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Managing your archive/studio shouldn't feel like a second job!⁠
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Join us (@nowbehereart) and Cherryworks (@cherryworks.art) Wednesday, May 6, at 9:00 am PT for a fast-paced 1-hour Zoom presentation with six leading archiving programs that offer solutions to fit every level of artists' studio production and digital literacy, followed by a Q&A and direct discussion time with program representatives.⁠
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Explore the landscape of digital archiving and artwork management with Mary Leigh Cherry (Cherryworks) and dig into why and how digital archives save time, money, frustration, and quite possibly future-proof your artistic legacy. ⁠
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Presenters include: Art Galleria (@art.galleria), Art Record, ARTERNAL (@_arternal_), Artlogic (@artlogicplatform), Artwork Archive (@artworkarchive), and Primer (@primerarchives). Special thanks to program sponsor ArtConverge (@artconvergecommunity)⁠
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The program will be recorded and available afterwards for those who RSVP.⁠
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For more information and to RSVP, please visit our link in bio.

RSVP & Save the Date!⁠
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Now Be Here’s 10-Year Anniversary & Now Let’s Talk, Los Angeles Programming on May 31, 2026, 9 am - 3 pm, at Occidental College.⁠
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Are you an artist? Join us on May 31, 2026, when Now Be Here marks our 10-year anniversary with a new community photo and full day of artist-centered programming titled Now Let’s Talk, Los Angeles.⁠
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The day will begin with a community photo of women and non-binary artists. (9 - 11 am)⁠
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Artists and arts workers of all gender expressions are invited to attend the Now Let’s Talk, Los Angeles programming, including Panel Discussions and Community Conversations. (11 am - 3 pm)⁠
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Now Let’s Talk, Los Angeles is presented by a coalition of 50+ regional arts organizations, and made possible through generous donations by Artlogic, ArtConverge, East West Bank, and Claremont Graduate University Art Department, with thanks to Fulcrum Arts.⁠
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For more information and to RSVP, please visit the 🔗 in bio⁠
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We are excited to welcome you!⁠
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@18thstreetarts @angelsgateart @curativeprojects @armoryarts @artconvergecommunity @art.galleria @artcenterexhibitions @_arternal_ @artistscontract @theartistsoffice @artistscommit @artlogicplatform @arts4la @artworkarchive @avenue50studio @bentonatpomona @blueroof.art @calarts @thechapterhousela @cgumfa @cherryworks.art @clockshopla @altereddaily @coritaartcenter @craftcontemporary @crenshawdairymart @culture_list @eastwestbank.us @feministcenterforcreativework @forfreedoms @lafreewaves @fulcrumarts @grandcentralart @guerrillagirls @gyopo.us @hoffman.donahue @theicala @isabelavila.photo @jamuseum @jorifinkel @thejudithcenter @lacommons @welcometolace @nomadicdivision @levelground.co @labandartgallery @losangelesartistcensus @lacarchive @meztliprojects @nowbehereart @otiscollege @oxyarts @pamuseum_ @pileleprojects @pitzerartgalleries @primerarchives @ruthchandlerwilliamsongallery @sandrajacksondumon @shg1970 @sidestreetorg @sovern.la @uscroski @wendemuseum

RSVP & Save the Date!⁠
⁠
Now Be Here’s 10-Year Anniversary & Now Let’s Talk, Los Angeles Programming on May 31, 2026, 9 am - 3 pm, at Occidental College.⁠
⁠
Are you an artist? Join us on May 31, 2026, when Now Be Here marks our 10-year anniversary with a new community photo and full day of artist-centered programming titled Now Let’s Talk, Los Angeles.⁠
⁠
The day will begin with a community photo of women and non-binary artists. (9 - 11 am)⁠
⁠
Artists and arts workers of all gender expressions are invited to attend the Now Let’s Talk, Los Angeles programming, including Panel Discussions and Community Conversations. (11 am - 3 pm)⁠
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Now Let’s Talk, Los Angeles is presented by a coalition of 50+ regional arts organizations, and made possible through generous donations by Artlogic, ArtConverge, East West Bank, and Claremont Graduate University Art Department, with thanks to Fulcrum Arts.⁠
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For more information and to RSVP, please visit the 🔗 in bio⁠
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We are excited to welcome you!⁠
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@18thstreetarts @angelsgateart @curativeprojects @armoryarts @artconvergecommunity @art.galleria @artcenterexhibitions @_arternal_ @artistscontract @theartistsoffice @artistscommit @artlogicplatform @arts4la @artworkarchive @avenue50studio @bentonatpomona @blueroof.art @calarts @thechapterhousela @cgumfa @cherryworks.art @clockshopla @altereddaily @coritaartcenter @craftcontemporary @crenshawdairymart @culture_list @eastwestbank.us @feministcenterforcreativework @forfreedoms @lafreewaves @fulcrumarts @grandcentralart @guerrillagirls @gyopo.us @hoffman.donahue @theicala @isabelavila.photo @jamuseum @jorifinkel @thejudithcenter @lacommons @welcometolace @nomadicdivision @levelground.co @labandartgallery @losangelesartistcensus @lacarchive @meztliprojects @nowbehereart @otiscollege @oxyarts @pamuseum_ @pileleprojects @pitzerartgalleries @primerarchives @ruthchandlerwilliamsongallery @sandrajacksondumon @shg1970 @sidestreetorg @sovern.la @uscroski @wendemuseum

