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The Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) and MOAH:CEDAR are excited to announce CEDARFEST 2019, the Museum’s annual high school student art exhibition! Hosted at MOAH:CEDAR, a space that has a long standing history of being recognized as the community hub of art and culture. This highly anticipated event promises an unforgettable evening for students and community members alike. CEDARFEST will take place on Friday, April 12 from 4 - 9 p.m. and will include a special open mic student showcase at 7pm following the awards ceremony. The exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, May 12, 2019. The gallery will be open to the public during MOAH:CEDAR’s hours of operation, Thursday through Sunday from 2 to 8 p.m. Beginning Saturday, April 13.

The Cathedral (The Shrine of Trees, The Sisters and The Mother) Miya Ando June 23, 2018 - September 2, 2018 Back to All Exhibitions A naturally occuring ring of trees is called a Cathedral. In the center is the oldest, largest tree that drops seeds, which become seedlings and eventually large trees around the center tree. There is a natural ring of redwood trees (200 plus feet tall) where I lived in the Santa Cruz mountains. In the center of the ring was a ‘mother’ tree that had been struck by lightning and was charred black. Before the ‘mother’ tree was struck by lightning, it had dropped seeds in a ring around it, which grew to be huge giants. I have been fascinated by the fact that within a ring of trees, after the center ‘mother’ tree dies (struck by lightning or otherwise killed) the trees around it send glucose via the roots to the dying tree and keep it alive sometimes for decades. I invite visitors to enter the ring of trees, created with gossamer silk chiffon panels and hope to create a tranquil and contemplative, immersive environment.

Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks Matt Picon August 12, 2017 - September 23, 2017 Back to All Exhibitions Matt Picon was born and raised throughout Southern California and is currently living and working in El Paso, Texas. With a background in photography and graphic design, his work moved to site-specific interventions and video installations prior to obtaining his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Intermedia at Arizona State University in 2013. He invested in creating relationships between traditional and non-traditional materials and how they communicate form, history and purpose to the viewer. The objects and installations vary on material use, but are mainly constructed of repurposed wood and steel with other conventional materials applied in alternative ways. Sculptures from a recent body of work entitled “Coyotes, Whiskey, and Fireworks,” are based on historical research, observations and personal experiences in the Mojave Desert, specifically the Antelope Valley. Calling Lancaster home during his formative years, Picon found it necessary to revisit and focus on not just his memories of the region but also the stories that came before his own. In response, Picon has created sculptures and installations that address the landscape, suburban development, homesteads, historical forms and personal stories.

March 31 - May 15, 2022 The Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) and MOAH:CEDAR are excited to announce the Museum’s 37th Annual High School Student Art Exhibition! Hosted virtually by MOAH:CEDAR, an institution that has a long standing history of being recognized as the community hub of art and culture. This highly anticipated event promises an unforgettable opportunity for students and community members alike. Media categories featured in the exhibition include: painting, drawing, ceramics, digital and film photography, 2D and 3D and mixed media.

What’s going on here? Artist Lynne McDaniel explores society’s complicated relationship to nature. For many years her work has been concerned with environmental issues. McDaniel uses the language of the landscape to explore changes created by wars, human intervention, and the passage of time. The scene may be beautiful, but there is always an element of ambiguity. The incursion can be a subtle dash of color, or a more violent stroke or erasure. The destabilization or interruption of what is happening in the paintings reflects her growing uncertainty about what is happening on the larger canvas of the world. Most of McDaniel’s work from the last year or so reflects the contraction of her world to the streets surrounding her home in the foothills of Los Angeles. McDaniel found herself unable to engage with disasters and catastrophes and found herself seeking solace in the landscape of the daily walks she takes around her home and studio. The paintings document her movement through the physical space as well as the subtle changes occurring over time. The resulting work forms a sort of journal of McDaniel’s experience, a recording of daily activities during safer at home orders that gives an accounting of time, and status to small things. McDaniel is still more fascinated by the questions than the answers.

