taller California will host a pop-up featuring the workshop’s past projects! Books and prints will be available from 12-5pm, including ALIEN, a three-part artist book produced by Taller California and the MexiCali Biennial. At 3pm, Taller’s founder and editor Lorena Mostajo will be in conversation with Armando Pulido to speak about this collaboration and the making of the exhibition. We hope you can join us for the final day of this project!
This exhibition marks the launch of ALIEN, collaborative book project between Taller California and the MexiCali Biennial. On the occasion of the PARA/normal Borders Lab, artists Ed Gómez, Luis G. Hernandez, Lorena Mostajo, Omar Pimienta, and Jessica Sevilla contend with the notion of the “alien” in relation to the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Each created a series of images produced via digital offset prints (AL), glow-in-the-dark screen printing (I), and Risograph prints (EN) to produce three books that interlock to create ALIEN.
The artists collectively look to natural and built environments as sites of “alien” intervention that take many forms: traces of ancestral knowledge, Indigenous mythology, resource extraction, human migration, and extraterrestrial imagination. Alien
Excavations intends to expand on these presentations, showing visitors the texts, images, and visual culture that informed the final images produced by each artist.

Rooted Voices
2026-03-21 12:00 - 2026-04-11 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | MXCL BNL LAB, 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA, 90601
Featuring artists from Whittier and surrounding communities, Rooted Voices centers stories shaped by place, how neighborhoods, labor, migration, ritual, and everyday encounters leave traces that linger across generations. The exhibition highlights how stories emerge through shared conditions and relationships, through proximity, care, struggle, and collaboration.
Rooted Voices is a student-curated exhibition made possible by Whittier College’s Poet StoryLab: Narrative, Community, and the Transformative Possibilities of Brown Storytelling. Through a special topics class, students selected works that reflect the talents of local artists while connecting themes of PARA/normal Borders at the MXCL BNL LAB.
Participating Artists:
Brook A. Logan Arcega, Emilia García, Roman Luna, Santos Nuñez,
Ramón Ramírez, and Jacqueline Valenzuela
Closing Reception will be held on April 11, 2026
The closing reception will include spoken word by Whittier College student Ember Hall and music by DJ Blythe Bizzczar.
About Whittier College StoryLab
Whittier College is one of the most diverse liberal arts colleges in the nation and is designated as both a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) and Minority-Serving Institution (MSI). Located in Whittier, California, the College is committed to academic excellence, civic engagement, and inclusive, interdisciplinary scholarship.
The Whittier College StoryLab initiative, supported by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, advances innovative experiential pedagogy and research that amplifies stories reflecting the complexity and expansiveness of “brown” identity in the United States. Led by faculty in Art and History, the program centers storytelling, intersectionality, and public humanities as tools for cultural understanding and social engagement.
Student organizers:
Brook A Logan Arcega, Megan P Barayoga, Clark Paul Ehman, Yoselin Xiclaly Estrada, Hector Alberto Gastelum, Lilianna C Gorbea, Ember Hall, Mikayla I Hernandez, Ethan C Luevano, Cuauhtemoc Jude Luna, Skye Mendoza, Jessica Rios, Joaquin A Sanchez, Michelle G Sifuentes, Victor Soria Jr., Andrea Toledo

Brown Futurity: Artists and Their Archives
2026-03-21 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Whittier College, 13406 Philadelphia St, Whittier, CA, 90602, United States
Brown Futurity: Artists and Their Archives brings together artists and archivists for a timely and urgent conversation about preservation, authorship, and legacy. This public panel centers artists and explores archives as powerful tools for storytelling, self-determination, and cultural futurity.
The discussion features Xaviera Flores, Librarian and Archivist at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, artist and cultural worker Sandra de la Loza, and mural and graffiti artist Man One. Together, they will examine how artists can build, protect, and activate their archives as living documents of creative practice.
Designed to give artists agency over the long-term impact of their work, the panel serves both as a practical guide and a conceptual exploration. Participants will learn about archival tools and resources available to artists—including record management strategies, documentation practices, and approaches to organizing a lifetime of work. The conversation will also address how artists engage archives as part of their artistic practice, reshaping memory and history through self-authored narratives.
As the first event in a two-part series, Brown Futurity invites participants to think expansively about legacy. Securing one’s archive becomes not only a logistical task, but an intentional act of history-making, futurity, and storytelling.
First Look at Rooted Voices Exhibition
Prior to the panel, guests are invited to a special first look at Rooted Voices, a student-led exhibition at the MXCL BNL LAB (6545 Greenleaf Ave., Whittier) beginning at 1:30 p.m. Organized by students from Whittier College, the exhibition features artists from Whittier and surrounding communities whose works center stories shaped by place, labor, migration, ritual, and shared experience. The MXCL BNL LAB also houses the MexiCali Biennial’s archive, with select items on display. Following the preview, attendees will walk together to Whittier College for the 3:00 p.m. Brown Futurity: Artists and Their Archives panel in Hoover 100. The walk is approximately 10 minutes in duration. The LAB will close at 2:30 p.m. for its staff to be able to attend Brown Futurity. Learn more about Rooted Voices HERE.

