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2023 < View Public Art Projects Joseph O'Connell's Superbloom! 2023 Permanent Art Project Superbloom! is a captivating public art piece that combines the vibrant colors of the wildflowers found in Lancaster's desert landscapes with the city's renowned aerospace industry. Inspired by the resilience, healing, and growth of both our natural environment and our own human population, this art installation celebrates the spectacle of wildflower blooms, known as ”superblooms,” that occasionally grace the region. The art piece features a collection of brilliant-colored disks, carefully arranged on sturdy aluminum stalks held together with bolts and rivets reminiscent of the aerospace industry. The varying heights of the disks symbolize not only the organic growth of wildflowers but also the continuous progress and development of the community. Superbloom! serves as a visual reminder of the coexistence between nature's beauty and human ingenuity, inviting viewers to reflect on what a superbloom in the human realm would look like.

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Camilla TaylorThe KnotCamilla 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. < Back Camilla Taylor, The Eye of God, Detail Camilla Taylor, The Eye of God, Detail Camilla Taylor, The Eye of God, Detail Camilla Taylor, The Eye of God, Detail 1/4 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. Through darkness, Taylor builds imaginative worlds, beings, works on paper, and sculpture that visually pull from human emotions like isolation, loss, and fragility. Taylor’s work often shares a consistent thread focusing on the interior experience of the individual. Her haunting creations play between the space of the perceived self and the physical body calling into the question the idea of identity. Previous Next

MOC (My Own City) < Back Previous 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.” Her works include wall art, sculpture, and installation, where she utilizes different textures, colors, materials, and layering. Through her meditative process, Feldman creates architectural reverie that defies conventional utilitarian structures. Completed in 2019, MOC (My Own City) is a site-specific, mixed-media installation of 50 miniature structures showcasing Feldman’s whimsical architectural fantasy. Her utopia includes buildings and structures like a coffee house, a meditation center, a funhouse, and an art museum, among others. All the businesses and properties within MOC are all establishments that she envisions for her idealistic city. Like much of her earlier work, her city is comprised of items from her personal belongings, melding ideas of both the past and the present creating a unique embodiment of belonging, freedom of expression, and inclusion. Next

Arts for Youth Transportation Grants Lancaster Museum of Art & History has been granted a limited stipend, in support of paying for bus funding, from the Hernando and Fran Marroquin Family and the Lancaster Museum & Public Art Foundation. The Bus Fund is used to help offset the cost of transporting students to the Museum for participation in a tour and/or hands-on activity. A separate application must be submitted for each trip for which funding is requested. A representative will contact you after your request has been reviewed. If a grant is offered, to receive payment, an invoice from your transportation department must be billed directly to the Lancaster Museum & Public Art Foundation. If you have any questions or need additional information about the Arts for Youth Program or transportation, please contact the Education Department at (661) 723-6085 or MOAHeducation@cityoflancasterca.gov . Use the form below to request transportation. Interested in our traveling Discover Trunks program? Click Here Apply for Arts for Youth Tours Request transportation! Primary Contact First Name Primary Contact Last Name Contact Title School Name and District Street Address Street Address Line 2 City Region/State/Province Postal / Zip code School Phone (Day) Contact Email Last date your school attended MOAH. Last date your class attended MOAH. Your Trip Visit Date Visit Time Number of students Number of Adults (group leader + chaperones) Teacher Name(s) Grade Level Transportation Cost When estimating transportation costs, anticipate 1.5 hours at MOAH, plus your round trip transportation time. Estimated Transportation Cost I want to subscribe to the newsletter. Apply

back to list Tina Dille Merging wildlife and contemporary art, Tina Dille is best known for her expressive watercolors in which creatures emerge from the canvas. Each painting's content is determined by its initial layer. The use of free flowing mediums and in-depth research of the animal provides her the opportunity to create something with its own voice that she offers the viewer to interpret.

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2021 < View Public Art Projects Paleolithic Herd by Devin Thor 2021 Permanent Art Project Devin Thor presents three pieces from his raw, unique stone works that make extinct paleolithic creatures live again as a life-size sculptural herd. The use of material makes these flat works fascinating in texture as well as image. In the use of color (russet, gold, brown) and material (sandstone, rebar, and found/discarded materials), they appear as if they arose from the earth itself. The herd, which includes a buck, a doe, and a fawn, makes extinct creatures live again. Seeming tribal in nature, their beautiful simplicity serves as an elegy to the losses of the past, and a pristine prayer for a better future. According to Thor, his paleolithic creatures are “ a homage to our prehistoric ancestors, but also an exploration of the global influence of humans on our environment…” adding that “modern humans have modified the planet and now must take on a stewardship role, otherwise we might face extinction ourselves.” Thor is a geologist as well as an artist, which is likely a reason for his choice of material. The rough brown surface creates an elegant but primal visual perspective, representing a tribute to the beings themselves and the land where they once roamed. His minimal approach is relatable with an easily recognizable shape and universal figures that open the world of the past with hope for tomorrow. A poignant reminder that despite the bulk and weighty purpose of these beings, they were too fragile to survive in the end representing a cautionary tale for the preservation of many species including our own.

back to list Amir Fallah Amir H. Fallah creates paintings, sculptures, and installations that utilize personal history as an entry point to discuss race, representation, the body, and the memories of cultures and countries left behind. Through this process, the artist’s works employ nuanced and emotive narratives that evoke an inquiry about identity, the immigrant experience, and the history of portraiture.

back to list Sean Banister Sean Banister is an artist from Riverside, California. While growing up in Southern California as a young painter and envisioning an adult life in the art world, Sean’s early years in college steered him from a life in the arts and towards a degree in English and a career in teaching. As he approached 15 years as an English teacher, Sean began working his way to earning a second credential in teaching Art, coinciding with a return to painting as a main priority in his life. Sean’s art education has been a self guided patchwork of sources: foundational classes at Riverside Community College, various workshops in Southern California, along the wealth of online resources have all been woven into his approach to his paintings. Sean reprioritized art in his life in 2019, and by the end of the year he had garnered the attention of gallerists and collectors alike through juried open submission shows and portfolio reviews. This opened the door to working with Thinkspace Gallery in 2020 for his first solo show, and several group exhibitions.

back to list Ekundayo Ekundayo’s style is a combination of classic graffiti perspective warping and technical fine art theories. He uses ink, acrylic, gouche, watercolor and carving techniques to create his fine art – somehow recreating the spray can effects of graffiti art without actually using a spray can to paint with. But the most interesting part of Ekundayo’s art is his modus operandi; his desire to turn his dark past into vibrant murals that express all the joys and pains of life. He’s using art as a tool to effect emotional healing in his life.

back to list Koko and Nuri Koko + Nuri are an Antelope Valley-based duo whose stylized, graphic depictions of flora and fauna are represented in a variety of media including illustration, design, and large-scale murals. Employing both traditional techniques and digital media, they have designed for Disney, storyboarded for Uber, illustrated for Airbnb, have a published picture book, and have painted walls at numerous sites around the Antelope Valley, including a mural with Walls Worldwide, as well as, in Flint, Michigan, part of the Free City Mural Festival. Nuri's Website Nuri's Instagram Koko's Instagram