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< Back Jim Richard Featured Structure Artist Through a myriad of paintings, drawings, and collages, contemporary artist Jim Richard construes interior and exterior depictions of Modern architecture. Since the late 1970s, Richard has created a profusion of modernist interiors loaded with art and kitsch objects that settle into multi-hued graphic fields. Richard manipulates interior aesthetics from the 1960s and 70s warping the display of art influenced by the modernist idea of a utopian society. The adornment of objects within Richard’s collages is strategically curated from a selection of 1960s and 70s home decor magazines and furniture advertisements. Visually, his work fuses elements of photorealism, hard-edge painting, and collage, resulting in a 2-D abstract style imbued with an array of rich colors and patterns. Richard’s body of work has a persistent focus on the recontextualization of Modernist art and design. Absent occupants, the clash of decorative objects and imagery against the busy patterns of Jim Richard’s collages evoke the presence of an art collector. The claustrophobic slew of sleek furniture and ornamental ephemera is Richard’s satirical yet humorous commentary on the ambitious goals of Modernism and Modernist art. At this point in time, many artists were striving for pure originality, seeking to advance their art practice beyond acceptable forms of "high art.” By structuring the composition of his collages around curated art-objects Richard’s architectural frameworks act and feel like a mausoleum putting outdated aesthetics and politics to rest. Originally born in Port Arthur, Texas, Richard currently lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is represented by the Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans and Inman Gallery in Houston. Richard received his Bachelor of Science from Lamar State College of Technology and his Master of Fine Art from the University of Colorado. Richard's work has been exhibited in New York at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Drawing Center, Oliver Kamm Gallery, and Jeff Bailey Gallery. For several years, he taught painting, served as a Graduate Coordinator, and was in charge of the Visiting Artists Program at the University of New Orleans served as Graduate Coordinator. Richard's paintings can be found in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum, The New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Houston Museum of Fine Art. Previous Next

2023 < View Public Art Projects Nancy Baker Cahill's Lifelines 2023 Permanent Art Project Lifelines by Nancy Baker Cahill is an animated, monumental, augmented reality (AR) installation of ecological imagination. Geolocated in the Prime Desert Woodland Preserve (PDWP), a protected, historic desert in California’s Antelope Valley, Lifelines appears as three colossal Joshua trees surrounded by a ghostly murmuration of birds. Rich with wildlife and home to many species of insects, reptiles, mammals, and birds, this fragile ecosystem remains imperiled. The ongoing precarity offers an opportunity to reframe our interdependent relationship with this natural ecosystem and modes of planetary knowledge erased or ignored by the progress of modernity. The Antelope Valley, like so many other regions, bears witness to a somber past. This history subtly reminds us of the challenges and narratives that have shaped this land over the years. Human appetites for exponential growth and advancement have caused enormous harm: ecological, historical, and cultural. Lifelines underscores the majesty of Joshua trees in the form of towering, breathing trees that rhythmically expand and contract. They have been rendered digitally with glowing interiors, glimpsed with each exhale, to imply a mythic grandeur. By scaling the trees to colossal proportions, Baker Cahill challenges human exceptionalism. AR as a medium allows viewers to re-embed the human experience in nature without harming local flora and fauna, and to embrace new modes of perceiving. Unlike other forms of land art, AR is distinct in its ability to be both present and absent, to reveal what otherwise goes unseen, unheard, and unimagined. An elegiac melody, which weaves together five native bird songs, ambient desert sounds, and breathing, plays throughout the experience—at once celebratory, melancholy, and resilient. Bird songs are essential to Lifelines not just because of the plurality of songs heard today, but because of the traditional “Bird Songs” of the region’s First Peoples, social and funeral songs that tell migration stories, shared memories, and histories. To move through the PDWP is to encounter its enduring planetary intelligence, above and below ground. It offers a rare glimpse into how a protected desert ecosystem might thrive when treated with care and respect. Lifelines invites new considerations for its troubled past, imperiled present, and modes of inherited knowledge, which present the possibility of regenerative futures here and beyond. Lifelines , 2023 Nancy Baker Cahill Soundscape by Anna Luisa Petrisko Production by Shaking Earth Digital Located at Prime Desert Woodland Preserve 43201 35th St W, Lancaster, CA 93536

2021 < View Public Art Projects Kim Sielbeck Crosswalk Mural 2021 Temporary Art Project Watch the video of the painting of Kim Sielbeck's crosswalk mural!

