Art for Earth’s Sake: Dirty Topic: Environmental Justice in L.A. Art.

Many Angelenos live in neighborhoods devastated by the environmental blights of polluted air (from refineries, manufacturing, shipping, freeway and air traffic) and toxic waste at brownfield sites. Some LA artists have found ways to bear witness to this environmental (in)justice. Eric Avila, scholar of the Chicano painters who captured Boyle Heights when it was destroyed by freeways, joins Maru Garcia, maker of artworks about the lead-contaminated soil at the Exide battery plant in Southeast LA, and Kim Abeles, whose work address the invisible killer: smog. How much can these testaments to inequity also serve as calls to action?
Artists are increasingly exploring the climate crisis in their work. What about the art world’s contribution to the climate crisis, from its boundless international travel to the growth of energy-intensive art forms and installations? MOCA considers the creative ways in which the art world is addressing its own environmental footprint in Art for Earth’s Sake, a series of five public presentations and panels, taking place in fall, 2022. Invited artists, academics, activists, industry insiders and journalists will explore topics ranging from greening art facilities and art fairs to reckoning with environmental justice. Finally, the program will consider the impact of making the industry more sustainable on artistic expression itself.
About Kim Abeles
Kim Abeles explores society, science literacy, feminism, and the environment, creating projects with science and natural history museums, health departments, air pollution control agencies, and National Park Service.
About Maru Garcia
Maru García is a Mexican, LA-based artist/chemist working across art + science + environment.Her methodology combines laboratory and fieldwork tools from her background in plant chemistry and the pharmaceutical industry. Her use of media includes research, installations, performance, sculpture, and video, usually with the presence of organic matter to help understand the biological processes occurring in complex systems.
About Jennifer Swann
Jennifer Swann is an L.A.-based writer and journalist covering art, culture, and entertainment. She is a frequent contributor to the Calendar section of the Los Angeles Times and a co-founder of theLAnd magazine.
Art for Earth’s Sake is organized by Frances Anderton and Livia Mandoul.

MOCA’s environmental programming series highlights the museum’s work around climate, conservation, and environmental justice. Guided by the work of the MOCA Environmental Council, the first sustainability council at a major arts museum in the United States, this series presents artists, activists, and scholars committed to critical ecological issues in Los Angeles and globally.

The 2022 series is made possible by Nora McNeely Hurley and Manitou Fund.

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