After taking a step back from illustration, artist Godeleine de Rosamel has worked primarily in ceramics, creating unique life-forms and vegetation that inhabit a whimsical yet earthly domain. She embraces the innocence of her childhood drawings, bringing those creatures from the page into our third dimension. De Rosamel's interest in natural history is evident not only in her subject matter, but also in her process. She combines materials like clay, pigment, and sticks to create creatures that appear to come from a world adjacent to our own. In de Rosamel’s practice, she assumes the role of “Creator” by sculpting new species to populate her human-less utopia. In her world, politics, gender, and suffering do not exist. Instead, her charming, well-fed creatures roam freely through forests and sleep under trees. They reside in an idealized setting, where leisure and tranquility are at the forefront. Through her earthy color palette and each creature’s laissez faire demeanor, she maintains a softness and levity in her work. Her world is a utopia far from our own, and far from the devastating impacts of human activities on biodiversity on our planet.   Godeleine de Rosamel is a French artist based in Los Angeles, California. Born in Lille, France, de Rosamel’s passion for art began early when she was just a child drawing animals and taking her first ceramics class at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. In 1986, she attended the Ecole de Recherche Graphique (ERG) in Brussels, Belgium, where she graduated with a Fine Arts degree and began a career as a children’s book illustrator. Her whimsical illustrations have been featured in a number of books in France and Belgium. In 2001, she moved to Los Angeles and continued her career as an illustrator for several years until ultimately switching gears and to focus on her ceramics practice.

The Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) and MOAH:CEDAR are excited to announce the Museum’s 33rd Annual All-Media Juried Art Exhibition. The exhibition kicks off with an opening reception celebrating local artists on Saturday, May 5 from 4 to 8 p.m. Beginning at 6 p.m. an awards ceremony will take place where over $1,000 will be awarded to participants. The exhibition will run from Saturday, May 5 through Sunday, June 3. This year’s jurors include local, and regionally recognized artist, Tina Dille, and Director of Los Angeles-based artist marketing firm, Shoebox Projects, Kristine Schomaker. Artists interested in submitting work should note that the Museum will only accept entries online, through CaFE (www.callforentry.org). For those unfamiliar with online submissions, information sessions detailing the process will be available at MOAH on April 25 from 3 to 6 p.m. Participants will have the opportunity to submit their work through CaFE’s online system during these sessions with the assistance of MOAH staff. The entry period for the 33rd Annual All-Media Juried Art Exhibition runs from now through April 27. For more information regarding information sessions and submission guidelines, visit facebook.com/moahcedar. A $2 processing fee will be charged for a single submission with guaranteed acceptance. Each additional submission (up to three pieces total) will charge an additional $5, which will be submitted for jury. The exhibition, will be on view Saturday, May 5 through Sunday, June 3 during MOAH:CEDAR’s regular hours of operation, Thursday through Sunday from 2 to 8 p.m. Community members are invited to view the art and share photos on Instagram using #MOAHJuried2018. Visitors are also encouraged to vote for their favorite pieces using #MOAHPeoplesChoice, as the artwork with the most votes on Instagram will receive a special prize following the exhibition. REQUIREMENTS: Media Images - Minimum: 0, Maximum: 3 Audio - Minimum: 0, Maximum: 3 Video - Minimum: 0, Maximum: 3 Total Media - Minimum: 1, Maximum: 3 Entry Fee (CEDARFEST Application Processing Fee): $2.00 Media Fee (per sample over minimum): $5.00 Format: The Lancaster Museum of Art & History (MOAH) and MOAH:CEDAR are hosting the 33rd Annual All-Media Juried Arts Exhibition, from Saturday, May 5 to Sunday, June 3. The opening reception will be held on Saturday, May 5 from 4 to 8 PM. The Museum invites local artists to submit their work for consideration in this annual event. A panel of jurors will review the work. Selected artists will have the opportunity to exhibit their art in MOAH:CEDAR gallery, as well as, be eligible for expanded award opportunities. ONLY ONLINE SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED. See "Submittal" below for more information. Jurors: Tina Dille has been painting animals for over thirty years - gaining recognition from galleries and exhibitions across the state. Mainly working with watercolors, Dille has had the great honor of being featured in the prestigious California Watercolor Association National Exhibition. Best known for her large scale Raven paintings, Dille has exhibited this body of work at Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH), the Bakersfield Museum of Art and Ridgecrest’s Maturango Museum. Dille lives in the Tehachapi Mountains. Kristine Schomaker is an Art Historian, art advocate and multidisciplinary artist living and working at the Brewery artist complex in Los Angeles, California. She earned her BA in Art History and MA in Studio Art from California State University at Northridge where she studied under Betty Ann Brown and Samantha Fields. Leading an active life in the arts, Kristine has taught art history at Antelope Valley College and Pasadena City College, formed an artist collective in Los Angeles and has organized and curated numerous art exhibitions throughout Southern California. For three years, Kristine was the President, social media, advertising and marketing manager of the Brewery Artwalk Association, running the semi-annual Brewery Artwalk. Most recently, she founded Shoebox PR to help visual artists create a presence in the art world. Selection Process: Local artists, meeting all eligibility requirements, will have one piece guaranteed acceptance in the exhibition. Artists who submit more than 1 piece will have their addition artwork juried into the exhibition. The Jurors will select which artwork will be exhibited by careful examination of all submitted entries; including those submitted for the 17 and under category. With no exceptions, Jurors have the sole responsibility for the selection of artworks. MOAH and MOAH:CEDAR reserve the right to not display work that does not meet eligibility requirements or follow the guidlines herein. Eligibility: Works must have been completed within the last three years and not previously exhibited at MOAH or MOAH:CEDAR. CEDARFEST is open to all artists working with all arts media, including photography, video, audio, painting, drawing, mixed media 2D, mixed media 3D and clay. Artists of all ages are welcome to submit, 17 and under must have their parent's permission. Applicants must reside within the Fifth Supervisorial District of the County of Los Angeles or within the following ZIP codes: 91321 91350 91351 91355 91381 91383 91384 91387 91387 91390 93501 93505 93510 93516 93523 93524 93532 93534 93535 93536 93543 93544 93550 93551 93552 93553 93560 93561 93563 93591 93599 92371 92301 93203 93243 Awards: Cash Awards will total over $1,000. Jurors will select the Best of Exhibition, 2nd Best of Exhibition and 3rd Best of Exhibition awards donated by the Lancaster Museum & Public Art Foundation (LMPAF). Best of Exhibition winners will receive, in addition to their cash awards, the opportunity to participate in an exclusive portfolio review with MOAH's curators. As in years passed, LMPAF may choose to offer to purchase any Best of Exhibition award winner for inclusion in the Museum's permanent collection. This year, local artists may opt-in to be considered for the Emerging Artist Workshop Opportunity Award. The winning artist will be provided with small stipend to host an Emerging Artist Workshop, in which they will work with MOAH staff to organize a presentation on their work or technique to the public on Saturday, July 29th from 6 to 8 PM. Visitors are also encouraged to follow the Lancaster Museum of Art & History and vote for their favorite pieces using #MOAHPEOPLESCHOICE on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. The artwork earning the most votes will receive a special prize at the closing of the exhibition. Many other awards are also available, including the Beryl Amspoker Memorial Award, the Dean Webb Memorial Photographic Award presented by the Lancaster Photography Association, an award presented by the Lakes and Valleys Art Guild, as well as, media awards and honorable mentions. Submittal: This year, MOAH and MOAH:CEDAR will only be accepting entries online through callforentries.org (CaFE). Artists must create a free account with CaFE. Once their account has been created, artists will be able to search for our call "MOAH 33rd All-Media Juried Arts Exhibition" Artist may then upload high resolution images of their work, video or audio files to CaFE and pay all applicable fees. For a quick how to video click here. MOAH will host two online submission workshops to assist local artists that are not able to submit their work online. MOAH staff will be on hand to work one-on-one with these artists to submit their work online on Thursday, April 25th from 3 to 6 PM. Fees: 1 Entry - FREE* Each additional Entry - $5.00 *Each applicant will be charged a $2 processing fee Presentation: Artwork must be clean, dry and ready for exhibition. All 2D works must be framed and wired with D-rings or eye hooks. The hanging device, attached to 2 points on the back of the frame, should be strong enough to take the weight of the work without becoming stressed or warped. If using wire, ensure that it is not crimped, creating a weakness. Artwork must be no larger than 36 inches in any dimension and must weigh less than 50 lbs (3D work). Any special display requirements or equipment of accepted works must be provided by the artist upon drop-off. Notification and Drop-Off of Accepted Works: Artists will be notified by email of accepted works by CaFE between Monday, June 5th and Wednesday, June 7th. Please be prepared to drop-off accepted works between Friday, June 9th and Saturday, June 10th from 11 AM to 5:30 PM. Exhibition Schedule: Online Submission Deadline - Thursday, April 26 at 5 PM Notification of Accepted Artworks - Friday, April 27 Drop-Off of Accepted Artworks - Saturday, April 28 to Sunday, April 29; 11 AM to 5:30 PM. Opening Reception - Saturday, May 5; 4 to 8 PM. Best of Exhibition Portfolio Review - Thursday, May 10 Emerging Artist Workshop - Thursday, May 24; 6 to 8 PM Artwork Retrieval - Work must be retrieved on Tuesday, June 5; 11 to 5:30 PM MOAH:CEDAR's Regular Business Hours: Thursday through Sunday; 2 to 8 PM Monday to Wednesday; Closed