2022 < View Public Art Projects Dan Droz's The Greeting 2022 Permanent Art Project By Dan Droz The Greeting , a new permanent, public art sculpture by artist Dan Droz, is now installed at the corner of Lancaster BLVD and Ehrlich Avenue. In collaboration with the Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) and Droz, the museum commissioned the new public art sculpture to engage and elevate the public space around the museum. The sculpture will serve as a defining landmark for the community, where people can gather and create meaningful connections between the museum, public space, and community members. The sculpture depicts colorful, abstract figures gathering to meet at MOAH, but from a different angle reveals other images like people high-fiving one another. The color palette is also an essential part of the design for the sculpture, connecting the story of the desert landscape and the diversity of the Antelope Valley community. Droz believes that sculptures like The Greeting help people understand that art is not just about the aesthetic but can speak to a story that is relevant to peoples’ lives. Droz is a full-time sculptor that engages with themes surrounding relationships, family, and the community. Before becoming a sculptor, Droz had a 45-year career as a design and marketing consultant and was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. In addition to being shown at the Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Droz has been commissioned for work at the entrance to the Heritage Trail in downtown Pittsburgh, and Oxon-Hill Sculpture Park in Washington, DC, among others. Take home your own miniature The Greeting , available in The Vault Store. Purchase Now

back to list Darcy Yates The bustling city inspires Yates artwork. Her aesthetic is line, shape, color and pattern. She associates colors and shape with emotion. As she grew as an artist she started to understand the values of these simple fundamental forms. She uses color, shape and line in each of her pieces to convey these emotions. Photographs are a dominant feature in most of her artwork because she loves the raw emotion it conveys. Yates work is gritty, colorful and embodies the essence of soul and imagination.

Founded in Hawaii, POW!WOW! is a series of global events that celebrates culture, music and art. Antelope Valley has joined in with its set of murals. Pow! Wow! AV Map Pow! Wow! AV Blog 2020 POW! WOW! Antelope Valley returns for our third year this coming September 5 through September 12 in Lancaster, California. International and area muralists will adorn the walls of the city, adding to the 31 murals and installations created during the 2016 and 2018 editions of the festival. Founded in Hawaii, back in 2010, POW! WOW! is a series of global events that celebrate culture, music and art. We are excited to share with the Antelope Valley community the art of twelve amazing creatives this coming September. Taking part will be Allison Bamcat, Carlos Mendoza, Carlos Ramirez, Casey Weldon, Chloe Becky, Gustavo Rimada, Huntz Liu, Kim Sielbeck, Manuel Zamudio, MJ Lindo, Spenser Little, and Victoria Cassinova. As the new murals come to life, be sure to explore our existing murals and installations from Aaron De La Cruz, Amandalynn, Amir Fallah, Amy Sol, Andrew Hem, Andrew Schoultz, Bumblebeelovesyou, Carly Ealey, Christopher Konecki, Dan Witz, David Flores, Ekundayo, Emily Ding, Hueman, Isaac Cordal, Jeff Soto, Julius Eastman, Kris Holladay, Lauren YS, Mark Dean Veca, Meggs, Michael Jones, Mikey Kelly, MOUF, Nuri Amanatullah, Scott Listfield, Spenser Little, Super A, Tina Dille, and Tran Nguyen. For the safety of the artists and the general public and in compliance with the Los Angeles County Health Department’s COVID-19 protocols, we will not be holding any public events during POW!WOW! AV. While the expansion of the Antelope Valley’s outdoor museum is exciting and visiting the murals offer some escape for all that have been trapped indoors these past several months, we ask that you wear a mask while touring the new murals as they come to life. Please respect the artists’ working space and safety by keeping well away from their work zone and do not distract them with conversation. We thank you in advance for your understanding and support. The Lancaster Museum of Art and History is dedicated to strengthening awareness, enhancing accessibility and igniting the appreciation of art, history and culture in the Antelope Valley through dynamic exhibitions, innovative educational programs, creative community engagement and a vibrant collection that celebrates the richness of the region. Thinkspace Projects was founded in 2005; now in LA’s Culver City Arts District, the gallery has garnered an international reputation as one of the most active and productive exponents of the New Contemporary Art Movement. Maintaining its founding commitment to the promotion and support of its artists, Thinkspace has steadily expanded its roster and diversified its projects, creating collaborative and institutional opportunities all over the world. Made possible due to the support and sponsorship of the Lancaster Museum of Art and History and Thinkspace Projects from Los Angeles, California. Special thanks to the City of Lancaster, Destination Lancaster, The BLVD Association, Signs & Designs, and all who help bring POW! WOW! AV to life. For further details please check www.lancastermoah.org and www.powwowworldwide.com Spanish language interviews from Pow!Wow! 2020 Artists MEET THE ARTISTS Allison Bamcat @allisonbamcat Gustavo RImada @ARTE_DE_GUSTAVO__ Carlos Mendoza @chuckvalleys Huntz Liu @HuntzHuntz Carlos Ramirez @c.ramirez2323 Manuel Zamudio @RAID_33 Casey Weldon @Caseyweldon MJ Lindo @MjLindo Chloe Becky @elsiethecowww Spenser Little @spenserlittleart Kim Sielbeck @Kimsielbeck Victoria Cassinova @VCassinova

