Events
Public Opening Celebration: From the Ground Up
You and your loved ones are cordially invited to join us on Sunday, September 8 to celebrate the opening of our new exhibition From the Ground Up: Nurturing Diversity in Hostile Environments, part of PST ART: Art & Science Collide. The exhibition and opening celebration activities are free and open to everyone. RSVPs are appreciated but not required. Please note the exhibition will remain open on Sunday until 5:00 PM.
Schedule of Events
| 1:00 - 2:00 PM |
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| Exhibition Walkthrough with Curator Irene Georgia Tsatsos Tsatsos will share insights about the exhibition, the artists, and their artworks. Q&A will follow. |
| 2:00 - 3:00 PM |
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| Tarot Readings with Enid Baxter Ryce From the Ground Up exhibiting artist Enid Baxter Ryce and her family will be doing free tarot readings for visitors using Ryce’s Devil’s Half Acre Tarot (2024), a bilingual tarot deck featured in the exhibition and created by Ryce in collaboration with Luis Camara. The deck, which features hand-painted illustrations of flora and fauna made using natural pigments, is a follow-up to Ryce and Camara’s The Borderlands Tarot, which will be released this fall. |
| 2:00 - 3:30 PM |
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| Free all-ages art workshop with Armory Teaching Artists Make seeded sculptures to plant at home with Armory Teaching Artists Allison Segura and Austyn de Lugo-Liston . All materials are included for this drop-in workshop. |
| 3:00 - 4:00 PM |
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| Amaranth Seed Sharing Experience and share in the amaranth garden planted in the Armory's front garden by From the Ground Up exhibiting collective Malaqatel Ija, Semillas Viajeras, Seed Travels, a group comprised of individuals and organizations that come together around the sharing of amaranth seed and knowledge. Help harvest amaranth and practice a Campesino a Campesino (Farmer to Farmer) philosophy of reciprocal action with Cristóbal Osorio Sánchez, founder of Qachuu Aloom Asociación Madre Tierra; Maria Aurelia Xitumul Ivoy; Vasquez Chun; and Sabrina Sosof from Guatemala, along with Indigenous Permaculture and the Garden's Edge. |
From the Ground Up: Nurturing Diversity in Hostile Environments is made possible with support from PST ART: Art & Science Collide, presented by Getty. Lead support for all Armory programs comes from the Perenchio Foundation. Major support for this exhibition is provided by the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts and the Pasadena Community Foundation. Generous support is provided by Pasadena Art Alliance, with additional support provided by Betsy Greenberg and Steve NyBlom, and Jill Sumiyasu. This exhibition is also supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
