Events for January 18, 2023
SLO Museum of Art Presents: Home/Work
Home/Work presents the work of fourteen contemporary artists whose work together questions our collective experiences of home. The works gathered in this exhibition reflect on the unique and intimate experiences of the artists who made them — and invite us to consider how we achieve balance in our busy lives of making home and making work. Not designed to be exhaustive, this show invites the public...
New Exhibition At SLOMA: Dirty Laundry
Details The average American throws away 70 pounds of clothing every year. This constant demand for clothing has given way to the expansion of the “Fast Fashion” industry, a manufacturing model in which clothes are designed, fabricated, and sold quickly to keep up with the ever-changing trends. This industry consumes one tenth of all water used industrially and approximately 20% of the wastewater created...
SLO Museum of Art Presents: The Layered Vision of Nixson Borah
New Exhibition at the SLO Museum of Art: Critical Encounters: The Layered Vision of Nixson Borah Beginning with monoprints and photography from the 1980s, this exhibition follows the lineage of Nixson Borah’s practice towards his recent digital composites. Influenced by the tradition of shadow-puppet theater from southeast Asia, contemporary dance, printmaking, and layering processes, Borah’s digital composites are a culmination of decades of exploration, curiosity,...
January Membership Mixer | Benny’s Pizza Palace & Social Club
Every month SLO Chamber members gather after hours to catch up, meet new members, do a bit of networking and get an inside glance at a local business. Membership Mixers happen on the third Wednesday of every month and provide an opportunity for members to get to know each other and share business contacts all in the friendly confines of a member business. A benefit...
Cal Poly Arts Presents- Terence Blanchard
Oscar nominee, six-time Grammy-winner and 2018 USA Fellow trumpeter/composer Terence Blanchard has been a consistent artistic force for making powerful musical statements concerning painful American tragedies—past and present. From his expansive work composing the scores for Spike Lee films, Blanchard has interwoven melodies that created strong backdrops to human stories. In the summer of 2019, Blanchard’s second opera, Fire Shut Up in My Bones, with a libretto by Kasi...
Cal Poly Arts Presents: Terence Blanchard Featuring The E-Collective with Turtle Island Quartet
Oscar nominee, five-time Grammy-winner and 2018 USA Fellow trumpeter/composer Terence Blanchard has been a consistent artistic force for making powerful musical statements concerning painful American tragedies—past and present. From his expansive work composing the scores for Spike Lee films, Blanchard has interwoven melodies that created strong backdrops to human stories. In the summer of 2019, Blanchard’s second opera, Fire Shut Up in My Bones, with a libretto by Kasi...