The Exhibition Census Block Map #countmein Blog photo gallery Artists in Residence Videos About the Census Every 10 years, the U.S. Census counts every resident in the nation. A complete and accurate count of California’s population is essential to the state. The Lancaster Museum of Art and History and the neighborhoods which immediately surround the Museum, historically, have had high Low Response Scores (LRS). Neighborhoods with Low Response Scores typically go undercounted and remain underrepresented and underfunded. For the first time, the Census participation will be conducted primarily through online self-responses instead of hard copy mailing efforts. This change has the potential to drastically impact state and county funding. Many critical factors can be barriers to participation in the Census including education, race, languages spoken, poverty level, homelessness, immigration status and level of trust. The Lancaster Museum of Art and History believes that change happens at the speed of trust. The Museum has found the best way to build trust between an organization and its community, breaking down these barriers, is by embedding artists who reflect the communities in which they live and work, who look the same and speak the same language. Through a series of workshops, community gatherings, candid photography, and a public exhibition, the artists-in-residence will increase the self-enumerated responses of these identified Low Response Score (LRS) neighborhoods in the 2020 Census. This is especially important for areas like the Antelope Valley. In the Antelope Valley, approximately 101,320 people are living in Hard to Survey (HTS) Block Groups. The Museum of Art and History and the neighborhoods that immediately surround the Museum are designated as Very High or High Low Response Score (LRS) neighborhoods. The Lancaster Museum and Public Art Foundation (LMPAF), the Museum of Art and History and the City of Lancaster believe that organizations and community leaders must be proactive, educating, encouraging and empowering residents to participate in the Census! Generously sponsored by Housing Corporation of America #CountMeIn Photo Videos #CountMeIn Videos Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tumblr Copy Link Link Copied #CountMeIn Photo Gallery Spotlight Cafe Book Making Workshop Tote bag Screen Printing Workshop Chalk Drawing Engagement Artists’ Bookmaking On The BLVD Gallery Video #CountMeIn Census Block Map Below you will find a map of each neighborhood block group located in downtown Lancaster. Block groups can vary in size and population typically from 1,000 to over 3,000 people in any one block group. Block groups with “Very High” Low Response Scores (LRS) are seen in red; block groups with “High” Low Response Scores are seen in orange; and block groups with “Medium” Low Response Scores are seen in yellow. Block groups seen in green are regarded as having a “Low” Low Response Score. Do you live in one of these block groups? If so, what is level is your Low Response Score? #CountMeIn is working towards having each block group decrease their Low Response Scores by 10% or from “Very High” to “High,” “High” to “Medium” and “Medium” to “Low.” #CountMeIn Artist in Residence Robin Rosenthal has been developing creative place-keeping projects in the Antelope Valley since 2015, when she was commissioned Artist-in-Residence by the LA County Arts Commission for their NEA Our Town funded AV Art Outpost initiative (on which LMPAF was a partner). She is the Founder and Artistic Director of Real93543, an emerging local arts organization whose programming engages Littlerock and Southeast Antelope Valley residents in an arts-based process of strengthening local ownership and social connection—highlighting community-specific narratives through documentary media, educational programs, and public art. (See Real93543’s projects at www.real93543.org .) With a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA from Queens College, CUNY, Rosenthal taught studio art at San Antonio College and the San Antonio Art Institute, and exhibited her experimental videos nationally before coming to Los Angeles to work in film and television. Her award-winning documentary filmmaking practice, as half of the Littlerock-based Pony Highway Productions, draws from her background as an artist, educator, and motion picture industry professional, and informs her work in creative place-keeping. Short link to Positively Littlerock Story Map Tour: https://arcg.is/18X4D1 YouTube link to Real93543 In a Day video: https://youtu.be/ZzcDyJgwAsM Edwin Vasquez is a self-taught artist. Vasquez has studied with other notable Antelope Valley Artists and Teachers such as Glen Knowles, David Babb, Rich Sims and Warren Scherich. Over the years, Vasquez has been featured in several group