WAKA WAKA is pleased to announce a colorful gradient box-assembling workshop with Maho.
In addition to the workshop, HIGHTIDESTORE DTLA will be holding a pop-up shop, featuring a wonderful selection of stationery and maho motoyama paper products.

The workshop features Risograph-printed assembly diagrams sold at KOKUYO COPY CORNER in Japan.

Please come by and join the fun!

Saturday, April 11
One: 10:00 – 11:00 am
Two: 11:30 – 12:30 pm (Fully booked)
Three: 13:00 – 14:00 pm

Waka Waka / Iko Iko studio
3461 Casitas Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90039

Fee: $25 per person

Featuring a pop-up by HIGHTIDE STORE DTLA

RSVP: paperboxes.contact@gmail.com
Please specify your preferred time slot.
10-15 people per slot

Visual design: Kosuke Tsurube

Design & Art Book Exchange 

2122 Cypress Ave

10am-Noon

Join Frogtown Arts and LA Climate Week for a fun and educational LA River Crawl in Frogtown as part of LA Climate Week. 

This free family-friendly event includes a dozen venues offering art exhibits, eco-centric activities, live music, DJ's, comedy, a short film screening, food pop ups and more 

Frogtown Arts

1901 Blake Avenue Los Angeles, CA, 90039

Join us every Wednesday for a lively evening with @folk.lounge on the LA River to build embroidery foundations through a year-long interdisciplinary program. Each session explores vocabulary, materials, illustration, and nature — with small projects that let you sample styles and develop your own expression, craft fluency and technique. Whether you are picking up a needle for the first time or returning to a practice, you are invited to play, explore, and grow in community with dedicated support.

level 2: Beginner
- Foundations & Projects

• You've decided to make embroidery a regular practice

• Build vocabulary, technique, and fluency through consistent weekly work

• Discover your aesthetic through small projects in illustration, materials, and nature

• Play and explore in community with consistent progress and dedicated support

This half-day immersive experience transforms the West LA Community College campus into a vibrant ecosystem of creativity dedicated to climate action and community care. From art, crafts, film, music, XR, sustainable fashion, repair & mending, games, to seed and soil workshops, get ready to be amazed!

Saturday April 18th

10am - 3pm

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Rooted in the City

Join us for an intimate urban gardening workshop with Carrie-Anne Parker of Rolling Hills Nursey. Learn to cultivate a thriving gourmet garden in any space.

• When: Saturday, April 18 | 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

• Where: Creature's Plants & Coffee, 4958 N Eagle Rock Blvd.

• RSVP here by scrolling all the way to the bottom

• Arrival: Please arrive by 9:45 AM to settle in. We will begin promptly at 10:00 AM to respect our speaker’s time.

• Capacity: We have a limited number of spots. If you RSVP and can no longer attend, please contact us so we can release your spot to someone on the waitlist.
  
  About Our Speaker: Carrie-Anne Parker
  Carrie-Anne is the owner and grower behind Rolling Hills Nursery, a fully certified USDA organic micro-production nursery. Since 2009, she has specialized in the propagation of perennials, stone fruits, and specialty herbs.
  
  With a background as a holistic health educator in nutrition and aromatherapy, Carrie-Anne’s work focuses on the restorative power of Nature. Her expertise will help you grow an edible garden that nourishes both your home and your well-being.

Of Two Minds

Marta is pleased to announce Of Two Minds, an exhibition of new functional-sculptural work by Pasadena-based artist and designer Ryan Belli. The gallery’s first solo outing with Belli, following his inclusion in Under / Over (2020) and, most recently, From the Upper Valley in the Foothills (2025), the presentation employs memory as a (re-)structuring principle, examining its material and spiritual capacities to hold dual, often contradictory, truths, made manifest by the evocations of a single phrase: “I remember it differently.”

For Belli, materials are a mode of expression. They are the physical illustration of an idea and its implied double: the alternative—whether suspected, assumed, or desired—of a viewer’s contact with his work. Rendered in disparate mediums and across diverse functions (wood, metal, and textiles; seating, surfaces, cabinetry, and lighting), the artist’s formal choices allow shapes to take on new meaning. Lengths of ribbon are sewn into peaked light shades that translate traditional bricklayers’ patterns into Albers-esque constructions, the pliant fabric becoming firm, subverting the need for rigorous internal supports, and contextualizing color—greens; yellows; pinks—as the German-American artist and educator did: a physical, observation-dependent element of the work. Belli’s collection of variously sized lights dialogue with the hand-carved redwood perch and coastal live oak stool, which follow the plastic logic of a sack of grain: slouching yet stable, its rigidity reliant on the volume of its contents and predicated on the supple enclosure of burlap. With pointed detailing—are they ears? Horns?—these lightly figurative works, iconic in the artist’s tender treatment of wood, animate in partnership, extending a familiar camaraderie both mischievous and fundamentally optimistic, like two creatures peeking over a fence to get a look at the activity on the other side.

