Current
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She Opens the Door: Women Artists and Writers Shape Language and Space
Curated by Poet-in-Residence Chloe Martinez, She Opens the Door is a group exhibition featuring contemporary female artists who explore agency at the intersection of language and art. The show includes artists from Claremont and the broader Southern California region.
In addition to selecting artworks, Martinez will contribute her own poetry and writing to complement the exhibition, while also inviting other creative writers to participate. The exhibition is made possible by a generous grant from the Pasadena Art Alliance.
Upcoming
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Julian Lucas: Happiness Pursued. Paradise Lost.
In his first solo museum exhibition, Claremont-based photographer Julian Lucas explores the idea of home and its relationship to the American Dream as the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary in 2026. The exhibition theme is based on the assertion that home is a state of mind and the American Dream is stratified in relationship to race and access to power.
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Free 4 All
Local artists will take over the Museum for CLMA’s third annual one-day pop-up exhibition from 2 pm-9 pm. With no fees to exhibit and no gatekeepers to decide who is allowed to exhibit, hundreds of artists will fill the Museum’s galleries with their work. Free 4 All is a commitment to unfiltered community building.
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Samella!
Samella Lewis was a seminal figure in 20th-century American art as an artist, curator, and art historian. Her work utilized the power of art to build community and address the struggle for equality for Black Americans. In addition to establishing a visionary studio practice, Lewis was the founder of the International Review of African American Art (1975) and the Museum of African American Art (1976) and the first tenured black professor at Scripps College, where she taught from 1970-84, among many other accomplishments.
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Into the Abyss: Marsia Alexander-Clarke, Richard Brown Lethem, & Eileen Senner
Into the Abyss will consist of three solo exhibitions organized around a common theme. Artists Marsia Alexander-Clarke (video), Richard Brown Lethem (painting), and Eileen Senner (painting) all explore the picture plane as a portal of infinite space that is also a metaphor for the mind. The "abyss" of the picture plane is a space of vast emptiness, yet also one of powerful latent energies.
