SHG Youth Artivists Penelope Bernal and Emily Ordaz will provide free portraits at our next Family Workshop, and you can create your customizable frame to take the photo home!

This pop-up contributes to a more extensive archive project intended to collect stories from Eastside residents regarding housing rights, gentrification, and social housing. Come prepared to share your experiences about your neighborhood and dream about what our city could look like if we had all the power to change it.

This workshop is part of Behind the Photo, in partnership with Eastside LEADS.

Our one-day Do-It-Yourself Screen Printing with screen filler and drawing fluid workshop, led by Teaching Artist Gaby Claro, is coming up! Learn how to use Speedball's drawing fluid and screen filler which is an easy way to start creating screen-printed art at home.

With brushes and other drawing tools, you can draw your design directly onto a screen. Prepared screens can be used to print on a variety of surfaces including paper, textiles, and clothing. With this class, you can make posters or print your design on a tote bag. Space is limited, registration is required.

The producers of Art as Activism, an independent feature-length documentary about Self Help Graphics & Art, are hosting an Open Community Call for the public to share their memorabilia and stories about our organization on Saturday, September 7, 2024 from 1:30 PM-4:30PM at Avenue 50 Studio (131 N. Avenue 50 Highland Park, CA. 90042) and Saturday, November 9, 2024 from 1PM-5PM at the LA County East Los Angeles Library (4837 E. 3rd St LA, CA. 90022).

The community is encouraged to bring art, posters, flyers, correspondences, magazines, news clippings, photos and videos– whatever you have that may be shared and documented! Organizers will record the images and return ephemera while present at the Community Call.

To learn more, please contact the producers directly at production@artasactivism.net.

We hope that you’ll join us for the Opening Reception of our forthcoming exhibition, Sinks: Places We Call Home, on Saturday, September 21, 2024, from 5:00 PM-8:00 PM at the Luckman Gallery, on the campus of Cal State University, Los Angeles. Paid parking is available on campus at parking Structure C (4 hours - $5/ All Day - $10). RSVP here today!

The exhibition is curated by Marvella Muro with curatorial assistance by Ana Guajardo, as part of the Getty PST ART: Art & Science Collide initiative. This innovative exhibition - produced in partnership with artists Maru Garcia and Beatriz Jaramillo, the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum, community scientists, and partners - highlights the environmental disparities created by manufacturing sites in two communities located near Self Help Graphics: the former Exide Battery plant in Vernon and former Athens Tank Farm (Exxon Mobil) site in Willowbrook. The exhibition elevates the voices and stories of the people who form these neighborhoods and informs audiences about land contamination and alternative solutions.

Please join us as we commemorate this momentous exhibition and share the outcomes of our scientific research and work at the crossroads of art and science in an effort to heal the earth and neighborhoods. 

Special Thanks

This exhibition was organized by Self Help Graphics & Art, in partnership with the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum and The Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State L.A,. and is presented by Getty as part of the PST ART: Art & Science Collide initiative, with generous support by Bank of America, Alicia Miñana and Rob Lovelace, and the Getty Patron Program.