Join us for an evening open house on the 12th floor of the LA Mart in Downtown Los Angeles. Enjoy drinks and live music, courtesy of Blue Whale.

1933 S. Broadway Suite 1244, Los Angeles, CA 90007

Join us for a post-election creative writing experience with poets Kim Divad and Nandi Zulu at The Judith Center's new location. During this special evening we will be venting and/or celebrating the outcome of the presidential election through freewriting prompts.

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The Judith Center, 1933 S. Broadway Suite 1244, Los Angeles, CA 90007

In October, The Judith Center launched its first major initiative, The Judith Center Poster Project, occurring over five years in partnership with numerous university art museums across the U.S. The project will feature new works made by 50 American artists, reflecting contemporary concerns about equality, and will be accompanied by educational programs.

The first phase of the project, Freedom in the Automation Age, debuted at MSU Broad Art Museum and featured newly commissioned posters by Lynn Hershman Leeson, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Warren Neidich, abbi page, Martine Syms, and Linda Vallejo. The artists’ works speak to intersections of gender and how the commercialization/weaponization of new technology (such as AI) is resulting in an increasingly restricted space for individual freedoms, both in democratic processes and beyond.

The growing presence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is encroaching upon our democratic freedoms. On October 29, The Judith Center hosted a cross-disciplinary conversation addressing AI’s influence on electoral politics and representation. Speakers examined critical recent events to discuss AI’s amplification of cultural biases, its myriad products—ranging from biofeedback apps, to interactive avatars, to marketing bots—that affect our electoral processes, as well as ongoing efforts by government and the private sector to regulate this technology.

Coinciding with the 2024 presidential election, The Judith Center and the ICA LA cohosted a panel discussion focusing on gender and leadership in American politics. Speakers considered historical efforts that have been effective in shifting the neeedle towards equal representation, alongside contemporary approaches.

As a lead-up to our future programming that will center on posters, we hosted a tour of the exhibition “The Anatomy of a Movie Poster: The Work of Dawn Baillie,” led by curator and art historian, Angelina Lippert. Baillie has been a pathbreaker for women in Hollywood graphic design, becoming one of the most influential designers of contemporary movie posters. She is also the first woman to co-found her own print agency, BLT Communications, focusing on entertainment design. Our event examined her impact and gender's role in historic film advertising.

Panelists discussed women-led printmaking organizations active in LA from the 1970s-90s and why their political output was excluded by the broader art market. The panel also touched upon how discriminatory practices, such as redlining, led to the under-historicization of the work of BIPOC artists.

At Felix Art Fair, we presented our first curatorial project, "Women in Print: Expanding the LA Canon," with The Center for the Study of Political Graphics. We displayed historical posters made by women artists in the LA area from the 1970s-90s, including Favianna Rodriguez, Sister Corita Kent, the Guerilla Girls, Barbara Carrasco and many more.

We were honored to work with nine contemporary artists, who we commissioned to make new response posters that address the ongoing presence of sexism, including Sandrine Abessera, Eve Fowler, Mariah Garnett, Raul Guerrero, Muna Malik, Nicole Miller, Erika Rothenberg, and Kang Seung Lee.

As part of our launch during LA Art Week, participants explored how museum architecture, designed by male architects in the 20th century, failed to account for the display needs of work produced by women and other groups. Panelists discussed the ongoing ramifications of this history.