BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//VPAM - ECPv6.15.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:VPAM X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://vpam.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for VPAM REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20250101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250712T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250712T150000 DTSTAMP:20260702T104707 CREATED:20250703T212334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250807T210901Z UID:10000002-1752325200-1752332400@vpam.org SUMMARY:Eva Aguila: Vino de Sangre Convening DESCRIPTION:Opening reception for anida yoeu ali: the buddhist bug\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a two-panel program focused on the histories\, geographies\, and politics represented in the exhibition Eva Aguila: Vino de Sangre. Artists and scholars from California and Mexico will discuss the intersections of wine\, colonialism\, and decolonial aesthetics\, reflecting on the importance of these issues today. \n\n\n\nLight refreshments will be provided. This event is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEva Aguila\, Frequency of Memory (image still)\, 2025\, Video and sound installation. Courtesy of the artist\n\n\n\nABOUT THE EXHIBITION\n\n\n\n\n1:00 PM – 1:15 PMWelcome and Introductions\n\n\n\n1:15 PM – 2:00 PMWine as a Tool for Colonization: Presentations and Discussion with Eva Aguila\, Julia Ornelas-Higdon\, and Gloria Ortega (Moderator)\n\n\n\n2:00 PM – 2:20 PMBreak with Refreshments\n\n\n\n2:20 PM – 3:05 PMIndigeneity and Decolonial Aesthetics: Presentations and Discussion with Isaac Michael Ybarra\, Mariana Botey\, and Joseph Valencia (Moderator)\n\n\n\n3:05 PM – 3:25 PMGroup Discussion & Q&A\n\n\n\n3:25 PM – 3:30 PMClosing Remarks\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker bios\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEva Aguila\n\n\n\nEva Aguila is an interdisciplinary artist and organizer based in Los Angeles. Her work spans video\, sound\, and installation\, incorporating research and oral histories from the Mexican diaspora\, particularly her ancestral communities in rural Michoacán. Inspired by ephemerality and Indigenous Futurism\, she uses time-based media to depict stories and alternative histories that reinterpret cultural portrayals of diaspora. Aguila has exhibited and performed across the United States\, Mexico\, Europe\, Asia\, and Australia. In 2015\, she co-founded Coaxial Arts Foundation\, a nonprofit supporting experimental sound\, video\, and performance artists. She holds an MFA from the USC Roski School of Art and Design and a BFA from the School of Theater at CalArts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsaac Michael Ybarra \n\n\n\nIsaac Michael Ybarra (Tongva\, Chumash\, and Xicano) is a poet\, visual artist\, and storyteller based in Los Angeles County. As a steward of Indigenous cultural conservation\, he utilizes film\, photography\, and poetry to amplify decolonial narratives and reclaim Indigenous pedagogies. Through art\, Isaac seeks to challenge the dominance of the human experience and instead honors the interconnectedness of all beings. He embraces the values of Indigenous Futurism to retell the past and present\, envisioning a future with his ancestral homelands guided by his community’s stories\, visions\, and desires. He is a former California Creative Corps Fellow and a current Liberty Hill Environmental Leadership Initiative (ELI) fellow. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJulia Ornelas-Higdon\n\n\n\nJulia Ornelas-Higdon is an Associate Professor of History at California State University\, Channel Islands. Her research and teaching focus on the intersections of race\, agriculture\, and labor histories\, and she is a past recipient of a Faculty Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her book\, The Grapes of Conquest: Race\, Labor\, and the Industrialization of California Wine\, 1769-1920\, studies California’s 19th-century wine industry as a site of conquest and racialization. Ornelas-Higdon received her B.A. in History from Pomona College and went on to earn her Ph.D. in History from the University of Southern California. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMariana Botey\n\n\n\nMariana Botey is an art historian\, artist\, and curator born in Mexico City. She is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art History at UC San Diego. Her scholarship has greatly influenced the fields of Latin American art\, decolonial studies\, and Indigenous visual culture\, highlighting themes of modernism\, epistemic violence\, and postcolonial conditions. Her experimental films have been shown at the Guggenheim in New York and Bilbao\, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid\, the Anthology Film Archives in New York\, the Museo Carrillo Gil in Mexico City\, and REDCAT\, among others. Botey received her Ph.D. in Visual Studies from the University of California\, Irvine. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE EXHIBITION\n\n\n\nIn her first solo museum exhibition\, artist Eva Aguila researches the history of the Mission grape and wine production in the Catholic mission system to examine the effects of colonization in what was once “Nueva España\,” now Mexico and California. This immersive installation uses wine as a tool to recontextualize histories of agriculture\, religion\, and nation-building\, illuminating the power of art to foster reflection and healing for Latinx and Indigenous peoples. \n\n\n\n\nEvent Images\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n VPAM Art Opening Teddy Sandoval and Yoshie Sakai by Monica Orozco\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n VPAM Art Opening Teddy Sandoval and Yoshie Sakai by Monica Orozco\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n VPAM Art Opening Teddy Sandoval and Yoshie Sakai by Monica Orozco\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\nSponsors\n\n\n\nMajor support for the exhibition is provided by generous grants from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts\, and the Ford Foundation. URL:https://vpam.org/event/eva-aguila-vino-de-sangre-convening/ CATEGORIES:Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250726T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250726T153000 DTSTAMP:20260702T104707 CREATED:20250802T002426Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250926T003637Z UID:10000006-1753531200-1753543800@vpam.org SUMMARY:Before You Now: Artist & Curator Panel DESCRIPTION:Opening reception for anida yoeu ali: the buddhist bug\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBefore You Now LACMA curators Eve Schillo and Claudine Dixon will lead a curatorial discussion with participating artists Jennifer Moon and Minna Philips. This talk will guide guests through the exhibition’s central themes: Claiming\, Crafting\, Clowning\, Convening\, Conceptualizing\, Camouflaging\, and Concluding. \n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOpening Night: Photos by Monica Orozco\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE EXHIBITION\n\n\n\nBefore You Now focuses on the enduring themes of the artist’s self-portrait\, as seen in a selection of works from LACMA’s collections of photographs\, prints\, drawings\, videos\, and installation art. Primarily featuring contemporary makers\, the exhibition is an introduction to seeing American artists as they see themselves—or as they want to be seen by their public. They are shown contemplating their physicality in realistic fashion\, highlighting their persona through symbolic tropes\, or utilizing humor or conceptual methods to enlighten\, exaggerate\, or camouflage their reflective selves. Over 50 artists—including Laura Aguilar\, Kwame Brathwaite\, Kalli Arte Collective\, Jennifer Moon\, Roger Shimomura\, Cindy Sherman\, Rodrigo Valenzuela\, and June Wayne—display an ongoing fascination with\, or return to\, the self-portrait. Before You Now aims to broaden the topic to include many whose practice leans into an autobiographical narrative\, and explores artists who are adding to and redefining our culture by expanding on ideas of identity. URL:https://vpam.org/event/before-you-now-artist-curator-panel/ CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://vpam.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Before-you-now-event.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR