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The Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) is pleased to announce Imprints , an exhibition that interrogates California’s land use, water rights, and the consumption of natural resources – often at a pace greater than can be replenished. Imprints includes solo exhibitions by six artists: Ann Diener, Charles Hood, Debra Scacco, Serena JV Elston, Sonja Schenk, and Terry Arena. The exhibition will be on view from Saturday, May 11, 2024, through Sunday, August 11, 2024. On the first floor, Ann Diener’s The Invented Land explores the transformation of land in California’s Central Valley from family farms to industrial agriculture. In the atrium, Sonja Schenk’s Light for the Sun II showcases symbolic gestures, no matter how small, can help bring awareness to environmental issues. The Moore Family Trust gallery exhibits Terry Arena’s work, Natural Capital, delving into the critical commoditization of the environment’s renewable and non-renewable natural resources. On the second floor, the north gallery and top of the stairs showcase Charles Hood’s Under/Water photographic installation survey that considers the visual and political statements of the 400-mile-long Los Angeles Aqueduct. The Bozigian Family Gallery features works by Debra Scacco. Misplaced Rain addresses the human desire to control nature in an effort to build capital and sprawl. In the Jewel box lies Serena JV Elston’s pieces which critique colonial, western ideologies, proliferating larger conversations concerning the ways in which these ideologies allow for the exploitation of land and its resources. IMPRINTS SOLO EXHIBTIONS Terry Arena Natural Capital Once considered a “ghost lake” in California, the torrential downpour of rain experienced in 2023 has resurrected bodies of water like Tulare Lake. It was considered one of the largest freshwater bodies west of the Mississippi before it would be depleted of its water in the 19th century through the creation of canals, dams, and ditches that would divert water from the region for agriculture. Lucrative crops like pistachios are planted on thousands of acres of the lakebed. Read More Ann Diener The Invented Land As a fourth-generation descendant of a Southern California farming family, Ann Diener has a deep connection to the land and is fascinated with its continual state of change. Several years ago, while visiting her late grandparents’ farm, she was struck by how abruptly and significantly this land had changed. No longer was she able to recognize her old haunts or familiar landmarks; the crops and trees were gone, the roads were reconfigured, and fertile farmland was covered in a shroud of industrial farming operations. Read More Serena JV Elston Ancient Futurism Artist Serena JV Elston is a transdisciplinary sculptor contemplating the body and its relationship to structures of power like patriarchy, capitalism, and gender. Her research-based practice explores ecology, posthumanism, disability, and embodiment through a post-colonial lens — a historical period or state of affairs representing the aftermath of Western colonialism. Elston critiques the institutional preservation of Western civilization. Read More Charles Hood Under/Water Amongst his twenty published books and over eight-hundred photographs, artist and author Charles Hood has focused much of his attention on wildlife and nature. He has traveled globally, documenting aspects such as resource allocation, regional fauna, and the evolution of natural landscapes. Hood’s work brings attention to both the political and environmental nuances of these varied regions in order understand how these locales are shaped and still constantly evolving. Read More Debra Scacco Misplaced Rain Artist and curator, Debra Scacco, questions how value is prioritized. Common threads of mapping and storytelling are present throughout her artistic practice. Working closely with cartographers, historians, activists, and scientists, Scacco studies the lines that direct everyday life, including boundaries drawn by policy, infrastructure, and societal perception. Read More Sonja Schenk Light for the Sun II The intersection of the natural world and humankind is key to Sonja Schenk’s artistic practice, which explores this convergence through a variety of forms: painting, sculpture, installation, and time-based media. She is interested in geography, anthropology, the future of humanity and how these elements reflect on modern life. Much of Schenk’s work is site specific, utilizing research of the area to create individualized projects that in her words, “fit[s] a place.” Read More For information on This Valley Is Sacred: The Ancestors Are Speaking, please click the button below. About This Valley Is Sacred: The Ancestors Are Speaking

