Join us in a discussion with National Park Service Ranger Tori Kuykendall and the artists: Andrea Bersaglieri, Ken Marchionno, and Kim Abeles.
How do we see, represent, and connect with nature in urban areas? How do art and science serve the public understanding of our environment?
El Pueblo Historical Monument and El Pueblo Park Association in partnership with Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, a unit of the National Park Service are pleased to present a mixed media art exhibition at Gateway to Nature. Featured in the exhibit are prints created from Andrea Bersaglieri’s highly detailed watercolors of native plants, and Ken Marchionno’s 2’ x 10’ photographs taken in the San Bernardino Mountains and created with a pivot up to 180° and multiple captures. Valises for Camp Ground: Arts, Corrections, and Fire Management in the Santa Monica Mountains are ten small, mixed media travel suitcases (known as “valises”) created during a long-term collaboration between artist Kim Abeles and the female inmates of Camp 13—a correctional facility in the Santa Monica Mountains for women who are trained and deployed to fight forest fires throughout the region. The valises are used as educational tools at public events by the National Park Service and Los Angeles County Fire Department to teach the public about fire prevention, national forests, and our relationship to nature. The exhibit also includes selection from Breathing Trees, a project created by Abeles during her residency at the Institute of Forest Genetics in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
Exhibition dates: September 13 – December 29, 2019
Open Wednesday through Sunday, 10am – 3pm Admission is free
Please note that the Center will be closed on Oct 12 and Nov 13
Gateway to Nature Center
130 Paseo de la Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Located next to Olvera Street and a 9-minute walk from Union Station and Metro
