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New Voices: The 2026 ELAC Juried Student Art Exhibition
EXHIBITION DATES: 04/25/2026 – 06/13/2026
New Voices: The 2026 ELAC Juried Student Art Exhibition highlights exceptional artworks produced at East Los Angeles College during the Spring 2025 through Fall 2025 semesters. The exhibition features ceramics, drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, theater and costume design, and mixed…
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Always Running: Photography by Luis. J Rodriguez
EXHIBITION DATES: 04/14/2026 – 06/13/2026
Luis J. Rodriguez is a Chicano poet, novelist, journalist, and community leader with deep roots in Los Angeles. This exhibition marks the 30th anniversary of his first memoir, Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in LA. Rare and unpublished,…
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DEL ALMA: LATINA PORTRAITS FROM THE VINCENT PRICE ART MUSEUM @ The Music Center
EXHIBITION DATES: 04/13/2024 – 06/30/2026
Del Alma: Latina Portraits from the Vincent Price Art Museum presents an intergenerational group of portraits by Los Angeles-based Latina artists, who collectively explore portraiture and cultural identity through diverse forms of creative expression.
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Form and Function in the Ancient Americas
Our ongoing permanent exhibition
Form and Function in the Ancient Americas highlights the wide range of cultures represented in our Ancient American collection. Cultures from the Nayarit-Jalisco-Colima region of West Mexico (2000 – 1000 BCE) to the Chimú of Peru (900-1500 CE) are featured.
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June 13, 2026
Spring Exhibitions Closing date
Connect With VPAM
From 2024 to 2026, VPAM embarked on a major project to inventory, catalog, and digitize our permanent collection — all made possible by the efforts of an extraordinary team of registrars and photographers. 💛✨
With grant funding from the California Natural Resources Agency, VPAM contracted Nakano Logistics to take on the project. Sheryl Nakano and her team — Lana Klaib, Veronica Rascona, and Celeste Voce — worked tirelessly to catalog 2,500 artworks with the support of collections assistants Jane O’Dell (an alum of the @elachuskies Museum Studies program) and Veronica Lechuga. Together, the team also developed the museum’s first comprehensive collections policy, completed a baseline inventory, and reorganized the vault to serve as a multi-use space for collections care, research, and digitization.
VPAM is also grateful for the expertise of photographer Elon Schoenholz and his assistants Angel Xotlanihua and Dorian Hill in digitizing a selection of 1,425 highlights from the permanent collection. Thanks to their contributions, VPAM will be able to share many of our artworks with the public for the first time through an online collections database, to be launched later this year.
Please join us in thanking these teams for their impactful work to ensure that our collections are organized, preserved, and made accessible for all! 💫
You still have two weeks to catch “New Voices: The 2026 ELAC Juried Student Art Exhibition” before it leaves VPAM! Closing on Saturday, June 13, it features exceptional artworks in a variety of media produced by @elachuskies student artists. Learn more at vpam.org!
Photos by @monicaorozcophotography
Don’t miss your chance to see “Always Running: Photography by Luis J. Rodriguez” before it closes at VPAM on June 13! This exhibition marks the 30th anniversary of @lrodrig555’s first memoir, “Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in LA.” Rare and unpublished, the photographs on view document the people and historic neighborhoods that touched and influenced Rodriguez’s early life from the 1960s through the 1980s.
Make plans to visit at the link in bio!
Photos by @monicaorozcophotography
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the closing celebration of “Ofelia Esparza: A Retrospective” this past weekend! You still have a few days left to check out the exhibition, which closes on Saturday, May 16. 🌼
Photos by @monicaorozcophotography
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Cover Photo credit: Monica Orozco.