Mark Steven Greenfield's Hey-Lo Series Mark Steven Greenfield's most recent body of work, Hey-Lo, tells the stories of Black folk-saints, martyrs, freedom-fighters, survivors, magicians, visionaries, and even a few scoundrels. Many of the figures are from the 1400s-1800s, a timeframe that corresponds with Europeans beginning to use racial distinction as a tool to justify slavery. In this series, Greenfield puts halos on historical and contemporary figures alike, highlighting remarkable stories on enslaved Black figures as well as people who are seen as modern-day saints in their respective communities. "I am reimagining what a saint is," Greenfield says. "Maybe by studying their stories, it can inform us on better ways to live." Hey-Lo is a rich representation of the complexities of the historical Black identity. The figures in the paintings emerge from a variety of geographic locations, time periods, ethnicities, stages of life, and levels of freedom — each representing a person who was nearly blotted out from written history despite their incredible feats or attributed miracles. Greenfield honors their simultaneously astounding and disturbing existences by bestowing them with halos, which are theological symbols of adoration and respect. The lustrous gold leaf backgrounds and mantra discs help lift the figures to a place in the heavens. This is a Title 01 Lee mas This is a Title 03 Lee mas This is a Title 02 Lee mas

10th Anniversary Show May 14 - August 21, 2022 The Lancaster Museum of Art and History celebrates ten years of serving the Antelope Valley community at its current location on The BLVD. The museum opened its doors on May 5th, 2012, as a part of an extensive revitalization of Downtown Lancaster — serving as a social anchor for the community and The BLVD Cultural District. In 2022, the museum programs four facilities across the Valley including: MOAH, MOAH:CEDAR, the Western Hotel Museum, and the Elyze Interpretive Center. This exhibition reflects the hopes of the community, further expanding the museum’s curriculum and programming. This exhibition features four solo exhibitions and a group exhibit, Human Natures , curated from artworks MOAH has collected over the last decade. Currently on view is a 20-year survey of contemporary photographer Chris Engman's works and conceptual artist Debra Scacco's immersive installation, centering conversations around environmentalism and water extraction. Also on view is photographer Sam Comen's exhibition focusing on essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic and Dutch artist Super A’s whimsical and hyperrealistic iterations of iconic pop-culture figures. Throughout this exhibition, viewers will encounter various facets at the heart of MOAH’s core principles, such as community-centered artwork and the evolution of the Contemporary Art Movement. May 14 - August 21, 2022 Chris Engman Land and Image: Chris Engman, 2002-2022 > May 14 - August 21, 2022 Chris Engman Land and Image: Chris Engman, 2002-2022 > May 14 - August 21, 2022 Chris Engman Land and Image: Chris Engman, 2002-2022 > May 14 - August 21, 2022 Chris Engman Land and Image: Chris Engman, 2002-2022 > May 14 - August 21, 2022 Chris Engman Land and Image: Chris Engman, 2002-2022 > May 14 - August 21, 2022 Chris Engman Land and Image: Chris Engman, 2002-2022 > May 14 - August 21, 2022 Chris Engman Land and Image: Chris Engman, 2002-2022 > May 14 - August 21, 2022 Chris Engman Land and Image: Chris Engman, 2002-2022 > May 14 - August 21, 2022 Chris Engman Land and Image: Chris Engman, 2002-2022 > May 14 - August 21, 2022 Chris Engman Land and Image: Chris Engman, 2002-2022 > May 14 - August 21, 2022 Chris Engman Land and Image: Chris Engman, 2002-2022 > May 14 - August 21, 2022 Chris Engman Land and Image: Chris Engman, 2002-2022 >

ACTIVATION January 22 - April 16, 2022 The Lancaster Museum of Art and History is opening its latest exhibition season, Activation, a series of solo exhibitions from artists Mark Steven Greenfield, April Bey, Paul Stephen Benjamin, Carla Jay Harris, and Keith Collins. The opening reception for Activation will be held on Saturday, January 22, 2022 from 4 to 6 p.m., in tandem with What Would You Say? Activist Graphics from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the second exhibition in its Local Access series. The exhibitions will remain on view until April 16, 2022. Lee mas April Bey Lee mas Carla Jay Harris Lee mas Keith Collins Lee mas Mark Steven Greenfield Lee mas Paul Stephen Benjamin Lee mas Sergio Hernandez Lee mas What Would You Say?

