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MOAH:CEDAR is a catalyst for engaging a diverse audience through captivating exhibitions, innovative artists and dynamic programming. Cedar Center for the Arts. Art, Education, Music, Performance in Lancaster, Ca. Encouraging art in the Antelope Valley. MOAH:CEDAR Mission Statement: Together with the Museum of Art and History, MOAH:CEDAR is a catalyst for engaging a diverse audience through captivating exhibitions, innovative artists, and dynamic programming. The gallery encourages progressive ideas, which highlight performance, education, and experimental studio practice. History: The over 100 year-old Cedar Center for the Arts is on the National Register of Historic Places and consists of several buildings on the southwest corner of Cedar Avenue and Lancaster Boulevard including the old Sheriff Substation, the Memorial Hall, arts classrooms, MOAH:CEDAR and the Studio at Cedar building. The Center was recently restored to preserve its original character with attention paid to changes that have occurred to the building since the 1930s. True to the building’s history and form, the restoration preserved much of the original architecture, features, fixtures and style. The Cedar Center for the Arts now has multiple classroom spaces on the building’s second-floor where performance, art and music classes will take place throughout the year. Cedar Center also holds numerous community events. View full event schedule Image by Johari Fields Contact MOAH:CEDAR 44857 Cedar Ave. Lancaster, CA 93534 moahcedar@cityoflancasterca.org Tel: 661-723-6250 Hours Open Thursday - Sunday | 2 - 6 PM Closed Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Holidays, and during periods of installation

Join us for a night of great music put on by our local Antelope Valley artists and performers. Live Music in Lancaster, Ca. cONCERT sERIES Show Schedule LIVE AND IN PERSON! Community x Music. Join us at CEDAR Hall for a night of great tunes performed by our local artists and musicians. FREE ADMISSION CONCERTS WILL RETURN 2025 Thanks for joining us for our Summer Concert Series in 2024 More Things Happening at MOAH:CEDAR Spotlight Cafe Live Figure Drawing Movie Night

Live Figure Drawing Model Application Are you 18 or Older? Do you have any prior modeling experience? (No experience needed) * Required Yes No Submit Thanks for submitting! Thank you for your interest in Modeling with us at MOAH:CEDAR! At MOAH:CEDAR we strive to create a welcoming environment; no prior or professional experience is needed to model with us. We appreciate each and everyone of our applicants for taking interest in our program. Due to high volume of model applicants, regular scheduling is not guaranteed. Our payment is through the City of Lancaster and may take 4-6 weeks after the modeling session and all paperwork is processed. It is important that each Model Applicant understands that this Modeling Opportunity is not a job but a single professional engagement with the opportunity to be considered and to be booked for future events. Thank you for your interest, we look forward to working with you!

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The Lakes and Valleys Art Guild is a nonprofit organization founded in 2003 by a few local artists. Begun in the Lakes area of the Antelope Valley, the Guild has grown over the years to an average annual membership of around 75 – 100. Members are drawn from a wide variety of backgrounds, from professional artists to those who have a strong interest in and love for art. The goal is to give local artists mutual support and a place to display their work. Each summer, members have helped support the Fine Arts section of the Antelope Valley Fair by setting up, taking in, and hanging entries, working with fair staff to monitor and sell art for the benefit of a scholarship fund. One of the Guild’s biggest events is its annual Fundraiser and Art Auction, held each September. This event draws people from all over Southern California, offering attendees a chance to bid on original works by some of the Antelope Valley’s premier artists. Membership to the Guild is only $36 per year for an individual, and $48 per year for a couple or two family members. Art students pay just $12 per year. For more information on the Lakes and Valleys Art Guild, find them on Facebook or visit their website: www.lakesandvalleysartguild.org. Email lakesandvalleysag@gmail.com to subscribe to their monthly newsletter, the ARTiculator. The Guild can also be reached at 661-724-1312. Particpating artists include AJ Currado, Al Miller, Ann Sly, Ben Tomlinson, Carolyn Smith, David Walker, Donna Weil, Heather Sandres, JoGayle Gerner, Joyce Hatton, Judy Rankin, Kathy McGauley, Kristi Arzola, Lora Fenmore, Lynda Pasztor, Sal-Silvestre Vasquez, Tena Wagner, Teresa LeClerc, Terry Cervantes and Thaddeus Grzelak.

news archive: 07/08/15 MAYA EXCURSION with Bruce Love, Ph.D. & Stevie Love, MFA 06/17/15 Artweek.LA Cover Story "The Importance of Flower Paintings" MOAH FLORA 05/29/15 Conversation with President Bruce W. Ferguson and Social Practice Artist Rick Lowe 05/19/15 AV Outpost Brings an Ambitious Program of Social Practive to AV 02/24/15 30th Annual Juried Art Show at MOAH to Feature Two Distinguished Judges 01/27/15 Huffington Post: MOAH Artist Andrew Frieder Featured at Outsider Art Fair 01/07/15 KCET ARTBOUND: "Being Here and There: Ambiguous Boundaries and Contested Terrains" 12/16/14 MOAH's "Being Here and There" Cover Story of ARTWEEK.LA 08/14/14 Cedar Center Alive Again 08/13/14 MOAH Manager Andi Campognone appointed to Executive Committee of Art Table LA Branch 03/30/14 MOAH Featured in ARTILLERY MAGAZINE for "Colorimetry" Show 03/24/14 John Van Hamersveld interviews on 'The Poster Show' 02/25/14 MOAH featured in Italian Magazine, Drost Effect: "Colorimetry Uses Color as Instigator" 10/27/13 Eastside High students turn illegally dumped waste into art 09/17/13 Tim Youd: An Art of Sound and Word 08/26/13 Firm has sights set on space, beyond 08/25/13 Old, young theme of workshop 08/13/13 Artist critique slated for museum forum 07/29/13 Museum set to take flight with four new exhibits 05/14/13 Flowers, “SuperCallaFragileMysticEcstasyDioecious,” Bloom at MOAH 05/13/13 Eastside in Full Bloom With Artistic Pieces 05/03/13 The Social Art of Jorg Dubin 05/01/13 Art Ltd.-Artist Profile: Gary Lang 04/17/13 The Brave Gestures Of Gary Lang 07/01/12 Art Ltd-A New Art Museum for the Antelope Valley 06/28/12 Budding Young Artists Flock to MOAH Art Workshop Thursday 05/14/12 A Moon-Age Daydream: The Collision of Arts and the Aerospace Industry 05/02/12 New Museum of Art and History prepares to open in Lancaster 04/29/12 MOAH adds to BLVD 04/25/12 The MOAH the Merrier - Museum to open May 5 04/05/12 Lancaster Hit By 'Yarn Bombing' 03/21/12 Museum of Art and History set to make opening debut 02/06/12 Campognone Looks To Put Impressive Stamp On MOAH 02/02/12 Lancaster's Pro Tem Curator Looks Eagerly To Future 01/16/12 Museum Piece Declares, 'IT'S WAR!' 01/12/12 The MOAH the merrier: New museum twice as big as old

