BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Art - ECPv6.17.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://art.metro.net X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Art REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221208T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221208T130000 DTSTAMP:20221209T013446Z CREATED:20221115T213724Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221209T013446Z UID:10000081-1670500800-1670504400@art.metro.net SUMMARY:REGISTRATION FULL - Conversations on Art with Meg Linton\, featuring Sandow Birk (Online) DESCRIPTION:A series of free online conversations with creatives about the state of making. Join Meg Linton\, independent curator and writer\, as she virtually visits the studios of known and emerging artists\, exploring their work\, influence\, philosophy\, and creative process. \nSandow Birk has been commissioned to create a site-specific artwork for the future Westwood/VA Hospital Metro Station in the Brentwood/Westwood neighborhood. Sandow will discuss his past projects\, the steps involved in creating public artworks\, and engage with the audience regarding potential ideas for representing aspects of the neighborhood and community\, past and present\, for his Metro station artwork. \n> The free online talk is co-presented with Brentwood Art Center and will take place via Zoom.\nREGISTRATION FULL\nSANDOW BIRK (b. 1962\, Detroit) is a Los Angeles artist who develops expansive\, multi-media art projects that deal with a variety of contemporary subjects\, including inner-city violence\, graffiti\, social and political conflicts\, prisons\, Islam\, surfing\, and skateboarding. Birk earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design (now Otis College of Art and Design) in 1988. His many awards include an NEA International Exchange Scholarship (1995)\, a Guggenheim Fellowship (1996)\, a Fulbright Scholarship (1997)\, and a Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant (2021). His work has been exhibited internationally and is in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)\, Metropolitan Museum of Art\, Harvard University Art Museum\, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma in Italy\, and Kunstmuseum Reutlingen in Germany. \nBRENTWOOD ART CENTER (BAC) provides visual arts education for diverse students of all ages\, backgrounds\, and experiences through in-person and online learning. BAC provides equitable community access to arts programming throughout the greater Los Angeles region. BAC is committed to a learning environment that is inspiring and fun for everyone with small programs\, individualized artistic development for each participant and award-winning teaching artists. Learn more about BAC at brentwoodart.org\, and on Instagram and Facebook. \nFlyer: Detail of Sandow Birk’s preliminary sketch for the future Metro Westwood/VA Hospital Station URL:https://art.metro.net/event/meglinton-coa-sandow/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Public Programs,Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://art.metro.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Sandow-Birk-Chapel-Urban-Sketch.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Brentwood Art Center":MAILTO:info@brentwoodart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220719T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220719T200000 DTSTAMP:20220719T035017Z CREATED:20220713T195830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220719T035017Z UID:10000075-1658255400-1658260800@art.metro.net SUMMARY:Underground Astronomy: Art\, Geology and Cosmology with Mungo Thomson (Online Event) DESCRIPTION:Join future Grand Ave Arts/Bunker Hill Station artist Mungo Thomson and special guests Marty Hudson\, the Director of the Turner Engineering Group and Maurice Henderson\, former Education and Public Outreach Engineer at NASA for a free online public conversation about the unlikely but real crossovers between geology and cosmology. \nThe artist will share his upcoming artwork Negative Space (STScI-2015-02)\, recently installed in anticipation of future passengers on the subway platform hundreds of feet underneath downtown Los Angeles as part of the Regional Connector Transit Project Art Program. \nIn conversation with the artist\, Hudson will introduce the tunnel boring machine (also known as a “mole”)\, a worm-like machine that excavated the tunnels of the Regional Connector\, and talk about how tunneling traverses space and time by moving age-old earth dating back to the Pleistocene era. \nHenderson will share his own experience with the Hubble telescope\, a human-made device that also reveals the past as it orbits earth capturing images that expand our understanding of the size\, age\, and growth of the universe. \n>> Register on Eventbrite\n  URL:https://art.metro.net/event/underground-astronomy/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://art.metro.