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SUMMARY:BACKBEAT ON SUNSET
DESCRIPTION:EVERY SUNDAY – West Hollywood\nCarry your Sundaze into the evening every week at Backbeat in the Hotel Ziggy\, where a live band or DJ\, libations\, and late-night bites from B-Side will make you forget about Monday’s impending arrival. \nThere’s a revolution going down at Hotel Ziggy and you’re invited along for the ride. Our West Hollywood live music lounge and outrageous weekend pool parties are everything you’d expect and more from the Sunset Strip’s last-standing rebel. A weekly lineup of local bands\, DJs\, and events keeps our guests more than entertained and the local crowd coming back for more. Check it out and join the movement. \n \n\nBACKBEAT ON SUNSET\n\n\nBackbeat is host to the newest music venue in West Hollywood. Intentionally dropped directly into Ziggy’s lobby\, Backbeat’s decoupage walls and live sets from local bands and DJs immerse guests and locals into our deep\, and often twisted\, musical roots. Come for a nightcap at the weekly Sunday night show or host your own party on the Strip. \n\n\n\n8462 West Sunset Blvd\, West Hollywood\, California 90069 \n  \nHotel Ziggy is crusading to keep the spirit of the Sunset Strip\, an epicenter of music culture\, alive and rooted in counterculture and originality. We are a gathering place for the creatives of LA and the home base for visitors who want to be immersed in the Strip’s rebellious roots while having a little too much fun at our alluring saltwater pool. What we’ve created is both a boutique hotel and a neighborhood hangout for locals; a tribute to those who came to create\, played\, and partied. And now\, it’s your turn to do the same. \n\n\n\nEVENTS & LIVE MUSIC\n\n\nZiggy turns it up on Saturdays and Sundays with weekly pool parties from 12:00-6:00 pm featuring live DJs\, food\, and libations. Guests get a free invite and locals can purchase tickets to join in. Check out the Events Calendar for other live music and the latest happenings at Ziggy. SEE WHAT’S GOING ON \n\n\n\n\nROCKIN’ RENTALS\n\n\nHotel Ziggy offers guests access to electric and acoustic guitars\, amps\, record players\, a curated vinyl collection\, ring lighting for vlogging\, ukuleles\, tambourines\, headphones\, and Walkmans with cassette tapes to use while finding inspiration in LA. Borrow\, experiment\, and help Ziggy on its mission to free the music. \n\n \n\n\n\n  \nFor additional information\, visit the website @ \nwww.hotelziggy.com/music-events\n \n  \nFind more \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.free2funla.com/event/backbeat-on-sunset/2022-08-28/
LOCATION:Hotel Ziggy\, 8462 West Sunset Blvd\, West Hollywood\, CA\, 90069\, United States
CATEGORIES:-West Hollywood,Concerts & Music,Fun 4 Couples,Fun 4 LGBTQ,Fun 4 Seniors,Fun 4 Singles,Spaces & Places
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SUMMARY:Fast Times Every Monday at The Whisky a Go Go
DESCRIPTION:EVERY MONDAY – Whisky a Go-Go\nFast Times at The World Famous Whisky a Go-Go Every Monday Night. GET IN FREE. Just click the ticket Link and secure your tickets.  \nFast Times the Ultimate 80’s Concert Experience live at The Whisky a Go-Go every Monday Night. Fast Times performs the best of the 80’s rock and new wave music. Complete concert spectacle with LED Screens\, Lasers\, Fog machines\, the whole works. You will feel like you are at a concert in the 80s and what better venue to be at than the world-famous Whisky a Go-Go on the Sunset Strip. It all happens every Monday at The Whisky. \nNOTE: NO Shows on May 9th\, May 23rd\, May 30th\, July 4th\, Sept 5th \nDifferent Special Guest opening band every week. Get in Free. Click the Tickets link to get your tickets. A limited number of tickets so don’t wait to secure yours. All others pay $10 at the door so you must get your advanced tickets here if you want to get in for free. \n \n  \n\n \n8901 W. Sunset Blvd West Hollywood\, CA 90069 \nAs long as there has been a Los Angeles rock scene\, there has been the Whisky A Go-Go. An anchor on the Sunset Strip since its opening in 1964\, the Whisky A Go-Go has played host to rock ‘n’ roll’s most important bands\, from the Doors\, Janis Joplin\, and Led Zeppelin to today’s up-and-coming new artists. \n \nOn January 16\, 1964\, a small club on the Sunset Strip opened its doors for the first time.\n\nIt was The Whisky a Go Go\, the first-ever live music venue to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame and the most iconic club on the Strip. Founded by Mario Maglieri\, Elmer Valentine\, and Phil Tanzini – The Whisky had to spell its name without the ‘e’ in whiskey because Los Angeles city zoning laws didn’t allow any club to be named after alcohols (The Whisky constantly had problems with the city and for a while had the name “The Whisk?”). The world-famous Whisky a Go Go opened on Jan. 15\, 1964\, with a concert by Johnny Rivers. \nA DJ named Joanie Labine (the first DJ at The Whisky) played records in a booth that was suspended to the right of the stage in between Johnny Rivers’ sets. Labine entertained the crowd by dancing and the idea of the go-go dancer was born. Very soon a ‘costume’ of the go-go dancers also emerged: a girl wearing a short\, fringed skirt and high\, white boots: a trend that will spread to all discotheques and nightclubs all across the country. \nAnd the rest is history… \n\nFor additional information\, visit the website @ \nwww.eventbrite.com/e/fast-times-monday-night\n \n  \nFind more
URL:https://www.free2funla.com/event/fast-times-at-the-whiskey/2022-08-22/
LOCATION:Whisky a Go-Go\, 8901 W Sunset Blvd\, West Hollywood\, 90069\, United States
CATEGORIES:-West Hollywood,Fun 4 Couples,Fun 4 Singles,No Cover Clubs & Bars
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SUMMARY:The Abbey West Hollywood
DESCRIPTION:THE WORLD’S GREATEST GAY BAR – West Hollywood\nCome and join your friends at The Abbey\, welcoming you to a weekend of Pride celebrations! Sip on delicious cocktails\, dance the night away to our great music selection\, and enjoy a special Pride menu. Celebrating PRIDE is all about having a great time with friends and family! \n \nAfter nearly three decades in the business — an achievement in any industry but a unicorn-level rarity in the dining and nightlife scene — The Abbey is more than a dance club or restaurant. It’s a community center\, albeit one with sexy\, barely clad dancers\, 10-oz apple martinis\, and magical memories. \nThe weekly calendar includes Brunch Service on Saturdays\, All That ’90s on Tuesdays\, Ash WeHo\, Kink Thursdays\, and Sinful Fridays. The most popular day remains Sunday Funday when locals start showing up for brunch. By mid-afternoon\, there’s a line snaking down the block that’d make you think it’s on Saturday night. \nOn a typical weekday at The Abbey\, you’ll see parents with baby strollers coming from the park next door and guys in tank tops after a workout. That segues into the lunch crowd\, which eventually becomes the happy hour and dinner crowd. Around 9 p.m.\, the dancers — both guys and girls — come out. \nTHE ABBEY PRIDE WEEKEND\n \n\nTHE OWNER\n \nDavid Cooley\, hailing from Ohio and armed with a degree in Hotel Management from the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas\, packed up and moved out to Los Angeles in 1981. Pursuing a new career in finance\, Cooley was a stockbroker for two years before becoming a vice president at Wells Fargo Bank. \nShortly thereafter in 1991\, Cooley set out on his own and invested in a small\, discreet space in West Hollywood that he renovated into a coffeehouse called The Abbey.  After nearly twenty-five years and five expansions\, The Abbey is more than 14\,000 square feet and known as the Best Gay Bar in the World\, having won the award twice from Logo. \n \n  \n\nHours\nMonday – Friday: 11:00am – 2:00am\nSaturday – Sunday: 10:00am – 2:00am \n\n  \nFor additional information\, visit the website @ \nwww.theabbeyweho.com/weeklyevents\n \n  \nFind more \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.free2funla.com/event/the-abby/2022-08-20/
LOCATION:The Abbey\, 692 N Robertson Blvd\, West Hollywood\, CA\, 90069\, United States
CATEGORIES:-West Hollywood,Fun 4 Couples,Fun 4 LGBTQ,Fun 4 Seniors,Fun 4 Singles,No Cover Clubs & Bars
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SUMMARY:BACKBEAT ON SUNSET
DESCRIPTION:EVERY SUNDAY – West Hollywood\nCarry your Sundaze into the evening every week at Backbeat in the Hotel Ziggy\, where a live band or DJ\, libations\, and late-night bites from B-Side will make you forget about Monday’s impending arrival. \nThere’s a revolution going down at Hotel Ziggy and you’re invited along for the ride. Our West Hollywood live music lounge and outrageous weekend pool parties are everything you’d expect and more from the Sunset Strip’s last-standing rebel. A weekly lineup of local bands\, DJs\, and events keeps our guests more than entertained and the local crowd coming back for more. Check it out and join the movement. \n \n\nBACKBEAT ON SUNSET\n\n\nBackbeat is host to the newest music venue in West Hollywood. Intentionally dropped directly into Ziggy’s lobby\, Backbeat’s decoupage walls and live sets from local bands and DJs immerse guests and locals into our deep\, and often twisted\, musical roots. Come for a nightcap at the weekly Sunday night show or host your own party on the Strip. \n\n\n\n8462 West Sunset Blvd\, West Hollywood\, California 90069 \n  \nHotel Ziggy is crusading to keep the spirit of the Sunset Strip\, an epicenter of music culture\, alive and rooted in counterculture and originality. We are a gathering place for the creatives of LA and the home base for visitors who want to be immersed in the Strip’s rebellious roots while having a little too much fun at our alluring saltwater pool. What we’ve created is both a boutique hotel and a neighborhood hangout for locals; a tribute to those who came to create\, played\, and partied. And now\, it’s your turn to do the same. \n\n\n\nEVENTS & LIVE MUSIC\n\n\nZiggy turns it up on Saturdays and Sundays with weekly pool parties from 12:00-6:00 pm featuring live DJs\, food\, and libations. Guests get a free invite and locals can purchase tickets to join in. Check out the Events Calendar for other live music and the latest happenings at Ziggy. SEE WHAT’S GOING ON \n\n\n\n\nROCKIN’ RENTALS\n\n\nHotel Ziggy offers guests access to electric and acoustic guitars\, amps\, record players\, a curated vinyl collection\, ring lighting for vlogging\, ukuleles\, tambourines\, headphones\, and Walkmans with cassette tapes to use while finding inspiration in LA. Borrow\, experiment\, and help Ziggy on its mission to free the music. \n\n \n\n\n\n  \nFor additional information\, visit the website @ \nwww.hotelziggy.com/music-events\n \n  \nFind more \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.free2funla.com/event/backbeat-on-sunset/2022-08-14/