39th Annual High School Student Art Exhibition Antelope Valley Union High School District March 28 - May 12, 2024 Back to All Exhibitions The Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) and MOAH:CEDAR are delighted to unveil the Museum's 39th Annual High School Student Art Exhibition for this year! Hosted by MOAH:CEDAR, a renowned institution recognized as the community hub of art and culture, this event offers an exciting platform for high school students to showcase their artistic talents. With a rich history, this highly anticipated exhibition promises an unforgettable opportunity for both students and community members to engage with the vibrant world of art. Exhibition Run Date: March 28-May 12, 2024 Award Ceremony: Thursday, April 4, 2024 | 6PM - 8PM , doors open at 5:30pm. Gallery will be open to the public at 2pm. MOAH:CEDARS Hours of Operation Monday-Wednesday: Closed Thursday-Sunday: 2PM - 8PM

The Math Literacy students and teachers of Antelope Valley Union High School District in collaboration with MOAH museum are proud to present "Tessellation World." An exhibition that emphasizes the understanding of spatial reasoning, geometric concepts, and measurement in real-life situations that require problem solving, communication, reasoning, and analysis of information and further deepens the connection between art and mathematics.

Presented in collaboration with Thinkspace Projects, Los Angeles Spenser Little is a self-taught artist who has been bending wire and carving wood for almost 20 years, allowing his creativity to morph into images that range from simple wordplay to complex portraits. He has related his wire work to a mixture of playing chess and illustration, as the problem-solving component of the work is what continues to inspire himself to create larger and more complex pieces. Some works contain moving components and multiple wires, but mostly the pieces are formed from one continuous piece of wire that is bent and molded to Little’s will. He has left the wire sculptures all over the world, in locations that range from the Eiffel Tower to the bottom of caves, their location selected with little discernment, only for the piece to be finally realized at the moment that someone discovers the surprise piece of art. Little has taken part in numerous POW! WOW! mural festivals in the past few years, which has exposed his work to an entire new audience via their network of art sites/blogs and having his work shared all over the world including the likes of the Antelope Valley (Lancaster, California); Long Beach, California; Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Honolulu, Hawaii; Israel; and San Jose, California. Regarding his new body of work, Spenser shares “To me, all art is a form of illumination devices. For this exhibition I have built a new series of mixed-media kinetic lamps. The lamps serve as bright facades for inner, hidden chambers. Looking through their constantly closing and opening doors, viewers are offered a peak at what makes them tick. Like the different layers we develop throughout our lives, we only allow certain people to see our most inner workings, while the majority are only able to see our polished exteriors. The lamp building process begins with the wood carving of the central character's head. I then weld a round bar frame for the outline of the body. I don’t put much forethought into where the design will go, aesthetic or engineering wise, which allows me to adapt any spontaneous idea during the build. Once I have the legs and body welded out and sized to the wooden head, I begin to problem shoot the kinetic portion of the build. Which is the unnatural part for my purely sculptor’s brain. Once all of the kinetic components are complete, I clean and bake the paper skin on the lamp, allowing them to come to life.” www.thinkspaceprojects.com

Untethered Sonja Schenk January 8, 2015 Back to All Exhibitions Sonja Schenk is an artist based in Los Angeles. She began as a video artist and has since turned to painting and sculpture. She has participated in group shows at the Vincent Price Art Museum, the Berkeley Art Center, Tarfest LA, and Cerritos College Art Gallery. Her work has been featured in NY Arts Magazine, the Eastbay Express, the San Francisco Chronicle, Forth magazine, and at rhizome.org. She has had shows in Northern California, Los Angeles and has been invited to do a site-specific work at a museum in Switzerland, her first show outside the U.S. Noah Thomas' exploration of sound is influenced by landscape and by an internal landscape/soundscape embodied in the construction of ‘place.’ Thomas’ improvisational practice currently uses the analogue manipulation of sound from a variety of sources, looped digitally and offset in time to create a sense of space/place. The instruments he uses include trumpet, cedar flute, conch, keyboard, Theremin, tonal percussion instruments, sound toys and natural objects. Thomas used a variety of these instruments to interpret Sonja Schenk’s paintings and sculptures during the opening reception. Just as the physical landscape delivers a wide range of sensory cues, clues and delights, so do Thomas’ soundscape. Together with Sonja Schenk’s works, which stack and crumble, rise and fall like the terrain, they become a new construction of place.