Opening January 13, 2024, Formation will feature nine artists who explore clay in their body of work. The Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) is pleased to announce Formation , an exhibition that explores clay’s inherent malleability and concern for the body, its politics, and experience. Formation highlights the work of nine artists: Kiel Johnson, Kevin Kowalski, Galia Linn, Elana Mann, Elyse Pignolet, Aili Schmeltz, Diane Silver, Camilla Taylor, and Sean Yang. The exhibition will be on view from Saturday, January 13, 2024, through Sunday, April 14, 2024. Galia Lin n’s Guardians and Vessels is a twenty-year survey of Linn’s work that centers her embrace of both strength and vulnerability in her art practice. The exhibition is comprised of sixty individual pieces from various bodies of work. Artist Aili Schmeltz’s Cairn 24 creates works that are informed by the environmental, philosophical, and architectural histories of the American West. Camilla Taylor’s The Knot explores the tension between the process of individualization and being a member of a collective. Diane Silver’s Stones Throw minimalist aesthetic tangibly showcases a woman’s reproductive reality, commenting on the state of female autonomy in the present day. Elana Mann’s Bellows and Quakes explores the power of collective voice and sound while Elyse Pignolet’s Hysterical explores ideas of post-colonial ethnicity, global exchange, and intersectionality through a feminist lens. Kevin Kowalski’s work takes cues from the natural world and visual landscapes while Kiel Johnson’s Notes on a Morning Walk is an autobiographical series documenting Johnson’s daily walks in the small, idyllic village he currently resides. Artist Sean Yang’s TOUCH THE TRUESELF WITHIN exploits the tension between reproduced and handcrafted objects through his sculptural ceramics and mixed media works, seeking to examine social control, collective unconsciousness, individual identity, and cultural transformation. Formation Exhibition Kiel Johnson Notes on a Morning Walk The idea of “work as play” is central to Kiel Johnson’s art practice bringing a sense of curiosity and exploration through his whimsical creations. His primary focus is on drawings and sculpture that speak to the travels and adventures of his everyday life. Johnson’s sculptures and drawings serve as a visual diary that captures his animated and vast stream of consciousness. Read More Kevin Kowalski Sculptural Landscapes Inspired by the natural word, artist Kevin Kowalski creates ceramic works that call to the visual landscapes around him. His travels and experience in clay provide the foundation for his creative process, allowing him to develop his skills in techniques such as mocha diffusion and many other decorative processes. Read More Galia Linn Vessels and Guardians Surrounded by archeological sites and spaces in war-torn Israel, Galia Linn gained inspiration from ancient and contemporary relics from past and present civilizations. She reacts to these relics and stories through her sculptures, paintings, and site-responsive installations. Read More Elana Mann Bellows and Quakes Through sculpture, sound, and community engagement, the artwork of artist Elana Mann explores the power of the collective voice and the politics of listening. Mann’s sculptures, resembling the horns and rattles prominent in musical instruments, serve to create, amplify, and embody sound. Read More Elyse Pignolet Hysterical Primarily working in ceramics, artist Elyse Pignolet has been inspired by and dealt with various themes including political and social issues, the dialectic between feminism and misogyny, and cultural stereotypes. Often projects reflect the urban environment from where she lives and works. Read More Aili Schmeltz Cairn 24 Informed by the environmental, philosophical, and architectural histories of the American West, artist Aili Schmeltz creates sculptures and wall-hung works that combine painting, collage, embroidery, and ceramics. Her practice stems from a fascination of the desert landscape, research into feminist history, and an examination of the politics and utopian ideology associated to the development, destruction, and conservation of the West. Read More Diane Silver Stones Throw For Diane Silver, working with her hands is a transformative act taking inspiration from the natural world. Silver utilizes ceramic, wax, and textiles like hemp and thread to create organic forms that