LOCATION:Hotel Ziggy\, 8462 West Sunset Blvd\, West Hollywood\, CA\, 90069\, United States
CATEGORIES:-West Hollywood,Concerts & Music,Fun 4 Couples,Fun 4 LGBTQ,Fun 4 Seniors,Fun 4 Singles,Spaces & Places
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SUMMARY:Flame Saturdays at State Social House
DESCRIPTION:EVERY SATURDAY – West Hollywood\nSALSA AND BACHATA ALL.NIGHT.LONG on Flame at State Social House. We are waiting for you to dance all night long with us in the West Hollywood area. DJ JP Santana will be playing all your favorite music inside of State Social House on Sunset Strip! \n8:30 PM Free Salsa Lesson\n9:00 PM Free Bachata Lesson\nSalsa & bachata night until 2:00 AM with DJ JP Santana\n \nIf you want to RSVP for the dance lessons you can do it through Eventbrite. Free entrance before 9:00 pm with registration. \nGeneral cover $10 all night. \nIf you are interested in celebrating your birthday at Flame\, we will offer you the best Latin party in West Hollywood\, a bottle of champagne courtesy of the house\, a fire show\, 50% discount on your entire guest list. Reservations at (818) 724-20 96 \n\n \n8782 West Sunset Blvd\, West Hollywood\, CA 90069 \n \nState Social House is a multi-layered Restaurant and Bar. Rustic-chic gastropub plating American comfort food & offering a cigar lounge & upstairs piano bar.  Local musicians play live music nightly in the Attic. Come in to watch NFL with us or any other local sports on one of our 22 TVs. Saturday and Sunday Brunch from 11:30 am to 3 pm with $15. \nState Social House is a two-level restaurant and bar complex. Occupying both the sites of the former Red Rock bar and Isla Cantina at Sunset Boulevard and Holloway\, the venture features a restaurant that seats 150\, a piano bar on the second level that seats 75\, and a smoking lounge called The Backroom will take over the space now occupied by Isla Cantina. \nChef Vernon Cardenas will take on executive chef duties at State Social House. Cardenas\, the former corporate executive chef for Innovative Dining Group’s Boa\, Katana\, and Sushi Roku and former executive chef of Pink Taco\, is designing a menu of crafted comfort food featuring a number of small plates. There will be 20 beers on tap\, a list of boutique wines\, and a unique seasonal cocktails menu. Additionally\, The Backroom smoking lounge will offer cigars for purchase. \n\nFor additional information\, visit the website @ \nwww.eventbrite.com/e/flame-saturdays\n \n  \nFind more \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.free2funla.com/event/flame-saturdays-at-state-social-house/
LOCATION:State Social House\, 8782 Sunset Boulevard\, West Hollywood\, CA\, 90069\, United States
CATEGORIES:-West Hollywood,Fun 4 Couples,Fun 4 Singles,No Cover Clubs & Bars,Theater & Dance
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SUMMARY:The Abbey West Hollywood
DESCRIPTION:THE WORLD’S GREATEST GAY BAR – West Hollywood\nCome and join your friends at The Abbey\, welcoming you to a weekend of Pride celebrations! Sip on delicious cocktails\, dance the night away to our great music selection\, and enjoy a special Pride menu. Celebrating PRIDE is all about having a great time with friends and family! \n \nAfter nearly three decades in the business — an achievement in any industry but a unicorn-level rarity in the dining and nightlife scene — The Abbey is more than a dance club or restaurant. It’s a community center\, albeit one with sexy\, barely clad dancers\, 10-oz apple martinis\, and magical memories. \nThe weekly calendar includes Brunch Service on Saturdays\, All That ’90s on Tuesdays\, Ash WeHo\, Kink Thursdays\, and Sinful Fridays. The most popular day remains Sunday Funday when locals start showing up for brunch. By mid-afternoon\, there’s a line snaking down the block that’d make you think it’s on Saturday night. \nOn a typical weekday at The Abbey\, you’ll see parents with baby strollers coming from the park next door and guys in tank tops after a workout. That segues into the lunch crowd\, which eventually becomes the happy hour and dinner crowd. Around 9 p.m.\, the dancers — both guys and girls — come out. \nTHE ABBEY PRIDE WEEKEND\n \n\nTHE OWNER\n \nDavid Cooley\, hailing from Ohio and armed with a degree in Hotel Management from the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas\, packed up and moved out to Los Angeles in 1981. Pursuing a new career in finance\, Cooley was a stockbroker for two years before becoming a vice president at Wells Fargo Bank. \nShortly thereafter in 1991\, Cooley set out on his own and invested in a small\, discreet space in West Hollywood that he renovated into a coffeehouse called The Abbey.  After nearly twenty-five years and five expansions\, The Abbey is more than 14\,000 square feet and known as the Best Gay Bar in the World\, having won the award twice from Logo. \n \n  \n\nHours\nMonday – Friday: 11:00am – 2:00am\nSaturday – Sunday: 10:00am – 2:00am \n\n  \nFor additional information\, visit the website @ \nwww.theabbeyweho.com/weeklyevents\n \n  \nFind more \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.free2funla.com/event/the-abby/2022-08-05/
LOCATION:The Abbey\, 692 N Robertson Blvd\, West Hollywood\, CA\, 90069\, United States
CATEGORIES:-West Hollywood,Fun 4 Couples,Fun 4 LGBTQ,Fun 4 Seniors,Fun 4 Singles,No Cover Clubs & Bars
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SUMMARY:Fast Times Every Monday at The Whisky a Go Go
DESCRIPTION:EVERY MONDAY – Whisky a Go-Go\nFast Times at The World Famous Whisky a Go-Go Every Monday Night. GET IN FREE. Just click the ticket Link and secure your tickets.  \nFast Times the Ultimate 80’s Concert Experience live at The Whisky a Go-Go every Monday Night. Fast Times performs the best of the 80’s rock and new wave music. Complete concert spectacle with LED Screens\, Lasers\, Fog machines\, the whole works. You will feel like you are at a concert in the 80s and what better venue to be at than the world-famous Whisky a Go-Go on the Sunset Strip. It all happens every Monday at The Whisky. \nNOTE: NO Shows on May 9th\, May 23rd\, May 30th\, July 4th\, Sept 5th \nDifferent Special Guest opening band every week. Get in Free. Click the Tickets link to get your tickets. A limited number of tickets so don’t wait to secure yours. All others pay $10 at the door so you must get your advanced tickets here if you want to get in for free. \n \n  \n\n \n8901 W. Sunset Blvd West Hollywood\, CA 90069 \nAs long as there has been a Los Angeles rock scene\, there has been the Whisky A Go-Go. An anchor on the Sunset Strip since its opening in 1964\, the Whisky A Go-Go has played host to rock ‘n’ roll’s most important bands\, from the Doors\, Janis Joplin\, and Led Zeppelin to today’s up-and-coming new artists. \n \nOn January 16\, 1964\, a small club on the Sunset Strip opened its doors for the first time.\n\nIt was The Whisky a Go Go\, the first-ever live music venue to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame and the most iconic club on the Strip. Founded by Mario Maglieri\, Elmer Valentine\, and Phil Tanzini – The Whisky had to spell its name without the ‘e’ in whiskey because Los Angeles city zoning laws didn’t allow any club to be named after alcohols (The Whisky constantly had problems with the city and for a while had the name “The Whisk?”). The world-famous Whisky a Go Go opened on Jan. 15\, 1964\, with a concert by Johnny Rivers. \nA DJ named Joanie Labine (the first DJ at The Whisky) played records in a booth that was suspended to the right of the stage in between Johnny Rivers’ sets. Labine entertained the crowd by dancing and the idea of the go-go dancer was born. Very soon a ‘costume’ of the go-go dancers also emerged: a girl wearing a short\, fringed skirt and high\, white boots: a trend that will spread to all discotheques and nightclubs all across the country. \nAnd the rest is history… \n\nFor additional information\, visit the website @ \nwww.eventbrite.com/e/fast-times-monday-night\n \n  \nFind more
URL:https://www.free2funla.com/event/fast-times-at-the-whiskey/2022-08-01/
LOCATION:Whisky a Go-Go\, 8901 W Sunset Blvd\, West Hollywood\, 90069\, United States
CATEGORIES:-West Hollywood,Fun 4 Couples,Fun 4 Singles,No Cover Clubs & Bars
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SUMMARY:Fast Times Every Monday at The Whisky a Go Go
DESCRIPTION:EVERY MONDAY – Whisky a Go-Go\nFast Times at The World Famous Whisky a Go-Go Every Monday Night. GET IN FREE. Just click the ticket Link and secure your tickets.  \nFast Times the Ultimate 80’s Concert Experience live at The Whisky a Go-Go every Monday Night. Fast Times performs the best of the 80’s rock and new wave music. Complete concert spectacle with LED Screens\, Lasers\, Fog machines\, the whole works. You will feel like you are at a concert in the 80s and what better venue to be at than the world-famous Whisky a Go-Go on the Sunset Strip. It all happens every Monday at The Whisky. \nNOTE: NO Shows on May 9th\, May 23rd\, May 30th\, July 4th\, Sept 5th \nDifferent Special Guest opening band every week. Get in Free. Click the Tickets link to get your tickets. A limited number of tickets so don’t wait to secure yours. All others pay $10 at the door so you must get your advanced tickets here if you want to get in for free. \n \n  \n\n \n8901 W. Sunset Blvd West Hollywood\, CA 90069 \nAs long as there has been a Los Angeles rock scene\, there has been the Whisky A Go-Go. An anchor on the Sunset Strip since its opening in 1964\, the Whisky A Go-Go has played host to rock ‘n’ roll’s most important bands\, from the Doors\, Janis Joplin\, and Led Zeppelin to today’s up-and-coming new artists. \n \nOn January 16\, 1964\, a small club on the Sunset Strip opened its doors for the first time.\n\nIt was The Whisky a Go Go\, the first-ever live music venue to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame and the most iconic club on the Strip. Founded by Mario Maglieri\, Elmer Valentine\, and Phil Tanzini – The Whisky had to spell its name without the ‘e’ in whiskey because Los Angeles city zoning laws didn’t allow any club to be named after alcohols (The Whisky constantly had problems with the city and for a while had the name “The Whisk?”). The world-famous Whisky a Go Go opened on Jan. 15\, 1964\, with a concert by Johnny Rivers. \nA DJ named Joanie Labine (the first DJ at The Whisky) played records in a booth that was suspended to the right of the stage in between Johnny Rivers’ sets. Labine entertained the crowd by dancing and the idea of the go-go dancer was born. Very soon a ‘costume’ of the go-go dancers also emerged: a girl wearing a short\, fringed skirt and high\, white boots: a trend that will spread to all discotheques and nightclubs all across the country. \nAnd the rest is history… \n\nFor additional information\, visit the website @ \nwww.eventbrite.com/e/fast-times-monday-night\n \n  \nFind more
