A new way to enjoy Second Saturday Art Gallery Night in Northeast Los Angeles! Ride the Highland Park Arts & Culture Shuttle!
June 9th - Artists in the Arroyo: An Evening in Highland Park
On the evening of June 9th, 2007 LA Commons is sponsoring the Highland Park Arts & Culture Shuttle to connect you to local galleries, artists, neighborhood events, and of course great food!
An Evening in Highland Park will give you access to an amazing line up of activities, including:
5:00 PM
5:30 PM to 6:45 PM
7:00 PM
Celebrate the hard work of Artist Poli Marichal and local youth artists from Franklin High School as they unveil their Tree of Life wood carvings which reflect their Highland Park stories. Kathy Gallegos of Avenue 50 Studio has partnered with LA Commons on this project, providing studio space for the students' weekly workshops and exterior wall space for the installation. (131 N. Avenue 50)
8:00 PM
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM Ongoing
Gallery owner, Kathy Gallegos shares with us that "This will be the Avenue 50 Studio’s very first installation show. Given that an assemblage is “a collection of persons or things, an artistic composition made from scraps, odds and ends (as of paper, cloth, wood, stone, or metal)”, Barragan’s assemblaged boxes contain thoughts, sensations, and dreams -- sometimes literal, other times, abstract or symbolic. Often, incongruent symbols situate next to each other. To Barragan, the message isn’t important; rather to think and feel and experience the poetry that is all around us. Each fragment is reflectively placed to convey a nostalgic atmosphere of loss or remembrance, and through varied symbols, we sense, feel, and smell a memory." (131 N. Avenue 50)
As a part of the Puppets! Puppets! Puppets! Festival, this event at Acorn Gallery is a show of artist-made puppets, including the puppet video of Poli Marichal, April Totten and Donnie Stroud and a demonstration of puppet building by Patricia Lee. (135 N. Avenue 50)
Local galleries are open to the public from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM. Please check out www.nelaart.org for participating galleries and map.
Let them know you're coming! RSVP torsvp@lacommons.org or by calling 213-705-4457 to join this one-of-a-kind evening! This is a free event and children are welcome. Of course bring a little spending money for dinner or to purchase art at the local galleries.
