Exhibitions

Here Lay A Home is a collective of cultural workers observing the making and unmaking of home through its material and sonic impressions on Altadena, CA. Weaving disciplines of archive stewardship, collaborative media, and earth architecture, the collective offers a cathartic labor of building from broken parts and the ground that remains. Together, the group composes an ephemeral home for memory objects, loss, and transformation, and the community outcry that wills a place to exist beyond its realized disaster. As Altadena resists erasure by environmental crisis, gentrification, and displaced histories, Here Lay A Home's namesake exhibition recognizes the nature of impermanence and the work of preserving home when the structure is no longer standing.

This exhibition stages the collective's second participatory installation as part of the Altadena Altarvention series in response to the Eaton Fires, and is presented alongside a series of concurrent programming on memory, ecology, and housing. We invite Altadena residents and the surrounding community to offer their realities of reconstructing and to commemorate their own homes with casts of salvaged objects, personal archive sessions, community roundtables, and collaborative performances of shared voice.

The Here Lay A Home collective is stewarded by Kennedy Arnette, Cienna Benn, Kikesa Kimbwala DeRobles, Mia Glionna, Parker Graffham, Phillip Harper, David Hines, Allison McAdoo, Kiara Walls, and Lauren Williams.

Upcoming Public Programs

Artist Walkthrough: Here Lay A Home
Friday, September 19
3:00 to 4:00 PM
Join members of the Collective in Residence for an artist-led walkthrough of their exhibition Here Lay A Home, which reflects on the making and unmaking of home in Altadena through archives, sound, and collaborative installation. The afternoon program will highlight the collective’s process of preserving memory and resisting erasure in the face of environmental crisis, gentrification, and displaced histories. A Q&A with the artist will follow. This event is free and open to everyone.

Closing Celebration
Sunday, September 28
1:00 to 5:00 PM
Join us for an intimate closing reception of the community-centered exhibition Here Lay A Home. Altadena, we invite you to bring your family and friends for a community-led walkthrough with artists of the Here Lay A Home collective (1:00 to 2:00 PM), followed by intergenerational StoryBooth interviews with Perennial Memory Lab (2:00 to 5:00 PM). This event is free and open to everyone.

This exhibition is made possible in part with lead support from the Perenchio Foundation and the Institute for Museum and Library Services. Image: Kikesa Kimbwala DeRobles.