URL:https://www.free2funla.com/event/fast-times-at-the-whiskey/2022-07-25/
LOCATION:Whisky a Go-Go\, 8901 W Sunset Blvd\, West Hollywood\, 90069\, United States
CATEGORIES:-West Hollywood,Fun 4 Couples,Fun 4 Singles,No Cover Clubs & Bars
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SUMMARY:BACKBEAT ON SUNSET
DESCRIPTION:EVERY SUNDAY – West Hollywood\nCarry your Sundaze into the evening every week at Backbeat in the Hotel Ziggy\, where a live band or DJ\, libations\, and late-night bites from B-Side will make you forget about Monday’s impending arrival. \nThere’s a revolution going down at Hotel Ziggy and you’re invited along for the ride. Our West Hollywood live music lounge and outrageous weekend pool parties are everything you’d expect and more from the Sunset Strip’s last-standing rebel. A weekly lineup of local bands\, DJs\, and events keeps our guests more than entertained and the local crowd coming back for more. Check it out and join the movement. \n \n\nBACKBEAT ON SUNSET\n\n\nBackbeat is host to the newest music venue in West Hollywood. Intentionally dropped directly into Ziggy’s lobby\, Backbeat’s decoupage walls and live sets from local bands and DJs immerse guests and locals into our deep\, and often twisted\, musical roots. Come for a nightcap at the weekly Sunday night show or host your own party on the Strip. \n\n\n\n8462 West Sunset Blvd\, West Hollywood\, California 90069 \n  \nHotel Ziggy is crusading to keep the spirit of the Sunset Strip\, an epicenter of music culture\, alive and rooted in counterculture and originality. We are a gathering place for the creatives of LA and the home base for visitors who want to be immersed in the Strip’s rebellious roots while having a little too much fun at our alluring saltwater pool. What we’ve created is both a boutique hotel and a neighborhood hangout for locals; a tribute to those who came to create\, played\, and partied. And now\, it’s your turn to do the same. \n\n\n\nEVENTS & LIVE MUSIC\n\n\nZiggy turns it up on Saturdays and Sundays with weekly pool parties from 12:00-6:00 pm featuring live DJs\, food\, and libations. Guests get a free invite and locals can purchase tickets to join in. Check out the Events Calendar for other live music and the latest happenings at Ziggy. SEE WHAT’S GOING ON \n\n\n\n\nROCKIN’ RENTALS\n\n\nHotel Ziggy offers guests access to electric and acoustic guitars\, amps\, record players\, a curated vinyl collection\, ring lighting for vlogging\, ukuleles\, tambourines\, headphones\, and Walkmans with cassette tapes to use while finding inspiration in LA. Borrow\, experiment\, and help Ziggy on its mission to free the music. \n\n \n\n\n\n  \nFor additional information\, visit the website @ \nwww.hotelziggy.com/music-events\n \n  \nFind more \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.free2funla.com/event/backbeat-on-sunset/2022-07-24/
LOCATION:Hotel Ziggy\, 8462 West Sunset Blvd\, West Hollywood\, CA\, 90069\, United States
CATEGORIES:-West Hollywood,Concerts & Music,Fun 4 Couples,Fun 4 LGBTQ,Fun 4 Seniors,Fun 4 Singles,Spaces & Places
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220716T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220717T020000
DTSTAMP:20221206T181533Z
CREATED:20221206T181533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221206T181533Z
UID:10007551-1657969200-1658023200@www.free2funla.com
SUMMARY:The Abbey West Hollywood
DESCRIPTION:THE WORLD’S GREATEST GAY BAR – West Hollywood\nCome and join your friends at The Abbey\, welcoming you to a weekend of Pride celebrations! Sip on delicious cocktails\, dance the night away to our great music selection\, and enjoy a special Pride menu. Celebrating PRIDE is all about having a great time with friends and family! \n \nAfter nearly three decades in the business — an achievement in any industry but a unicorn-level rarity in the dining and nightlife scene — The Abbey is more than a dance club or restaurant. It’s a community center\, albeit one with sexy\, barely clad dancers\, 10-oz apple martinis\, and magical memories. \nThe weekly calendar includes Brunch Service on Saturdays\, All That ’90s on Tuesdays\, Ash WeHo\, Kink Thursdays\, and Sinful Fridays. The most popular day remains Sunday Funday when locals start showing up for brunch. By mid-afternoon\, there’s a line snaking down the block that’d make you think it’s on Saturday night. \nOn a typical weekday at The Abbey\, you’ll see parents with baby strollers coming from the park next door and guys in tank tops after a workout. That segues into the lunch crowd\, which eventually becomes the happy hour and dinner crowd. Around 9 p.m.\, the dancers — both guys and girls — come out. \nTHE ABBEY PRIDE WEEKEND\n \n\nTHE OWNER\n \nDavid Cooley\, hailing from Ohio and armed with a degree in Hotel Management from the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas\, packed up and moved out to Los Angeles in 1981. Pursuing a new career in finance\, Cooley was a stockbroker for two years before becoming a vice president at Wells Fargo Bank. \nShortly thereafter in 1991\, Cooley set out on his own and invested in a small\, discreet space in West Hollywood that he renovated into a coffeehouse called The Abbey.  After nearly twenty-five years and five expansions\, The Abbey is more than 14\,000 square feet and known as the Best Gay Bar in the World\, having won the award twice from Logo. \n \n  \n\nHours\nMonday – Friday: 11:00am – 2:00am\nSaturday – Sunday: 10:00am – 2:00am \n\n  \nFor additional information\, visit the website @ \nwww.theabbeyweho.com/weeklyevents\n \n  \nFind more \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.free2funla.com/event/the-abby/2022-07-16/
LOCATION:The Abbey\, 692 N Robertson Blvd\, West Hollywood\, CA\, 90069\, United States
CATEGORIES:-West Hollywood,Fun 4 Couples,Fun 4 LGBTQ,Fun 4 Seniors,Fun 4 Singles,No Cover Clubs & Bars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220710T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220711T020000
DTSTAMP:20220706T000353Z
CREATED:20220628T115332Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220706T000353Z
UID:10012302-1657483200-1657504800@www.free2funla.com
SUMMARY:BACKBEAT ON SUNSET
DESCRIPTION:EVERY SUNDAY – West Hollywood\nCarry your Sundaze into the evening every week at Backbeat in the Hotel Ziggy\, where a live band or DJ\, libations\, and late-night bites from B-Side will make you forget about Monday’s impending arrival. \nThere’s a revolution going down at Hotel Ziggy and you’re invited along for the ride. Our West Hollywood live music lounge and outrageous weekend pool parties are everything you’d expect and more from the Sunset Strip’s last-standing rebel. A weekly lineup of local bands\, DJs\, and events keeps our guests more than entertained and the local crowd coming back for more. Check it out and join the movement. \n \n\nBACKBEAT ON SUNSET\n\n\nBackbeat is host to the newest music venue in West Hollywood. Intentionally dropped directly into Ziggy’s lobby\, Backbeat’s decoupage walls and live sets from local bands and DJs immerse guests and locals into our deep\, and often twisted\, musical roots. Come for a nightcap at the weekly Sunday night show or host your own party on the Strip. \n\n\n\n8462 West Sunset Blvd\, West Hollywood\, California 90069 \n  \nHotel Ziggy is crusading to keep the spirit of the Sunset Strip\, an epicenter of music culture\, alive and rooted in counterculture and originality. We are a gathering place for the creatives of LA and the home base for visitors who want to be immersed in the Strip’s rebellious roots while having a little too much fun at our alluring saltwater pool. What we’ve created is both a boutique hotel and a neighborhood hangout for locals; a tribute to those who came to create\, played\, and partied. And now\, it’s your turn to do the same. \n\n\n\nEVENTS & LIVE MUSIC\n\n\nZiggy turns it up on Saturdays and Sundays with weekly pool parties from 12:00-6:00 pm featuring live DJs\, food\, and libations. Guests get a free invite and locals can purchase tickets to join in. Check out the Events Calendar for other live music and the latest happenings at Ziggy. SEE WHAT’S GOING ON \n\n\n\n\nROCKIN’ RENTALS\n\n\nHotel Ziggy offers guests access to electric and acoustic guitars\, amps\, record players\, a curated vinyl collection\, ring lighting for vlogging\, ukuleles\, tambourines\, headphones\, and Walkmans with cassette tapes to use while finding inspiration in LA. Borrow\, experiment\, and help Ziggy on its mission to free the music. \n\n \n\n\n\n  \nFor additional information\, visit the website @ \nwww.hotelziggy.com/music-events\n \n  \nFind more \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.free2funla.com/event/backbeat-on-sunset/2022-07-10/
LOCATION:Hotel Ziggy\, 8462 West Sunset Blvd\, West Hollywood\, CA\, 90069\, United States
CATEGORIES:-West Hollywood,Concerts & Music,Fun 4 Couples,Fun 4 LGBTQ,Fun 4 Seniors,Fun 4 Singles,Spaces & Places
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220703T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220704T020000
DTSTAMP:20220706T000353Z
CREATED:20220628T115332Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220706T000353Z
UID:10012301-1656878400-1656900000@www.free2funla.com
SUMMARY:BACKBEAT ON SUNSET
