Offsite Programs
Typographic Spirograph: Experimental Letterforms, with Savi Factory (Savithri Velaga)
ICA LA, 1717 E 7th St, Los Angeles, CA 90021
On Saturday and Sunday mornings, ICA LA will host two artist-led workshops. Light breakfast and beverages will be served. ICA LA's exhibitions and Bookshelf Residency project will be on view.
In Saturday's workshop, participants will use a spirograph drawing tool created specifically for typography; the resulting letterforms converge analog geometry alongside moments of improvisational drawing.
Mornings in the Garden: Talks on Bookmaking and Collaboration
Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles, 901 E 3rd St, Los Angeles, CA 90013
Hauser & Wirth Publishers and Printed Matter present a series of three conversations in the mornings before the Fair focusing on the ways artists, designers, editors, and publishers work together. These programs will take place each morning at 10 AM in the Garden at Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles, just a 10-minute walk from The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Fuel up with complimentary coffee and tea service provided by Manuela, the gallery’s onsite restaurant.
Artist James Benning and designer Martin Beck will speak about Inventory Press’s publication Over Time: James Benning, Sharon Lockhart. Artist Karen Lofgren and designer Willem Henri Lucas will speak about emBRUJAda: Charms for the Living, published by Set Margins’.
Workshop with David Horvitz, in partnership with JANM
JANM, 100 N Central Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Join artist David Horvitz for a special printmaking workshop on the occasion of the annual Natsumatsuri Family Festival at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM). The workshop will take place outdoors in the plaza, right across from The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.
LANGUAGE GARDEN presents: DIAL-A-POET, with Ed Steck, Sophia Le Fraga, Jennifer Soong, Mónica de la Torre, Holly Melgard, and more!
1911 7th Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90018 (Map here)
Come and visit David Horvitz’s garden as the day’s summer heat cools off. Find a hidden spot amongst a sage brush or buckwheat or inside a sycamore. Have a sip of mescal. We will give you some phone numbers. And you can call a few poets to hear specially recorded pieces, invoking John Giorno’s 1968 Dial-A-Poem. But this time just for you garden-dwellers. Language Garden is a series of readings and workshops programmed by Corina Copp, Sophia Le Fraga, and Joseph Mosconi in the garden of David Horvitz. The garden is made in collaboration with Terremoto. Dial-A-Poet is presented alongside Printer Matter’s LA Art Book Fair. Poets will not be physically present in the garden.
BYOM (bring your own mescal to share).
Carla Fall Issue Launch
Charlie James Gallery, 969 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, 90012
LA’s critical arts publication Carla invites you to celebrate the launch of its Fall issue alongside the openings of “Ahorita!” and a solo exhibition by Elmer Guevara at Charlie James Gallery in L.A.’s historic Chinatown. Plus explore other galleries and shops on the block and enjoy music, drinks, free magazines, and more!
After Dark, with Dalé Zine
Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles, 929 S Broadway, Los Angeles, 90015
With disc selections by Nicky, Dyami, Benton & Steve
DJ sets and festivities after the Fair. Free to attend!