Artist Lab: In The Studio With Gabriela Gonzalez Leal
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
12:30 p.m. | Free

Join SHG's Artist Lab: In the Studio on Wednesday, May 11th at 12:30 p.m. PST on Instagram Live!

Take a lunch break and meet the Mexican artist, Gabriela González Leal. She will speak about her art practice and the playful narratives she creates through sculptural stencils using Mexican monetary paper or molding soccer balls into masks of Ancient American deities. The concept of children as archetypal characters, symbols of the future, origin, and allegorical figures are continual themes in her work, building ties between the present and her Mexica roots.

Join virtually via Instagram Live! @shg1970
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Be part of soil and public health research with the Prospering Backyards Community Science Project! Join Self Help Graphics and the Natural History Museum of LA to learn about and develop alternative and accessible lead reduction methods. Join the Prospering Backyards team and combat the contamination from the former Exide Battery facility with scientists and your community.

Meet the artist Maru Garcia, scientist Aaron Celestian, and SHG’s Director of Programs and Education, Marvella Muro. We’ll discuss how to participate safely, how to join, and answer any questions.

Join the Prospering Backyards team and be a part of research to make our neighborhoods safer and healthier for us all!

Register now on Eventbrite to join and receive the Zoom link for virtual joining.

For more information, go to ProsperingBackyards.com and click on “Project.”

For residents from:

East Los Angeles: 90022, 90023, 90063

Boyle Heights: 90033

South East LA: 90058, 90270, 90201, 90202, 90255, 90040

Spanish Translation:

Sesión Informativa:

¡Combata la contaminación por plomo en L.A. como científico comunitario con el equipo de Prospering Backyards!

19 de Abril del 2022, 5:00 p.m.

via Zoom

¡Sea parte de la investigación sobre la tierra y salud pública con Prospering Backyards Community Science Project! Únase a Self Help Graphics y al Museo de Historia Natural de Los Ángeles para conocer y desarrollar métodos alternativos y accesibles para la reducción del plomo. Únase al equipo de Prospering Backyards y combata la contaminación de las antiguas instalaciones de Exide Battery con científicos y su comunidad.

Conozca a la artista Maru García, al científico Aaron Celestian y a la Directora de Programas y Educación de SHG, Marvella Muro. Discutiremos cómo participar de manera segura, cómo unirse y responder cualquier pregunta.

¡Únase al equipo de Prospering Backyards y sea parte de la investigación para hacer que nuestros vecindarios sean más seguros y saludables para todos!

Para obtener más información, visite ProsperingBackyards.com y haga clic en "Proyecto".

Para residentes de:

Este de Los Angeles: 90022, 90023, 90063

Boyle Heights: 90033

Sureste de LA: 90058, 90270, 90201, 90202, 90255, 90040

#SoilTime #ProsperingBackyards

Artist Lab: In The Studio With Jacqueline Valenzuela
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
12:30 p.m. | Free

Join SHG's Artist Lab: In the Studio on Wednesday, April 13 at 12:30 p.m. PST on Instagram Live! Take a lunch break and meet Jacqueline Valenzuela, who will speak about her experiences as a woman within the Chicano world of lowriding, her paintings, and contributions to the lowrider culture.

Jacqueline is from East L.A., creating art from her studio in Whittier. She obtained Drawing and Painting BFA from Cal State Long Beach.

Join virtually via Instagram Live! @shg1970
#ArtistLab #IntheStudio

Our Artist Lab: In the Studio takes place live on Instagram on Wednesday, March 9 at 12:30 p.m. PST! Take a lunch break and join SHG's Artist Lab with Phung Huynh. She will talk about her silkscreen prints created for her upcoming exhibition, Donut (W)hole, at SHG and the body of work that highlights the lives and stories of Cambodian refugees and their children.

