Gallery Conversations: Sustainers of Life Guided Tour

The curators will guide visitors through the exhibition alongside artist Linda Vallejo, exploring the powerful stories, creative processes, and urgent themes behind the works. This free event provides the public an opportunity to engage directly with the artist and curators in meaningful dialogue about resilience, memory, and the honoring of Indigenous women.

AGCC Members are invited to an exclusive preview at 1pm featuring a private meet & greet with Linda Vallejo, a National Women's Caucus for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Awardee whose five-decade career addresses socio-cultural, socio-political, and eco-feminist issues through painting, sculpture, and installation. Not yet a member? Learn about membership benefits and how to join on our website.

Curated by Cecelia Caro and Laurie Steelink (Akimel O'otham), features seven contemporary Native and Indigenous women artists exploring intersectional themes through installation, sculpture, photography, illustration, and painting. The exhibition addresses colonialism's impact, motherhood, and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women crisis while also celebrating individual stories of resiliency and survival.

Artists Weshoyot Alvitre, Emily Clarke, Katie Dorame, Eve-Lauryn Little Shell LaFountain, Cara Romero, Corey Stein, and Linda Vallejo create works that depict Native and Indigenous women as multidimensional beings. Honoring women as sustainers of cultural knowledge and community healing, this exhibitions weaves together personal narratives within broader historical contexts. Through diverse media, the exhibition creates space for both mourning losses and celebrating the ongoing resilience of those who nurture and protect life.

Sustainers of Life is funded in part by the Arts in California Parks local parks grant program, administered by Parks California. Additional support for the exhibitions program is provided by the Perenchio Foundation, the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks, and the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles.

Please note that portions of Sustainers of Life are in areas of the gallery that are currently only accessible via stairs. A virtual walkthrough of the full exhibition will be available on a tablet at the front of the gallery.

Angels Gate Cultural Center (AGCC) emerged from a group of San Pedro artists in the 1970s that created art studios and exhibition space within the WWII era army barracks of Angels Gate Park near the Port of Los Angeles. Today, AGCC hosts over 50 artist studios in addition to a variety of programs to engage the diverse communities of the Los Angeles Harbor region, including arts education in local schools, community classes, cultural events, and exhibitions of contemporary art. More information about AGCC is available at angelsgateart.org.

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