New York-based artist Nina Sobell [@nina_sobell] writes: "I am interested in exploring notions of transformation, energy transfer, bridging the conscious and unconscious realms, and rendering the invisible visible through action and reaction. The results manifest themselves either as an action or object, and continue to live through extensive documentation. I see my life’s work as a series of explorations, where the data gathered is the fertilizer for a new crop of ingredients to develop, contemplate and play with. The processes of creation are an integral part of the work, as important as the result.⁠
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My BrainWave Drawings visualize internal states of connection, emotion, and attention layered over the human face. These works translate subtle relational signals and attempt to give form to what is sensed but rarely seen. I am also drawn to the collective unconscious where inherited patterns, fears, desires, and intuitions move through us beneath language, shaping gesture, gaze, and atmosphere before we can name them.⁠
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Formally, I work across interactive installation, video, performance, and XR. I build responsive systems with EEG wearables, cameras, and custom software that map neural and behavioral data. Color is not decorative in my work; it is a language. Frequency bands—theta, alpha, beta, gamma, and 40 Hz gamma—become visible, chromatic strands that braid, separate, and rejoin in real time. Sound functions similarly: tones, pulses, and textures shift with attention, producing a space that feels alive, sensitive, and reciprocal.⁠
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Currently, my practice is expanding into collective nonverbal communication within virtual environments such as R-Verse (our verse), exploring connection through gesture, rhythm, proximity, and shared attention globally. Ultimately, I aim to unsettle routine perception long enough for empathy to take root, deepening our connection to one another and to the fragile ecologies we share."⁠
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Work pictured:⁠
Interactive BrainWave Drawings, Nina Sobell, 1974⁠
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Mornéy (They/Them) [@goodjobtyler_] is an Artist and Designer, from Los Angeles, CA. A graduate of Otis College of Art and Design, Tyler was raised in a family heavily involved in the Black Arts and Entertainment scene. This vibrant and dynamic upbringing imprinted on Tyler, a deep appreciation of African Diasporic and Black American Art. After receiving their Bachelor’s in Graphic Design, they went on to work in the Textile industry, designing patterns for Home Interiors. In coming back to Painting, they bring a combined perspective to their art practice, merging dyed fabric and acrylic.⁠
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Mornéy writes that their "Combs series is a layered exploration of Black history and the chasm formed when ancestral and cultural ties are severed. As a Black American, the experience of feeling untethered from lineage is deeply familiar. This body of work emerges as a gesture toward reconnection.⁠
Drawn to many forms of the African diaspora, the artist depicts artifacts that span the African continent. These items function as totems, vessels for admiration and inquiry. Through them, the artist wonders what stories they may carry, reflecting on what is known and what will forever remain unknown.⁠
Radial tie-dye, a practice rooted in African tradition, becomes a meditative backdrop within the work. Its vibrations invite stillness and contemplation, creating a space where emotions dissolve into washes of color, existing and evolving with each viewer who stands before them."⁠
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Work pictured:⁠
Green Comb, Tyler Mornéy, 2021⁠
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Baltimore-based artist Lynn Cazabon [@lcazabon] writes: "My practice emerges from a foundation in analog photography and has evolved to include site-specific, multi-faceted projects expressed through still and moving lens based media, audio, text, and installation. For the past 15 years, my work has focused on the environmental, existential, and emotional ramifications of the climate crisis and often incorporates participation as a strategy to deepen public engagement. Many of my projects are ongoing and scalable, customized for the location and venue in which they are realized, which allows the work to fully engage with concepts and evolve over a long period of time. In order to reach a diverse audience, I utilize a variety of modalities, including transit displays, billboards, exterior projections, exhibitions, and mobile applications."⁠
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Cazabon's ongoing projects include:⁠
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Emotional Climate, a participatory artwork that has at its center short statements from a wide variety of people expressing the emotions they are experiencing in response to climate change and its impacts. The outcome of this work is a series of anonymous statements displayed in public facing spaces as text animations on screens and projections.⁠
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Losing Winter, a site-specific, participatory artwork and creative archive of memories and emotions about winter, revealing personal and cultural ties to the season and reflecting upon what we are collectively losing due to climate change impacts on seasonal patterns. The project is activated through the participation of local communities, site-specific exhibitions, and virtually through a dedicated augmented reality mobile application.⁠
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Uncultivated, a site-specific, scalable art project focused on wild plants within urban landscapes consisting of geo-referenced photographs, public displays, a dedicated website, and community workshops.⁠
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Pictured work:⁠
Uncultivated, Lynn Cazabon, 2016⁠
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#LynnCazabon⁠
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#LosingWinter

