Fifty-minute Docent guided tours available with paid admission or free for members. Parties meet in lobby.
MOLAA members are invited to an intimate VIP pre-screening reception of the 1998 film Pleasantville with Chicano artist Frank Romero. Light refreshments served. Limited capacity. Must RSVP by link. Not a MOLAA member? Sign up today to receive special member perks!
Join us for a very special screening of the 1998 film, Pleasantville, an American teen fantasy comedy-drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Gary Ross staring Tobey Maguire, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, J. T. Walsh, and Reese Witherspoon. Panel with renowned Chicano muralist Frank Romero and special guests. Food and cocktails for purchase.
MOLAA and LBUSD’s Office of Pathways & Business Engagement are excited to launch its 1st annual One Frame at a Time Student Film Festival. This year’s theme is “Unseen Voices: Telling Stories from a New Lens.” Winners will be screened at 1PM.
Students who sign up for museum membership at the event get two months of membership free.
POSTPONED: Join the MOLAA team for their end-of-the-year Pride session and the opportunity to share resources and stories from the past year. We’ll include a fun Pride-themed activity and performance and together generate a group list of resources for the classroom. Bring your best teacher/classroom hacks! This session is in-person and includes light refreshments, wine, and free parking.
Join us for a morning workshop led by a teaching artist in our Corner Garden where we will be doing Tempera Watercolor Sticks on Paper. MOLAA will provide all materials! Cost: $5.
Join us for the June MOLAA Members Book Club meeting! Our book of the month is Our Migrant Souls by Hector Tobar, the author’s first nonfiction book in nearly a decade, is a deeply personal meditation on the Latinx American experience. Light refreshments will be served. The book can be bought online or in-person at the MOLAA store!
Join us for a Free Sunday Children’s workshop where we explore mixed media collages inspired by the work of Chicanx artist, Jay Lynn Gomez whose work is currently featured in our exhibition Ironias del Sur. Part of MOLAA’s Pride Series. All materials will be provided.
Celebrate PRIDE! Month with MOLAA by joining us for a fun textile workshop where you will make your own 6x6in Punch Needle Portrait inspired by non-binary queer artist, Moisés Salazar . All Materials are Provided. Cost is $5 dollars, members are free.
Join us for a very special pre-performance talk by the Long Beach Opera on pioneering composer and musician Pauline Oliveros. Light refreshments served. Limited capacity. Must RSVP by link. Not a MOLAA member? Sign up today to receive special member perks!
Join us for a very special performance and art workshop in partnership with the Long Beach Opera celebrating the life and work Mexican-American queer post-war composer, Pauline Oliveros. A pioneer of experimental and electronic music who challenged societal hierarchical and patriarchal structures through her music, Pauline transformed transformed the very act of listening, encouraging musicians, and non-musicians alike, to engage with sound and each other with empathy and mutual respect. Free to families and MOLAA members. Enjoy the performance in the garden, and stay for the art workshops and food. Food and drink available for purchase.
Join us for the annual 2025 MOLAA Gala!
This year it will take place on Saturday, October 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM in MOLAA. Check back for more details about this year’s LEGADO Award honorees.
For table sales or sponsorship opportunities, please email gala@molaa.org.
Join MOLAA and PIEAM for a very special celebration of AAPI and AAPI Latinx communities! Film screening, exhibition tour, and free performance. Food and drink for purchase. Detailed schedule to be provided closer to the date.
Join MOLAA and PIEAM for a very special celebration of AAPI and AAPI Latinx communities! Be part of a special tour through the exhibition at the Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum (PIEAM) “KŪKULU: Behold the Pillars of Mauna Kea.” On display at PIEAM from May 3-September 28, 2025, this 21st installation beholds traditional arts, film, photos, and music from the movement to protect the sacred mountain of Mauna Kea. Its enduring messages will be woven into the many stories from many islands, cared for at PIEAM. This event is sponsored by The Port of Long Beach.
MOLAA is partnering with Dignity Health for their first annual Art Healthy Challenge. MOLAA is excited to welcome kids grades K-8, and their families to the MOLAA Art Studio for free studio time to work on their Art Healthy Challenge submissions. Spend an hour or two drafting, sketching, creating, painting, and sharing your artwork. Paper and supplies are provided, along with guidance on how to enter your art for a grand prize, if you are a LBUSD student!
MOLAA is partnering with Dignity Health for their first annual Art Healthy Challenge. MOLAA is excited to welcome kids grades K-8, and their families to the MOLAA Art Studio for free studio time to work on their Art Healthy Challenge submissions. Spend an hour or two drafting, sketching, creating, painting, and sharing your artwork. Paper and supplies are provided, along with guidance on how to enter your art for a grand prize, if you are a LBUSD student!
Join us for a day of crafts and fun making gifts mother’s day! All materials provided.
Join us for a morning workshop led by a teaching artist in our Corner Garden where we will be doing Canvas Paper and Acrylic Paint Markers. MOLAA will provide all materials! Cost: $5.
We invite you to join us for an experimental abstract painting workshop inspired by the tempera paintings of artist Marianela de La Hoz, featured in Ironias del Sur: From the MOLAA Permanent Collection. You will learn to make their own tempera paints from pigments and eggs and make an artwork using your own custom color palette too! All materials are provided.
Fifty-minute Docent guided tours available to all guests during Free MOLAA Sundays. Parties meet in lobby.
MOLAA is partnering with Dignity Health for their first annual Art Healthy Challenge. MOLAA is excited to welcome kids grades K-8, and their families to the MOLAA Art Studio for free studio time to work on their Art Healthy Challenge submissions. Spend an hour or two drafting, sketching, creating, painting, and sharing your artwork. Paper and supplies are provided, along with guidance on how to enter your art for a grand prize, if you are a LBUSD student!
