Drop-in Family Workshop: Outlined with Color Portraits

Join us for a FREE hands-on workshop lead by LA-based multidisciplinary artist J Michael Walker. Inspired by California Kinship: Painting Homelife in the Golden State Before 1940, participants are invited to look closely at the paintings in the exhibition  and consider intimate moments depicted between  artists and their sitters. Following this, J Michael Walker will guide participants in outlining and drawing their own thoughtful portraits. All materials will be provided. Please arrive by 11 a.m. to allow time for a self-guided visit through the gallery before beginning the artist-led workshop.

About the Artist

J Michael Walker is a Los Angeles-based multi-disciplinary artist working in painting, drawing, photography, and digital media. Through portraiture, he aims to illuminate the essence of his subjects.

Walker is a recipient of several fellowships most notably from COLA, Instituto Sacatar in Bahia, Brazil, and Art Matters. He has received numerous grants from the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, and from the California Arts Council for the Humanities, and has had numerous solo exhibitions in the U.S., Mexico, and Korea, among others, including the Autry Museum of the American West, the Mexican Cultural Institute, Harvard University’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and the National Folk Art Museum in Mexico City.

Walker’s work is in the collections of the Museum of Latin American Art, the Autry Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the Arkansas Arts Center, UC Los Angeles, and UC Santa Barbara.