ACTIVISM
ART ROOTS MAMBÍ
Art Roots Mambí family partake in the artist finale parade at the 2025 Festival Del Caribe Santiago de Cuba
Art Roots Mambí is a grassroots cultural exchange and humanitarian aid family project that builds bridges between artists in Santiago de Cuba and Los Angeles, California, empowering both creative communities.
First Art Roots Mambí Sojourn to Cuba, July 2023
Alberto Lescay Home Studio Visit, Santiago de Cuba
Art Roots Mambí Salon Los Angeles, May 2024
Screening and Talkback of Charles Burnet's The Blues Film
BAILA: BLACK ARTISTS IN LOS ANGELES
BAILA: Black Artists in Los Angeles is catalyst in the erasure of the gross marginalization of Black visual artists. The BAILA initiative involves organizing and facilitating roundtable discussions with mainstream art organizations and professionals, curating group art exhibitions, video and photo archiving BAILA happenings, organizing studio visits, workshops, art critiques, writing and publishing, and mentoring BAILA youth and adults.
Art organizations and institutions participating in BAILA roundtables have included Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Hammer Museum UCLA, California African American Museum, Watts Towers Arts Center Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Watts House Projects, Golden State Mutual Legacy Foundation, Karen Atkinson’s Getting Your Sh*t Together (GYST), and art critic-gallery owner Mat Gleason, among others.
BAILA and KCCLA's Phoenix Project, April 2022
Continuing the Dialogue of Los Angeles' Civil Unrest of 1992
Phoenix Project Exhibiting Artists: BAILA-Black Artists in Los Angeles + Korean Art Assoc. of Southern California
BAILA - MoCA Roundtable, February 2017
Chief Curators of Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) Los Angeles
Lili Bernard reads questions to MoCA Chief Curators Helen Molesworth, Bennet Simpson, and Lanka Tattersall.
BAILA - Getty Museum Roundtable, November 2014
With Chief Curators and Directors of the Getty Museum and Research Institute
BAILA members ask question to the Getty Museum and Research Institute directors and chief curators
BAILA - Hammer Museum Roundtable, January 2013
With Chief Curator and all Curators of Hammer Museum UCLA, Los Angeles
Over 100 Black Los Angeles artists, several A-List, attended this BAILA-Hammer Museum Roundtable
BAILA - CAAM Roundtable, April 2012
Roundtable with Chief Curator of California African American Museum
MacArthur Genius artist Mark Bradford shares insights at this BAILA-CAAM roundtable.
BAILA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art 2/27/12
Roundtable: LACMA Chief Curators Franklin Sirmans and Brooke Anderson