Phung Huynh is a Los Angeles-based artist and educator whose practice is primarily in drawing, painting, and public art. Her work explores cultural perception and representation. Her most current drawings on pink donut boxes and cross-stitched, personalized California license plates explore the complexities of the refugee experience in Southeast Asian communities. Phung Huynh has exhibited nationally and internationally. She has also completed public art commissions for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro Orange Line, Metro Silver Line, and Metro Neighborhood Poster Series) and the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens. Phung Huynh is currently a Professor of Art at Los Angeles Valley College.

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SHG's Artist Lab: In the Studio is LIVE on IG! Take a lunch break and join as we virtually visit Boyle Heights artist Ernesto Vazquez in his studio. Ernesto utilizes printing techniques, including linoleum block printing, woodblock printing, and silkscreen, to create works with themes ranging from political to mythic. His family, upbringing in East Los Angeles, street art, social justice, community empowerment issues, and ties to Solidarity Ink are core to his process and influence.

Join virtually via Instagram Live! @shg1970

#ArtistLab #IntheStudio

SHG kicks off its 2022 Artist Lab: In the Studio program with artist J. Leigh Garcia, @j.leighgarcia live Wednesday, January 18 at 12:30 p.m. PST!

J. Leigh Garcia is an artist born and raised in Dallas, TX, whose identity as a Bi-racial Latina and Texan roots informs her artistic practice. Through printmaking, paper making, and installation art, Leigh raises awareness and addresses the complexities between her Mexican and Texan cultures, i.e., historical wars, policies, the bracero program, and current immigration laws. She will be sharing examples of older and new works from her studio.

Join virtually via Instagram Live! @shg1970

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SHG's Artist Lab: In the Studio is LIVE on IG! Take a 15-minute lunch break and meet Maryrose Cobarrubias Mendoza from her studio. Maryrose uses humor to confront the residues of colonization in the Philippines and proposes new methods of decolonization, especially within the education system.

Find us on Instagram @shg1970.

SHG's Artist Lab: In the Studio is going on IG LIVE! Take a 15-minute lunch break on IG Live with an invited artist beginning September. The new format welcomes artist Kiara Machado from her studio to speak about her artwork which explores the complexities of intersecting identities and Central American diasporas in Southern California.

Find us on Instagram @shg1970.

Self Help Graphics and Art is proud to present the youth exhibition, Our Future, Our Voice, Our Way, in our main gallery this summer. View the exhibition by appointment, select dates Tuesday - Friday from 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. RSVP link coming soon! The exhibition, curated originally as a virtual experience on our blog by the 2020-21 SHG Youth Committee, highlights individual youth voices who care strongly about issues in their communities, and addresses topics such as identity, race, culture, and gender; many through the lens of social justice.

How is this different from the online exhibit? The SHG Gallery exhibition will include serigraph prints from SHG’s renowned Professional Printmaking Program, selected by the Youth Committee, to extend the dialogue about the continuing issues that impact youth and communities of color throughout time.

The SHG Youth Committee believes young people should have more input in the decisions that directly affect them, and that their voices should be celebrated and uplifted. Through this intimate exhibition, we hope that more young artists are inspired to create new work and showcase it to larger audiences; and inspire a new generation of youth to pursue the arts as a form of expression.

Follow our Youth Committee and Youth Artivist Interns on Instagram @SHGYouth.

#OurFutureOurVoiceOurWay

Self Help Graphics and Art is proud to present the youth exhibition, Our Future, Our Voice, Our Way, in our main gallery this summer. View the exhibition by appointment, select dates Tuesday - Friday from 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. RSVP link coming soon! The exhibition, curated originally as a virtual experience on our blog by the 2020-21 SHG Youth Committee, highlights individual youth voices who care strongly about issues in their communities, and addresses topics such as identity, race, culture, and gender; many through the lens of social justice.

How is this different from the online exhibit? The SHG Gallery exhibition will include serigraph prints from SHG’s renowned Professional Printmaking Program, selected by the Youth Committee, to extend the dialogue about the continuing issues that impact youth and communities of color throughout time.

