Susan M. Anderson, photo courtesy of Susan M. Anderson; Hanson Duvall Puthuff, <em>Verdugo Canyon</em>, after 1926, Oil on canvas, 32 x 40 in. UCI Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art, Gift of The Irvine Museum

Susan M. Anderson, photo courtesy of Susan M. Anderson; Hanson Duvall Puthuff, Verdugo Canyon, after 1926, Oil on canvas, 32 x 40 in. UCI Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art, Gift of The Irvine Museum

Curator Talk

Susan M. Anderson | A Southland Bohemia: Idah Meacham Strobridge and the Arroyo Seco Art Colony, 1880 – 1920

September 30, 2023

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This program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Bohemian of the Arroyo Seco: Idah Meacham Strobridge.

Guest curator Susan M. Anderson discusses the countercultural community that arose in the Arroyo Seco area of Los Angeles during the first decade of the twentieth century within the context of the American Arts and Crafts movement. The Arroyo Seco sustained a community of artists, writers, and artisans that celebrated camaraderie, and enthusiasm for la vie bohème (the bohemian life) as a means of resisting industrialization and the dehumanization that accompanied it. Idah Meacham Strobridge and other bohemians translated their lifestyles into art and literature, becoming cultural entrepreneurs.

Following the talk, Anderson will be available in the gallery to answer questions and talk with visitors and program attendees.

DATE: September 30, 2023
TIME: 11 am
VENUE: 18881 Von Karman Avenue, Irvine, 92612 | Airport Tower Conference Room
PARKING: Airport Tower parking garage. Parking is free with validation.

This program is free and open to all.
Space is limited. Advance registration is required.
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About the Speaker
Susan M. Anderson is an independent curator and art historian. Among her recent publications and exhibitions are San Diego Surreal (Oceanside Museum of Art, CA, 2019); Valley of Gold: Southern California and the Phantasmagoric (Kasmin Gallery, NY, 2020); Enrique Martínez Celaya, SEA SKY LAND: towards a map of everything (USC Fisher Museum of Art, CA, 2022); and Dancing with Charlie: Bay Area Art from the Campbell Collection (Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, CA, 2022). She is a former chief curator at Laguna Art Museum.

About Langson IMCA
Langson IMCA explores and celebrates artists and their capacity to develop new forms and ideas in response to the California experience. It collects, conserves, and generates scholarship for modern and contemporary art inspired by the State’s diverse societal, cultural, and natural environments. As an institution dedicated to becoming the epicenter of California Art, Langson IMCA presents programming that strives to provoke questions around an expansive understanding of art making inspired by the Golden State.