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Opening Reception: Sunday, December 15, 2024 | 4 - 6PM Dream Feelers, curated by Thinkspace Projects , explores dreams and their transformation from idea to object. Using ceramic, the artists of Dream Feelers interpret their own dreams, molding clay to bring subconscious thoughts into reality. The exhibition considers the dream as sculptural representation examining the link between the visible and the invisible. The exhibiting artists harness this intangible, individual experience and bring their dreams into the shared physical realm. These ‘dream feelers’ help the viewer to envision what lies beyond our normal perception of reality. This exhibition features new work from: Natalia Arbelaez, Megan Barnes, Emily Yong Beck, Benjamin Cabral, Fl.our Pots, Hunter Harvey, Yasuhito Kawasaki, Haylie Jimenez, Sydnie Jimenez, Janiece Maddox, Janina Myronowa, Sachi Moskowitz, Jeffery Sun Young Park, Thomas Martinez Pilnik, Adam Shrewsbury, Amy Sol, Austyn Taylor, Chidi Ukwuoma. Andrew Hosner, co-founder and curator of Thinkspace, has been a pivotal figure in Los Angeles Street Art and New Contemporary Movement for nearly two decades, championing emerging and established artists globally. Established in 2005, Thinkspace has gained international acclaim as a leading force in the New Contemporary Art Movement, an ongoing artistic movement that showcases a diverse array of talent. Thinkspace has curated exhibitions at esteemed institutions such as the Urban Nation Museum in Berlin, the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, and the Museum of Art and History (MOAH) among others.

The Sum of Its Parts Debbie Korbel October 3, 2020 - December 6,2020 Back to All Exhibitions The whole is greater than the sum of its parts; that the finished sculpture has more value and meaning that the many disparate components that comprise it — this is what Debbie Korbel hopes to achieve when she sets out to create her assemblage sculptures. Everyone knows what it is like to lie on their back and 'see' images in the clouds. When Korbel was a child, she assumed everyone saw these kinds of images everywhere like she did — figures, animals and surreal creatures in the patterns on the linoleum flooring, the random swirls in a plaster ceiling, or even the way shadows fell against a wall. As an adult Korbel approaches her sculpture materials in the same way, by standing back and looking for what she 'sees' to emerge. "Being an assemblage sculptor is a little like taking a daily Rorschach test," says Korbel. Korbel creates her sculptures by combining her original sculpted elements with an assortment of objects she has collected. Often the initial impetus for the sculpture occurs when she finds an interesting fragment of metal or wood and then the idea takes root and evolves from that single catalyst piece. Every sculpture is like a puzzle for which Korbel finds and fits each seemingly unrelated piece together in its more expressive form to create something new.

Faces From the Southern Ocean JJ L'Heureux December 8, 2018 - February 10, 2019 Back to All Exhibitions Antarctica is completely surrounded by the Southern Ocean. There are no sounds except for reverberating wind and water punctuated by the cracking and booming of ice as it breaks off into the sea. It is a pristine place, overwhelming and awesome. Faces From the Southern Ocean embodies the spirit of the Southern Ocean and Antarctica, a realm dominated by sky and cold. Reindeer, seals and penguins—inhabitants of this icy region—along with breathtaking landscapes are captured in photographs from L’Heureux’s more than a dozen expeditions to this region.

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts; that the finished sculpture has more value and meaning that the many disparate components that comprise it — this is what Debbie Korbel hopes to achieve when she sets out to create her assemblage sculptures. Everyone knows what it is like to lie on their back and 'see' images in the clouds. When Korbel was a child, she assumed everyone saw these kinds of images everywhere like she did — figures, animals and surreal creatures in the patterns on the linoleum flooring, the random swirls in a plaster ceiling, or even the way shadows fell against a wall. As an adult Korbel approaches her sculpture materials in the same way, by standing back and looking for what she 'sees' to emerge. "Being an assemblage sculptor is a little like taking a daily Rorschach test," says Korbel. Korbel creates her sculptures by combining her original sculpted elements with an assortment of objects she has collected. Often the initial impetus for the sculpture occurs when she finds an interesting fragment of metal or wood and then the idea takes root and evolves from that single catalyst piece. Every sculpture is like a puzzle for which Korbel finds and fits each seemingly unrelated piece together in its more expressive form to create something new.

The Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) and MOAH:CEDAR are excited to announce the Museum’s 36th 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.

PRIME Dani Dodge November 12, 2022 - January 22, 2023 Back to All Exhibitions PRIME is an exploration of place. An acknowledgment of the impact and power of location as an inspiration and means of transporting us beyond ourselves. Dani Dodge’s exhibition, PRIME , occupies each of MOAH: CEDAR’s three galleries. Works created by participants during Dodge’s 2019 residency at the Preserve are displayed in the lobby. In the North Gallery, Dodge constructs an interactive environment inspired by the Prime Desert Woodland Preserve and its sunrises. Imagery from her expeditions to the Preserve are created with gold leaf and pastels on layers of translucent curtains. A 10-minute looping soundtrack of Dodge using her cello interspersed with the sound of animals at dawn accompanies the visual work to produce a dream-like environment. A metal mattrFess spring hangs in the center of the gallery as an artifact of a Mojave desert dig reminiscent of the one she saw in the Preserve. The twisted mattress spring is emblematic of how human intrusion simultaneously modifies and is absorbed into the landscape. Visitors are invited to consider what locations bring them peace, and to write those on slips of paper that they pin to the installation as they walk through. In the South Gallery, Dodge shows three separate collections of work, and a second recovered metal mattress spring that was reshaped by nature after being discarded by humans into the desert. The collections include a video installation inspired by the images of animals at the Preserve captured on motion-sensor video cameras, a collection of paintings in gold leaf exploring her love of Joshua trees, and a collection of miniatures depicting Joshua tree sprouts that spell out nature’s cry for help in Morse Code. Dani Dodge spent 2019 focused on the Prime Desert Woodland Preserve in Lancaster, California as an artist-in-residence. During her bi-weekly visits, she traversed the trails, connecting with the desert landscape and its residents. Unsure of how her presence might affect the wildlife, she installed motion-detecting video cameras to unobtrusively monitor the area when humans were not present. To serve as a counterbalance to her personal experience, she led monthly art activations at the Preserve that allowed participants to share their perspectives of the area through art. Although the residency concluded in December 2019, Dodge returned regularly to the Preserve to record the sounds and sights, and watch each New Year’s sun rise over the Joshua trees.

Water Works Various Artists September 5, 2015 Back to All Exhibitions Curated by Juri Koll, the artists in this show use watercolor, inks, and other liquid media for a variety of reasons - some love the risk of not being able to alter the result once it hits the paper. Others have a more formal reason for the process. Some use the medium as a contemplative, almost reverential experience, or for "quiet meditation or being present in the moment," as Shana Nys Dambrot says. All these motivations inspire these works and engage the audience with the here and now, regardless of when the work was completed. Many of the artists have been influenced in some way by Japanese Sumi painters or modern artists such as Sam Francis. The Sam Francis Foundation sponsored the catalog, a copy of which has become part of the Sam Francis archives at the GETTY Museum Research Institute Library.

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.