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Marthe Aponte, Christine Kline, Antoinette De Paiva and Terry Cervantes led an intimate and explorational tour about their artistic processes.

MOAH:CEDAR presents Creative Pollination Art Mixers, a space where ideas bloom and cross-pollinate. This event brings artists of all levels together in order to foster community, discuss various topics of interest, share art, and expand skills. Each month will feature a special guest and themed discussion for tips on developing a career in the arts as well as feature a selection of video art screenings. See Schedule MOAH:CEDAR presents Creative Pollination Art Mixers, a space where ideas bloom and cross-pollinate. This event brings artists of all levels together in order to foster community, discuss various topics of interest, share art, and expand skills. Each month will feature a special guest and themed discussion for tips on developing a career in the arts as well as feature a selection of video art screenings. Gatherings are held every third Thursday of the month from 5pm-8pm . They are FREE to the public. No reservation required, but you are encouraged to RSVP at our Eventbrite event . They take place in Cedar Hall. Entrance is through the main entrance off Cedar Ave. or through our "Artist's Garden" and the patio gate entrance on the north side of the Cedar Center for the Arts (just off Lancaster Blvd.) - look for the butterfly sculptures and hummingbird mural. Guest Speaker Schedule Thursday, November 20, 2025 - Artist Talk with Scott Listfield & Melly Trochez (featured in Strange Pathways at MOAH) about the professional world of artists. Register here ! Thursday, October 23, 2025 - Curator Talk with Shannon Vittoria, PH.D.,Associate Curator of American Art at LACMA. Hear directly from the organizing curator of Blue Grass, Green Skies: American Impressionism and Realism from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art , now on view at the Lancaster Museum of Art & History. Past Speakers: 2025 July - Andi Campognone, City of Lancaster Manager Arts & Museums, Advice for advancement in an arts career August - Nathanial Ancheta, Co-Founder Art In Residence , Presentation: Beyond the Surface: Understanding Art through Contextual September - Joy Ray, Visual Artist & Nicole Slater, Strategic Marketing Consultant The Artistic Advantage: Unleashing ChatGPT's Potential for Artists October - Mike O'Connor, Fine Art Speaker and Trainer , Finding and Delivering your Story November - Lauren Cross, PhD, Gail-Oxford Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts (Huntington Library), Collaborations with Curators 2024 January - Shana Nys Dambrot, LA Weekly , Arts Editor, - Critic, Curator, Personality, Ask Me Anything February - Nathanial Ancheta, Co-Founder Art In Residence March - January Parkos Arnall, PhD - Director, Public Programs and Creative Practice at Lucas Museum: Building Bridges with Public Art Programming September - Nikolas Soren Goodich - How to Work in the Artworld: Art Handling, Art Preparator, Arts Services Companies, and more More Things Happening at MOAH:CEDAR Spotlight Cafe Live Figure Drawing Concert Series

Beyond the Blue Prison Arts Collective August 31, 2019 - November 10, 2019 Back to All Exhibitions “Beyond the Blue” is a traveling exhibition of over 100 works of art created in California by incarcerated individuals participating in weekly arts programming through the Prison Arts Collective (PAC). The artists included seek to transform their lives through art and aim to shift society’s stereotypical image of ‘inmate’ or ‘prisoner’ by sharing their personal expressions, goals, and talents to demonstrate their shared humanity. The Prison Arts Collective now facilitates weekly programs in eight California state prisons and will expand to twelve institutions by 2020. The project’s multidisciplinary arts classes are led by a collaborative team of teaching artists, university students, and peer facilitators. The program also offers a comprehensive Arts Facilitator Training program for incarcerated individuals that want to grow as leaders and mentors by facilitating art classes. The PAC is founded by Annie Buckley, Professor and Director of Art + Design at San Diego State University, and supported by Arts in Corrections, an initiative of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the California Arts Council.