Based between Japan, Europe, and the US, artist Saeri Kiritani [@kiritani007] explores how identity—especially the female body—moves across borders, cultures, and media. She writes: "My rice self-portraits—first carved in New York—use thousands of grains as poetic symbols of care, nourishment, and the invisibility of women’s repetitive labor. I extend this inquiry through performance video, sculpture, and digital media, examining cultural misrecognition and the limits of translation—between languages, between genders, and between humans and machines. My work asks: what forms of memory, resistance, or belonging survive when identity is mediated through distance, technology, or history?"⁠
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Kiritani will be participating in the OUTOTSU Print Exhibition in Tokyo, held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art [@tokyometropolitanartmuseum] from May 19 - May 27.⁠
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Work pictured:⁠
Golden Dreams, Saeri Kiritani, 2024⁠
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Seattle-based artist Jennifer Zwick [@jennifer.zwick] writes about her practice: "Trained in photography, I work in a variety of media, including installations, sculptures, painting, interactive video, and printmaking. I’m a sculptural photographer, creating work that requires the viewer to reorient themselves, building things for the camera’s specific vantage point, exploiting one-point-perspective, in-camera techniques, site-specific construction, and sculptural installation. Thematically, I’m interested in optics, symmetry, humor, and anxiety, and in the beautiful way things break down, when we notice how our brains interpret (or fail to comprehend) visual information – and how this can be exploited."⁠
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The Builder, Jennifer Zwick, 2017⁠
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#NonBinaryArtists

San Francisco-based artist Kimberley Acebo Arteche (she/they) [@kimbr] is an educator, cultural worker, and interdisciplinary artist. Their work explores the hybrid cultures formed by technology, movements of immigrants in America, and the way movements through space and spaces has been affected by these two. Arteche is committed to collaboratively creating decolonial practices within arts institutions, while creating visibility and providing resources for emerging Asian Pacific American and BIPOC Artists.⁠
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Palo Maiden 201, Kimberley Acebo Arteche, 2020⁠
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Dropping today at 10am ET on YouTube! Excited to share the final HistoReminders Conversation organized by Ashley Cope featuring Washington, DC, artist Gail Shaw-Clemons and her work on African-American history and family memory! @ashley_cope_arthistory @gshawclemons ⁠
HistoReminders Conversations is a series of image-driven interviews conducted by Ashley Cope in which three contemporary artists–Sherin Guirguis, Ali Printz, and Gail Shaw-Clemons–share how history, cultural heritage, and memory influence their work. These conversations explore how artists highlight erased or forgotten histories, making them accessible and engaging through their art.⁠
Watch the full interview on YouTube @NowBeHereArt and find the transcript at www.NowBeHereArt.com!⁠
YouTube Link in bio⁠
#NowBeHereArt⁠
#GailShawClemons⁠
#AshleyCope⁠
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Dropping today at 10am ET on YouTube! We’re excited to share the next HistoReminders Conversation featuring West Virginia artist, art historian, and curator Ali Printz and her work on Appalachia! @ashley_cope_arthistory @aliprintz⁠
HistoReminders Conversations is a series of image-driven interviews conducted by Ashley Cope in which three contemporary artists–Sherin Guirguis, Ali Printz, and Gail Shaw-Clemons–share how history, cultural heritage, and memory influence their work. These conversations explore how artists highlight erased or forgotten histories, making them accessible and engaging through their art.⁠
Watch the full interview on YouTube @NowBeHereArt and find the transcript at www.NowBeHereArt.com!⁠
YouTube Link in bio⁠
#NowBeHereArt⁠
#AliPrintz⁠
#AshleyCope⁠
#UMDArtGallery⁠
#HistoReminders⁠
#ArtistInterview⁠
#appalachianart
#appalachianartist #contemporaryhistorypainting

Dropping today at 10 am PT on YouTube! Excited to share the first video in the HistoReminders Conversations series, organized by Ashley Cope, featuring Los Angeles artist Sherin Guirguis and her work on Egyptian feminism! @ashley_cope_arthistory @sherin.guirguis.studio⁠
HistoReminders Conversations is a series of image-driven interviews conducted by Ashley Cope in which three contemporary artists–Sherin Guirguis, Ali Printz, and Gail Shaw-Clemons–share how history, cultural heritage, and memory influence their work. These conversations explore how artists highlight erased or forgotten histories, making them accessible and engaging through their art.⁠
Watch the full interview on YouTube @NowBeHereArt and find the transcript at www.NowBeHereArt.com!⁠
YouTube Link in bio⁠
#NowBeHereArt⁠
#SherinGuirguis⁠
#AshleyCope⁠
#UMDArtGallery⁠
#HistoReminders⁠
#ArtistInterview⁠

Artist and @nowbehereart organizer @kimschoenstadt, author @arianneedmonds, and artist @debrascaccostudio came together for a conversation and pop-up installation within Scacco’s exhibition Laboratory for the Future.

They explored censorship, language, and creative resilience, with Edmonds highlighting the importance of resisting historical erasure and her book We Now Belong to Ourselves: J.L. Edmonds, The Black Press, and Black Citizenship in America.

#FallOfFreedom