Events
The exhibition will run October 2-December 15, 2017 with an opening reception Thursday, October 5, 4:00-6:30 p.m. This exhibition of Zinacantec Maya textiles from Chiapas, Mexico, focuses on how weaving designs have evolved as the region has transitioned from the subsistence agriculture practiced by the ancient Maya to the currency-based commerce of today.
The Welcome Home Resource Fair is the opening event for National Coming Out Week! at UCLA. More than forty LGBTQ student groups and community organizations will offer information about work, internship, and involvement opportunities on and off campus. All members of the UCLA family are welcome!
This in-depth discussion features Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell exhibition curator and art historian Sybil Venegas and contributing scholars Amelia Jones and CSRC director Chon Noriega in dialogue with artist Laura Aguilar.
Salomón Huerta, UC Regents' Lecturer for Fall 2017, will discuss the topic of art and identity in conversation with Rose G. Salseda, associate director of the U.S. Latinx Art Forum.
Join us for a celebration of CSRC projects, programs, and resources!
(Image: Cuban-American performance artiste Carmelita Tropicana. Photo by Alina Troyano)
The UCLA Digital Archiving Collective invites faculty, students, staff, and members of the general public for Session One of its 2017-18 UCLA Visiting Speaker Series, which will be held on Friday, October 13, 2017 from 1-4 PM in the Jan Popper Theater (Schoenberg Music Building).
Dr. Roberto D. Hernández, of San Diego State University, will discuss Chicano-Indigenous struggles.
The CSRC Library will participate in the twelfth annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar on Saturday, October 21, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Kelly Lytle Hernández’s City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965 explains how the City of Angels became the city that imprisons more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other country in the world.
An evening of creative acts and playful insurrections as artists, musicians, and performers join forces with Getty Artist Project (GAP) artist-in-residence Harry Gamboa Jr. CSRC director Chon Noriega will lead a discussion with Gamboa and artists and CSRC collection donors Guadalupe Rosales and Ramiro Gomez.