Join us May 30 at 6:30pm @theicala for Project Citizen - a City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs @culture_LA and @neaarts Big Read event inspired by #ClaudiaRankine’s prose-poem ‘Citizen: An American Lyric’. Metropolitan High School students will respond to Rankine’s work with original poems written in collaboration with poet @vv_angelica and animated short film screening produced closely with artist @miwma | #neabigread #projectcitizen #icala 🎬 animation by Miwa Matreyek 🔈sound by Careful

#tbt last September unwrapping our brand new signage, designed by #MarkBradford and fabricated by Norm Laich - an indispensable assistant to an array of world-renowned artists. ICA LA is excited to announce that the #LA-based artist and sign painter is the subject of our upcoming exhibition, ‘This Brush for Hire: Norm Laich & Many Other Artists’ organised by #MegCranston and #JohnBaldessari opening June 3 @theicala | #comingsoon #normlaich #icala

Ayanna U’Dongo is a self-trained, experimental video artist who utilizes the medium to heal herself and others. Talking @theicala Open House earlier this month she said, “I found who I am through video”. Since discovering #videoart while working @videodatabank in Chicago in 1991, she began to explore #sexuality #gender and cultural #identity as a means to provoke and celebrate #diversity, #inclusion, #freedom and #sacrifice. Watch U’Dongo’s 1993 video work, ‘Edges’ (pictured) as part of ‘sisters and brothers’ in the Annex, presented in collaboration with @_dirtylooks_ | #sistersandbrothers #ayannaudongo #icala

‘sisters and brothers’ presents a selection of early black queer video works from artists Jaguar Mary (Jocelyn Taylor), Cauleen Smith, and Ayanna U’Dongo spanning 1993 to 2000. This was a critical time for video as a medium, marked by the ebb of magnetic tape cassette and the rise of multiple forms of digital recording. Feminism, sexuality and race contribute to the shifting social changes in the early 1990s that framed much of the art produced at the time by people of color, women and the LGBTQ community. This group exhibition is organised by guest curator Jackie Clay and presented in collaboration with @_dirtylooks_ - a bi-coastal platform for #queer time-based #art. ‘sisters and brothers’ occupies our Annex and is made possible by the ICA LA’s Curator’s Council – the exhibition continues through June 17 @theicala | #sistersandbrothers #videoart #icala

Last Saturday we celebrated our Benefit Brunch in honor of Henry Taylor @theicala - swipe for highlights and visit our Facebook page to view all the day’s moments including tributes by longtime friend and artist, Mark Bradford and video by Glen Wilson. Thank you to everyone who attended and helped support the museum’s mission for #DTLA, #LosAngeles and beyond 💛 Special thanks to @eliaaboumrad + sponsors @lillet @lacolombecoffee @fortpointbeer 📷Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging | #museumlife #icala

Forever #mood yesterday at our Benefit Brunch honoring #LosAngeles artist Henry Taylor @chinatowntaylor, and raising support for the museum’s exhibitions and educational programs - more highlights from the day coming soon 👀 Until then, visit us today to view ‘de la Calle’ by @elrafaesparza in the Project Room, early video works in ‘sisters and brothers’ presented in collaboration with @_dirtylooks_ in the Annex + discover our magical #museum shop curated by Christina Kim’s @dosaflyingfish label, who was awarded a 2018 National Design Award this week from @cooperhewitt Smithsonian #Design Museum 🥂🍾💛 Continue the celebrations on #MothersDay @theicala this Sunday 11am-6pm | #museumlife #dtla #icala