The SHG Youth Committee believes young people should have more input in the decisions that directly affect them, and that their voices should be celebrated and uplifted. Through this intimate exhibition, we hope that more young artists are inspired to create new work and showcase it to larger audiences; and inspire a new generation of youth to pursue the arts as a form of expression.

Follow our Youth Committee and Youth Artivist Interns on Instagram @SHGYouth.

#OurFutureOurVoiceOurWay

Self Help Graphics and Art is proud to present the youth exhibition, Our Future, Our Voice, Our Way, in our main gallery this summer. View the exhibition by appointment, select dates Tuesday - Friday from 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. RSVP link coming soon! The exhibition, curated originally as a virtual experience on our blog by the 2020-21 SHG Youth Committee, highlights individual youth voices who care strongly about issues in their communities, and addresses topics such as identity, race, culture, and gender; many through the lens of social justice.

How is this different from the online exhibit? The SHG Gallery exhibition will include serigraph prints from SHG’s renowned Professional Printmaking Program, selected by the Youth Committee, to extend the dialogue about the continuing issues that impact youth and communities of color throughout time.

The SHG Youth Committee believes young people should have more input in the decisions that directly affect them, and that their voices should be celebrated and uplifted. Through this intimate exhibition, we hope that more young artists are inspired to create new work and showcase it to larger audiences; and inspire a new generation of youth to pursue the arts as a form of expression.

Follow our Youth Committee and Youth Artivist Interns on Instagram @SHGYouth.

#OurFutureOurVoiceOurWay

Monoprint Demonstration with Miguel Angel Reyes
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021
4:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.
Free I Ages 14+

For the final Annual Print Fair program series, Self Help Graphics is excited to share a monoprint demonstration with Miguel Angel Reyes.

Reduction Screenprinting Techniques with Yvette Pino
Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
4:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.
Free I Ages 14+

Join us on Wednesday, June 16th at 4:00pm on YouTube @SHGTV to watch a skillbuilding workshop led by Veteran Atelier Artist Yvette Pino. Tune in to learn about reduction screen printing techniques that Yvette has developed and learn how to apply them to your art practice. Stay tuned for more information on our social media channels!

In Conversation: Youth Leader Jake Montoya and Veteran Artist Leo Limon via Youtube
Tuesday, June 15 I 4:00 P.M. I Free
www.youtube.com/shgtv

For this special APF program, SHG brings together Jake Montoya and artist Leo Limon for a conversation about Leo’s art practice, life, and work in the community. This conversation is in conjunction with the Veterans Atelier Transitions.

Join our next Artist Lab: In the Studio session on Tuesday, May 18th at 4:00 pm PST featuring our Veterans Atelier artists Pedro Rios Martinez, Joe Devarra, Fanny Garcia and Peter Tovar, in discussion on our YouTube Channel at www.youtube.com/shgtv! Register on Eventbrite here.

The Veterans Atelier, as part of our Professional Printmaking Program, brought together a multigenerational group of artists with a shared armed forces experience. The artists will discuss their artistic practices, how art has served as a tool for healing, and about their experience working on the project.

This Artist Lab is presented in partnership with The Veterans Art Project (VETART) with ongoing support from California's Mental Health Services Oversight & Accountability Commission (MHSOAC); with the advocacy goal of generating awareness of the critical role that the arts play in benefitting the mental wellness of veterans, family members, caregivers, community members, and active duty personnel.

This project is supported in part by the California Arts Council and The Pasadena Art Alliance.

***Please note this session is on a Tuesday, not a Wednesday this month. We will return to Artist Lab on Wednesdays in June.

P.S. Look out for new prints by the Veterans Atelier launching as part of our Annual Print Fair in June!

Take part in our next Artist Lab: In the Studio session Wednesday, April 14 at 7:00 p.m. on Zoom, with the Sketchisme (sketch and chat) crew, as we explore the topic of growth after one year living in quarantine.

For this session, Sketchisme artists invite you to gather in virtual community to draw, paint and write in small groups prompted by a theme: How have you grown or changed in the past year? What have we learned as a society?