DESCRIPTION:EVERY SUNDAY – West Hollywood\nCarry your Sundaze into the evening every week at Backbeat in the Hotel Ziggy\, where a live band or DJ\, libations\, and late-night bites from B-Side will make you forget about Monday’s impending arrival. \nThere’s a revolution going down at Hotel Ziggy and you’re invited along for the ride. Our West Hollywood live music lounge and outrageous weekend pool parties are everything you’d expect and more from the Sunset Strip’s last-standing rebel. A weekly lineup of local bands\, DJs\, and events keeps our guests more than entertained and the local crowd coming back for more. Check it out and join the movement. \n \n\nBACKBEAT ON SUNSET\n\n\nBackbeat is host to the newest music venue in West Hollywood. Intentionally dropped directly into Ziggy’s lobby\, Backbeat’s decoupage walls and live sets from local bands and DJs immerse guests and locals into our deep\, and often twisted\, musical roots. Come for a nightcap at the weekly Sunday night show or host your own party on the Strip. \n\n\n\n8462 West Sunset Blvd\, West Hollywood\, California 90069 \n  \nHotel Ziggy is crusading to keep the spirit of the Sunset Strip\, an epicenter of music culture\, alive and rooted in counterculture and originality. We are a gathering place for the creatives of LA and the home base for visitors who want to be immersed in the Strip’s rebellious roots while having a little too much fun at our alluring saltwater pool. What we’ve created is both a boutique hotel and a neighborhood hangout for locals; a tribute to those who came to create\, played\, and partied. And now\, it’s your turn to do the same. \n\n\n\nEVENTS & LIVE MUSIC\n\n\nZiggy turns it up on Saturdays and Sundays with weekly pool parties from 12:00-6:00 pm featuring live DJs\, food\, and libations. Guests get a free invite and locals can purchase tickets to join in. Check out the Events Calendar for other live music and the latest happenings at Ziggy. SEE WHAT’S GOING ON \n\n\n\n\nROCKIN’ RENTALS\n\n\nHotel Ziggy offers guests access to electric and acoustic guitars\, amps\, record players\, a curated vinyl collection\, ring lighting for vlogging\, ukuleles\, tambourines\, headphones\, and Walkmans with cassette tapes to use while finding inspiration in LA. Borrow\, experiment\, and help Ziggy on its mission to free the music. \n\n \n\n\n\n  \nFor additional information\, visit the website @ \nwww.hotelziggy.com/music-events\n \n  \nFind more \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.free2funla.com/event/backbeat-on-sunset/2022-07-03/
LOCATION:Hotel Ziggy\, 8462 West Sunset Blvd\, West Hollywood\, CA\, 90069\, United States
CATEGORIES:-West Hollywood,Concerts & Music,Fun 4 Couples,Fun 4 LGBTQ,Fun 4 Seniors,Fun 4 Singles,Spaces & Places
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220701T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220702T020000
DTSTAMP:20220602T202415Z
CREATED:20220602T201021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220602T202415Z
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SUMMARY:The Abbey West Hollywood
DESCRIPTION:THE WORLD’S GREATEST GAY BAR – West Hollywood\nCome and join your friends at The Abbey\, welcoming you to a weekend of Pride celebrations! Sip on delicious cocktails\, dance the night away to our great music selection\, and enjoy a special Pride menu. Celebrating PRIDE is all about having a great time with friends and family! \n \nAfter nearly three decades in the business — an achievement in any industry but a unicorn-level rarity in the dining and nightlife scene — The Abbey is more than a dance club or restaurant. It’s a community center\, albeit one with sexy\, barely clad dancers\, 10-oz apple martinis\, and magical memories. \nThe weekly calendar includes Brunch Service on Saturdays\, All That ’90s on Tuesdays\, Ash WeHo\, Kink Thursdays\, and Sinful Fridays. The most popular day remains Sunday Funday when locals start showing up for brunch. By mid-afternoon\, there’s a line snaking down the block that’d make you think it’s on Saturday night. \nOn a typical weekday at The Abbey\, you’ll see parents with baby strollers coming from the park next door and guys in tank tops after a workout. That segues into the lunch crowd\, which eventually becomes the happy hour and dinner crowd. Around 9 p.m.\, the dancers — both guys and girls — come out. \nTHE ABBEY PRIDE WEEKEND\n \n\nTHE OWNER\n \nDavid Cooley\, hailing from Ohio and armed with a degree in Hotel Management from the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas\, packed up and moved out to Los Angeles in 1981. Pursuing a new career in finance\, Cooley was a stockbroker for two years before becoming a vice president at Wells Fargo Bank. \nShortly thereafter in 1991\, Cooley set out on his own and invested in a small\, discreet space in West Hollywood that he renovated into a coffeehouse called The Abbey.  After nearly twenty-five years and five expansions\, The Abbey is more than 14\,000 square feet and known as the Best Gay Bar in the World\, having won the award twice from Logo. \n \n  \n\nHours\nMonday – Friday: 11:00am – 2:00am\nSaturday – Sunday: 10:00am – 2:00am \n\n  \nFor additional information\, visit the website @ \nwww.theabbeyweho.com/weeklyevents\n \n  \nFind more \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.free2funla.com/event/the-abby/2022-07-01/
LOCATION:The Abbey\, 692 N Robertson Blvd\, West Hollywood\, CA\, 90069\, United States
CATEGORIES:-West Hollywood,Fun 4 Couples,Fun 4 LGBTQ,Fun 4 Seniors,Fun 4 Singles,No Cover Clubs & Bars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220618T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220619T020000
DTSTAMP:20221206T181533Z
CREATED:20221206T181533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221206T181533Z
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SUMMARY:The Abbey West Hollywood
DESCRIPTION:THE WORLD’S GREATEST GAY BAR – West Hollywood\nCome and join your friends at The Abbey\, welcoming you to a weekend of Pride celebrations! Sip on delicious cocktails\, dance the night away to our great music selection\, and enjoy a special Pride menu. Celebrating PRIDE is all about having a great time with friends and family! \n \nAfter nearly three decades in the business — an achievement in any industry but a unicorn-level rarity in the dining and nightlife scene — The Abbey is more than a dance club or restaurant. It’s a community center\, albeit one with sexy\, barely clad dancers\, 10-oz apple martinis\, and magical memories. \nThe weekly calendar includes Brunch Service on Saturdays\, All That ’90s on Tuesdays\, Ash WeHo\, Kink Thursdays\, and Sinful Fridays. The most popular day remains Sunday Funday when locals start showing up for brunch. By mid-afternoon\, there’s a line snaking down the block that’d make you think it’s on Saturday night. \nOn a typical weekday at The Abbey\, you’ll see parents with baby strollers coming from the park next door and guys in tank tops after a workout. That segues into the lunch crowd\, which eventually becomes the happy hour and dinner crowd. Around 9 p.m.\, the dancers — both guys and girls — come out. \nTHE ABBEY PRIDE WEEKEND\n \n\nTHE OWNER\n \nDavid Cooley\, hailing from Ohio and armed with a degree in Hotel Management from the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas\, packed up and moved out to Los Angeles in 1981. Pursuing a new career in finance\, Cooley was a stockbroker for two years before becoming a vice president at Wells Fargo Bank. \nShortly thereafter in 1991\, Cooley set out on his own and invested in a small\, discreet space in West Hollywood that he renovated into a coffeehouse called The Abbey.  After nearly twenty-five years and five expansions\, The Abbey is more than 14\,000 square feet and known as the Best Gay Bar in the World\, having won the award twice from Logo. \n \n  \n\nHours\nMonday – Friday: 11:00am – 2:00am\nSaturday – Sunday: 10:00am – 2:00am \n\n  \nFor additional information\, visit the website @ \nwww.theabbeyweho.com/weeklyevents\n \n  \nFind more \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.free2funla.com/event/the-abby/2022-06-18/
LOCATION:The Abbey\, 692 N Robertson Blvd\, West Hollywood\, CA\, 90069\, United States
CATEGORIES:-West Hollywood,Fun 4 Couples,Fun 4 LGBTQ,Fun 4 Seniors,Fun 4 Singles,No Cover Clubs & Bars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220605T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220605T150000
DTSTAMP:20220602T210914Z
CREATED:20220602T190844Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220602T210914Z
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SUMMARY:Weho Pride Parade
DESCRIPTION:TODAY’s THE DAY!- West Hollywood\nWeHo Pride Parade has returned! Get ready to get festive and roll down Santa Monica Boulevard from Crescent Heights Boulevard into the heart of the Rainbow District for the inaugural WeHo Pride Parade on Sunday\, June 5\, 2022\, starting at noon. \nCommunity members\, businesses\, community partners\, LGBTQ groups\, and allies of all kinds will get creative as we celebrate WeHo Pride in the City of West Hollywood with a parade! \nTogether as a community\, we will bring entertainment\, excitement\, and a whole lot of fun to WeHo Pride weekend with floats\, bands\, drill teams\, dance teams\, march contingents\, and more! \nSpectators and parade participants will be entertained during a unique\, fun\, colorful\, and entertaining day! \nThis year\, the City of West Hollywood proudly presents its inaugural WeHo Pride\, kicking-off celebrations across the nation during Pride Month in June. \nWeHo Pride Weekend celebrations in and around West Hollywood Park will include a free WeHo Pride Street Fair representing a diverse array of LGBTQ+ community groups as part of visibility\, expression\, and celebration; a 3-day ticketed OUTLOUD Raising Voices Music Festival\, the Dyke March and Women’s Freedom Festival on June 3\, and the inaugural WeHo Pride Parade on June 5. \n  \n\n\n2022 WEHO PRIDE STREET FAIR schedule:\n\n\nWeHo Pride Weekend\, Street Fair and Parade– June 3-5\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nStreet Fair and Community Stage of WeHo Pride- June 3 – 5\nBelow are the WeHo Pride LGBTQ Arts Festival funded projects that have been provided space at the WeHo Pride weekend stage and street fair. There will be a parade on June 5\, 12-3pm\, along Santa Monica Blvd. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor additional information\, visit the website @ \nhttps://www.weho.org/community/weho-pride\n \n  \nFind more
URL:https://www.free2funla.com/event/weho-pride-2022-06-05/
LOCATION:West Hollywod\, Cresent Heights and Santa Monica Blvd\, West Hollywood\, CA\, 90069\, United States
CATEGORIES:-West Hollywood,Arts & Crafts,Community,Concerts & Music,Fun 4 Couples,Fun 4 Kids,Fun 4 LGBTQ,Fun 4 Seniors,Fun 4 Singles,Fun 4 Teens,Museums,Online/ Virtual,Parks,Spaces & Places