exhibitions including the State Latin American Visual Arts in Rhode Island (where his work was recognized by Governor Lincoln D. Chafee), Communication at Casa 0101 in Los Angeles, Don’t Sleep! at the Latino Art Museum in Pomona and is a regularly selected artist in Lancaster’s Museum of Art & History’s annual All-Media Juried Art Exhibition. Vasquez has participated, as both an Artist and Curator, in numerous local exhibitions. Vasquez was born in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala in 1964. Jane Szabo is a Los Angeles based fine art photographer with a Master of Fine Arts from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Her work investigates issues of self and identity. Using self-portraiture and still life as a vehicle to share stories from her life, her work merges her love for fabrication and materials, with conceptual photography. Szabo brings many facets of visual art into her photographic projects, incorporating sculptural, performance and installation elements into her work, and her imagery is often infused with humor and wonder. Szabo's background in the film industry, creating props and miniatures for theme parks, and overseeing set construction for film and television, undoubtedly informs her creative process. #CountMeIn Events Calendar #CountMeIn: A Census 2020 Project Friday, July 19 , 2020, 6 - 9PM 44857 Cedar Ave, Lancaster, CA 93534 Join the #CountMeIn team for its first official project workshop happening this Friday during Spotlight Cafe Open Mic Night beginning at 6 pm. The #CountMeIn team will be onsite asking participants to generate poetry/prose using the words "count," "me," and "in." These works can then be shared with an audience, letting them and your community know that our community matters and that you deserve to be counted on the upcoming Census. This project is generously supported in part by the California Art Council, City of Lancaster and the Lancaster Museum and Public Art Foundation. #CountMeIn: Census 2020 Book-Making Workshop Saturday, August 3, 2020, 3 - 6 PM 742 W Lancaster Blvd, Lancaster, CA 93534 Join the #CountMeIn team at Li'l Book Bug on the BLVD for a fun bookmaking workshop. This workshop will utilize Census 2020 as inspiration to create a collaborative art book. The #CountMeIn team will be onsite leading participants through the creative process. All materials will be provided. These works can then be shared with an audience, letting them and your community know that our community matters and that you deserve to be counted on the upcoming Census. Artist-in-Residence, Jane Szabo, will be onsite photographing interested participants while they create the books. This project is generously supported in part by the California Art Council, City of Lancaster and the Lancaster Museum and Public Art Foundation. #CountMeIn: Tote Bag Screen Printing Workshop Thursday, October 24, 2020 4 - 9 PM 665 W Lancaster Blvd, Lancaster, CA 93534 Join the #CountMeIn Team for its next #CountMeIn, A Census 2020 Project, Screen Printing Workshop! Taking place in the Fran and Hernando Marroquin Family Classroom, participants can grab a tote bag, or bandana, and impress upon them Census-minded artwork. Take the tote bag with you as peruse the great, organic food at The BLVD Farmer's Market! This project is generously supported in part by the California Art Council, City of Lancaster and the Lancaster Museum and Public Art Foundation. #CountMeIn: Chalk Drawing Engagement Saturday, December 7, 2020 2:30 PM Sacred Heart Church - 565 W. Kettering Street The #CountMeIn team invites the Families of Sacred Heart Catholic Church to participate in an afternoon of chalk drawing. Chalks and other materials will be provided for families to create their own colorful drawings on the asphalt, in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe. During the event, the #CountMeIn team will share information about the upcoming 2020 Census and the value of being counted. #CountMeIn: Artists’ Bookmaking Saturday, January 25, 2020 11 AM - 3 PM 44857 Cedar Ave, Lancaster, CA 93534 On Saturday, January 25th the #CountMeIn Team invites a group of Antelope Valley artists to the Andrew Frieder Creative Space at MOAH:Cedar to make pages for a collaborative, accordion-fold art book, using the letters of the words #CountMeIn, and referencing inclusion, being counted, community, etc. The resulting artists’ book will be shown as part of MOAH’s #CountMeIn exhibit. Artists will have access to materials in the well-stocked Andrew Frieder Creative Space, and can bring materials and mediums from their own practice as well. #CountMeIn #CountMeIn2020 #CountMeInAV #Census2020 #LancasterMOAH Map Artist in Residence Calendar #CountMeIn Resources The Exhibition www.census.gov www.advancementprojectca.org www.avph.org www.cityoflancasterca.org Resources