About Whittier College StoryLab
Whittier College is one of the most diverse liberal arts colleges in the nation and is designated as both a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) and Minority-Serving Institution (MSI). Located in Whittier, California, the College is committed to academic excellence, civic engagement, and inclusive, interdisciplinary scholarship.
The Whittier College StoryLab initiative, supported by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, advances innovative experiential pedagogy and research that amplifies stories reflecting the complexity and expansiveness of “brown” identity in the United States. Led by faculty in Art and History, the program centers storytelling, intersectionality, and public humanities as tools for cultural understanding and social engagement.
Xaviera Flores is the Librarian and Archivist at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. The center is dedicated to the development of scholarly research on the Chicano-Latino population and Flores is integral to this mission. She oversees all library, archives, and museum services, including outreach, instruction, grant projects, and donor relations. She also works closely with students and partner organizations to build stronger ties between community and UCLA.
Sandra de la Loza’s research-based practice investigates the underlayers of our present landscape as a means to open portals and envision future worlds through the exercise of collective memory and political imagination. She is the founder of The Pochx Research Society of Erased and Invisible History, an on-going collaborative project that engages the subject of “History” through critical inquiry and artistic processes. For the last two decades her work has approached History as site and subject and has grown into archival, social and site-specific investigations and immersive installations. Her interest in the silences, exclusions and erasures of the past is in what it reveals of the present, and how these “ghosts” can make visible erased histories, unlock the imagination, and create counter memories for the future.
Man One is an artist, curator, multi-award winning illustrator, mentor and entrepreneur who believes in the transformational power of art and its power to save lives and make the world a better place. Man One believes art gives mankind an essential and irreplaceable cultural language in which to express and know itself. Man One believes art can transcend cultural and socio-economic barriers, fostering understanding, mutual respect and unity among disparate peoples. Man One believes these things are possible because he’s seen them happen through the power of his own art and the art of others. Growing up in Los Angeles, Man One developed his love for art, developing his skills as a graffiti artist on the streets of LA.

Salon & Networking Mixer
2026-03-27 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | MXCL BNL LAB, 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA, 90601
Please join us on Friday, March 27 from 6 – 8:00 p.m. at the MXCL BNL LAB for a salon aimed at bringing together artists, humanities experts, and community members in cross-cultural exchanges through casual conversations. This gathering invites stakeholders within the city of Whittier and surrounding areas who are interested in shaping the cultural future of the region.
During the evening, we will engage in an open discussion about the cultural climate of Whittier while connecting with fellow creatives, educators, and professionals who live and work in the area. As part of this dialogue, we will also begin imagining what a future Whittier Arts Center could look like — a shared space dedicated to exhibitions, public programs, artist studios and community storytelling that supports the creative life of the city.
The MXCL BNL LAB is located at 6545 Greenleaf Ave in Uptown Whittier and serves as a research arm of the MexiCali Biennial — a 501(c)(3) arts non-profit focused on cultural production within the borderlands of Mexico and California. The LAB operates as a space for experimentation, dialogue, and community-driven cultural programming.
Agenda
Refreshments served throughout the event

6:00 Doors Open
6:30 Opening Remarks and Ice Breaker
8:00 Doors Close. We encourage you to dine and drink at the small businesses throughout Uptown Whittier.
This event is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Rooted Voices Closing Reception
2026-04-11 17:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | MXCL BNL LAB, 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA, 90601
Join us for the closing of Rooted Voices, a multimedia group exhibition featuring artists from Whittier and surrounding communities.
The closing reception will include spoken word by Ember Hall and music by DJ Blythe Bizzczar.
Participating Artists:
Brook A. Logan Arcega, Emilia García, Roman Luna, Santos Nuñez, Ramón Ramírez, and Jacqueline Valenzuela
Rooted Voices is a student-curated exhibition made possible by Whittier College’s Poet StoryLab: Narrative, Community, and the Transformative Possibilities of Brown Storytelling. Through a special topics class, students selected works that reflect the talents of local artists while connecting themes of PARA/normal Borders at the MXCL BNL LAB.

