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Queer LACMA: Staff Picks from the Museum
Happy Pride Month! As June comes to a close, we’re sharing highlights from our exhibitions and collections, selected by LACMA staff members to commemorate the month and celebrate queer culture. The museum’s encyclopedic collection contains numerous stories from the LGBTQ+ past—some hidden, and some out and proud—and the pieces below, and the accompanying reflections, offer unique perspectives on queer identity and history and their crucial connections to art and culture.
A Day of Poetry in Los Angeles: LAPL—August 13, 2021
Organized by Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson and former Anaheim Poet Laureate Grant Hier, A Day of Poetry in Los Angeles included readings by the former Los Angeles Poet Laureate, Luis J. Rodriguez, and the current Los Angeles County Youth Poet Laureate, Salome Agbaroji, as well as sixty other local poets. Truly an amazing day of poetry. Everyone brought their beautiful selves. Alicia reads at nearly the end, 3:27:16
Reviving the Revolution
Reviving the Revolution: Empowered Lesbians and Queer Women of Color Read and Discuss Their Written Works-Jewell Gomez, C.B. Lee, Veronica Reyes, Alicia Vogl Saenz, moderated by Suzette Zazueta. A program of the City of West Hollywood Lesbian Speakers Series. Sponsored by Mazer Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles LGBT Center and The City of West Hollywood. Event took place on March 18, 2021
the Artlife with Chris Wells—Radio Kingston—April 5, 2021
In honor of National Poetry Month, Chris Wells invited LA poet Alicia Vogl Saenz to share some of her work and her thoughts of poetry and its place in her life. Alicia appeared in the first hour, the second hour featured a playlist of Sufjan Stevens, kd lang, Lana del Rey, Duncan Sheik and more.
EcoArtSpace Blog—Citizen Seeds: A Public Art Project by Kim Abeles By Alicia Vogl Saenz
A crane slowly lifts Kim Abeles’ large sculpture of a Coast Live Oak seed into the October night sky. The full moon glows behind clouds, Los Angeles city lights sprawl out in a stunning view. Abeles, an installation crew, a truck driver, a photographer, a park ranger, a county public art manager, and me are at the top of the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook, a California State Park and one of the sites of Abeles’ public art project Citizen Seeds.