Submit video art, documentary, short film, or experimental cinema work for consideration to screen at Creative Pollination, Concert Series, or other events at MOAH:CEDAR. Video Submission Submit Submit a link to your video art, documentary, short film, or experimental cinema work for consideration to be screened on our 4K Laser Projector at our Creative Pollination Art Mixers, Concert Series, or other events at MOAH:CEDAR.

Follow the Sun is an exhibition of palette knife oil paintings that draw from the quiet vibration, beauty and drama of color and light as the sun moves across the sky from sunrise to sunset, in the city and by the sea, with changing atmospheric conditions. The dreamlike yet familiar landscapes are heavily influenced by environmental conditions – moments captured on a crystal-clear day, in dense fog, or swirling with smoke from wildfire or pollution. White light from the sun is comprised of all colors of the rainbow. The science of light explains why we see different colors under various conditions. During the day the sky generally appears blue to gray-white, and during sunset or sunrise looking toward the sun the sky can be red, orange, or yellow. This is because light waves that appear as color to our eyes hold different properties. Blue light waves are short and scatter easily. When the sun is above us - closer to us, the sky appears blue. Yellow and red light waves are long and not easily scattered so when the sun is farther away from us as it is at the horizon, the sky can appear yellow, orange, or red. “City of Angels” is a painting that sizzles with heat as the sun begins to rise in Los Angeles. Red, orange, and yellow light waves pass through the heavy urban atmosphere. “Into White” takes the viewer along with a jet landing in cool, dense fog. The sky is blue-white as all the light waves are being scattered away by water droplets in the atmosphere. In the painting “Phenomenon”, which depicts a natural occurrence that takes place twice a year at several locations in New York City when the sun sets directly between the buildings, the setting sun, close to the horizon, gives off a yellow and orange glow. “Stand By” with its deep pink cast takes the viewer to the runways at Los Angeles International Airport at the end of sunset, the sky is thick with atmospheric particles and the red light waves penetrate the dense layers from the distant sun. The exhibition invites the viewer to immerse themselves in the atmospheric nuances of color, contemplate the color of light, reflect on the feeling of watching a golden sunrise, looking toward the sun on the bright blue-sky day, and gazing at a blood orange sunset, and serve as a reminder to stop, look up at the sky for a moment and revel in the wonders of color and light.

Together with the Museum of Art & History, MOAH:CEDAR is a catalyst for engaging a diverse audience through captivating exhibitions, innovative artists and dynamic programming. The gallery aspires to encourage progressive ideas and experimental genres of artwork, highlighting performance, education On view until January 18, 2026 Learn More Michael James, The Weight of Yield , 2025, Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of the Artist View our full event calendar >> FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM Follow

Using her hands as her tool, Aazam Irilian’s paintings are created through combining acrylic inks, fabric dyes and oil on canvas. She begins every painting in a state of not knowing and by pouring the paint onto the canvas. This technique allows the paints to stay fluid longer and bleed into each other slowly over time—hence, the tonal variations and transparency of the colors, which create a sense of depth within the space. This results in fluidity and translucency on the surface, which are complemented by organic lines to create movement and form.

Joy Ray’s interdisciplinary practice explores textiles as instruments of divination, adopting techniques like quilting and weaving to conduct inquiries into the spectral, speculative, and unreliable. Central to Ray’s research into the unknowable are methods of abstraction, concealment, illumination, and reconstitution that extract visual language from source materials like archival texts and oral histories. a mirror with breath like stone utilizes the history of MOAH:CEDAR as a former jail, courthouse, and library examining the permeation of time through the aesthetics of archival decay. Her use of tombstone-like textile sculptures immortalizes the historic front-page stories from the Antelope Valley Ledger-Gazette . Encrusted with charcoal, ash, and sand from the nearby desert, these works evoke the fires that periodically ravaged Lancaster’s archival records and municipal buildings. Using translucent silk banners, fabric, chicken wire sculptures, and audio works on vintage records, viewers are transported through the layers of spectral history of MOAH:CEDAR. Joy Ray lives and works in Hawaiʻi and Los Angeles. Her work has been featured at the Museum of Quilts and Textiles in San Jose, California, the Hawaiʻi Museum of Contemporary Art, the Hawaiʻi State Art Museum, and the Museum of Art and History (MOAH) in Lancaster, California. Ray’s work is held in the collection of MOAH and in private collections. She has been featured in publications including the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Artillery, and whitehot . Joy Ray holds a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts from Sarah Lawrence College.