resemble those in nature. Silver allows for the material to speak for itself with a raw and organic feel. Read More Camilla Taylor The Knot Camilla Taylor’s monochromatic sculptures often cite figurative and architectural forms through references of the human body and home. Her work features a subtle and limited palette of blacks, greys, and graphite. For Taylor, certain colors feel too “loud,” opting for a color palette that feels more intimate and introspective. Read More Sean Yang TOUCH THE TRUESELF WITHIN Through sculptural ceramics and mixed- media works, artist Sean Yang’s practice exploits the tension between reproduction and handcrafted objects, using this dialogue to examine social control, collective unconsciousness, individual identity, and cultural transformation. Read More

Opening Reception Saturday, January 25, | 2 - 4PM JANUARY 25 - APRIL13, 2025 Get Tickets Capturing the Self in Portraiture Read More Photographic Transmutation View Artists This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in collaboration with the Riverside Art Museum, California State University, Northridge, Art Galleries; Lancaster Museum of Art and History; and Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College. Local Access is a series of American art exhibitions created through a multi-year, multi-institutional partnership formed by LACMA as part of the Art Bridges Cohort Program.

Public Art Projects Antelope Valley Walls™ 2026 Read More Portals by Anthony James 2025 Read More Superbloom! by Joseph O'Connell 2023 Read More Lifelines by Nancy Baker Cahill 2023 Read More Crosswalk Mural by Nuri Amanatullah 2022 Read More Skytower Park Murals by Vojislav Radovanović 2022 Read More Colima by Woods Davy 2022 Read More The Greeting by Dan Droz 2022 Read More Paleolithic Herd by Devin Thor 2021 Read More THEN | NOW | A | DREAM by Nathaniel Ancheta and David Martin 2021 Read More Crosswalk Mural by Charlie Edmistion 2021 Read More Cinta Vidal Mural 2021 Read More Crosswalk Mural by Kim Sielbeck 2021 Read More Little Giant by Ann Weber 2020 Read More #CountMeIn Poster Project 2020 Read More Crosswalk Mural by Art of Chase 2019 Read More Apollo by Alex Couwenberg 2019 Read More Guy Dill Roundabout 2018 Read More #ArtOutDoorAV 2017 Read More Astral Challenger 2016 Read More Eco-Quilt 2016 Read More Yarn Bomb at MOAH 2015 Read More Random Acts of Music 2014 Read More One Desert Sky 2014 Read More Yarn Bomb At City Hall 2013 Read More Pete Knight Mural 2012 Read More The Musical Road 2008 Read More

Past Exhibitions 300-Miles to Wounded Knee: The Oomaka Tokatakiya, Future Generations Ride Ken Marchionno January 23 – May 9, 2021 Ken Marchionno has been pursuing photography since the age of 15 and after working with video, installation, interactive design, digital works and performance, documentary photography is Marchionno's preferred medium and methodology. Marrying his artwork with his passionate social practice, he records the fragility and complexity of life in a quick-moving contemporary world, and through his photography gives voice to moments, people and places that might have otherwise been overlooked. Read More A print collection Nuri Amanatullah February 2019 - May 2021 Nuri Amanatullah is an Antelope Valley-based painter, illustrator, and designer whose stylized, graphic depictions of flora and fauna are represented in a variety of mediums including illustration and large-scale murals. Employing both traditional techniques and digital media, Amanatullah has designed for Disney, storyboarded for Uber, illustrated for Airbnb, and painted walls at numerous sites around the Antelope Valley including a mural with Antelope Valley Walls in 2018, as well as in Flint, Michigan as part of the Free City Mural Festival. Read More Activation Various Artists January 22 - April 16, 2022 The Lancaster Museum of Art and History is opening its latest exhibition season, Activation , a series of solo exhibitions from artists Mark Steven Greenfield, April Bey, Paul Stephen Benjamin, Carla Jay Harris, and Keith Collins. The opening reception for Activation will be held on Saturday, January 22, 2022 from 4 to 6 p.m., in tandem with What Would You Say? Activist Graphics from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the second exhibition in its Local Access series. The exhibitions will remain on view until April 16, 2022. Read More Art Activations at the Preserve Dani Dodge 2019 Los Angeles artist Dani Dodge