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220603T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220603T220000
DTSTAMP:20230531T074823Z
CREATED:20220602T190844Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230531T074823Z
UID:10024418-1654257600-1654293600@www.free2funla.com
SUMMARY:WeHo Pride Street Fair
DESCRIPTION:THIS WEEKEND- West Hollywood\nWeHo Pride Weekend is proudly produced by the City of West Hollywood\, June 2 – 4\, 2023. WeHo Pride kicks-off celebrations across the nation during Pride Month in June. \nWeHo Pride Weekend celebrations on Santa Monica Blvd. and in and around West Hollywood Park will include a free WeHo Pride Street Fair representing a diverse array of LGBTQ+ community groups as part of visibility\, expression\, and celebration; a 3-day ticketed OUTLOUD Raising Voices Music Festival\, the Dyke March and Women’s Freedom Festival\, and the WeHo Pride Parade on June 4. \nWeHo Pride Weekend\nFriday\, June 2\, – Sunday\, 4\, 2023\nSanta Monica Blvd. and West Hollywood Park.\n \nFor more information\, visit and follow us on Instagram and Facebook. \n__________________________________________________________________________________ \nSince its incorporation in 1984\, the City of West Hollywood has become one of the most influential cities in the nation for its outspoken advocacy on LGBTQ issues. No other city of its size has had a greater impact on the national public policy discourse on fairness and inclusiveness for LGBTQ people. \nHome to the “Rainbow District” along Santa Monica Boulevard\, which features a concentration of historic LGBTQ clubs\, restaurants\, and retail shops\, the City consistently tops lists of “most LGBTQ friendly cities” in the nation. More than 40 percent of residents in West Hollywood identify as LGBTQ and three of the five members of the West Hollywood City Council are openly gay. \nThe City has advocated for nearly four decades for measures that support LGBTQ individuals and the City is in the vanguard on efforts to gain and protect equality for all people on a state\, national\, and international level. \n\n\nCelebrate Pride with diverse participation of LGBTQ+ community groups and allied organizations as part of visibility and expression. The Street Fair is free and will feature a vibrant variety of exhibitors along Santa Monica Boulevard. There will be live entertainment and performances on a community stage\, highlighting the LGBTQ+ community. The Street Fair is a family-friendly event and is open to everyone. It is a great occasion to take part in WeHo Pride’s LGBTQ+ community experience.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nFor additional information\, visit the website @ \nWeHoPride.com \n \n  \nFind more
URL:https://www.free2funla.com/event/weho-pride/2022-06-03/
LOCATION:West Hollywod\, Cresent Heights and Santa Monica Blvd\, West Hollywood\, CA\, 90069\, United States
CATEGORIES:-West Hollywood,Festivals & Flea Markets,Fun 4 LGBTQ
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220603T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220604T020000
DTSTAMP:20220602T202415Z
CREATED:20220602T201021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220602T202415Z
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SUMMARY:The Abbey West Hollywood
DESCRIPTION:THE WORLD’S GREATEST GAY BAR – West Hollywood\nCome and join your friends at The Abbey\, welcoming you to a weekend of Pride celebrations! Sip on delicious cocktails\, dance the night away to our great music selection\, and enjoy a special Pride menu. Celebrating PRIDE is all about having a great time with friends and family! \n \nAfter nearly three decades in the business — an achievement in any industry but a unicorn-level rarity in the dining and nightlife scene — The Abbey is more than a dance club or restaurant. It’s a community center\, albeit one with sexy\, barely clad dancers\, 10-oz apple martinis\, and magical memories. \nThe weekly calendar includes Brunch Service on Saturdays\, All That ’90s on Tuesdays\, Ash WeHo\, Kink Thursdays\, and Sinful Fridays. The most popular day remains Sunday Funday when locals start showing up for brunch. By mid-afternoon\, there’s a line snaking down the block that’d make you think it’s on Saturday night. \nOn a typical weekday at The Abbey\, you’ll see parents with baby strollers coming from the park next door and guys in tank tops after a workout. That segues into the lunch crowd\, which eventually becomes the happy hour and dinner crowd. Around 9 p.m.\, the dancers — both guys and girls — come out. \nTHE ABBEY PRIDE WEEKEND\n \n\nTHE OWNER\n \nDavid Cooley\, hailing from Ohio and armed with a degree in Hotel Management from the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas\, packed up and moved out to Los Angeles in 1981. Pursuing a new career in finance\, Cooley was a stockbroker for two years before becoming a vice president at Wells Fargo Bank. \nShortly thereafter in 1991\, Cooley set out on his own and invested in a small\, discreet space in West Hollywood that he renovated into a coffeehouse called The Abbey.  After nearly twenty-five years and five expansions\, The Abbey is more than 14\,000 square feet and known as the Best Gay Bar in the World\, having won the award twice from Logo. \n \n  \n\nHours\nMonday – Friday: 11:00am – 2:00am\nSaturday – Sunday: 10:00am – 2:00am \n\n  \nFor additional information\, visit the website @ \nwww.theabbeyweho.com/weeklyevents\n \n  \nFind more \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.free2funla.com/event/the-abby/2022-06-03/
LOCATION:The Abbey\, 692 N Robertson Blvd\, West Hollywood\, CA\, 90069\, United States
CATEGORIES:-West Hollywood,Fun 4 Couples,Fun 4 LGBTQ,Fun 4 Seniors,Fun 4 Singles,No Cover Clubs & Bars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211118T170000
DTSTAMP:20221206T182812Z
CREATED:20221206T182812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221206T182812Z
UID:10009264-1637236800-1637254800@www.free2funla.com
SUMMARY:PINATAS: THE HIGH ART OF CELEBRATION
DESCRIPTION:EVERY TUESDAY – SUNDAY- 3rd Street\n\nPINATAS: THE HIGH ART OF CELEBRATION\n9/4/2021 – 12/4/2021\n\n\nThe Craft in America Center is pleased to present a dynamic in-person and virtual exhibition of about fifty works made by fifteen artists and artist collectives from across the U.S. and Mexico\, which focuses on the overlooked craft of handmade piñatas and piñata-based art objects. \n\nPiñatas: The High Art of Celebration at Craft in America\, Gallery Installation View. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\nPiñatas: The High Art of Celebration at Craft in America\, Gallery Installation View. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPiñatas\, ubiquitous and often the focal point of parties and festive occasions across the U.S.\, are handcrafted and ephemeral objects that signify happiness\, joy\, release\, and celebration. This exhibition touches on the role that they play in modern material culture and how they are made to embody social commentary\, along with the ways that artists address piñatas as conceptual and technical launching points for their vision. \nThe work of traditional piñata artisans is presented alongside the creations of artists who reinvent and reinterpret the piñata through engaging sculptural practices. The contemporary artists featured in this exhibition reconsider the techniques\, materials\, form\, function\, and notion of the piñata\, forming a new language for expression. \nPiñatas are a deeply rooted Mexican tradition that has become widespread and beloved across cultures. Piñatas are accessible by nature and made from relatively humble materials. They are shapeshifters that can be created to take any form\, be that of a creature\, shape\, figure\, or idea. Considering their popularity in our lives and how many memories are made around piñata play\, this contemporary form of cultural craft has been relatively unexamined. \nAs creators of material culture\, craft makers design and build the relics of our everyday\, modern world. This exhibition touches on the ephemeral and performative nature of certain forms of craft. Craft today plays a part in our traditions\, our celebrations\, our relationships\, and it deepens how we experience life\, even when it is destroyed or discarded after use. \nPiñatas are intertwined with childhood experiences\, gatherings of family and friends\, and celebratory turning points in life– all of which have become much more precious to us in this era of COVID. As markers of these events\, piñatas have new resonance and meaning today. They continue to be shaped to reflect changing times. This exhibition spotlights makers who creatively generate these objects in response to our shifting world. \n\n\nFor programming related to this exhibition see the links to the right (desktop)\, bottom (mobile)\, or click here for all upcoming events. \n\n\nFor inquiries or more information\, contact center@craftinamerica.org \n\n\n\n\nVirtual Gallery\nClick and drag\, or use your arrow keys\, to see a 360º view of the virtual space\, including tags with object information and images. \n\nPiñatas as Fantasy\n\nRoberto Benavidez\nBenavidez is a figurative sculptor originally from South Texas\, now based in Los Angeles. After studying bronze casting at Pasadena City College\, Benavidez later switched to paper because it was a more accessible medium. This material shift led him to focus on the piñata technique\, a familiar form from childhood. \nFor his landscape piñatas\, in this case one of the pristine beaches on Santa Rosa in the Channel Islands\, Benavidez uses the feathery qualities of his paper medium and crisp cuts to create reflectivity\, depth\, perspective\, and variations of color and light. \nBenavidez plays with underlying themes of ephemerality\, race\, and sin in his impeccably crafted works. \n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Javelina Girl (Illuminated Piñata No. 14). 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Piñata No. 1\, 2017. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Piñata No. 5.\, 2017. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Piñata No. 2\, 2017. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Installation Image\, Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Hybrid No. 2\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Hybrid No. 1\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Hybrid No. 3\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Moonrise Over Skunk Point\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Moonrise Over Skunk Point (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 2\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 16\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 17\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 18\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 19\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 20\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 22\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 23\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 24\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 25\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 26\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 30\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nPiñatas in 2D\n\nFrancisco Palomares\nPalomares is a first-generation Boyle Heights native who is inspired by the Spanish master painters and the way that brush strokes can convey visual narratives. He reframes present-day social struggles through the lens of art historical precedent. \nPalomares highlights the beauty of the mundane and ordinary by taking his subjects out of context\, making them worthy of a more thoughtful look. \nFrancisco Palomares\, Agarrate Papa\, 2020. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Piñata y Dulces\, 2016. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Guapo\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Chulo\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPolitical Piñatas\n\nDiana Benavidez\nBenavidez is a Binational artist who explores piñata-making as a method of expression and storytelling. Her piñatas reflect her experiences growing up along the San Diego/Tijuana border\, her identity\, and culture. Her work is known for introducing materials not commonly found in traditional piñatas including media and technology. \n\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, La Pinche Migra (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, Border Crosser (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, La Guayina (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, Installation of Border Crosser and La Pinche Migra (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas and Pop Culture\n\nAna Serrano\nSerrano is a first-generation Mexican American originally from Los Angeles and now based in Portland. Inspired by the intersection of her dual cultural identities\, she is best known for using brightly-colored cardboard and paper to highlight elements of Latinx culture. \n\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas: Walter Mercado\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas: Juan Gabriel\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas: Irma Serrano\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas\, María del Barrio\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas El Chapulín Colorado\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Gloria Trevi\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Julio César Chávez\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Cantínflas\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Jesus Malverde\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPiñata Landscapes\n\nJustin Favela\nLas Vegas artist Favela is best known for large-scale installations and sculptures that manifest his interactions with American pop culture and the Latinx experience. His painting series pays homage to the legacy of Mexican and Latin American  masterworks. \nJustin Favela\, Baño de los Pescaditos (after José María Velasco)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\nSita Bhaumik\nBhaumik uses art as a strategy to connect memory and history with the urgent social issues of our time. Estamos Contra el Muro / We Are Against the Wall was a collaborative project she led that was installed at Southern Exposure gallery in San Francisco. In response to the 2016 election\, a wall built of hand-crafted piñatas in the form of cinder blocks was installed and ultimately\, at the close of the exhibition\, community members gathered to destroy the proxy wall as one would a piñata\, in an act of defiance against the proposed wall at the border of the US and Mexico. \nSita Kuratomi Bhaumik in collaboration with Cece Carpio\, La Pelanga\, Norma Listman\, People’s Kitchen Collective\, Piñatas Las Morenitas Martínez\, and Little Piñata Maker Estamos contra el muro | We are against the wall\, 2016. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nSita Kuratomi Bhaumik in collaboration with Cece Carpio\, La Pelanga\, Norma Listman\, People’s Kitchen Collective\, Piñatas Las Morenitas Martínez\, and Little Piñata Maker Estamos contra el muro | We are against the wall\, 2016\n\n\nSita Kuratomi Bhaumik in collaboration with Cece Carpio\, La Pelanga\, Norma Listman\, People’s Kitchen Collective\, Piñatas Las Morenitas Martínez\, and Little Piñata Maker Estamos contra el muro | We are against the wall\, 2016\n\n\n\n\nIsaias Rodriguez\nOriginally from Boyle Heights\, CA\, Rodríguez is a multimedia artist known as Little Piñata Maker. Several years ago\, he made his first piñata to hang from his car’s rear view mirror and he now creates limited edition series and custom orders\, each piñata no larger than about 4 inches tall and wide. \nIsaias Rodriguez\, resilience\, 2021\nIsaias Rodriguez installation of resilience\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPiñatas and Permanence\n\nPiñata Design Studio\nFounded by Yesenia Prieto and co-owned with Mia Baez\, La Piñata Design Studio is led by third generation Los Angeles piñata makers and designers reinventing the traditional craft of piñata making through their custom piñatas\, sculptures\, masks\, and installations. They create larger than life installation projects for companies and museums such as LACMA\, Microsoft\, Google\, and celebrities such as Rihanna. \nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, In God We Trust\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, In God We Trust (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, In God We Trust (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, All the Glitters\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, All the Glitters (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas as Commentary\n\nGiovanni Valderas \nDallas native mixed media artist Giovanni Valderas incorporates and deconstructs elements of the traditional piñata in order to transform the piñata’s original identity as one of gratuitous celebration\, into one of cultural construct. \nThe Casita Triste series guerrilla site-specific project draws inspiration from the brightly painted homes found in predominantly Latinx communities\, which are quickly disappearing due to displacement and gentrification. Through the inclusion of cartoonish anthropomorphic elements\, each piñata house speaks to the fragility\, history\, and experiences of the marginalized community. \n\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, Installation Image of Casita Triste (Sad Little House)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, Casita Triste (Sad Little House)\, 2017. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, A Marginal Universe\, 2019. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, No Hay Pedo (Canary)\, 2016. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñata as Performance\n\nJosue Ramirez\nJosué Ramírez AKA Rawmirez is a multidisciplinary artist working in installation\, craft\, video\, and performance. Rawmirez works in the Rio Grande Valley\, along the Texas/Mexico border\, and his current work investigates relationships between personal identity and location. \n\n\n\nJosue Ramirez\, Piñata People (Orange)\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nJosue Ramirez\, Piñata People (Orange) Installation\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas and Cultural Tradition\n\nAmazing Piñatas / Lorena Robletto\nAmazing Piñatas was formed by owner Lorena Robletto nearly a decade ago. After consulting for immigrant-owned businesses and serving as a social worker for immigrant families\, Robletto turned her focus towards the artistry of piñatas and set up a shop in the Los Angeles Piñata District. Her studio and storefront is now located in Mid City\, where her team creates custom piñatas of any scale along with ready-made piñatas and various signature designs. She frequently makes props and commissions for the entertainment industry and other branded events. \n\n\n\nLorena Robletto (Amazing Piñatas)\, Seven Point Star Installation\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nLorena Robletto (Amazing Piñatas)\, Alebrije Installation\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nLorena Robletto (Amazing Piñatas)\, Geometric Piñata Installation (Center)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America\n\n\n\n\nDignicraft\nThe Collaborative Piñata is a long-term project to establish a dialogue between Purepecha crafts people and cultural agents from the region of Baja California\, Mexico and Southern California\, U.S.A. The border city of Rosarito\, Baja California\, is home to a community of up to 250 families who migrated north more than 1\,500 miles from their ancestral homeland located in the island of Janitzio\, Michoacan\, and adopted the making of piñatas as their craft and main source of living. \n\n\n\nDignicraft in collaboration with María Rosa Guzmán Soto\, Eduviges Solorio Morales\, José Raúl Guzmán Soto\, Nadia Iliana Guzmán Solorio\, Bryan Guzmán Solorio\, Evelyn Guzmán Solorio\, María Amparo Guzmán Soto\, Guadalupe Solorio Vargas\, José Vivaldo Jacobo Guzmán\, María De la Luz Solorio Morales\, Javier González Cortez\, Edith González Solorio\, Eréndira Pineda Campos and Leonel Solorio Morales Cheremati (fisherman on canoe) and Nanachi (woman) Installation\, 2015. