Katie Dorame is a visual artist of mixed Tongva and European American ancestry. She is a member of the Gabrielino/Tongva tribe and her Indigenous heritage informs her art making. Born in Los Angeles, a place rooted in Tongva history, Dorame grew up going on walks with her father, learning about the neighborhood’s layers of history
ORANGE COUNTY Museum Exhibitions The Hilbert Museum of California Art: Narrative Visions: 20th Century California Art from the Hilbert Collection Bowers Museum: April 16, 2016 – August 28, 2016 Once Upon a Time March 19, 2016 – September 5, 2016 Mummies of the World December 12, 2015 – May 29, 2016 Popol Vuh: Watercolors of Diego Rivera
ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS Opening: 3/1 – 3/6 Aging as Art Photography Show at the Bowers Museum 3/19 Mummies of the World at the Bowers Museum Ongoing: National Watercolor Society Invitational Plein Air Painting Exhibition Bowers Current Exhibitions OCMA Current Exhibitions Laguna Art Museum Current Exhibitions Closing: No closing exhibitions in March! GALLERY HIGHLIGHTS 3/18 Opening –
Raised in Oklahoma City, American artist Ed Ruscha (b. 1937) was first introduced to art through popular culture, looking at comic books, cartoons, and Disney films as inspiration. Attracted to the energy of Los Angeles, Ruscha moved there in 1956 at the age of eighteen and attended the Chouinard Art Institute, now the California Institute
September 15th to October 15th is National Hispanic Heritage Month. To celebrate, we here at Escalette would like to highlight a piece of art in our collection by Edward Ruscha entitled, Pico and Sepulveda. Ruscha has lived the majority of his life in Southern California, where he continues to live, teach, make art, and publish books to