Pride!
2024 PRIDE Celebration series
Celebrate Pride Month alongside MOLAA with art workshops, lectures, and community gatherings that explore the LGBTQIA+ experience in the US and Latin America.
free children’s art workshop: rainbow mobiles!
Celebrate Love and Pride with our free children’s workshop on how to create your own cardboard rainbow mobile! All materials are provided. Drop-in style instruction.
evening for educators: pride!
June is LGBTQ Pride Month and is celebrated in classrooms and communities around the world! Learn how to highlight and celebrate LGBTQIA+ art, history, and community all year long. You will connect with colleagues and learn hands-on art activities to take back to your classroom. This session is in-person and includes light refreshments, wine, and free parking.
This year, Robbie Osa will lead the evening with a talk about PRIDE and, as a special treat, they will close with a performance!
Celebrating LGBTQ Families: Figurative Watercolor Painting Workshop
MOLAA welcomes gay, bisexual, and transgender fathers and their families, as well as straight dads with LGBT children to create art in a safe and inclusive space this Father’s Day weekend. Light refreshments will be served. All materials provided. This workshop will be outdoors in our beautiful Sculpture Garden but moved indoors if there is inclement weather. Guest artist, Polaris Castillo!
exploring queer art history through a latin american canvas
Join us for an engaging lecture by Ignacio Darnaude! Renowned Latin American artists, such as Frida Kahlo and Claudio Bravo, all the way to Chicanx artists like Carlos Almaraz and Joey Terrill created astonishing queer imagery hiding in plain sight. Their coded images allowed them to express taboos and same-sex desire in a way that wasn’t punishable. Get ready to see their work as well as art history with completely new eyes. Wine and light refreshments served.
symposium on empowerment in pride spaces
Join us for an interactive, two-hour discussion and performance dedicated to LGBTQIA+ empowerment in Latinx, Black, and AAPI spaces
The program will begin with an engaging performance and roundtable on Drag as a form of expression and advocacy by your fabulous hosts Robbie Osa, Foxie Adjuia, and Mahalia Nakita; followed by a short intermission and closing number with a few lucky audience members. Food vendors Zooks Kitchen and Los Osos Cocineros will be on site.