Planos planos: pinturas del folclor paranormal cachanilla
2026-04-18 15:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Arista 1701, Colonia Nueva, Mexicali, Baja, Mexico
Presented at Arista 1701 in Mexicali, as part of Semana del Arte 101, the MexiCali Biennial presents Planos planos: pinturas del folclor paranormal cachanilla (Flat Planes: Paintings of Mexicali Paranormal Folklore), an exhibition bringing together artists from Mexicali whose work engages with the Biennial’s current theme: PARA/normal Borders.
Working primarily through painting, the exhibition examines local paranormal folklore through overlaps between everyday environments, personal imaginaries, philosophical inquiries, invisible presences, and border memories. The artists span different generations, enriching a collective perspective on the cachanilla imaginary—‘cachanilla’ being the term used for people from Mexicali and their local identity.
PARA/normal Borders is a nomadic series of exhibitions and programs that conceives the CaliBaja region as a liminal space where spirits, ancestors, and displaced identities move freely.
Participating artists: Pablo Castañeda, Annia Monroy, Heriberto Morales, André Pereda, Mahra Zamora

MB Viewing Room
Coinciding with Planos planos, an MB Viewing Room will be open on the second floor of Arista 1701. The space features a selection of MexiCali Biennial publications available for purchase, including MexiCali Biennial: Art, Actions, Exchanges Since 2006, the first comprehensive account of the Biennial’s twenty-year history; ALIEN, produced with Taller California and curator Armando Pulido, with contributions by artists Ed Gómez, Luis G. Hernandez, Lorena Gómez Mostajo, Omar Pimienta, and Jessica Sevilla; and Border Patches, an artist book by Biennial co-founder Luis G. Hernandez, produced in collaboration with i21.
Additionally, works by MexiCali Biennial artists Ed Gomez, Luis G. Hernandez, Fidel Hernandez, Bibiana Padilla, and Adrian Pereda will be on display.

BOOK LAUNCH & Opening Reception
2026-04-25 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | MXCL BNL LAB, 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA, 90601
Let’s celebrate as we launch MexiCali Biennial’s release of its landmark publication, MexiCali Biennial: Art, Actions, Exchanges Since 2006 and 20th anniversary exhibition Here & There, Then & Now.
The Book Launch and opening reception will take place at the MXCL BNL LAB, the organization’s research arm located in Uptown Whittier, CA. We’ll be joined by Tamales el primo and their infamous cart, with a DJ set and archive exhibition.
Here & There, Then & Now participating artists include:
Carlos Beltrán Aréchiga, Andrew Armstrong, Pablo Castañeda & Eduardo Kintero, Carmina Escobar, Ed Gómez, Fidel Hernandez, Luis G. Hernandez, Rebeca Hernandez, Albert Lopez Jr., Matt MacFarland, Ruben Ochoa, Nancy Popp, Mike Rogers, Paulina Sanchez, Jessica Sevilla, Sergio Teran, Diane Williams
MexiCali Biennial: Art, Actions, Exchanges Since 2006 is available for purchase at MXCL BNL LAB, The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture of the Riverside Art Museum (co-publisher) or wherever books are sold.
PURCHASE BOOK IN OUR ONLINE STORE

Here & There, Then & Now: MexiCali Biennial 20th Anniversary Exhibition & Book Launch
2026-04-25 18:00 - 2026-06-13 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | MXCL BNL LAB, 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA, 90601
The MexiCali Biennial celebrates twenty years of artistic experimentation, cross-border collaboration, and cultural exchange with the exhibition Here & There, Then & Now and the release of the landmark publication MexiCali Biennial: Art, Actions, Exchanges Since 2006.
Presented at the MXCL BNL LAB in Whittier, the exhibition reflects on two decades of binational programming that has shaped conversations around art, identity, migration, and cultural production across the California–Mexico borderlands.
LAB HoursSaturdays, 12:00 PM – 5:00 PMor by appointment

