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The Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) and MOAH:CEDAR are excited to announce the 39th Annual All-Media Juried Art Exhibition for this year. Artists of all ages and experience levels from around the Antelope Valley and the 5th Supervisorial District of Los Angeles County can participate in the exhibition, submitting pieces of various art mediums. On Saturday, June 1 from 4PM to 6PM artists will be honored during an award ceremony were over $1,000 will be granted 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, June 1 to Sunday, July 20, 2024.

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.

CEDARFEST 2019 Antelope Valley Union High School District April 12, 2019 - May 12, 2019 Back to All Exhibitions 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 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

Regarding Us Chain Letter Project Various Artists July 11 - August 22, 2015 Back to All Exhibitions The Regarding Us Chain Letter Project is a self-curated group exhibition celebrating creativity in the Antelope Valley. The process began with a small group of artists who were initially invited to show their work by community engagement artist Rebecca Niederlander. This group then each invited 5 artists to also participate. Those 5 invited 5 more artists, thus leading to your invitation. The process will continue on with more invitations until the installation date. The result is an exponentially massive, community-curated project filled with work by an extraordinary array of Antelope Valley creatives. The Regarding Us Chain Letter Project is a part of Antelope Valley Art Outpost, a creative placemaking project that supports regional vitality in the Antelope Valley.

Monica Wyatt is an artistic alchemist, transforming collected materials into precious objects. She fuses the history of the materials together to create new beginnings, representing the cyclic nature of all things. By reimagining objects and their composition, Wyatt is able to more uniquely speak about her inspirations, interventions and intentions. The objects she creates make space for the viewer to enter, navigate, commune, and reflect. The works on display are transformations of man-made objects into forms that signify qualities of nature. Wyatt challenges her audience to consider the aesthetic traits of each object rather than judge them by their intended use. In her assemblage, electric capacitors resemble plant life and zip ties mimic deep sea creatures. She dissembles pianos, organs, cables, sieves, and other utilitarian items from a past when people valued human production and craftsmanship. Continuum is Wyatt’s first installation in her ongoing collaboration with curator Jill Moniz.

The Regarding Us Chain Letter Project is a self-curated group exhibition celebrating creativity in the Antelope Valley. The process began with a small group of artists who were initially invited to show their work by community engagement artist Rebecca Niederlander. This group then each invited 5 artists to also participate. Those 5 invited 5 more artists, thus leading to your invitation. The process will continue on with more invitations until the installation date. The result is an exponentially massive, community-curated project filled with work by an extraordinary array of Antelope Valley creatives. The Regarding Us Chain Letter Project is a part of Antelope Valley Art Outpost, a creative placemaking project that supports regional vitality in the Antelope Valley.