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Mungo-Thomsen-featured-image.png ORGANIZER;CN="Metro Art":MAILTO:metroart@metro.net END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220714T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220714T130000 DTSTAMP:20220711T210914Z CREATED:20220701T184520Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220711T210914Z UID:10000072-1657800000-1657803600@art.metro.net SUMMARY:Info Session: Artist Pool for Digital Media Opportunities DESCRIPTION:Metro Art invites artists and artist teams working in digital media to submit qualifications\, including samples of completed original moving image art\, for the 2022 Artist Pool for Digital Media Opportunities. Artists that meet the eligibility and successfully submit to the Pool will be considered for future temporary exhibition opportunities on digital screens at several locations throughout the Metro system. \n>> Register on Eventbrite\n  \nWant to know more? Register for our information session which will provide: \n\nBackground on Metro Art and Call to 2022 Artist Pool for Digital Media Opportunities\nAn overview of eligibility and application requirements\nQuestion & Answer discussion period\n\n  \nCan’t make it? We’ve got you! The info session and Q&A will be published on the Metro Art website and posted within one week of the presentation. \n  \nThis opportunity is open through Wednesday\, August 31\, 2022 at 5:00 pm (PDT)  11:59 pm (PDT). \n  \nTo learn more about Metro Art’s artist opportunities\, visit metro.net/art and click on “Art Opportunities” and sign up for the Metro Art email list. \n  \nThe contact information submitted during registration will be used to send you a confirmation email with the Info Session Zoom link and any additional information related to the Info Session. This information will be shared with Metro staff only and may be retained for up to one year. \n \nStills from current Metro Art: Digital Shorts by Adebukola Bodunrin\, Caress Reeves\, Jantsankhorol Erdenebayar (Jantsa)\, Jisoo Chung\, Kiel Johnson and Rebecca Bruno. Watch the digital shorts here. URL:https://art.metro.net/event/info-session-artist-pool-for-digital-media-opportunities/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Opportunities,Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://art.metro.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Metro-Digital-Shorts-Banner.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Metro Art":MAILTO:metroart@metro.net END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220622T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220622T150000 DTSTAMP:20220701T184154Z CREATED:20220601T210952Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220701T184154Z UID:10000069-1655906400-1655910000@art.metro.net SUMMARY:Info Session: Artwork Design Services for Temporary Construction Site Banners DESCRIPTION:Register on Eventbrite\n  \nMetro Art invites visual artists and artist teams to submit their qualifications for an opportunity to design original\, site-responsive artworks for large-scale temporary banners at the Westwood/VA Hospital Station construction site\, as part of a visual mitigation measure for the Westside Purple (D Line) Extension Project. \n  \nWant to learn more? This information session will provide: \n\nBackground on Call to Artists: Artwork Design Services for Temporary Construction Site Visual Mitigation (RFQ) and Metro Art\nAn overview of eligibility and application requirements\nQuestion & Answer discussion period. The Q&A will be published on metro.net/art after the Info Session.\n\nCan’t make it? We’ve got you! The session will also be recorded and archived on the Metro Art website and posted within one week of the presentation to watch anytime. \n  \nThe opportunity is open through Wednesday\, July 20\, 2022 at 5PM (PDT). \n  \nFor more information on the Call to Artists: Artwork Design Services for Temporary Construction Site Visual Mitigation Banners (RFQ)\, visit metro.net/art and click on Art Opportunities. \n  \nThe contact information submitted during registration will be used to send you a confirmation email with the Info Session Zoom link and any additional information related to the Info Session. This information will be shared with Metro staff only and may be retained for up to one year. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Example of Construction Banners in context at a rail project site.\n \n \n \n \n \n Example of Construction Banners in context at a rail project site. URL:https://art.metro.net/event/artwork-design-services-for-temporary-construction-site-banners-info-session/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Opportunities,Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://art.metro.