SAN PEDRO WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH —The San Pedro Waterfront Arts District, in collaboration with the artists who have performed or exhibited their arts in San Pedro, announces the next Armchair ArtWalk Tour to be held on Zoom on FirstThursday, March 4. The public is invited to join on Zoom, by registering for a free ticket for a one hour virtual, interactive tour with three amazing women artists.
This is a free service for the community – you are missed and the Waterfront Arts District looks forward to seeing its friends on-line. The March 4th FirstThursday Armchair ArtWalk will be talking with some exceptional women artists and will include:
• Monica Orozco — L.A. based portrait photographer, documentary photographer and self-portrait fine art photographer. Orozco’s work has been published in New York Times, LA Times, Dwell, The Guardian, Artsy, KCRW, LA Design Festival, Frieze, ArtNews. She has also exhibited in LA, Palm Springs, San Francisco, New York, Berlin, London and Rome. Throughout her career, Orozco’s work has reflected images of women in various states of being, at times imperiled by an exterior or interior crisis, but always endeavoring to breakthrough with an affirmation of self and empowerment. She has often used self portraits to create her unique vision. Orozco has tapped into the feminine undertow, the real power, rage, identity, hope, and beauty of women. Her work as a documentarian has emerged with a vivid portfolio. She was moved to document the Women’s March LA in a photojournalistic style, because: [2 | P a g e]
“I felt that it was my duty as a visual storyteller to capture the March as my way of helping the cause,” Orozco said. “If I could showcase all the emotions during this event, and inspire others to unite, that was my goal. The power in numbers is energizing; you feel like One and believe that you can change the course of history.”
• Evelyn McDonnell — Associate Professor of Journalism Evelyn McDonnell is an expert on music, gender, and politics. She has written or co-edited six books, from Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop and Rap to Women Who Rock: Bessie to Beyonce. Girl Groups to Riot Grrrl. She is also series editor for Music Matters, a collection of short books about musicians. A longtime journalist, McDonnell has been a pop culture writer at The Miami Herald and a senior editor at The Village Voice. Her writing on music, poetry, theater, and culture has appeared in publications and anthologies including The New York Times, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Ms., Rolling Stone, Los Angeles Review of Books, Travel & Leisure, Billboard, Interview, and Option. She teaches students how to write and make noise at Loyola Marymount University, where she directs the journalism program.
Find Evelyn McDonnell’s blog here: Populism
• Anne Daub — In 25 plus years living in Los Angeles, Daub had careers in the fashion and toy industries, designing for humans, Barbie, and others. After leaving the corporate world, she could not wait to get back to painting and assemblage sculpture. Borrowing from assemblage, Daub started creating art in the form of necklaces and other jewelry pieces. She searches high and low for Objects d’Art and loves beautiful old jewelry bits in pieces and parts, antique textiles and hardware, and objects that speak out to her. Loosely based on Archetypes Anne’s jewelry work is defined by four categories: Elemental, Obsession, Tribal Modern, and Faceted Light. She believes in moods and how we choose to dress on any given day, simple, bold, edgy, elegant — it’s our choice on how to appear that reflects who we are at any given moment. All of Daub’s pieces are truly unique and when categories sell out new ones will evolve.
Anne Daub’s website: https://anneolsendaub.com
Time: FirstThursday, 6 p.m. March 4
Details: Register in advance:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYud-mspjgrE9ytXxcj95AE56lfOrYPZ0LN
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. There will also be a live stream from the San Pedro Waterfront Arts District Facebook page,
https://www.facebook.com/SPWArtsDistrict
About the San Pedro Waterfront Arts District: – The mission of the San Pedro Waterfront Arts District is to promote San Pedro’s authentic arts, culture and entertainment identity through advocacy, marketing and education activities. San Pedro is home to over 90 visual artists, as well as 3 performing arts venues, art galleries and restaurants. The Arts District is anchored by the Warner Grand Theatre, a 1,500-seat historic art deco movie palace, the Little Fish Theatre, presenting repertory theater in a converted garage, the Grand Annex (a project of the Grand Vision Foundation), and the Loft Studios, a three-story warehouse with a concentration of fine artists. The Arts District’s streets are lined with artists’ live/workspaces and each month they open their doors to the FirstThursday ArtWalk, in operation since 1997. In 2017, San Pedro was designated as one of 14 California Cultural Districts by the Sacramento based California Arts Council.