uses unexpected sculptural materials to alter spaces. Her experience as an embedded journalist during the 2003 invasion of Iraq changed her forever. Since then, she has created art and installations that change and challenge expectations. From brightening a black and white snowy forest in Ireland with luminescent tree stumps to turning a Los Angeles gallery into a gantlet of rotating car parts made from baby blankets, her works play with surrealist ideas using innovative forms. Read More Artist As Subject Various Artists May 7 - July 24, 2016 Rebecca Campbell Andrew Frieder Kent Anderson Butler Eric Minh Swenson Jane Szabo Nataša Prosenc Stearns Read More British Invasion Various Artists November 19, 2016 - January 22, 2017 Born in Cambridge, England, Andrew Hall is best known for his graphically stunning, abstract photography. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts with honors in graphic design from Exeter College of Art and Design. A successful commercial photographer, Hall has worked with some of London’s top creative agencies and design consultancies. Read More Celebrate the Lunar New Year Lorraine Bubar Read More Citrus Series David Koeth June 5 – September 5, 2021 A critique of these large-scale industrial complexes a the damaging processes of unsustainable agricultural production Describing himself as restless and eclectic, David Koeth works with citrus peels, paint, coffee, and graphic design. His artworks reflect humanity's long-fought struggle with pollution and humanity’s attempt to combat the destruction of Earth's natural resources and living species. Read More Collaborate and Create Various Artists May 9 - August 16, 2020 Collaborate and Create is an extension project conceived by the directors of Kipaipai Workshops, a non-profit organization that focuses on the professional development of artists. Kipaipai Workshop’s mission is to encourage, inspire and build community. Collaborate and Create pairs two artists with varying artistic styles to problem solve and produce a collaborative work pushing boundaries outside the artists’ regular studio practice and experimenting with styles and materials. Read More Contemporary Landscape: From the Desert to the Sea Various Artists November 22, 2014 - January 11, 2015 Being Here and There features photographic works by twenty-six artists whose imagery derives from their individual and contemplative experience of place. Situated among an array of topographies and ecosystems from the desert to the sea, each of their creative works provides us with a unique view and perspective of a spectacular landscape, unlike any other. These artists are contemporary surveyors, seeking to depict and give meaning to this place where we live. Read More CountMeIn - 2020 Census Project Various Artists May 9 - December 27, 2020 The Lancaster Museum of Art & History (MOAH) and the Lancaster Museum and Public Art Foundation (LMPAF) invite the public to its newest exhibition #CountMeIn , a celebration of the community recognizing their value in civic life through engagement and education on the topic of the 2020 United States Census. Every decade, the U.S. Census counts every resident in the nation and uses the data to allocate billions of dollars in federal funds to local communities and determines the number of seats each state receives in the House of Representatives. Read More Empty Vessel Excerpts Amir Zaki January 23 – May 9, 2021 Amir Zaki is a photographer interested in the rhetoric of authenticity. Although Zaki’s use of hybridized photography tows the line between reality and the abstract, his documentary style ensures the viewer’s trust in the piece remains intact. His subject matter revolves around the architectural and organic California landscape, mainly the idea that California is symbolic of a metaphorical collage of styles and ideas. Read More

