Opening Exhibition: REFRACTIONS

November 3rd, the Conservancy invites you to the Annenberg Beach House for the opening reception of Refractions, a collection of contemporary artworks by curated by Meztli Projects to reflect Native and Indigenous artists from or connected to the Los Angeles region.

Meet Meztli Projects leaders who produced the Reframe: City Hall Mural report for City of Santa Monica centering indigenous voices within the context of presenting the historic murals with new interpretive panels alongside a program for new public art. Read the full report here.

Come by the Refractions Opening at 11am and then pop over to the Marion Davies’ Guest House where from 12-2pm our Conservancy docents will share the history of the site. If you haven’t visited for a while, you’ll also see the City’s beautiful restoration of the wood floors, a project that won a Conservancy Preservation Award this year.

“The artists in Refractions understand Los Angeles through the embodied sombré Indigenous Peoples navigate cities with. Drawing from the callbacks to the land in the works of Joel, Isaac, Kenneth, and Samantha and the tribal affirmations seen in Cara’s and Weshoyot’s images, the tender and intimate moments created by Emilia and Mercedes or the symbolism in River’s, Melissa’s, and Daniel’s iconography, or the rebel spirit offered from Emma, Gerald, Kimberly and Thundr, along with the collective memory and knowledge building held in the baskets by the Great-Granddaughters of Ysabel of the village of Tobpet — these images are informed by this place temporarily known as Los Angeles and forever known as Tovaangar.” Read more at Metzli Projects.