Experience San Pedro’s vibrant arts community in action at Open Studios Day! Don’t miss this FREE, all-ages event on Saturday, November 8 from 12pm to 4pm at Angels Gate Cultural Center (AGCC).
• Discover 50+ creative spaces—learn about our artists’ practice and view contemporary works of art.
• Explore Sustainers of Life in the gallery, featuring seven Native and Indigenous artists exploring intersectional themes through installation, sculpture, photography, illustration, and painting.
• Create blackout poetry at an All-Ages Art Workshop inspired by our current gallery exhibition.
• Experience Community Class demonstrations of dance, printmaking, raku ceramics, wood carving and more.
• Get a sneak preview of the next big thing with live painting by AGCC’s Teen Mural Club.
Learn more at angelsgateart.org
Open Studios Day is a free, all-ages event that provides the public a glimpse into the process, art, and lives of local artists who create at the Center. AGCC hosts one of the largest studio artist programs in the region with a diverse range of artistic disciplines including ceramics, photography, printmaking, writing, sculpture, videography, music, and painting. This self-guided tour of artist studios provides a unique opportunity to interact with the artists and purchase contemporary works of art.
In the galleries, explore Sustainers of Life, an exhibition featuring contemporary Native and Indigenous women artists, on display at the AGCC Gallery in Building A in conjunction with the MWGOE. The exhibition addresses colonialism’s impact, motherhood, and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women crisis while also celebrating individual stories of resiliency and survival. Artists Weshoyot Alvitre, Emily Clarke, Katie Dorame, Eve-Lauryn Little Shell LaFountain, Cara Romero, Corey Stein, and Linda Vallejo create works that depict Native and Indigenous women as multidimensional beings. Honoring women as sustainers of cultural knowledge and community healing, Sustainers of Life weaves together personal narratives within broader historical contexts. Through diverse media, the exhibition creates space for both mourning losses and celebrating the ongoing resilience of those who nurture and protect life.
AGCC Studio Artists include Adam Gaxiola, Andrea Lien, Ann Weber, Anna Erneholm, Ashton S. Phillips, Beth Elliott, Candice Gawne, Catherine Burce, Da Aie Park, Daniel Porras, Deborah Wright, Delora Bertsch, Dennis Keeley, Elizabeth Casuga, Elyse Pignolet, Emma Rault, Frank Rodriguez, Gil Mares, Henry Krusoe, Jesse Small, Joe Bariele, Jon Nakamura, June Edmonds, Karla Diaz, Kim Kei, Leah Shane Dixon, Lisa Diane Wedgeworth, Lowell Nickel, Lucinda Rudolph, Lynn Doran, Marco Schindelmann, Melodie Reay, Mike Watt, Nancy Voegeli-Curran, Perry Okimoto, Phoebe Barnum, Regina Herod, Rene LaRue, Robert Alexander, Scott Anger, Soft Chick, Taylor Crisp, Tianlu Chen, Vanessa Madrid, Yoon Jin Kim, Yozmit The DogStar, and Yuichiro Roy Kunisaki.
Angels Gate Cultural Center is supported in part by Arts in CA Parks, The Ahmanson Foundation, Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, the Perenchio Foundation, the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks, the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, Norris Foundation, the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, and Best Start Wilmington. Additionally, AGCC’s arts education programming is supported by the Crail-Johnson Foundation, Max H. Gluck Foundation, NLT Foundation, and Reed Foundation.
Photo: AGCC Studio Artist Candice Gawne, photo by Jordan Rodriguez.
