Evenings for Educators: Grounded
- Wed, Oct 15, 2025
- 4:30 pm - 8 pm PT
- Smidt Welcome Plaza | LACMA
- For ASL interpretation and other accommodations requests, please contact educate@lacma.org by September 15.
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$20; Members: $15
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Pre-registration is required for this event.
Evenings for Educators is back for the 2025–26 school year with an intimate look at Grounded, which presents the work of 35 artists based in the Americas and the Pacific who imbue the land with meaning by engaging with Indigenous mythologies and motifs to interpret their heritage. The featured artists retell ancestral histories and recreate traditions, forging new aesthetic languages. Their work invites us to experience the land not just as terrain, but as a foundation for exploring ecology, sovereignty, memory, and home.
Guests will enjoy talks, hands-on art-making workshops, and dinner. Dinner and parking is included with admission.
Agenda
4:30–5 pm: Arrive, check in, and explore Grounded in BCAM, Level 2
5–5:40 pm: Lecture in BCAM, Level 1, with the exhibition curators
5:50–6:50 pm: Workshops and tours throughout campus
6:50–7:30 pm: Dinner on the Smidt Welcome Plaza
7:30–8 pm: Gallery viewing
Check out our accompanying curricular resources to craft learning experiences that spark your students’ creativity and view recordings of previous programs on YouTube.
Generous support for School and Teacher Programs is provided by the Anna H. Bing Children’s Art Endowment Fund. Additional funding is provided by the Mara W. Breech Foundation, the Ducommun and Gross Family Foundation, Bernard and Anice Dworkin Endowed Fund, Edison International, Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation, The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation, the Louis and Harold Price Foundation, the Anthony & Jeanne Pritzker Family Foundation, the Michael & Irene Ross Endowment Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, The Lucille Ellis Simon Foundation, Dwight Stuart Youth Fund, and Superior Grocers.
All education and outreach programs at LACMA are underwritten by the LACMA Education Fund and are supported in part by the Judy and Bernard Briskin Family Foundation, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, William Randolph Hearst Endowment Fund for Arts Education, Alfred E. Mann Charities, The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, Gloria Ricci Lothrop, Flora L. Thornton Foundation, U.S. Bank, and The Yabuki Family Foundation.
Image Credit: Narsiso Martinez, Mission-Precious Cargo, 2023, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by AHAN: Studio Forumn, 2024, © Narsiso Martinez, photo by Yubo Dong @ofphotostudio
Generous support for School and Teacher Programs is provided by the Anna H. Bing Children’s Art Endowment Fund. Additional funding is provided by the Mara W. Breech Foundation, the Ducommun and Gross Family Foundation, Bernard and Anice Dworkin Endowed Fund, Edison International, Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation, The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation, the Louis and Harold Price Foundation, the Anthony & Jeanne Pritzker Family Foundation, the Michael & Irene Ross Endowment Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, The Lucille Ellis Simon Foundation, Dwight Stuart Youth Fund, and Superior Grocers.
All education and outreach programs at LACMA are underwritten by the LACMA Education Fund and are supported in part by the Judy and Bernard Briskin Family Foundation, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, William Randolph Hearst Endowment Fund for Arts Education, Alfred E. Mann Charities, The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, Gloria Ricci Lothrop, Flora L. Thornton Foundation, U.S. Bank, and The Yabuki Family Foundation.
Image Credit: Narsiso Martinez, Mission-Precious Cargo, 2023, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by AHAN: Studio Forumn, 2024, © Narsiso Martinez, photo by Yubo Dong @ofphotostudio