Credit: Left: Kalli Arte Collective, published by Self Help Graphics, Familia, 2022, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by the Prints and Drawings Special Purpose Fund, © Kalli Arte Collective, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA. Right: Photo courtesy of the artists.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM
As part of Before You Now, Kalli Arte Collective will lead an intergenerational hands-on collage workshop inviting participants to explore overlapping themes of convening (with others) and conceptualizing (family and self) through the creative process of art-making. Extending the exhibition’s themes beyond the gallery, this workshop offers a reflective space for participants to consider their sense of self and how it connects to community, family, and place—while creating new work grounded in their personal experiences.
This workshop invites participants to create their own collage art using silk screen patterns and designs created by Kalli Arte collective. Each participant will have a chance to cut and assemble their own art piece using the provided materials.
This program is free and open to the public.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Before 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.