JULY

Saturday, July 12, 3 p.m.
Film Screenings: Jim Mendiola's "Speeder Kills" and “Pretty Vacant”
Free for Museum Members, $5 for non-members
Join us for two films by Los Angeles-based writer/director Jim Mendiola. In conjunction with Vexing, the Museum is screening Mendiola's first feature film, "Speeder Kills," and his award-winning short film "Pretty Vacant."

Sunday, July 20, 12 – 4 p.m.
Family Art Day: “Making Music”
Free and open to the public
Let the muse in you speak through music! From punk to folk, music therapist and audio producer Venus Kitagawa-Stojsic, MT-BC, will use maracas, drums, a xylophone and more instruments to show you how to make some noise!

AUGUST

Sunday, August 17, 12 – 4 p.m.
Family Art Day: “Turn your photo into a pin!”
Free and open to the public
Have something to say? Say it on a pin! Vexing artist and photographer Dawn Wirth will show you how to transform a piece of art into a an original pin. Bring your own photos or drawings! Dawn Wirth has been a photographer since 1976, and also creates collages, watercolors and silk screens. She describes her pins as “mixed media” as she incorporates photographs, drawings and other found objects in them.  

Saturday, August 30, 8 p.m.
Live Performance: “The Sirens” and “Go Betty Go”

Free for Museum Members, $5 for non-members

Two all-girl L.A. bands come together for a lively performance! The spunky and aggressive pop-punk band Go Betty Go and all-girl rock/punk/Spanish fusion quartet The Sirens perform together for this final weekend of Vexing, an historical investigation of the women at the forefront of the punk rock scene in East L.A. in the 1970s and '80s. The exhibition features photo, video and audio archives of the era as well as studio work encompassing painting, installation, writings and performance.