Juried Art Exhibition 2016 Various Artists June 11, 2016 - July 17, 2016 Back to All Exhibitions The Lancaster Museum of Art & History and MOAH:CEDAR are excited to announce that, beginning this June, the museum’s annual all-media juried exhibition will be moved to the Cedar Center for the Arts. The exhibition kicks off with CEDARFEST, a one-night-only festival celebrating the artists. This year’s jurors include local, internationally recognized artist Stevie Love and Los Angeles Arts Association Executive Director and curator Peter Mays. CEDARFEST, the exhibition, will be on view Saturday, June 4th, through Saturday, July 9th, 2016. Upper and lower galleries will be open to the public during MOAH:CEDAR’s hours of operation, Thursday – Sunday, 2 P.M. – 8 P.M. Community members are invited to view the art and share photos on social media using #CEDARFEST . Visitors are also encouraged to vote for their favorite pieces using #CEDARFESTCHOICE2016 , as the artwork with the most votes on Instagram will receive a special prize following the exhibition. All exhibiting artists will receive an electronic catalog listing all participants and their displayed works. Jurors Stevie Love lives and works in Juniper Hills in the foothills overlooking the Mojave Desert one hour north of Los Angeles in an adobe house that she and her husband made by hand. She earned a Bachelors degree at California State University at San Bernardino and a Masters of Fine Art degree from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. Since earning her Masters degree, she has been developing a diverse body of work that transcends the boundaries between painting and sculpture, using paint as a sculptural medium, paint that is released from the confines of the customary rectangle, blurring the boundary between us the viewer and the relationship we usually have to painting as a pictorial metaphor, instead bringing paint to us as its own reason for being. The play back and forth between metaphor and reality gives the work a life all its own. Peter Frank has described her work as “the moment where pictorial language and mental imagination, conventional thought and erratic vision give way to one another”. Peter Mays is the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Art Association (LAAA) and its premiere La Cienega exhibition space Gallery 825. Mays believes LAAA is now poised to launch the next phase of the 91-year-old organization’s expansion and commitment to Los Angeles’ emerging artists. Since joining LAAA in June 2005, Peter has implemented cultural exchanges with Switzerland (Basel), Korea, Germany and China along with initiated collaborative programming with institutions like Harvard, MoCA and Otis. As well as with artists Tim Hawkinson and Lita Albuquerque, secured the very best curators to jury LAAA exhibitions, increased LAAA’s career development programs and direct services by 30% and created LAAA’s public art program which was selected as one of the top public art works completed in 2010 by Americans for the Arts. CEDARFEST Award List Best of Exhibition: Christine Kline, Outlook. 2nd Best of Exhibition: Christopher Darga, Woman in Hat 3rd Best of Exhibition: Marthe Aponte, Virtual Landscape Beryl Amspoker Memorial Award: Rose Rieux , Genesis Emerging Artist Award: Nuri Amanatullah, Displacement Lakes and Valleys Art Guild Award: Christopher Darga, Woman in Hat Dean Webb Memorial Award: Helen Henry, Step On In Painting 1: Geoffrey Levitt, Night Train Lights Painting 2: Bryan Ida, China Basin Painting 3: Pablo Mercado, Self Portrait Photo 1: Juan Jimenez, Downtown L.A. 3rd Street bridge Photo 2: Chung Ping Chen Photo 3: Jamerson Adams Illustration 1: Nuri Amanatullah Illustration 2: Rose Rieux Illustration 3: Neil Vilppu 2D Mixed Media 1: Ulrica Bell 2D Mixed Media 2: Julius Eastman 2D Mixed Media 3: Eduardo Esquivel 3D Mixed Media 1: Katherine Stocking-Lopez 3D Mixed Media 2: Shahin Massoudi 3D Mixed Media 3: Terry Cervantes Honorable Mentions: Ezequiel Marzochetti Sal Silvestre Vasquez Douglas Wade Terry Cervantes Christine Kline Karen Stocking Jim Kelso Amanda McIntosh