back to list Lauren YS Lauren YS is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work is influenced by multiple stages of focus, both geographically and in practice. With dynamic bouts in academics, literature and writing, teaching, illustration, and animation leading up to her arrival in the urban art sphere, the influences of these phases of her own career add up to a robust style of murals and fine art. Lauren's work is influenced by dreams, mythology, death, comics, love, sex, psychedelia, animation and her Asian-American heritage.

< Back Earth Signals North Gallery Eli McMullen Through ethereal environments and abstracted forms, artist Eli McMullen creates scenes that morph reality into dreamscapes. Rendered in acrylic, McMullen’s paintings converge themes of spirituality, nature, and metaphysical energy. The liminal space between the real and the imaginary is central to his work. Light seems to shimmer from thin air, dappling the forests and structures that fill his compositions, resulting in an otherworldly depiction of an organic and familiar environment. Through this work, McMullen channels his own perception of creativity; one that is rooted in realism but eventually wanders into another dimension. To him, this process mimics the act of painting itself, noting that it is an experimental endeavor that bridges one’s internal consciousness with their surroundings. IMAGE CREDIT: Eli McMullen, Kismet Gateway (detail), Acrylic on cradled wood panel, 2025 Courtesy of Thinkspace Projects Previous Next

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Joshua the Jackrabbit is MOAH's ARTS FOR YOUTH ambassador! Joshua will let you know about all the young artist programs coming up at MOAH and MOAH:CEDAR. Joshua loves to share his favorite facts about art and run scavenger hunts! Come along on his art adventures by following him on Instagram! Young Artist Workshops Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tumblr Copy Link Link Copied What's New? Have you seen my new Youtube channel? Joshua the Jackrabbit here! Visit my creative and cool Kids Youtube channel to check out a NEW video tutorial every week! Each tutorial video corresponds to the current free craft kit handed out every first Thursday of the month from 11 AM - 6 PM. If you would like to be notified about our video updates be sure to subscribe! For more videos check out the Youtube Link! Purchase your own Joshua in The Vault Store Joshua on Youtube Kids Purchase Now @JoshuaJackrabbit