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This Saturday - Opening Reception, Lecture, & Home Goods Drive

 


gloria galvez:?home is where the bat is

Opening Reception: This Sunday! February 2nd, 11am?- 2pm
Art in the Park: 5568 Via Marisol Avenue, Los Angeles

home is where the bat is,?is an exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist?. Employing?a study-room environment, guests are invited to think about bats, their dwellings, peculiarities, and future, specifically that of the bat population living in Hermon Park, where Art in the Park’s gallery is located. The exhibition features both indoor and outdoor components, holds artworks that resemble and embody tools, methodologies, exercises, and other educational materials for “students” to learn from. Together, these items put forth a variety of bat-musings that facilitate a critical re-understanding of bats, their ecosystems, and their needs as a means of debunking harmful human perceptions.

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Join us for a special talk with Miguel Orde?ana!
February 2nd, 12pm?(during the opening reception of?home is where the bat is)
Miguel Orde?ana is an environmental educator and wildlife biologist. He works at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County as a Senior Manager in the Community Science office. As a community science senior manager, Miguel promotes and creates community science projects, and recruits and trains participants. Miguel utilizes his mammal research background by conducting urban mammal research in L.A. and leads NHMLAC’s Southern California Squirrel Survey and Backyard Bat Survey. Miguel serves as an advisor on a jaguar project in southwestern Nicaragua that he initiated in 2012 as well as a Board Member for the Friends of Griffith Park and National Wildlife Federation. Miguel is dedicated towards making science and access to nature more equitable with a goal of increasing the representation and retention of underrepresented communities within the environmental field. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Southern California, and a M.S. in Ecology from the University of California Davis.
A home is built on dreams. Help us give our neighbors in need the space to dream again. For the duration of?home is where the bat is, Art in the Park and Bed & Breakfast will be collecting home goods for those who lost everything in the fires. Bring new or lightly used items such as blankets, pillows, pet beds, towels, kitchenware, or even artworks to Art in the Park during exhibition viewing hours or any public programming.

If you're an artist working in ceramics and are able to, consider donating plates, bowls, etc. If you have an object dear to you that you think could be dear to someone else, bring it to us and we will archive it's history and pass it along.

No clothes and please make sure all lightly used items are clean for their new home.

Art in the Park at Hermon Park in the Arroyo Seco is a Public/Private Partnership Arts Facility of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA)

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