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Feast of Words: A Literary Potluck is an intimate monthly dinner party where writers and foodies come together to eat, write, and share. Head to Feast of Words on the third Tuesday of each month to discover local chefs and writers, bring a dish on the monthly theme and share your on-the-spot writing to be entered in a drawing for edibles, books and other prizes! On Tuesday, May 21, 7–9pm, Feas...   [more]

Weston Teruya will recreate objects and ephemera that represent Hawaii “expats’” ties to their old home. This collection of fragments from a dislocated local culture will be installed in the museum’s existing displays and reinterpreted by guides throughout the night. About the Artists Drawing Club: Each month, this new series invites a local contemporary artist to use the museum as a project pla...   [more]

Members have priority ticketing to a talk about Allen Ginsberg, his life, and the making of the exhibition, Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg , with the National Gallery of Art’s Senior Curator of Photographs Sarah Greenough. The talk is followed by an original musical arrangement of Ginsberg’s 1956 poem “America.”   [more]

In conjunction with the exhibition Words and Places: Etel Adnan, the Wattis Institute, and the graduating class of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Studies at the California College of the Arts present a series of talks and film screenings that examine issues called up by Adnan’s practice, and expand its frame of reference.   Saturday, May 25 The Sitt Marie Rose Book Club discusses Etel Adnan’s...   [more]

Make Art a Change Agent In Communities Pro Arts Community Advocacy Alliance is a new program aimed to strengthen communities and generate more opportunities and resources for art. The Community Advocacy Alliance program provides training, network sessions and supporting communications to build a network of artist advocates.    Pro Arts is pleased to announce our 3rd training in the Community...   [more]

Come to this ArtSpan professional development workshop to learn tips and tricks that can further your career as a visual artist from Joshua Coffy, an visual artist working primarily in acrylic paints and mixed media. He draws inspiration from the natural wonders of the world and our connections to it, and his paintings are heavily influenced by illustration, murals, scientific drawings, and street...   [more]

Artist Inez Storer discusses her most recent body of work in a lecture co-sponsored by the de Saisset Museum and SCU's Department of Art and Art History.   [more]

In conjunction with the exhibition Words and Places: Etel Adnan, the Wattis Institute, and the graduating class of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Studies at the California College of the Arts present a series of talks and film screenings that examine issues called up by Adnan’s practice, and expand its frame of reference.   Wednesday, May 29 A public screening and conversation between Minoo Mo...   [more]

Join us for an evening with Henry Horenstein, beginning at 6:00pm, Wednesday May 29.   Specializing in documentary photography, Horenstein has brought us into the lives of several different American sub-cultures that are slowly becoming extinct. Encouraging self reflection, Horenstein gives us an insider's perspective on these unique social groups. Moreover, Horenstein is the author of 30 photo...   [more]