Nov
17
Zine Workshop: Re-framing Bohemian Visions of the Arroyo Seco
WHERE: Jack & Shanaz Langson Institute & Museum of California Art (Langson IMCA)
Idah Meacham Strobridge was called a “New Woman” in newspapers for challenging gendered expectations as she moved about her Nevada mining claims. In the early 1900s, after a series of tragedies left her a childless widow, she moved to the Los Angeles region of California. There she operated a book bindery, Artemisia Bindery, and an art gallery, Little Corner of Local Art, near Pasadena, creating spaces for an arts and crafts movement inspired community and promoting California’s local plein air painters.Strobridge and her creative circle approached the landscape as a world-making tool for their bohemian visions. Yet, romanticized views of the US landscape in literature and art can work to efface the lived realities of displaced lives including indigenous communities, Chinese placer miners, and railroad workers. As 21st century viewers, how can we engage with these 19th century settler and bohemian visions of the California landscape? How might we consider what has been left out of the frame? What are new ways to engage this work, thinking about it in a larger historical and political context?
The workshop is facilitated by Dr. Jeanne Scheper, Associate Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies and author of Moving Performances: Divas, Iconicity, and Remembering the Modern Stage. Scheper uses zines as a tool for critical-making in her classes where students put archival research in conversation with contemporary popular culture and social justice movements.
Free lunch from Press and Moka will be provided by Langson IMCA following the workshop.
Langson IMCA- 18881 Von Karman Avenue #Suite 100 Irvine, CA 92612