This project honors the spirit and talent of George Hoshida, an incarcerated artist who documented life with pencil and brushwork in a series of notebooks he kept between 1942 and 1945. Through examples of Hoshida’s artwork and personal correspondence with his family, this site hopes to provide insight into one individual’s incarceration experience.
- This event has passed.
THE LIFE AND WORK OF GEORGE HOSHIDA
:
Upcoming Events
Free
Latin Jazz Sessions
Join the weekly Latin Jazz Sessions, led by Matthew Hernandez, for an introduction to various Latin music styles, including cha-cha, boleros, salsa, cumbia, and merengue. Open to all ages, these sessions provide sheet music and drumming pattern worksheets. No prior musical experience is necessary, and instruments are available for use.
Free
2025 Evening Webinar Series for Arts Workers
A Community Learning and Networking Program for Arts Professionals Program Description The DCA Evening Webinar Series for Arts Workers, in partnership with Arts for LA, is an opportunity for the local arts and cultural community to build networks through listening, learning, and exchanging insights. This year, the program comprises three cohorts. These evening exchanges offer opportunities for attendees to ask questions, share comments or recommendations, and interact at the end of the sessions. If interested, local artists and arts workers…
$10
deadbeat
deadbeat. is a chaotic, vignette-style comedy show that combines live sketches, digital performances, and drag to embrace the absurdity of our lived experiences as queer, mixed-race women in America — because what better way to shame colonizers than with a good laugh?
Free
Juneteenth Fireworks Show
Port of LA’s free Juneteenth fireworks show, in recognition of Juneteenth. This event includes tributes, education and entertainment culminating with a fireworks show sponsored by the Port of Los Angeles. This unique event of national importance not only celebrates history but also paves a path forward for today’s youth. Central to the event is the drive to put more local youth into the maritime and leadership-oriented Los Angeles Maritime Institute TopSail STEM Youth Program.
Free
Descanse en Paz: Memorial Paintings from 19th-Century Mexico
This exhibition highlights two popular genres of 19th-century Mexican painting commemorating family members who no longer reside in the household— offering them a lasting presence in the home. The first intimately portrays deceased individuals in likenesses imbued with grief and tender remembrance. The second genre is the uniquely Mexican monja Coronado or “crowned nun” portrait. Images of flowers adorned Brides of Christ were commissioned by the families of women who took Catholic ecclesiastical vows and permanently embarked on cloistered lives.