Artist Talk

May 2026
Brown Futurity: How to Create an Archive

May 16 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

MXCL BNL LAB 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA

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 […]
June 2026
MexiCali Biennial: Then, Now, Next

June 13 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

MXCL BNL LAB 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA

MexiCali Biennial: Then, Now, Next brings together scholars, art historians, curators, and artists to examine the evolving frameworks that shape artistic production in and around the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. This convening foregrounds the border not only as a geopolitical condition, but as a conceptual, material, and methodological site—one that continues to generate new forms of artistic […]