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Before You Now: Capturing the Self in Portraiture

September 3 – December 5, 2024

Reception: September 12 from 5:00pm-7:30pm
Free Admission

Before You Now focuses on the enduring theme of the artist's self-portrait, as seen in a selection of works from LACMA’s collections of photographs, prints, drawings, videos, and installation art. Primarily featuring contemporary makers, the exhibition is an introduction to seeing American artists as they see themselves—or as they want to be seen by their public.

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Exhibition Programing (upcoming)

Friday, November 1, 3:00-10:00pm

Dia de los Muertos Celebration

Location: Art Galleries & Chicano/a/x House

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

4:00-6:00pm @ Chicana/o House

Art 385L Art Making Workshops: Paper Calaveras, Marigold Headbands, Mini Pinatas, Alebrijes, Picture Frames, & Dia de los Muertos mobile

5:00-8:30pm @ CSUN Art Galleries

Art Galleries' Community Ofrenda and gallery exhibitions Seeing and Being Seen & Before You Now: Capturing the Self in Portraiture open

5:30pm - Procession to Chicana/o House, Gather @ Jerome Richfield

6:00-8:00pm @ Sidewalk between Chicana/o House and Art & Design Department

Kalli Arte Collective Mask-making Workshop

6:30-10:00pm @ Chicana/o House

Call out to the Ancestors Cultural Program including: Kalpulli Tlahuicolle, DJ Mestizo, Ballet Folklorico de Aztlan, & Crew Conjunto Hueyapan

**Vendors & Food @ Chicana/o House throughout the events**

Thursday, November 14 from 5:30-8:30pm

Location: CSUN Art Galleries (AC 200)

Artist led talk and workshop for local Community College students

Wednesday, November 13, 12:00pm-2:00pm

Multiple: A Cyanotype Workshop

Workshop with Anita Bunn

Location: CSUN Art Galleries (AC 200)

Join artist and faculty member Anita Bunn to explore the elements that make up the whole of self through the medium of cyanotypes.

All materials for making cyanotypes will be provided, but participants are encouraged to bring any personal items to use in creating self-portraits. *If participants would like to bring an image of an artwork (photographs, drawings, etc.), the gallery can help print on clear acetate.

Thursday, December 5 from 5:30-8:30pm

Workshop with Yaneli Delgado

Location: CSUN Art Galleries (AC 200)

Join Before You Now exhibition artist Yaneli Delgado to learn more about her work in the exhibition and create a mixed-media codex that reflects your own personal story through symbols, textures, and colors. Silk screening, drawing, and collage materials will be on hand for you to use.

5-6pm: Art faculty & Tour

6-8pm: Short 15-20 minute talk & workshop

7:30ish – 8:00pm: Sharing

Exhibition Programing (Past)

Thursday, September 19, 11:30am-2:30pm

Artist Talk & Workshop with Kalli Arte Collective

11:30am: Artist Talk

1:00-2:30pm: Drop-In Workshop

Location: CSUN Art Galleries (AC 200)

Join Before You Now exhibition artists Kalli Arte Collective for a talk about their multifaceted art practice which includes printmaking, gallery exhibitions, public art installations, community workshops, and marketplaces. Their Artist Talk will be followed by a Workshop where participants can assemble their own collaged image from preprinted silk screens provided by Kalli Arte. All ages & experience levels welcome!

Monday, October 7, 1:00-4:00pm

Out of Many, One: A Look at Self-Portraiture, How We Picture Ourselves, and What Unifies Us

A workshop with Adrienne Kinsella

Location: CSUN Art Galleries (AC 200)

Join artist and faculty member Adrienne Kinsella to learn more about her artistic process and create your own self-portrait by drawing with colored pencil on frosted mylar. The resulting drawings will then be assembled into a collaborative installation that will be on display in the Art Galleries’ Programming Space for the next two weeks.

Attendees should bring in a 6 x 9 inch non-original photo printout of either an image of yourself or an object that symbolizes you. If you can’t print out in advance of the workshop, the Art Galleries will help you print the image.