Brenda Escobar, storefront dreams, 2023. Digital collage. © Brenda Escobar.
Nathan Peterson, Cell 63 Flyer, May 29, 1992. © Nathan Peterson, Punk Arts & Culture.
Photo by: Christopher Stoltz
Leo Alas and Xixi Edelsbrunner, Communal Archive, 2017. Photos, plexiglass, bathroom objects, string, and canvas.
CSUN Foundation / CSUN Art Galleries
Fund: $37,000
The Art Galleries at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) serve the campus and larger Los Angeles area audiences through innovative contemporary art exhibitions and related programs. Curated by 11:11 Projects, BETTY is a large-scale, multi-venue exhibition that celebrates the subcultural histories of the San Fernando Valley through the work of femme-identifying artists who both preserve and reinvent its creative lineage. Structured around five thematic throughlines—punk feminisms, queer world-building, Valley Latinx archives, DIY aesthetics, and hybrid futures—BETTY will feature new and existing work by approximately 25 artists including Leo Alas, Gabriela Ruiz, Brenda Escobar, Karla Ekaterine Canseco, courtney coles, Jessica Estrada Silva, Charlyn Quirino Vega, Olivia Kowalczyk, and Chloe Moon Flaherty, as well as the archival installation Inside Cell 63: Punk Rock in the San Fernando Valley. The exhibition and its related programming will take place from January 19–March 11, 2027.
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