Art Farts: CAAM-Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop
For nearly a year and a half I have been trying to go to CAAM’s quarterly Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop event. Every three months or so the Museum celebrates their new art installations with music, food and drinks.
I finally got the chance to go and was so very pleased to be surrounded by unapologetic blackness. What’s that you say? That’s when the electric slide breaks out because the DJ started playing “Candy.”
I was also pleased to see the work of so many artists that I love. I got so caught up in enjoying myself that I almost forgot to take pictures. But alas, here is what I was able to capture…
Plumb Line: Charles White and the Contemporary
Complete list of artists: Derrick Adams, Sadie Barnette, Dawoud Bey, Diedrick Brackens, Greg Breda, Bisa Butler, Alfred Conteh, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Ariel Dannielle, Kenturah Davis, Torkwase Dyson, Kohshin Finley, Derek Fordjour, Ficre Ghebreyesus, EJ Hill, Yashua Klos, Nate Lewis, Michelangelo Lovelace, Christopher Myers, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Deborah Roberts, Lava Thomas, Charles White, and Deborah Willis
Adia Millett: Breaking Patterns
California Bound: Slavery on the New Frontier, 1848–1865
Aspects of Nude: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Complete list of artists: Romare Bearden, Tracy Brown, Charles Dickson, Emmanuel Ekong Ekefrey, E. Taiwo Jegede, Artis Marie Lane, Pricilla Mills, John Outterbridge, Pablo Picasso, Alison Saar, Toni Scott, Elisabeth Sunday, Elaine Towns, Francois Turenne des Pres, Timothy Washington, Lamont Westmoreland, Frederick Whitaker, and John Wilson
The Liberator: Chronicling Black Los Angeles, 1900–1914
Many of these artists will be on display at the California African American Museum for the next few months. If you’re in the area, you MUST stop through.
California African American Museum
600 State Drive, Exposition Park
Los Angeles, California 90037
Admission is Free
Galleries Open
Tuesdays-Saturdays
10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Sundays
11:00 a.m.-5:00p.m.
Parking is $12 during the day and $15 after 5pm. CASH ONLY.
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