Latest Past Events

MexiCali Biennial: Then, Now, Next Mini-Symposium and LAB Closing event

MXCL BNL LAB 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier

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 […]

Brown Futurity: How to Create an Archive

MXCL BNL LAB 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier

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 […]

Brown Futurity: Artists and Their Archives

Whittier College 13406 Philadelphia St, Whittier

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 […]