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/VA_EDWIN-USHIRO-Metro-Wall-3-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Metro Art":MAILTO:metroart@metro.net END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220421T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220421T133000 DTSTAMP:20220509T143719Z CREATED:20220406T221552Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220509T143719Z UID:10000060-1650542400-1650547800@art.metro.net SUMMARY:2022 Call to Arts & Cultural Organizations: Info Session DESCRIPTION:Register on Eventbrite here\n  \nBuilding on its long history of collaborating with community-based organizations in support of innovative\, community-responsive\, mobility-based arts and cultural programs\, Metro Art invites Arts & Cultural Organizations to submit qualifications for the Arts & Cultural Organization Pool! \nArts and cultural organizations that meet the eligibility requirements and successfully submit to the Pool will be considered for a range of future Metro art opportunities. \nThe Call to Arts & Cultural Organizations is open through Wednesday\, June 1\, 2022 at 5PM (PDT). Submit qualifications to the Pool via SlideRoom. \nWant to learn more? This information session will provide: \n\nBackground on Metro Art and the new Arts & Cultural Organization Pool\nAn overview of eligibility and application requirements\nQuestion & Answer discussion period\nAn opportunity to connect with Metro Art staff\n\nPlease note: Only organizations are eligible apply to this call. Individual artists and/or artist teams are not eligible to apply. \nFor more information and to view the full Call to Arts Cultural Organizations\, visit metro.net/artsorgpool and read the complete RFQ here. \nThe contact information submitted during registration will be used to send you a confirmation email with the Info Session Zoom link and any additional information related to the Info Session. This information will be shared with Metro staff only and may be retained for up to one year. URL:https://art.metro.net/event/2022-call-to-arts-cultural-organizations-info-session/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Opportunities,Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://art.metro.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/MetroArtCallToArtOrgs_300x300_02_final.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Metro Art":MAILTO:metroart@metro.net END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220418T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220418T120000 DTSTAMP:20220417T004403Z CREATED:20220409T000140Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220417T004403Z UID:10000062-1650279600-1650283200@art.metro.net SUMMARY:Virtual Art Tour with On the Move Riders Program and Metro Art DESCRIPTION:Join Metro’s On the Move Riders Program for a “virtual” tour of Metro’s current art exhibition. and rider portrait series We Are… Portraits of Metro Riders by Local Artists. This On the Move Riders Program is organized in collaboration with AARP. \nWe’ll begin by learning more about Metro Art’s rider portrait series along with a virtual tour of the multi-site exhibition from Metro Art staff member Mayen Alcantara and then chat with contributing artist\, Yolanda González\, about her portrait in the exhibit. \nTo RSVP to the event and receive the access information\, click here. \nTo view the online gallery and to learn more about We Are…\, click here. \nAbout artist Yolanda González: \nSouthern California artist Yolanda González was born into a family of artists dating back to the 19th century. She studied at Art Center College of Design and is the recipient of several awards and artist residencies. Her paintings and ceramics have been exhibited throughout the world and included in many museum presentations across the United States\, throughout Europe\, and in South Africa. Among the many museums that have shown her work are the Armand Hammer Museum\, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA\, the Japanese American National Museum and the Diego Rivera Museum in México City. Throughout the years\, González has taught at Inner City Arts\, Para Los Ninos\, Plaza de La Raza\, Crenshaw Christian Center\, MOCA and Alta Med. \nAbout the We Are… exhibition and rider portrait series: \nCelebrating the diversity of Los Angeles County and the community of transit riders\, We Are… Portraits of Metro Riders by Local Artists features over 40 rider portraits presented throughout the Metro system and online. Each rider portrait has a story that is personal and universal\, intimate and immediate—a single story among many\, and each told by an artist with ties to neighborhoods served by Metro. We Are… is presented in collaboration with Metro’s Office of Civil Rights\, Racial Equity & Inclusion and Communications departments. URL:https://art.metro.net/event/aarp-hosted-virtual-art-tour-with-on-the-move-riders-program-metro-art/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Public Programs,Tours,Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://art.metro.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/278191505_281627547480348_4657160442800344447_n.jpeg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR