In partnership with Help Me Help You, MOLAA supports our local communities by hosting a food pantry twice a month.

You can come to MOLAA and enter through the 6th Street entrance to receive free groceries for your family. Drive-through and walk-up services will be provided. You do not have to show identification or prove your income. No need to register. You can attend without an appointment.

Join us as three novelists with new releases - Naomi Hirahara, Pedro Iniguez, and David A. Romero - discuss how mystery, horror, and science fiction can be used to celebrate cultures and unearth repressed histories. We all love a good page-turner, why not support books that increase BIPOC representation and inspire us to investigate the world around us that are as entertaining as Hollywood movies? 

Free admission. First come first served.

Join us for a morning workshop led by teaching artist Maria Guadalupe in our Corner Garden. All materials will be provided by MOLAA! Admission cost is $5 and is non-refundable. Please arrive on time, your spot will be offered to another attendee if you arrive more than 15 minutes late. *Location subject to change to indoors if we experience inclement weather.  

In partnership with Help Me Help You, MOLAA supports our local communities by hosting a food pantry twice a month.

You can come to MOLAA and enter through the 6th Street entrance to receive free groceries for your family. Drive-through and walk-up services will be provided. You do not have to show identification or prove your income. No need to register. You can attend without an appointment.

Join us for March’s members-only book club featuring Alligator Tears by Edgar Gomez, a darkly comic memoir about survival, identity, and the elusive American Dream as the author navigates poverty, family, and queer Latinx community in Florida. Light refreshments provided. 

In partnership with Help Me Help You, MOLAA supports our local communities by hosting a food pantry twice a month.

You can come to MOLAA and enter through the 6th Street entrance to receive free groceries for your family. Drive-through and walk-up services will be provided. You do not have to show identification or prove your income. No need to register. You can attend without an appointment.

The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) invites you to learn more about the diversity of Afro-Latinx experiences directly from artists, scholars, and community organizers most actively bringing attention to contemporary Afro-Latinx communities and their histories.

This interactive workshop invites participants to explore how culture, art, memory, and lived experience shape the way we lead, create, and move through the world. Together, we’ll look at how our rhythms, languages, traditions, and artistic expressions can inform more expansive, authentic, and impactful leadership.

In partnership with Help Me Help You, MOLAA supports our local communities by hosting a food pantry twice a month.

You can come to MOLAA and enter through the 6th Street entrance to receive free groceries for your family. Drive-through and walk-up services will be provided. You do not have to show identification or prove your income. No need to register. You can attend without an appointment.

Art speaks to us. Sometimes in order to craft brilliant poetry, all we need to do is learn how to listen to the art of great artists with our eyes Led by world renowned poets and publishers and the co-founders of El Martillo Press, Matt Sedillo and David A. Romero, participants of all ages will take a poet's tour of MOLAA: encouraging participants to discuss, take notes, and write poetry! 

In partnership with Help Me Help You, MOLAA supports our local communities by hosting a food pantry twice a month.

You can come to MOLAA and enter through the 6th Street entrance to receive free groceries for your family. Drive-through and walk-up services will be provided. You do not have to show identification or prove your income. No need to register. You can attend without an appointment.

Join us for February’s members-only book club featuring Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-García, a Jazz Age fantasy following Casiopea Tun as she embarks on a perilous journey with a Mayan death god. Light refreshments will be served. 

Join us for a morning workshop led by teaching artist Maria Guadalupe in our Corner Garden. All materials will be provided by MOLAA! Admission cost is $5 and is non-refundable. Please arrive on time, your spot will be offered to another attendee if you arrive more than 15 minutes late. *Location subject to change to indoors if we experience inclement weather.  

This session will be a fun and informal meet and greet for individuals interested in volunteering for MOLAA’s Educational Programs! Learn about the different volunteer roles, incentives, and how you can help empower individuals and communities through art. Light refreshments will be served. 

Join us for a morning workshop led by teaching artist Maria Guadalupe in our Corner Garden. All materials will be provided by MOLAA! Admission cost is $5 and is non-refundable. Please arrive on time, your spot will be offered to another attendee if you arrive more than 15 minutes late. *Location subject to change to indoors if we experience inclement weather.  

In partnership with Help Me Help You, MOLAA supports our local communities by hosting a food pantry twice a month.

You can come to MOLAA and enter through the 6th Street entrance to receive free groceries for your family. Drive-through and walk-up services will be provided. You do not have to show identification or prove your income. No need to register. You can attend without an appointment.