Join us for the May MOLAA Members Book Club meeting! Our book of the month is The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas. Light refreshments will be served. The book can be bought online or in-person at the MOLAA store!
MOLAA is partnering with Dignity Health for their first annual Art Healthy Challenge. MOLAA is excited to welcome kids grades K-8, and their families to the MOLAA Art Studio for free studio time to work on their Art Healthy Challenge submissions. Spend an hour or two drafting, sketching, creating, painting, and sharing your artwork. Paper and supplies are provided, along with guidance on how to enter your art for a grand prize, if you are a LBUSD student!
Join us for the MOLAA member exclusive Curator-led tour of Ironias del Sur with scholar and researcher Dr. Patrick Frank. This exhibition, a small sample from the MOLAA permanent collection, revolves around two themes: Politics and Portraiture. Explore these diverse thematic statements that go beyond mere representation of a human form into wider messages about humanity. Not a molaa member? Sign up today to receive more MOLAA perks membership@molaa.org
As part of the HERLAND programming, Daniela Arriado, Independent Curator, will present on “Technology and Art: A New Era upon Us” followed by a guided tour of the exhibition.
This presentation is at 12:00 PM (GMT+4) - local time in Dubai, UAE. | Location: Festival Tower, 30th Floor, Dubai Festival City
As part of the HERLAND programming, Robert N Braun, Chairman of the Board of MOLAA Lourdes I. Ramos, President and CEO of MOLAA, willgive a presentation about the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) and its future projects.
MOLAA is partnering with Dignity Health for their first annual Art Healthy Challenge. MOLAA is excited to welcome kids grades K-8, and their families to the MOLAA Art Studio for free studio time to work on their Art Healthy Challenge submissions. Spend an hour or two drafting, sketching, creating, painting, and sharing your artwork. Paper and supplies are provided, along with guidance on how to enter your art for a grand prize, if you are a LBUSD student!
Join us for an afternoon book reading and art workshop based on AAPI Latinx author and illustrator Saki Tanaka’s book, Between Words: a Friendship Tale. This workshop is open to all ages. Materials will be provided.
Join us for a morning workshop led by a teaching artist in our Corner Garden where we will be doing Charcoal Pencils on Toned Paper. MOLAA will provide all materials! Cost: $5.
Artist Betsabee Romero creates artworks that addresses human migration through unconventional industrial materials. Join us for a special Rubber Stamp Printmaking workshop where you will make your own poster inspired by the symbols found in Romero's work. All materials are provided.
Join us as we celebrate Asian and Pacific Islander Latinx art and culture at MOLAA and explore the instances of cultural synthesis between Asian, Pacific Islander & Latinx Communities in the US and throughout Latin America. Special focus on AAPI Latinx Artist Patrick Martinez with special guest, the Museum of Neon Art! You will connect with colleagues and learn hands-on art activities to take back to your classroom. This in-person session includes light refreshments, wine, and free parking. Teachers who attend get special access to discounts on memberships.
Fifty-minute Docent guided tours available to all guests during Free MOLAA Sundays. Parties meet in lobby.
MOLAA is partnering with Dignity Health for their first annual Art Healthy Challenge. MOLAA is excited to welcome kids grades K-8, and their families to the MOLAA Art Studio for free studio time to work on their Art Healthy Challenge submissions. Spend an hour or two drafting, sketching, creating, painting, and sharing your artwork. Paper and supplies are provided, along with guidance on how to enter your art for a grand prize, if you are a LBUSD student!
Join us for chance to meet renown Chicano artist Frank Romero while he works on a very special conservation project in Gallery D. Members will receive a 15% discount for today only on Romero Pleasantville Cartoon print when purchased in person at our MOLAA store. No to be combined with other offers.
Join us for the April MOLAA Members Book Club meeting! Our book of the month is Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine. Light refreshments will be served. The book can be bought online or in-person at the MOLAA store!
Fifty-minute Docent guided tours available with paid admission or free for members. Parties meet in lobby.
MOLAA is partnering with Dignity Health for their first annual Art Healthy Challenge. MOLAA is excited to welcome kids grades K-8, and their families to the MOLAA Art Studio for free studio time to work on their Art Healthy Challenge submissions. Spend an hour or two drafting, sketching, creating, painting, and sharing your artwork. Paper and supplies are provided, along with guidance on how to enter your art for a grand prize, if you are a LBUSD student!
Join us for this MOLAA Member-exclusive event. Conversation with the Mexican artist, Betsabee Romero and MOLAA Chief Curator Gabriela Urtiaga begins at 1:00PM following by an artist-led walkthrough of MOLAA's newest exhibition, The Endless Spiral, originally launched at The 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere.
MOLAA is partnering with Dignity Health for their first annual Art Healthy Challenge. MOLAA is excited to welcome kids grades K-8, and their families to the MOLAA Art Studio for free studio time to work on their Art Healthy Challenge submissions. Spend an hour or two drafting, sketching, creating, painting, and sharing your artwork. Paper and supplies are provided, along with guidance on how to enter your art for a grand prize, if you are a LBUSD student!
Join us for a very special poetry reading in honor of World Poetry Day in collaboration with El Martillo Press. Artists presenting include Matt Sedillo, Alyesha Wise Hernandez, Matthew ‘Cuban’ Hernandez, Sonia Guttierez, and Felicia ‘Fe’ Montes.
Free admission. First come first served.
Chicana Poet, Margaret Elysia Garcia, releases new book Iconistas!
"A zine dedicated to Chicana Icons: artists, activists, and writers who took matters into their own hands during the Mexican Revolution and beyond."
Inspired by the iconic work of Frak Romero, kids will work on painting symbols and landmarks that define the SoCal vibe.
