In Conversation: Tavares Strachan and Michael Govan
- Thu, Oct 9, 2025
- 7 pm - 9 pm PT
- Smidt Welcome Plaza | LACMA
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Free, RSVP required
Hear from artist Tavares Strachan and LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director Michael Govan, who will discuss the artist's first museum exhibition in Los Angeles, The Day Tomorrow Began, and Strachan's innovative and multidisciplinary practice, which excavates histories that have been rendered invisible within mainstream narratives, particularly in relation to the Black diaspora.
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 Credits: Tavares Strachan, Six Thousand Years, 2018, and The Encyclopedia of Invisibility, 2018, installed in Soft Power: A Conversation For The Future, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2019–20, © Tavares Strachan, photo: Johnna Arnold/courtesy SFMOMA; Photo © Museum Associates/LACMA, by Monica Orozco
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 Credits: Tavares Strachan, Six Thousand Years, 2018, and The Encyclopedia of Invisibility, 2018, installed in Soft Power: A Conversation For The Future, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2019–20, © Tavares Strachan, photo: Johnna Arnold/courtesy SFMOMA; Photo © Museum Associates/LACMA, by Monica Orozco