Celebrating the Spirit of Summer, MOAH:CEDAR presented the surf and beach related paintings of Mark Kolodziejczyk in the Lobby Gallery. As a graduate of Art Center College of Design, Mark turned his highly refined craft into realistic scenes for Walt Disney Imagineering. He has led many scenic paint projects for Disney including creating fresh snow through paint on the Matterhorn, painting with black light to create a 3D experience on the Indiana Jones ride and created unique experiences through paint on Big Thunder Mountain, ToonTown, Pirates of the Caribbean, Splash Mountain, Space Mountain and many more. His work is also prominent at Universal Studios Hollywood and City Walk. He continues to consult throughout Disneyland including the new Club 33 Project

MOAH:CEDAR and the Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) are proud to present the 40th annual Antelope Valley Union High School District (AVUHSD) Student Art Exhibition, taking place from Thursday, April 3, 2025, to Sunday, May 18, 2025. This highly anticipated exhibition provides a unique opportunity for high school students across the Antelope Valley to showcase their artistic talent in a professional gallery setting. The exhibition will officially open with an awards ceremony on Thursday, April 3, 2025, at 6 PM in Cedar Hall. This special event will celebrate the creativity and dedication of young artists, recognizing outstanding works across various artistic disciplines. This year’s exhibition features approximately 180 selected works, including two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and multimedia pieces, chosen by representatives from the museum after reviewing student art portfolios. Participating schools include all eight district high schools within the Antelope Valley Union High School District. MOAH:CEDAR invites the community to visit and support these talented young artists as they take their first steps into the world of professional art. Join us in celebrating their artistic achievements and exploring the creativity of the next generation

Blending traditional mediums such as painting, sculpture, photography and sound with found “treasures”, Kira Vollman gives discarded items a second life. Her work brings together disparate objects and differing points of view in an attempt at reconciliations. She creates imaginary landscapes and alternate worlds. Vollman is interested in the symbols representing ascension as can be seen in her Deception installation here in the MOAH:CEDAR Galleries.

This recent body of work he's called Fairyland has developed a definite camp sensibility (not dissimilar to the theatrical confections of Cecil Beaton in the 1920’s). Camp, having been described as the lie that tells the truth, is an innate language he has been reticent to explore until recently. Perhaps internalized homophobia has left him hesitant to make work so boldly queer – in every sense of the word – making art so openly flamboyant. Purposely stamped with informed wit and a wry knowing humor, this new work is first and foremost intended to visually delight and be taken seriously . Among other things, it touches on the weighty tableau of the Temptation of St. Anthony of the Desert and the perilous trials of Herakles. His aesthetic expression is influenced by his instinctive inclination to lighten somber somewhat ponderous existential themes with a gay touch (consciously using this word in both its current identity-laden fraught understanding and the anachronistic yet more delightful sense). While the work possesses decidedly camp sensibilities it is never ironic as is so often the current fashion. He finds irony frequently cynical; his work is never cynical for no other reason than the inherent affection he holds for his motley crew of heroes, saints and sinners .He draws indiscriminately upon diverse seemingly unrelated archetypes and themes from many sources, including Classical mythology, British folklore, Wagnerian operas and the biblical text of my Catholic youth, doing so in order to touch upon that which is culturally familiar to him, to others – and if we believe Jung – found deeply rooted as archetypes in our souls. These eternal themes provide me ample, seemingly endless, means of interpretation. As a person steeped in the Western tradition of literature and the visual arts, it is a rich fertile field he feels most comfortable in adopting. The work presented at Fairyland are these familiar themes, explored many times over by countless artist; yet this time re-imagined through a prism of his own. His play upon cultural themes hopefully adds a sentence or two to this ongoing cultural conversation. Working in variety of mediums, and a fabulist by nature, it is my intention to create a theatrical spectacle that is peculiar, visually arresting and deeply personal. Although the work is made solely for his own delight, He hopes others find the work meaningful in some way. He also hopes visitors feel inspired to resist the siren call of selfies and pause instead, if only for a moment, as these works are visually dense and to add their own voice to this enriching and frequently neglected conversation. With that, welcome to his Fairyland.

May I place you on a brief hold? Lynne McDaniel January 8, 2022 - March 13, 2022 Back to All Exhibitions 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.