Throughout the exhibition, hard materials appear soft and vice versa, a doubling effect that’s reflected, quite literally, in Belli’s cast and polished aluminum mirrors. Each, through their irregular surface treatment, poses the phenomenon of catching someone else’s eye in a reflection, two perspectives conversing and then projected, fun-house-mirror-like, in recognizable yet altered terms. Here, Belli draws out the nuances of collective versus individual memory; the subtle blurring and discrete insights that take shape within the primal relationships of artist and viewer, artist and family, artist and steward, each lens of perception an opportunity to explore the paradoxes of human experience; the cognitive dissonances woven into any given day. We look, as the Janus head does, in opposing directions at once.

A 3 hour life drawing session hosted by Bijou Karman

Join us for Heavy Manners Library's recurring life drawing session. The sessions will last for 3 hours, with one model doing various poses for different lengths of time. We will have chairs and drawing boards for participants, but we ask guests to bring their own paper and drawing/painting materials. Free refreshments will be available to participants as well.

This session will be hosted by Bijou Karman and will feature a clothed model.

Tickets

Celebrate Earth Day with the most sustainable companies in our industry! New products + complimentary Farmers Market goods!

Amazing product showcase and Farmers market featuring the most sustainable companies in our industry.

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Nicolas Grenier: Flags

Website: https://www.luisdejesus.com/exhibitions/nicolas-grenier4
About: Nicolas Grenier explores a post-nationalist world through "anti-flag" abstract paintings with shifting colors and geometry meant to subvert traditional icons of identity.

Dates: On view April 25 through June 6, 2026. Gallery Hours, Tues - Sat. 10am - 6pm.

Opening Reception: April 25, 2026 4pm - 7pm

Melissa Huddleston: The Drops

Website: https://www.luisdejesus.com/exhibitions/melissa-huddleston2
About: Blending California Light and Space with threads of post-1970 feminist art, Melissa Huddleston's drop paintings explore themes of intimacy, femininity, and fertility.

Dates: On view April 25 through June 6, 2026. Gallery Hours, Tues - Sat. 10am - 6pm.

Opening Reception: April 25, 2026 4pm - 7pm

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About: Joshua Nazario Lugois a self-taught, multidisciplinary artist who explores constructs of home, identity, personal memory, and popular culture in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. His work, spanning painting, sculpture, and installation is characterized by energetic brushwork, a rich material vocabulary, and a vibrant palette that shifts between primary colors and the lush hues found in Puerto Rico’s dense tropical vegetation.

Dates: On view now through April 11, 2026. Gallery Hours, Tues - Sat. 10am - 6pm.

Taught by Natalia Ira Sookias

Friday, April 27th, 6-8pm

All experience levels welcome

Masks required

2971 Allesandro St, Los Angeles, Frogtown 90039

In this workshop we will delve into the world of electric kilns, home studios and all the nooks and crannies along the way.

I'll be talking through and demonstrating the basics of firing an electric kiln, including loading techniques for bisque and glaze, changing elements, an overview of the firing process and answering any and all questions including but not limited to stacking techniques, cones, kiln wash, setting up a home studio, loading small scale to large scale work, etc. 

This workshop is well suited for anyone wanting to gain a better understanding of the firing process to inform their own creative process and those wanting to set up a home studio and needing guidance on where to start.

Instructor  

This workshop is taught by Sooki Studio founder, Natalia Ira Sookias. Natalia has been teaching over the last decade from the kindergarten level ranging to university graduate students in the US and Europe. She studied at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Central St. Martin's and the Prince's School for Traditional Arts in London.  

A morning of creative connection and cultural celebration
Join us every four Saturdays for rejuvenating mornings with @folk.lounge, set in some of Los Angeles’ most inspiring locations. Come to see creativity, community, and cultural storytelling come alive through needle and thread. Whether you're just beginning or have been stitching for years, you're invited to bring a project or start something new, and immerse yourself in a circle that nurtures both skill and soul.

Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale CA
White Spanish-colonial towers emerge from lush foliage in this thirty-one-acre sanctuary at the foot of the Verdugo Mountains. Japanese gardens with koi ponds meet Mediterranean elegance, while trails wind from manicured grounds into wild chaparral slopes. We meet in the middle of the central staircase towards the shade of the hill and trees.

A 3 hour life drawing session hosted by Bijou Karman

Join us for Heavy Manners Library's recurring life drawing session. The sessions will last for 3 hours, with one model doing various poses for different lengths of time. We will have chairs and drawing boards for participants, but we ask guests to bring their own paper and drawing/painting materials. Free refreshments will be available to participants as well.

This session will be hosted by Bijou Karman and will feature a clothed model.

For more work by Bijou Karman visit here

It’s about to go off at the Brewery Artist Lofts!!

Spring Brewery Artwalk April 25th & 26th

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