September 16 - December 17 The Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) is pleased to announce Framework , an exhibition that explores wood’s inherent versatility and enduring creative integrity. Framework highlights the work of seven artists: Charles Arnoldi, Angela Casagrande, Susan Feldman, Terry Holzgreen, Dan ‘Nuge’ Nguyen, Valerie Wilcox, and Douglas Tausik Ryder, each of whom bring their own unique artistic processes to the medium. The exhibition will be on view from September 16, 2023 through December 17, 2023. Charles Arnoldi: Master of Ceremony is a survey of the artist’s wood works, which explore the medium’s ability to define positive and negative space, utilizing color and form. Angela Casagrande’s The Body is a House for Thoughts is a mixed-media work that reconstructs time and memory though photographs and found material. Susan Feldman’s MOC (My Own City) and Valerie Wilcox’s Constructs , focuses in on wood’s architectural associations, repurposing wooden elements and fragments to generate a new narrative. Dan ‘Nuge’ Nguyen and Terry Holzgreen deconstruct wood’s structural qualities and redefine its organic characteristics. Douglas Tausik Ryder’s Your Myth Here utilizes artificial intelligence and newer means of production to create wooden sculptures that examine the relationship between ancient myth and mass media. Each of the artists in Framework explores the unique relationship with this fascinating material, examining how this timeless medium continues to help us meet our most pressing societal challenges today. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, September 23, 2023 from 2 to 4 PM. Framework Exhibition Angela Casagrande The Body is a House for Thoughts To Angela Kahoali’i Casagrande, the camera is her third eye. Her lens-based process creates a visual assemblage of reconstruction and remembrance. For Casagrande, photography is a tool that encapsulates a moment in time, forging it into a tactile record of memory. From this, she retells the stories of personal and familial narratives utilizing a variety of photographic methods and mixed media. Read More Charles Arnoldi Master of Ceremony Charles Arnoldi is a multi-disciplinary artist whose varied body of work includes traditional oil paintings on canvas, bronze sculpture, monoprints, lithographs, “chainsaw paintings,” aluminum paintings, and polyethylene wall reliefs. Nurtured in Los Angeles’ burgeoning art scene in the late 1960s, Charles Arnoldi started his art career in Downtown Los Angeles and would move to Venice Beach alongside experimental Light and Space artists like Peter Alexander and Billy Al Bengston. Read More Dan "Nuge" Nguyen Selected Works Dan ‘Nuge’ Nguyen’s artistic practice seeks to explore the relationship between structure and fluidity. Utilizing wood as his primary medium, Nuge creates works that defy the physical qualities of the material while still preserving its warmth and tactility. These vibrant sculptures are visually dense, combining color and organic forms into a single composition. Read More Douglas Tausik Ryder Your Myth Here Douglas Tausik Ryder has always had the desire to push the creative boundaries of sculptural art through technology. Inspired by innovation, the artist combines the conventional form of woodworking and contemporary technology, bringing a 21st century conversation to traditional wood working and sculptural practices. Read More Susan Feldman MOC (My Own City) Susan Feldman’s artistic practice centers around architecture and the idea of home, primarily working with found wood and other mixed media. Her art practice is often inspired by her meditation practices and contextualizes this process through the physical act of “rising up.” Read More Terry Holzgreen Branching Out Straying away from traditional notions of woodworking, cabinetmaker and self-taught artist Terry Holzgreen, creates both functional and sculptural wooden works. His works are a visual compilation of the uniqueness and variety of lumber. Wood fragments from different tree species are arranged into a multitude of shapes, turning into a collage of texture, form, and natural wood color. Read More Valerie Wilcox Constructs Using a myriad of salvaged and repurposed materials, artist Valerie Wilcox creates compositions that explore the associations and contradictions between abstract shapes, mark-making, and painting. Wood, plaster, paint, textiles, cardboard, and other architectural media are sourced, then assembled into abstracted arrangements. Read More

Back to Exhibitions Halftone Histories: Memory, Erasure, and Belonging January 31 - April 19, 2026 • Past Exhibition Mark and Hilarie Moore Family Trust Gallery Mixed-media works inspired by Belizean color, architecture, and the artist's diasporic experience that examine how cultural identity is formed, hidden, and rediscovered. Part of Metaphor exhibition season Image Credit: Francis C. Robateau Jr., Hybrid Moments (detail), 2022, Acrylic and screenprint on canvas Courtesy of the Artist About the Artist Francis Robateau Jr.