Share, create and connect with peers in this hour-long program, and see how the discussions inform your creative process. Note: Eventbrite registration required to receive link to join. This session will not be streamed online.

Artist Lab: In the Studio with Evonne Gallardo and Pamela Agustin
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
7:00 p.m. PST | Free | 18+
Live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/shgtv

Reaching a year since COVID grasped our way of living, economic and housing struggles continue to burden the creative community. SHG's Artist Lab welcomes back Evonne Gallardo, arts and culture consultant and artists advocate, to share and help navigate artists' resources.

Pamela Agustin, Lead Community Organizer for Eastside LEADS, will lead a "Stay Housed L.A. County" workshop with information and resources to keep our creative community and our neighbors in their homes. Take advantage of this free informative session, live on our YouTube channel!
#ArtistLab #IntheStudio #SHGVirtualProgram #VirtualProgram

Virtual Wellness Wednesday
Wednesday, February 17
6:00 p.m. | Free | Recommended Ages 15+
RSVP for Zoom link: bit.ly/february-wellness-wed
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Join SHG Youth Committee member, Sonia Maturano, in the meditative practice of creating a basket. Through this workshop, our youth facilitator will teach you how to practice mindfulness and be in the present moment by creating a simple object through repetition. This workshop, as with all of our #WellnessWednesday sessions, includes a short meditation.

To participate, you'll need:

•200 craft sticks (or popsicle sticks).

• Elmer’s glue or hot glue.

Tip: Buy more craft sticks than needed and split them with someone else in your household to join the workshop together! Do you have questions? Please send us a DM or email info@selfhelpgraphics.com. See you there!

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Wellness Wednesday (miércoles de bienestar)
Miércoles 17 de febrero
6:00 p.m. | Gratis | Edades recomendadas 15+
RSVP para el enlace de Zoom: bit.ly/february-wellness-wed

Únase a la miembro del Comité de Jóvenes de SHG, Sonia Maturano, en la práctica meditativa de crear una canasta. A través de este taller, nuestro facilitador juvenil te enseñará cómo practicar la atención plena y estar en el momento presente creando un objeto simple a través de la repetición. Este taller, al igual que todas nuestras sesiones de Wellness Wednesday, incluye una breve meditación.

Para participar en este teller, necesitarás:

• 200 palitos de manualidades (o palitos de helado).

• Pegamento o pegamento termofusible de Elmer.

Consejo: Compre más palos de manualidades de los necesarios y divídalos con otra persona de su hogar para unirse al taller. ¿Tienes preguntas? Envíenos un mensaje directo o envíe un correo electrónico a info@selfhelpgraphics.com. ¡Nos vemos allí!

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Introduction to Portraiture Drawing and Color
with Teaching Artist Oscar Rodriguez (Virtual Workshop)
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
1:00pm - 2:30pm | Free
Click here to watch our virtual workshop live on our @SHGTV YouTube channel.
#SHGWorkshops

Artist Lab: In the Studio with Melanie Cervantes
& Marvella Muro
Wednesday, July 22
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. | Free | 18+
Live on Facebook Self Help Graphics & Art
Learn more here.

Bay Area Artist, Melanie Cervantes and Marvella Muro, SHG Director of Artistic Programs and Education, will discuss the design, creation, and production of Melanie’s 2019 Day of the Dead commemorative print, "Light the Way for the Spirit of the Ancestors", as well as the stories behind two earlier portraits. The program will stream live on Facebook and will be available afterward on our SHGTV YouTube Channel.

Wellness Wednesday: Self Compassion for Difficult Times
Wednesday, July 15
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. | Free | Ages 15+
Via Zoom, registration required.
Learn more here.

Join us for Wellness Wednesday, July 15 at 6:00 p.m. via Zoom, recommended for ages 15+. Psychotherapist and mindfulness teacher, Susan López, will lead an introductory workshop on self-compassion practices. You don’t need to have any experience to participate, just an open mind. Learn more on our Facebook events page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/2652129938372872/. Zoom registration is required.