Here & There, Then & Now brings together selected works, archival documentation, and reconstructed projects from past MexiCali Biennial programs. The exhibition offers visitors a rare opportunity to encounter the evolving history of the Biennial through artworks, installations, photographs, and materials that trace the organization’s collaborative and experimental spirit.
Over the past twenty years, the MexiCali Biennial has worked with more than 150 artists across a wide range of media including installation, video, sculpture, performance, and socially engaged practices. Projects have unfolded in museums, galleries, public spaces, private homes, swap meets, and community sites across the Californias, emphasizing accessibility, dialogue, and the fluid exchange of ideas across borders.
Participating artists include:
Carlos Beltrán Aréchiga, Andrew Armstrong, Pablo Castañeda & Eduardo Kintero, Carmina Escobar, Ed Gómez, Fidel Hernandez, Luis G. Hernandez, Rebeca Hernandez, Albert Lopez Jr., Matt MacFarland, Ruben Ochoa, Nancy Popp, Mike Rogers, Paulina Sanchez, Jessica Sevilla, Sergio Teran, Diane Williams

Book Launch
Coinciding with the exhibition is the release of the bilingual publication: MexiCali Biennial: Art, Actions, Exchanges Since 2006
Produced in collaboration with The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum (The Cheech), this publication provides the first comprehensive account of the MexiCali Biennial’s twenty-year history. Featuring scholarly essays, artist–curator dialogues, and extensive image galleries, the book documents the evolving themes and artistic contributions that have defined the Biennial since its founding.
More than a catalogue, the book serves as an archive of a transborder art movement and a record of the artists and communities who have shaped it.
Contributors include Amy Sara Carroll, Amy Pederson Converse, JV Decemirale, Guillermo Estrada, Alejandro Espinoza Galindo, Maria Esther Fernandez, Ed Gomez, Luis G. Hernandez, April Lillard-Gomez, Emmanuel Ortega, Rubén Ortiz Torres, Rosalía Romero, Sam Romo-White, Joaquin Segura, and Pilar Tompkins Rivas.
The publication will be available for purchase online, at the MXCL BNL LAB and at The Cheech.

Brown Futurity: How to Create an Archive
2026-05-16 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | MXCL BNL LAB, 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA, 90601
Brown Futurity: How to Create an Archive is a hands-on workshop designed to address persistent gaps in knowledge around artist-led and community-based archives. While institutions have historically shaped what is preserved and remembered, many artists and communities continue to face barriers in documenting and sustaining their own histories. This workshop responds to that gap by offering practical tools and critical frameworks for building archives from the ground up.
Presented as part of Whittier College Poet StoryLab, and led by archivist Xaviera Flores, the session brings together practical expertise and community-centered approaches to archiving.
Participants will be guided through foundational questions that shape archival practice: How can we begin to preserve and document our own materials? What are the first steps in organizing an artist archive? How do we determine what to keep, and what to let go? What does it mean to collect responsibly, and for whom is the archive being built?
Designed for artists, cultural workers, and community members, this session provides a practical toolkit to begin building sustainable archives, while encouraging participants to think critically about authorship, access, and long-term stewardship.

Dille’ xhon: Inheriting our Mothers’ Language
2026-05-30 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver) | MXCL BNL LAB, 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA, 90601
Join us for a Zapotec language panel.
Acompáñanos a un panel sobre la lengua zapoteca.

Dille’ xhon: Inheriting our Mothers’ Language (English)
Dille’ xhon: Da’ busuiku’an xna’llo (Zapotec)
Dille’ xhon: Herencia de nuestras madres (Español)
This panel features a community-engaged research project, Dille’ xhon: Un programa Extraescolar Zoochileño (Dille’ xhon: A Zoochileño Afterschool Program), rooted in the teaching of Dille’ xhon (Zapotec/o). Created in 2025, the project includes materials and pedagogical approaches from Santiago Zoochila, located in Oaxaca, Mexico, used to design an introductory course for its descendants living in Los Angeles with the goal of preserving their maternal language. The panel will feature students and facilitators from the project. This event will be multilingual, with translation provided to ensure accessibility for all participants.
Este panel presenta un proyecto de investigación con enfoque comunitario, Dille’ xhon: Un programa extraescolar zoochileño (Dille’ xhon: A Zoochileño Afterschool Program), centrado en la enseñanza del Dille’ xhon (zapoteco). Creado en 2025, el proyecto incorpora materiales y enfoques pedagógicos provenientes de Santiago Zoochila, ubicado en Oaxaca, México, que se utilizan para diseñar un curso introductorio dirigido a sus descendientes que viven en Los Ángeles, con el objetivo de preservar su lengua materna. El panel contará con la participación de estudiantes y facilitadores del proyecto. Este evento será multilingüe y contará con traducción para garantizar la accesibilidad de todas las personas participantes.
About/Sobre Whittier College StoryLab:
The Poet StoryLab initiative, supported by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, advances innovative experiential pedagogy and research that amplifies stories reflecting the complexity and expansiveness of “brown” identity in the United States. Led by faculty in Art and History, the program centers storytelling, intersectionality, and public humanities as tools for cultural understanding and social engagement.
La iniciativa Poet StoryLab, apoyada por una subvención de la Fundación Andrew W. Mellon, impulsa una pedagogía experimental innovadora y proyectos de investigación que amplifican narrativas que reflejan la complejidad y amplitud de la identidad “brown” en los Estados Unidos. Dirigido por profesorado de las áreas de Arte e Historia, el programa se centra en la narración, la interseccionalidad y las humanidades públicas como herramientas para el entendimiento cultural y la participación social.

