Join the Associates of Brand Library & Art Center for the REEL ART Film Series on Thursday, February 15 at 5:30pm for a screening of Harold and Lillian — a behind-the-scenes story of what goes into the making of a great film, and a great marriage. A lively post-film discussion will feature Director Daniel Raim.

The Brand Associates’ REEL ART film series offers limited release films that speak directly to and about art in unique ways. Guest speakers, often the director or someone with expertise on the film, will take questions after the screening. These screenings offer an opportunity for viewers to disconnect from their daily streaming devices to experience film in a smaller setting with lively discussion. Films are offered periodically throughout the year.

This series is free & open to the public. Presented by the Brand Associates. For more information on the Brand Associates, visit: https://associatesofbrand.org/.

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Free, limited parking is available in Brand Park; ride-sharing is strongly encouraged. An accessible entrance and accessible parking for cars with a disabled parking placard or license plate is located on the East side of Brand Library.

For additional information about this event, please contact the Brand Associates at info@associatesofbrand.com.

 

Join us for a panel discussion in conjunction with the current exhibition on view at Brand Library & Art Center, “If Memory Serves: Photography, Recollections and Vision.” Exhibition curator and Executive Director of the Los Angeles Center for Photography (LACP) Rotem Rosenthal, Ph.D. will moderate a discussion with exhibition artists Annette LeMay Burke, Lori Ordover, Jennifer Pritchard (Aurora Wilder Collective), and Aline Smithson. Learn more about the themes of “If Memory Serves” and how the artists developed their individual projects.

“If Memory Serves: Photography, Recollections and Vision” explores the moments our devices betray us, our recollections fail us and our pictures refuse to bring back the people they once captured. The works on view emerges from the intersection of our haunting pasts, possible futures and our relationships with images, technologies and the systems that ask us to speak for our photographs. The exhibition features artworks by Aurora Wilder Collective (Jennifer Pritchard in collaboration with Patrick Corrigan and DALL-E), Elizabeth Bailey, Annette LeMay Burke, Dena Elisabeth Eber, Sarah Hadley, Diane Hemingway, Rohina Hoffman, Susan Lapides, Annie Omens, Lori Ordover, Rosalie Rosenthal, Safi Alia Shabaik, and Aline Smithson.

“If Memory Serves,” which is co-organized with the Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP), will be on view through February 24, 2024. For more information, visit: https://www.brandlibrary.art/post/if-memory-serves

This program is sponsored by the Brand Associates and the Los Angeles Center of Photography.

Image: Clockwise, from top left: Rotem Rosenthal, Lori Ordover, Aline Smithson, Jennifer Pritchard, Annette LeMay Burke.

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Ample free parking is available in Brand Park. An accessible entrance and accessible parking for cars with a disabled parking placard or license plate is located on the East side of Brand Library.

For additional information about this exhibition, please contact Brand Library & Art Center at 818-548-2051 or send us an email at info@brandlibrary.org.

 

Art Talk Tuesday is a monthly conversation that invites contemporary artists to discuss their work and the issues surrounding it, followed by a moderated Q&A with Brand staff member, artist and writer Jennifer Remenchik. Art Talk Tuesday artists are selected to reflect the diversity of the art scene of the greater Los Angeles area.

Karen Lofgren is a Los Angeles-based, Canadian visual artist, whose feminist and decolonial research centers on the living world: ritual, history, medicine, and how our cultural systems connect to other wild systems. Lofgren’s practice uses academic research as a basis from which to dream radically in an artistic context and to interpret the research on a subconscious level to address the epistemic crisis of reason: searching for a new language to interpret the world and knowledge itself. The type of experimental and eco-feminist research practice she engages in looks at the relative youth of our species and the very brief history of written knowledge, when considered in astronomical, biological, or geological time. It tries to tap into information held in the cells of the body to make new forms and to arrive at new approaches and expand western epistemology at a moment its most needed. Lofgren’s first monograph: emBRUJAda: Charms for the Living was published by Set Margins’ press in 2023. She is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow, 2019 Pollock-Krasner Grantee, was Fulbright Core Scholar at UAL, Central St. Martins College in 2017/2018, and is currently supported by a grant from Canada Council for the Arts.

Art Talk Tuesday is sponsored by the Brand Associates.

For more information on Art Talk Tuesday and the other programs in the Spring 2024 series, please visit our website: https://www.brandlibrary.org/art-talk-tuesday

Image: Artist portrait by Shayan Ashgarnia, 2022; What is to Cure, installation view in “Brave New Worlds” at Palm Springs Art Museum, 2019. Photo by Lance Gerber.

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Ample free parking is available in Brand Park. An accessible entrance and accessible parking for cars with a disabled parking placard or license plate is located on the East side of Brand Library.

For additional information about this event, please contact Brand Library & Art Center at 818-548-2051 or send us an email at info@brandlibrary.org.

Join us for a kid-friendly arts and craft family workshop to bring back the long missed and forgotten family album. All materials will be supplied, but participants are welcome to bring 3×5 prints of family photos to use in the craft. Come on down and join Ford Lowcock as he walks everyone through the simple hands-on craft of making a family album. Dress for a mess.

Ford Lowcock is a photographer and has taught photography for over 20 years. His passion for image making and photography is contagious! Ford is also an instructor at the Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP), which co-organized Brand’s current exhibition, “If Memory Serves: Photography, Recollections, and Vision.”

This program is sponsored by the Brand Associates and the Los Angeles Center of Photography.

Make it a day with the family at Brand! Come early for Music Animated with Sara at 10:30am.

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Ample free parking is available in Brand Park. An accessible entrance and accessible parking for cars with a disabled parking placard or license plate is located on the East side of Brand Library.

For additional information about this event, please contact Brand Library & Art Center at 818-548-2051 or send us an email at info@brandlibrary.org.

 

Music Animated is a unique, family-oriented program that makes music come alive with interactive performances suitable for all ages!

Join Sara Quintanar as she leads a bilingual music jam for the whole family in the Brand Library Plaza! Learn about music and a little Spanish at the same time. Seating is first come, first served. We encourage you to arrive early.

About Sara Quintanar 
The songs by the LA-based children’s music performer, educator of over 20 years, published author and proud mother of three bilingual children, are celebrated for their sweet lyrics, melodies, and cultural flair. Sara has released six musical albums for children since 2010 and her music is listened to in homes and schools around the world. Sara now teaches music in juvenile halls and continues to perform and write music. Sara’s shows are great for early learners and she brings plenty of instruments for all to participate!

For information on the entire Music Animated series, visit brandlibrary.org/music-animated.

Make it a day with the family at Brand! Stay for What Happened to the Family Album? – an arts & crafts family workshop at 12pm.

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Ample free parking is available in Brand Park. An accessible entrance and accessible parking for cars with a disabled parking placard or license plate is located on the East side of Brand Library.

For additional information about this event, please contact Brand Library & Art Center at 818-548-2051 or send us an email at info@brandlibrary.org.