New Years Resolution: Capture Memories in a New Way! In this experimental photography workshop, participants will learn to transfer images from a Polaroid Film onto another surface. An ephemeral film composition will be transferred to the lid of a small box which you can use to store additional photographs or trinkets throughout the year. All materials provided! Sponsored by LA 2050. Cost is $5 dollars. 

This month we will be reading The Many Mothers of Dolores Moore by Anika Fajardo.  Good reads summary describes the book as, “In the span of a year, Dolores Moore has become a thirty-five-year-old orphan. After the funeral of the last living member of her family, Dorrie has never felt more lost and alone. That is, except for a Greek chorus of deceased relatives whose voices follow her around, giving unsolicited advice and opinions. And they’re only amplifying Dorrie’s doubts about keeping the deathbed promise she made to return to her birthplace in Colombia.  Light refreshments will be served.  

In partnership with Help Me Help You, MOLAA supports our local communities by hosting a food pantry twice a month.

You can come to MOLAA and enter through the 6th Street entrance to receive free groceries for your family. Drive-through and walk-up services will be provided. You do not have to show identification or prove your income. No need to register. You can attend without an appointment.

Our book of the month is One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women—brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul—this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction. Light refreshments will be served.  

Celebrate the warmth and traditions of the season at AJUA’s Holiday Posada, a festive community gathering filled with music, dance, art-making, and cultural heritage for families of all ages! RSVP in Eventbrite!

Established in 2011, the Latino Comics Expo is the premiere event to connect with Latinx and Latin American comic artists and animators, experts, and fans. This year, the Latino Comics Expo in collaboration with MOLAA, will be held in the Viva Event Center on December 7th!

Join us for a special morning art workshop led by teaching artist Maria Guadalupe in our Corner Garden. Medium is Ink Wash on Paper. All materials will be provided by MOLAA. Registration is required. Please arrive on time, as space is limited. Your spot will be offered to another attendee if you arrive more than 15 minutes late.        Cost: $5.00

Our book of the month is Dispossessed by Desiree Zamorano. This is historical fiction, tracing the life of Manuel, a boy who is separated from his parents during the mass expulsion of Mexican Americans and Mexican nationals in Los Angeles during the 1930s.  As he grows into an adult he is surrounded by remarkable women. Generous Amparo, who brings the mute boy into her home with gentle tenderness, then Lizette, striking and vivacious, who captivates his passion and loyalty. A sweeping family saga with resilience, perseverance, and enduring love at its core, Dispossessed follows Manuel as he creates a life of value and dignity, while always searching for his missing family, the missing pieces of his heart. Light refreshments will be served. 

Join us for a community art workshop outdoors! Make your own sun print using stencils and flat objects. All materials are provided, but you can bring your own objects too! Your spot will be offered to another attendee if you arrive more than 15 minutes late.  All materials are provided. Cost is $5 dollars. 

Celebrate MOLAA’s 29th Anniversary with a special art medium! Teaching artist, Maria Guadalupe will teach you how to use special water-activated oil pastels in the Corner Garden! Registration is required. Please arrive on time, as space is limited. Your spot will be offered to another attendee if you arrive more than 15 minutes late.      Cost: $5.00

Join us for MOLAA’s annual Dead of the Dead Family Festival! This year will be bigger and better than ever with merchants, delicious food stations, beer & wine, and of course sweets for the kids and the kids at heart. Live performances and tunes spun all day by DJ Caveman.

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 us for the October MOLAA Members Book Club! Our book of the month is Our Share of the Night by Mariana Enriquez. The story moves back and forth in time, from London in the swinging 1960s to the brutal years of Argentina’s military dictatorship and its turbulent aftermath, Our Share of Night is a novel like no other: a family story, a ghost story, a story of the occult and the supernatural, a book about the complexities of love and longing with queer subplots and themes. This is the masterwork of one of Latin America’s most original novelists, “a mesmerizing writer,” says Dave Eggers, “who demands to be read.” Light refreshments will be served.

Join us for a morning art workshop led by teaching artist Maria Guadalupe in our Corner Garden. Medium is Conté Crayons on Paper. All materials will be provided by MOLAA! Registration is required. Please arrive on time, as space is limited. Your spot will be offered to another attendee if you arrive more than 15 minutes late.   Cost: $5.00