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 >

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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

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" by Shana Mabari 2016 Read More "One Desert Sky" by Brad Howe 2014 Read More "Pete Knight" Mural by Geo-May Frankenberg 2012 Read More The Musical Road 2008 Read More

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

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?

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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.

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

MOAH's Collaboration with Marriot Hotel I'm a title. Click here to edit me. • Armstrong's F-18 • SOFIA • Lockheed X-59 in Flight 1. In 2007, Armstrong's F-18 conducted the first successful automated aerial refueling demonstration without pilot assistance. 2. The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronamy (SOPHIA) makes a low pass over NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in celebraton of its arrival. 3. An artist's conception shows the Lockheed X-59 in flight. The X-plane's shape is designed to reduce sonic booms and lead to supersonic flight over land. Más •X-31, The World's First International X-Plane •F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire Aircraft 1. The X-31, the world's first international X-plane, demonstrates controlled flight at high alpha courtesy of its canards and thrust vectoring paddles in the exhaust stream. 2. The F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire aircraft had its hydro-mechanical control systems replaced by an Apollo Guidance Computer for the first such control system to fly. Más Elevator Lobby Mural Custom Aerospace Mural Curated by the Lancaster Museum of Art & History Más Front Desk Mural Custom Aerospace Mural Curated by the Lancaster Museum of Art & History Más 4th Floor Mural Custom Aerospace Mural Curated by the Lancaster Museum of Art & History Más 3rd Floor Mural Custom Aerospace Mural Curated by the Lancaster Museum of Art & History Más 2nd Floor Mural Custom Aerospace Mural Curated by the Lancaster Museum of Art & History Más •SpaceShipOne •Aerial Map of Palmdale (West to East) •B-52 Stratofortress 1. SpaceShipOne is an experimental air-launched, rocket-powered aircraft manufactured by Scaled Composites that has a hybrid rocket motor allowing it to be capable of sub-orbital spaceflight 2. Map of Palmdale 3. The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is an American long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber. The B-52 was designed and built by Boeing, which has continued to provide support and upgrades. It has been operated by the United States Air Force since the 1950s Más •Pancho Barnes •William J. "Pete" Knight •Lt. Col. Jacqueline Cochran •Air Force test pilot Chuck Yeager posing in front of his Bell X-1 1. Born Florence Leontine Lowe, "Pancho Barnes" broke Amelia Earhart’s speed record during the 1930 Women’s Air Derby. She worked as a Hollywood stunt pilot in the early 1930s, and purchased 180-acres of barren land adjacent to Rogers Dry Lake bed and Muroc Army Airfield (later known as EAFB) in 1935. It was here she established Happy Bottom Riding Club, where her hospitality towards the airmen at Muroc eventually lead to her becoming referred to as the “Mother of Edwards Air Force Base.” 2. William John “Pete” Knight, who holds world record for flight speed in a winged vehicle, graduated from the Air Force Experimental Flight Test Pilot at EAFB in 1958. After more than sixteen flights in the X-15A-2, Knight became one of five people to earn astronaut wings by flying an airplane into space. 3. Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran owner of Jacqueline Cochran Cosmetics, who became a world-class competitive pilot, was the woman to break the sound barrier, she flew a Northup T-38 with Chuck Yeager flying beside her. She also designed the first oxygen mask. 4. Chuck Yeager became a pilot in 1942 during WWII though he had originally joined as an aircraft mechanic. On several occasions he was stationed at Edwards Air Force Base. While at Edwards, he broke the sound barrier by traveling faster than the speed of sound in a Bell X-1 named "Glamorous Glennis" after his wife. Más Aerial Map of Mojave (West to East) Map of Mojave Más Map of Lancaster and Palmdale from West to East Map of Lancaster and Palmdale from West to East Más Aerial Map of Lancaster (West to East) Map of Lancaster Más