RE+actions: Performing the Archive
2026-06-06 15:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | MXCL BNL LAB, 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA, 90601
Join us for an afternoon of performances that revisit key moments from past MexiCali Biennial programs. RE+actions brings together three Biennial alumni to re-engage a previous performance as part of the current exhibition, HERE & THERE, THEN & NOW. This exhibition brings together archival materials alongside select artworks, re-presented in a chronological showcase.
RE+actions invited artists include Carmina Escobar, Rebeca Hernandez, and Annabel Turrado.
Schedule of events:
3:00 p.m. Rebeca Hernandez performs Façade, originally part of Cannibalism in the New World (2013) at Vincent Price Art Museum.
3:30 p.m. Carmina Escobar revisits Rituals of Propagation previously performed across the border fence between Mexicali and Calexico for Calafia: Manifesting the Terrestrial Paradise (2020).
4:00 Annabel Turrado reactivates Raspado (Abolish ICE), a durational performance previously performed at Parque Héroes de Chapultepec in Mexicali as part of Land of Milk & Honey (2023).

MexiCali Biennial: Then, Now, Next Mini-Symposium and LAB Closing event
2026-06-13 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | MXCL BNL LAB, 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA, 90601
The MexiCali Biennial presents a miniature symposium dedicated to highlighting scholars’, curators’, and artists’ contributions to the retrospective catalog, MexiCali Biennial: Art, Actions, Exchanges Since 2006. This symposium consists of two panels: the first explores the past, present, and future of the MexiCali Biennial and border art as a discipline; the second is a discussion on collaborations between border artists and curators within and outside of museums.
Each panel will address broader issues and key themes defining contemporary art in both Californias over the last few decades and into the future, including portability, site-specificity, local–global and center–periphery dichotomies, archives, surveillance, border activations, writing border art histories, and curatorial strategies for navigating the border. These conversations will examine the MexiCali Biennial’s indelible impact on U.S.–Mexico borderlands art, as well as the curatorial challenges posed by exhibiting within the distinct contexts of the museum and the physical border itself.
This event is organized in conjunction with the anniversary exhibition Here & There, Then & Now that is currently on view at the MXCL BNL LAB. This program is made possible in part through the generous support of the Mellon Foundation and California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. This is final scheduled event at the MXCL BNL LAB (MexiCali Biennial Lab).
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
3:00pm OPENING REMARKS
Ed Gomez (MexiCali Biennial and CSU San Bernardino)
Panel 1:
3:15pm BORDER (RE)HISTORICIZATIONS
Moderator:
Armando Pulido (Huntington Library)
Panelists:
Rosalía Romero (Pomona College)
Alejandro Espinoza (Universidad de Baja California, Mexicali)
Amy Sara Carroll (University of California, San Diego)
Luis G. Hernandez (MexiCali Biennial and SDSU Imperial Valley)
4:15pm COFFEE BREAK
Panel 2:
4:30pm ARTIST-CURATOR RELATIONALITY IN/OUT OF MUSEUMS
Moderator:
Sam Romo-White (MexiCali Biennial)
Panelists:
Ed Gomez (MexiCali Biennial and CSU San Bernardino)
Pilar Tompkins-Rivas (Altamed Art Collection)
Emmanuel Ortega (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Isidro Perez-Garcia (Artist)
Attendees are encouraged to walk to Poets Gardens/Nixon Plaza (13002 Philadelphia St, Whittier) for a no-host dinner and drinks.
