Main Gallery
Sweet and Sour- It's a Thin Line:
Arnoldo Vargas
January 22, 2012
Opening Reception: January 22, 2012 - 1:00 - 5:00pm

This exhibition will visually examine the sulfur industry and its labor force. It will attempt to look at its effects on the landscape as well as its effect on the people. This exhibition will look through a microscope at situations that might be reflective of a macroscopic reality. The oil industry exists within a duality.

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Main Gallery
Immigrant/Emigrant
January 22, 2012
Opening Reception: January 22, 2012 - 1:00 - 5:00pm

curated by Lara Bullock

Daniela Calandra
Bill Daniel
Micki Davis
Electronic Disturbance Theater/b.a.n.g. lab
Casey Smallwood

Immigrant/Emigrant will explore the negotiation of art practice from an "outsider's" perspective.

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Project Space
HITO: San Pedro/Port of Los Angeles/
Port of Long Beach:
Heather Rasmussen
January 22, 2012
Opening Reception: January 22, 2012 - 1:00 - 5:00pm

This exhibition brings together many bodies of work from the artist's practice, tied to one location: The Port of Los Angeles. Heather has pinpointed locations in San Pedro, The Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach that have either greatly influenced her practice or are exact sites of a project.

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Community Gallery
Dear Harbor: Images from our Community
Through March 4, 2012

The Dear Harbor project is a interactive tribute to the memories, photographs and physical history of our community. Dear Harbor asks local residents to take a past photographic print of the San Pedro harbor area to the location where it was originally shot, and take a new picture showing how things have changed.

Dear Harbor will also be displayed online at dearharbor.angelsgateart.org.

To submit your photograph, please make a print that will fit on an 8"x8" card, which will be mounted on the gallery wall.

For more information about submissions, please contact submit@angelsgateart.org or call 310-519-0936.

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Call For Proposals:
Into the Wilderness: The Journey Within

Deadline: March 1, 2012

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. - John Muir

Angels Gate Cultural Center (AGCC) is calling for proposals from artists, performers and curators, for exhibitions that engage the term of 'wildness' or 'wilderness' from multiple perspectives ranging from ecological to introspective.

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Artists Talk/Gallery Discussion
March 18th 1 - 4pm
At 1:30pm

Please join us for a lively discussion about the current work in the galleries. Lara Bullock, curator of the Immigrant/Emigrant exhibition, will lead a discussion about her show. Isabelle Lutterodt will follow that discussion with a walk through of the current shows while chatting with the artists who created the work.
Refreshments will be served!

Also: Rasmussen developed her ideas during trips to a familiar Southern California location: the Port of Los Angeles. There colorful containers were constantly rearranged and recomposed through her lens. She continues her work archiving the collections on the WWII Ship, The Lane Victory, making her own shipping container line, HITO, and seeking out disasters in vast seas and forests.

Project Space
MY WAR: Gabie Strong
March 18, 2012
Opening Reception: March 18, 2012 - 1:00 - 4:00pm

MY WAR is a transdisciplinary research project investigating the influence of the Cold War on the built environment and social culture of Southern California, with outcomes rendered in photography, drawing and sound. Presented as a site-based installation to form a spatial dialectic of Pure War in the Southland, MY WAR diagrams the contemporary So Cal uncanny vis-à-vis a systematic portrayal of imperialist affect on the increasingly abject condition of the everyday.

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Beginning Screen Printing Weekend Workshop
March 24 & 25 (Sat. & Sun.) 1-5pm

Beginning Screen Printing Weekend Workshop is a two day orientation to photographic screen printing (silkscreen). The objective of this workshop is to learn how to properly prepare and expose a screen in the sun, then to be able to register and print a 2-3 color image on a variety of surfaces (paper, fabric, etc.). Over the course of two days we will complete a screen printing project of your choice. All techniques shown can be reproduced at home with simple supplies and tools.

(Water based ink, squeegees, and screens will be provided. Paper will be available for sale.)

For more information and to register for workshop please contact Taya Kenny 310.519.0936 / taya@angelsgateart.org

Saturday, March 31, 2012
2:30 pm - 5 pm
Good food workshop no 3
"treats, snacks and all those good things that you want all the time"

Learn the basics in making your own savory and sweet snacks, smoothies, salads, nut milks, granola and more... It's wonderful and fun to feed your body! Get inspired to eat food in its own pure and simple nature.

Get your friends together and come to the beautiful views at the Angels Gate Cultural Center. There will be tastings, interactive demos and discussions too!

$55
Bring your taste buds to another fun
Good Food Workshop
Sign up soon to reserve your spot!

"enjoyed it tremendously, my wife and sons were all inspired to start making healthy meals!"
- a Good Food Friend

private chef
Healthy, Organic, Gourmet food, Raw, Vegetarian and Vegan
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Beginning Printmaking for Adults
Starts February 15, 2012
(no classes on Apr. 4, and 11)
Wednesdays, 10 am - 12:30 pm in Bldg. E
(Bldg. E is north of Bldg. D and east of Bldg. F.)

*Just Added! Saturday Classes begin Saturday, February 25th
Saturdays, 10am-12:30pm
*dates may be subject to change

$18/class or $160 for all 10 classes
+ $10 material fee
(Bring apron and gloves)

Beginning Printmaking is a 10 week long seminar that introduces rich variety of printmaking techniques - we will start with monotype printing, continue with relief, progress to intaglio (drypoint, and etching). We will discuss limited edition printing, and color printing - both subtractive, and additive methods. At the end of the course, students will be encouraged to experiment with their favorite technique that they have learnt.

For more information and to register for classes please contact Taya Kenny 310.519.0936 / taya@angelsgateart.org

The Print Studio is also available for Individual Instruction, Rental, and Print Services.
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Sunday, May 20, 2012
12 pm - 5 pm
Open Studios
Angels Gate Cultural Center is pleased to announce our annual Open Studios program that will take place on May 20, 2012 from 12 - 5pm.

The day will feature four new exhibitions in the galleries under the banner theme entitled, Into the Wilderness: The Journey Within, performances, children's workshops and over 40 artists' studios for you to visit. To find out more about the artists in the program please go here.

All is open to the public and free.

There will be a food tent so stay tuned and Mark Your Calendars!

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