We Are All In This World Together Dean and Laura Larson July 22, 2023 - September 10, 2023 Back to All Exhibitions Artists Dean and Laura Larson collaborate in a cautionary series of stories chronicling the consequences of climate change and extinction told through the lens of the Larson’s hybrid animal-human creatures called The Mourners . Inspired by the 14th and 15th century sorrowful alabaster figures of monks and clerics surrounding the tomb of John the Fearless, the second duke of Burgundy, the Larson’s take these symbols of religious devotion and create their own figures grieving the loss of life on earth. Through Dean’s digitally manipulated photographs and Laura’s anthropomorphic figures, The Mourners traverse different historical periods of time in Europe. Their journey starts from the rudimentary beginning of time to the eventual destruction of Earth to examine, lament, and eventually create their own surrealist utopia. Together, the Larson’s have a combined experience of 90 years making art. Dean and Laura Larson’s collaborative imagery uses the parlance of storytelling, through digital images and sculptures. In 2015, drawing from Dean’s love of architecture and landscape and Laura’s fascination with medieval sculpture, they began combining their photographic images from various locations, especially Europe. Dean and Laura live in Los Angeles and have both shown their work extensively over the course of their marriage, individually and collaboratively , as well as nationally and internationally.

The Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) and MOAH:CEDAR are thrilled to announce the 35th Annual All-Media Juried Art Exhibition. In this annual exhibition, artists of all ages and experience levels from around the Antelope Valley and the 5th Supervisorial District of Los Angeles County are welcomed to participate. This year's exhibition will include two new categories: Community Coloring Book and Destination Lancaster Postcard. These new categories are designed to encourage artists to submit black and white line drawings, photographs and illustrations, which celebrate our vibrant community and the richness of the region. Submitted works to the Community Coloring Book and Destination Lancaster categories will be included in a MOAH produced coloring book and official Destination Lancaster postcards, respectively. The exhibition will celebrate participating artists with a special closing reception on Saturday, June 27 from 6 to 8 p.m. The awards ceremony will begin at 7 p.m. where over $1,000 will be awarded to participants by the Lancaster Museum and Public Art Foundation and various small businesses, community organizations, public officials and other sponsors. The exhibition will run from Saturday, May 23 to Sunday, June 28. This year’s jurors include artists Nathaniel Ancheta and April Bey, who are joined by art historian and critic, Betty Ann Brown. Exhibition visitors are encouraged to vote for their favorite artwork using #MOAHPeoplesChoice on Instagram. The artwork with the most votes during the exhibition’s run will receive a cash award to be announced at the special closing reception. As in previous years, the Lancaster Museum and Public Art Foundation will consider each of the Best of Exhibition winners for acquisition into the Museum of Art and History’s permanent collection.

MOAH:CEDAR’s Hispanic Heritage Exhibition featured artists Sergio Hernandez, Sergio Vasquez, Edwin Vasquez and Soledad Saucedo-Butzke in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month.

Juried Art Exhibition 2020 Various Artist May 23, 2020 - June 27, 2020 Back to All Exhibitions The Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) and MOAH:CEDAR are thrilled to announce the 35th Annual All-Media Juried Art Exhibition. In this annual exhibition, artists of all ages and experience levels from around the Antelope Valley and the 5th Supervisorial District of Los Angeles County are welcomed to participate. This year's exhibition will include two new categories: Community Coloring Book and Destination Lancaster Postcard. These new categories are designed to encourage artists to submit black and white line drawings, photographs and illustrations, which celebrate our vibrant community and the richness of the region. Submitted works to the Community Coloring Book and Destination Lancaster categories will be included in a MOAH produced coloring book and official Destination Lancaster postcards, respectively. The exhibition will celebrate participating artists with a special closing reception on Saturday, June 27 from 6 to 8 p.m. The awards ceremony will begin at 7 p.m. where over $1,000 will be awarded to participants by the Lancaster Museum and Public Art Foundation and various small businesses, community organizations, public officials and other sponsors. The exhibition will run from Saturday, May 23 to Sunday, June 28. This year’s jurors include artists Nathaniel Ancheta and April Bey, who are joined by art historian and critic, Betty Ann Brown. Exhibition visitors are encouraged to vote for their favorite artwork using #MOAHPeoplesChoice on Instagram. The artwork with the most votes during the exhibition’s run will receive a cash award to be announced at the special closing reception. As in previous years, the Lancaster Museum and Public Art Foundation will consider each of the Best of Exhibition winners for acquisition into the Museum of Art and History’s permanent collection.