Blue Roof Events 2018

At the Intersection of Art and Science: A Window into PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder)

Sunday, February 4th, 2018

At the Intersection of Art and Science: A Window into PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder). Discussion co-hosted with Gallery 6/67 and UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies.

Artists and veterans, Shasha Dothan (UCLA, MFA 2018) and Gerald Sheffield (Yale, MFA 2017) expanded on work from their exhibition, PTSD: People’s Trauma Showings Daily at Gallery 6/67 and explored the idea that each of us experience PTSD. The conversation was explored more richly with Keith Jeffreys, Executive Director of the United States Veterans' Artists Alliance and Dr. Walter Dunn MD, PhD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA and Director of the Mood Disorders Clinic at the Greater Los Angeles VA Medical Center.

Blue Roof Studios Arts Festival

Sunday, June 22nd, 2018

The first ever BRS Arts Festival aimed to highlight the richness and diversity of the arts in South Los Angeles and beyond, reflecting BRS’s commitment to foster and amplify creativity, connection, and inclusion within the community. Free and open to the public. Please see our Arts Festival tab for more information.

Wild Art Party presented by LAND

Saturday, October 20, 2018

As part of their Frame Rate Series, LAND presented a series of rambunctious performance events for diverse artists to show new work within a safe and supportive arena while growing and strengthening LA’s experimental performance audience. Free and open to the public with several presentations of new work in a party atmosphere.

Performances by

PHYSICAL PLASTIC, Julie Weitz, Paul Pescador, and Maceo Paisley

DJ set by def.sound

WILD ART PARTY is a series of rambunctious performance events aimed at providing a safe and supportive arena for diverse artists to show new performance work while growing and strengthening the Los Angeles experimental performance audience. It is laboratory for artists to exhibit their practice outside of more traditional arenas or institutional programs, to experiment, or show works in progress. These one night events are free and open to the public with several presentations of new work in a party atmosphere. The audience is encouraged to dance, encounter new and surprising experiences, and explore new connections to the greater community of performative work in Los Angeles.

LAND will co-present this year’s Wild Art Party with Wild Art Group at Blue Roof Studios as part of LAND’s Frame Rateseries, on-going programming with an eye toward film, video, and the moving image in general.

Blue Roof Studios Open House

December 9, 2018

Our second annual Open House welcomed everyone to explore all 10 artists’ studios, participate in our first ever mural provided by Arts Bridging the Gap, and the monthly Barnsdall Arts Workshop. Photo provided by Miles Aiello

RADIANT

June 23 - July 7, 2018

Leonardo Bravo and Big City Forum

Presented “Radiant”, an exhibition that celebrated the Summer Solstice, how we honor the light, our connection to the earth, the sun, and to each other. Through the various methods, approaches, strategies, and sensibilities embodied in each artists’ works, they spoke to the ways in which the arts can deeply connect to the context in which it is created, stimulating ideas, reflection, and meaning-making. The artists in the exhibition functioned as our conscience, our innovators, our healers, our chance takers and activists reminding us of the transformative power of the arts. In both direct and oblique ways their works presented the emergence of potentiality, of new forms, of a space in which the individual and the collective have the power to nurture and sustain putting new imaginaries into the world. The exhibition was organized in conjunction with the Blue Roof Studios Arts Festival which highlighted the richness and diversity of arts in South Los Angeles and their commitment to foster and amplify creativity, connection, and inclusion within this community of Los Angeles.

Participating Artists:

Sharon Barnes, Spencer Carmona, Enrique Castrejon, Claire Colette, Sam Comen, Yasmine Diaz, Sid M. Dueñas, Rachel Duvall, Catherine Fairbanks, Helen Rebekah Garber, Daniel Gibson, Rhiannon Griego, Rema Ghuloum, Maria Guzman Capron, Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia,, Thomas Linder, Jacob Melchi, Stephen Neidich, Devon Oder, Chinwe Okona, Ruby Osorio, Lydia Maria Pfeffer, Hannah Plotke , Debra Scacco, Jessica Simmons, Mariangeles Soto-Diaz, Cammie Staros, Christine Wang, and Iris Yirei Hu.