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Teens Document One Year of COVID Lockdown with Zine Project

Posted in Community, News, News & Features; Tagged Activism; Posted 3 years ago 1 Minute(s) to read

What does justice mean in the age of COVID? Armory Teaching Artists posed this question to young adults from across the Southland participating in our COVID Chronicles 'Zine class.

WATCH: Poetry Readings from the Alison Saar Exhibition Catalogue

Posted in Exhibitions, On-Demand Video; Tagged Events; Posted 3 years ago Less than a minute to read

Enjoy a reading of three works included in the Alison Saar: Of Aether and Earthe exhibition catalogue, recorded during the virtual catalogue release event last autumn.

Pasadena Parks After Dark with the Armory

Posted in News & Features, Community, Faculty; Tagged Art Activities, Events; Posted 3 years ago Less than a minute to read

Join Armory teaching artist Heather Hilliard for Pasadena’s Parks After Dark programs.

WATCH: Mel Chin and Sehba Sarwar: How Would You Like Me Now?

Posted in On-Demand Video; Tagged Events; Posted 3 years ago by Jon Lapointe 2 Minute(s) to read

Thank you to all who joined us for the Armory's new literary reading series on racial justice, presented in conjunction with the ongoing exhibition Alison Saar: Of Aether and Earthe.

WATCH: Christina Sharpe - Alison Saar Essay Reading

Posted in Exhibitions, On-Demand Video; Posted 3 years ago Less than a minute to read

Watch Christina Sharpe's powerful reading of an excerpt from her essay Alison Saar, Alchemist: 'the hand is in the making of textures'.

Michael McMillen Motel (Under the World) Gets a Makeover

Posted in Exhibitions, News & Features, News; Posted 3 years ago Less than a minute to read

Recently, artist Michael McMillen visited the Armory to spruce up Motel (Under the World), his permanent floor installation depicting a robot, resting under glass, watching TV, and polishing off a...

WATCH: Active Voice Part 3: Home Studio, Teaching Art, and Learning During the Pandemic

Posted in Exhibitions, On-Demand Video; Posted 3 years ago by Jon Lapointe 1 Minute(s) to read

John Ziqiang Wu’s exhibition Art Making opened at the Armory on February 9, 2020, just a few weeks before LA County’s stay at home order went into effect, triggering the...

WATCH: Active Voice Part 2: Wellness at Home and In Community

Posted in On-Demand Video, Exhibitions; Posted 3 years ago by Jon Lapointe 2 Minute(s) to read

The emergence and rapid proliferation of the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 resulted in a global pandemic at a scale not seen since the Spanish flu of 1918.

A Message from Our Executive Director Leslie A. Ito

Posted in News, Community, News & Features; Tagged Activism; Posted 3 years ago by Jon Lapointe 3 Minute(s) to read

The deadly shootings in Atlanta and the countless attacks on Asian American elders in communities across the nation have saddened me and triggered memories.

WATCH: Active Voice Part 1: Lockdown, One Year Later

Posted in On-Demand Video, Exhibitions; Posted 3 years ago by Jon Lapointe 2 Minute(s) to read

On March 19, 2020, following the emergence and rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus, California became the first U. S. state to issue a state-wide safer-at-home order.