Organized by The Judith Center and hosted at SHOW LA, this event will be the first of two lectures led by the Ukrainian curator Kateryna Radchenko, exploring the historical uses of photography—largely as a tool of domination by authoritarian regimes or as a means of witnessing and recording violence—and pointing towards new possibilities for the medium during these times. The SHOW LA lecture will be followed by a roundtable discussion featuring Arpad Kovacs, Associate Curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, and Camilla de Maffei, Milan-based photographer and educator, moderated by Kathryn Andrews, artist and Founder of The Judith Center.

Organized by The Judith Center in collaboration with the Magnum Foundation, and hosted at the International Center of Photography, New York, this event will be the second of two lectures led by the Ukrainian curator Kateryna Radchenko, exploring how particular image-making technologies have impacted photography and its creators, such as excluding women on both sides of the camera. The International Center of Photography lecture will be followed by a roundtable discussion featuring Cynthia Young, the Director of the Robert Capa and Cornell Capa Archive, moderated by Kathryn Andrews, Founder and Director of the Judith Center.

The second installment of The Judith Center Book Club will focus on Shulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex (1970), a foundational feminist text that questioned the idea of gender as natural or fixed, instead understanding it as a political and material system shaped by social arrangements. Writing decades ahead of much contemporary theory, Firestone traced gender hierarchy to reproductive labor and the structure of family life, showing how biological difference becomes oppressive through the ways it is organized and enforced. Her forward-looking engagement with technology as a possible site of feminist intervention—particularly in relation to reproduction—anticipates later anti-naturalist and technomaterialist approaches to gender, including strands of contemporary thought such as xenofeminism. Lana Dee Povitz, Assistant Professor of History at Middlebury College, will join the conversation as a special guest. Povitz is currently authoring a biography of Firestone.

In April, The Judith Center will partner with CalArts to host French conceptual artist Carole Douillard for a one-month residency. The collaboration will be based in the CalArts Reef Residency space, located adjacent to The Judith Center, a public-facing gallery where visitors will be able to observe the artist’s working process. With a practice rooted in the reinterpretation of historic performances and the reactivation of feminist archives, Douillard will use this period to conduct research and rehearsals toward a collaborative performance with CalArts students, to be realized on the CalArts campus in Valencia, California (performance date to be announced). During her time in Los Angeles, she will also be researching the history of performance art by women and queer artists in Southern California from the 1960s through the 1980s. Members of the public who are interested in visiting the space or connecting with the artist during this time are invited to contact us at info@thejudithcenter.org.

In 2024, 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 features new works made by 50 American artists, reflecting contemporary concerns about equality, and is accompanied by educational programs.

The first phase of the project, Freedom in the Automation Age, is now on view at The Judith Center (following its debut at MSU Broad Art Museum). The series consists of 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.

In May, The Judith Center will partner with the nonprofit organization Just Detention International (JDI) to present an exhibition featuring nearly one hundred works by individuals who have experienced trauma behind bars, including those who have been subjected to sexual abuse while incarcerated. The exhibition foregrounds personal testimony and creative expression, bringing visibility to voices that are too often excluded from public and cultural discourse. Founded in 1980, Just Detention International is a health and human rights organization dedicated to ending sexual abuse in all forms of detention. JDI is the only organization in the United States—and globally—focused exclusively on addressing sexual abuse behind bars. Its work includes holding government officials accountable for prisoner rape, challenging the cultural and institutional conditions that allow sexual violence to persist, and ensuring that survivors have access to the support and resources they need.

On May 31, 2026, The Judith Center will present the keynote panel for the Now Be Here Anniversary & Now Let’s Talk Events, hosted by Occidental College/OXY ARTS. Serving as the kick-off event of the day-long program, the panel will feature Jori Finkel, the Los Angeles-based writer and editor; and a founding member of the Guerrilla Girls. Panelists will consider effective instances of resisting sexism in various sectors of the art industry over the last several decades, while also addressing the work that remains to be done to create more equitable and inclusive conditions within the field.