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nDignicraft in collaboration with María Rosa Guzmán Soto\, Eduviges Solorio Morales\, José Raúl Guzmán Soto\, Nadia Iliana Guzmán Solorio\, Bryan Guzmán Solorio\, Evelyn Guzmán Solorio\, María Amparo Guzmán Soto\, Guadalupe Solorio Vargas\, José Vivaldo Jacobo Guzmán\, María De la Luz Solorio Morales\, Javier González Cortez\, Edith González Solorio\, Eréndira Pineda Campos and Leonel Solorio Morales Cheremati (fisherman on canoe) and Nanachi (woman)\, 2015\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas for This Day and Age\n\nAmorette Crespo\nAmorette Crespo began making piñatas in 2017\, when her daughter requested a Selena themed piñata for her 10th birthday. Crespo taught herself through practice\, trial and error\, and has been making custom piñatas ever since. From concept\, to design\, to prototype\, to shopping for supplies to the finished product\, Crespo is a one-woman operation. Crespo makes all of the piñatas in her home in El Sereno\, in Los Angeles\, CA\, but she has customers all over the country. \n\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas) Selena\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas)\, Hot Cheetos\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas)\, Zoom Laptop\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas) Folklorico Dancer\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas) Selena and Hot Cheetos Installation\, 2021. Mari Carson (Plaid Hamster Knits)\, Uterus Piñata\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America\n\n\n\n\nMari Carson\nCarson is a costume and sound designer based in the Sacramento area. She began making piñatas in 2014: \nSeven years ago I was diagnosed with cervical cancer and the treatment was a radical hysterectomy. As a response\, my friends threw a farewell party for my uterus. I made a piñata in the shape of a uterus\, filled it with glitter\, condoms\, lube and the tampons I would never need again and destroyed it with a baseball bat. \nSince then\, I wanted to share this awesome piñata with the world. This piñata is made to order to celebrate your uterus or the uterus of someone you love. \nMari Carson (Plaid Hamster Knits)\, Uterus Piñata\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America\n\n\nLisbeth Palacios\nPalacios’s All Party Art is a party supply business that specializes in piñatas. Palacios began her business in Venezuela and is now based in Tampa\, Florida. \nLisbeth Palacios (All Party Art)\, COVID Vaccine\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nHours\n\nTuesday – Saturday: 12:00pm – 5:00pm \n\n  \nFor additional information\, visit the website @ \nhttps://www.craftinamerica.org/\n \n  \nFind more \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:PINATAS: THE HIGH ART OF CELEBRATION
DESCRIPTION:EVERY TUESDAY – SUNDAY- 3rd Street\n\nPINATAS: THE HIGH ART OF CELEBRATION\n9/4/2021 – 12/4/2021\n\n\nThe Craft in America Center is pleased to present a dynamic in-person and virtual exhibition of about fifty works made by fifteen artists and artist collectives from across the U.S. and Mexico\, which focuses on the overlooked craft of handmade piñatas and piñata-based art objects. \n\nPiñatas: The High Art of Celebration at Craft in America\, Gallery Installation View. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\nPiñatas: The High Art of Celebration at Craft in America\, Gallery Installation View. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPiñatas\, ubiquitous and often the focal point of parties and festive occasions across the U.S.\, are handcrafted and ephemeral objects that signify happiness\, joy\, release\, and celebration. This exhibition touches on the role that they play in modern material culture and how they are made to embody social commentary\, along with the ways that artists address piñatas as conceptual and technical launching points for their vision. \nThe work of traditional piñata artisans is presented alongside the creations of artists who reinvent and reinterpret the piñata through engaging sculptural practices. The contemporary artists featured in this exhibition reconsider the techniques\, materials\, form\, function\, and notion of the piñata\, forming a new language for expression. \nPiñatas are a deeply rooted Mexican tradition that has become widespread and beloved across cultures. Piñatas are accessible by nature and made from relatively humble materials. They are shapeshifters that can be created to take any form\, be that of a creature\, shape\, figure\, or idea. Considering their popularity in our lives and how many memories are made around piñata play\, this contemporary form of cultural craft has been relatively unexamined. \nAs creators of material culture\, craft makers design and build the relics of our everyday\, modern world. This exhibition touches on the ephemeral and performative nature of certain forms of craft. Craft today plays a part in our traditions\, our celebrations\, our relationships\, and it deepens how we experience life\, even when it is destroyed or discarded after use. \nPiñatas are intertwined with childhood experiences\, gatherings of family and friends\, and celebratory turning points in life– all of which have become much more precious to us in this era of COVID. As markers of these events\, piñatas have new resonance and meaning today. They continue to be shaped to reflect changing times. This exhibition spotlights makers who creatively generate these objects in response to our shifting world. \n\n\nFor programming related to this exhibition see the links to the right (desktop)\, bottom (mobile)\, or click here for all upcoming events. \n\n\nFor inquiries or more information\, contact center@craftinamerica.org \n\n\n\n\nVirtual Gallery\nClick and drag\, or use your arrow keys\, to see a 360º view of the virtual space\, including tags with object information and images. \n\nPiñatas as Fantasy\n\nRoberto Benavidez\nBenavidez is a figurative sculptor originally from South Texas\, now based in Los Angeles. After studying bronze casting at Pasadena City College\, Benavidez later switched to paper because it was a more accessible medium. This material shift led him to focus on the piñata technique\, a familiar form from childhood. \nFor his landscape piñatas\, in this case one of the pristine beaches on Santa Rosa in the Channel Islands\, Benavidez uses the feathery qualities of his paper medium and crisp cuts to create reflectivity\, depth\, perspective\, and variations of color and light. \nBenavidez plays with underlying themes of ephemerality\, race\, and sin in his impeccably crafted works. \n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Javelina Girl (Illuminated Piñata No. 14). 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Piñata No. 1\, 2017. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Piñata No. 5.\, 2017. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Piñata No. 2\, 2017. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Installation Image\, Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Hybrid No. 2\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Hybrid No. 1\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Hybrid No. 3\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Moonrise Over Skunk Point\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Moonrise Over Skunk Point (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 2\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 16\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 17\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 18\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 19\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 20\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 22\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 23\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 24\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 25\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 26\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 30\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nPiñatas in 2D\n\nFrancisco Palomares\nPalomares is a first-generation Boyle Heights native who is inspired by the Spanish master painters and the way that brush strokes can convey visual narratives. He reframes present-day social struggles through the lens of art historical precedent. \nPalomares highlights the beauty of the mundane and ordinary by taking his subjects out of context\, making them worthy of a more thoughtful look. \nFrancisco Palomares\, Agarrate Papa\, 2020. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Piñata y Dulces\, 2016. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Guapo\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Chulo\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPolitical Piñatas\n\nDiana Benavidez\nBenavidez is a Binational artist who explores piñata-making as a method of expression and storytelling. Her piñatas reflect her experiences growing up along the San Diego/Tijuana border\, her identity\, and culture. Her work is known for introducing materials not commonly found in traditional piñatas including media and technology. \n\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, La Pinche Migra (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, Border Crosser (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, La Guayina (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, Installation of Border Crosser and La Pinche Migra (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas and Pop Culture\n\nAna Serrano\nSerrano is a first-generation Mexican American originally from Los Angeles and now based in Portland. Inspired by the intersection of her dual cultural identities\, she is best known for using brightly-colored cardboard and paper to highlight elements of Latinx culture. \n\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas: Walter Mercado\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas: Juan Gabriel\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas: Irma Serrano\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas\, María del Barrio\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas El Chapulín Colorado\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Gloria Trevi\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Julio César Chávez\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Cantínflas\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Jesus Malverde\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPiñata Landscapes\n\nJustin Favela\nLas Vegas artist Favela is best known for large-scale installations and sculptures that manifest his interactions with American pop culture and the Latinx experience. His painting series pays homage to the legacy of Mexican and Latin American  masterworks. \nJustin Favela\, Baño de los Pescaditos (after José María Velasco)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\nSita Bhaumik\nBhaumik uses art as a strategy to connect memory and history with the urgent social issues of our time. Estamos Contra el Muro / We Are Against the Wall was a collaborative project she led that was installed at Southern Exposure gallery in San Francisco. In response to the 2016 election\, a wall built of hand-crafted piñatas in the form of cinder blocks was installed and ultimately\, at the close of the exhibition\, community members gathered to destroy the proxy wall as one would a piñata\, in an act of defiance against the proposed wall at the border of the US and Mexico. \nSita Kuratomi Bhaumik in collaboration with Cece Carpio\, La Pelanga\, Norma Listman\, People’s Kitchen Collective\, Piñatas Las Morenitas Martínez\, and Little Piñata Maker Estamos contra el muro | We are against the wall\, 2016. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nSita Kuratomi Bhaumik in collaboration with Cece Carpio\, La Pelanga\, Norma Listman\, People’s Kitchen Collective\, Piñatas Las Morenitas Martínez\, and Little Piñata Maker Estamos contra el muro | We are against the wall\, 2016\n\n\nSita Kuratomi Bhaumik in collaboration with Cece Carpio\, La Pelanga\, Norma Listman\, People’s Kitchen Collective\, Piñatas Las Morenitas Martínez\, and Little Piñata Maker Estamos contra el muro | We are against the wall\, 2016\n\n\n\n\nIsaias Rodriguez\nOriginally from Boyle Heights\, CA\, Rodríguez is a multimedia artist known as Little Piñata Maker. Several years ago\, he made his first piñata to hang from his car’s rear view mirror and he now creates limited edition series and custom orders\, each piñata no larger than about 4 inches tall and wide. \nIsaias Rodriguez\, resilience\, 2021\nIsaias Rodriguez installation of resilience\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPiñatas and Permanence\n\nPiñata Design Studio\nFounded by Yesenia Prieto and co-owned with Mia Baez\, La Piñata Design Studio is led by third generation Los Angeles piñata makers and designers reinventing the traditional craft of piñata making through their custom piñatas\, sculptures\, masks\, and installations. They create larger than life installation projects for companies and museums such as LACMA\, Microsoft\, Google\, and celebrities such as Rihanna. \nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, In God We Trust\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, In God We Trust (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, In God We Trust (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, All the Glitters\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, All the Glitters (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas as Commentary\n\nGiovanni Valderas \nDallas native mixed media artist Giovanni Valderas incorporates and deconstructs elements of the traditional piñata in order to transform the piñata’s original identity as one of gratuitous celebration\, into one of cultural construct. \nThe Casita Triste series guerrilla site-specific project draws inspiration from the brightly painted homes found in predominantly Latinx communities\, which are quickly disappearing due to displacement and gentrification. Through the inclusion of cartoonish anthropomorphic elements\, each piñata house speaks to the fragility\, history\, and experiences of the marginalized community. \n\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, Installation Image of Casita Triste (Sad Little House)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, Casita Triste (Sad Little House)\, 2017. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, A Marginal Universe\, 2019. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, No Hay Pedo (Canary)\, 2016. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñata as Performance\n\nJosue Ramirez\nJosué Ramírez AKA Rawmirez is a multidisciplinary artist working in installation\, craft\, video\, and performance. Rawmirez works in the Rio Grande Valley\, along the Texas/Mexico border\, and his current work investigates relationships between personal identity and location. \n\n\n\nJosue Ramirez\, Piñata People (Orange)\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nJosue Ramirez\, Piñata People (Orange) Installation\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas and Cultural Tradition\n\nAmazing Piñatas / Lorena Robletto\nAmazing Piñatas was formed by owner Lorena Robletto nearly a decade ago. After consulting for immigrant-owned businesses and serving as a social worker for immigrant families\, Robletto turned her focus towards the artistry of piñatas and set up a shop in the Los Angeles Piñata District. Her studio and storefront is now located in Mid City\, where her team creates custom piñatas of any scale along with ready-made piñatas and various signature designs. She frequently makes props and commissions for the entertainment industry and other branded events. \n\n\n\nLorena Robletto (Amazing Piñatas)\, Seven Point Star Installation\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nLorena Robletto (Amazing Piñatas)\, Alebrije Installation\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nLorena Robletto (Amazing Piñatas)\, Geometric Piñata Installation (Center)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America\n\n\n\n\nDignicraft\nThe Collaborative Piñata is a long-term project to establish a dialogue between Purepecha crafts people and cultural agents from the region of Baja California\, Mexico and Southern California\, U.S.A. The border city of Rosarito\, Baja California\, is home to a community of up to 250 families who migrated north more than 1\,500 miles from their ancestral homeland located in the island of Janitzio\, Michoacan\, and adopted the making of piñatas as their craft and main source of living. \n\n\n\nDignicraft in collaboration with María Rosa Guzmán Soto\, Eduviges Solorio Morales\, José Raúl Guzmán Soto\, Nadia Iliana Guzmán Solorio\, Bryan Guzmán Solorio\, Evelyn Guzmán Solorio\, María Amparo Guzmán Soto\, Guadalupe Solorio Vargas\, José Vivaldo Jacobo Guzmán\, María De la Luz Solorio Morales\, Javier González Cortez\, Edith González Solorio\, Eréndira Pineda Campos and Leonel Solorio Morales Cheremati (fisherman on canoe) and Nanachi (woman) Installation\, 2015. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nDignicraft in collaboration with María Rosa Guzmán Soto\, Eduviges Solorio Morales\, José Raúl Guzmán Soto\, Nadia Iliana Guzmán Solorio\, Bryan Guzmán Solorio\, Evelyn Guzmán Solorio\, María Amparo Guzmán Soto\, Guadalupe Solorio Vargas\, José Vivaldo Jacobo Guzmán\, María De la Luz Solorio Morales\, Javier González Cortez\, Edith González Solorio\, Eréndira Pineda Campos and Leonel Solorio Morales Cheremati (fisherman on canoe) and Nanachi (woman)\, 2015\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas for This Day and Age\n\nAmorette Crespo\nAmorette Crespo began making piñatas in 2017\, when her daughter requested a Selena themed piñata for her 10th birthday. Crespo taught herself through practice\, trial and error\, and has been making custom piñatas ever since. From concept\, to design\, to prototype\, to shopping for supplies to the finished product\, Crespo is a one-woman operation. Crespo makes all of the piñatas in her home in El Sereno\, in Los Angeles\, CA\, but she has customers all over the country. \n\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas) Selena\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas)\, Hot Cheetos\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas)\, Zoom Laptop\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas) Folklorico Dancer\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas) Selena and Hot Cheetos Installation\, 2021. Mari Carson (Plaid Hamster Knits)\, Uterus Piñata\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America\n\n\n\n\nMari Carson\nCarson is a costume and sound designer based in the Sacramento area. She began making piñatas in 2014: \nSeven years ago I was diagnosed with cervical cancer and the treatment was a radical hysterectomy. As a response\, my friends threw a farewell party for my uterus. I made a piñata in the shape of a uterus\, filled it with glitter\, condoms\, lube and the tampons I would never need again and destroyed it with a baseball bat. \nSince then\, I wanted to share this awesome piñata with the world. This piñata is made to order to celebrate your uterus or the uterus of someone you love. \nMari Carson (Plaid Hamster Knits)\, Uterus Piñata\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America\n\n\nLisbeth Palacios\nPalacios’s All Party Art is a party supply business that specializes in piñatas. Palacios began her business in Venezuela and is now based in Tampa\, Florida. \nLisbeth Palacios (All Party Art)\, COVID Vaccine\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nHours\n\nTuesday – Saturday: 12:00pm – 5:00pm \n\n  \nFor additional information\, visit the website @ \nhttps://www.craftinamerica.org/\n \n  \nFind more \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:PINATAS: THE HIGH ART OF CELEBRATION
DESCRIPTION:EVERY TUESDAY – SUNDAY- 3rd Street\n\nPINATAS: THE HIGH ART OF CELEBRATION\n9/4/2021 – 12/4/2021\n\n\nThe Craft in America Center is pleased to present a dynamic in-person and virtual exhibition of about fifty works made by fifteen artists and artist collectives from across the U.S. and Mexico\, which focuses on the overlooked craft of handmade piñatas and piñata-based art objects. \n\nPiñatas: The High Art of Celebration at Craft in America\, Gallery Installation View. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\nPiñatas: The High Art of Celebration at Craft in America\, Gallery Installation View. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPiñatas\, ubiquitous and often the focal point of parties and festive occasions across the U.S.\, are handcrafted and ephemeral objects that signify happiness\, joy\, release\, and celebration. This exhibition touches on the role that they play in modern material culture and how they are made to embody social commentary\, along with the ways that artists address piñatas as conceptual and technical launching points for their vision. \nThe work of traditional piñata artisans is presented alongside the creations of artists who reinvent and reinterpret the piñata through engaging sculptural practices. The contemporary artists featured in this exhibition reconsider the techniques\, materials\, form\, function\, and notion of the piñata\, forming a new language for expression. \nPiñatas are a deeply rooted Mexican tradition that has become widespread and beloved across cultures. Piñatas are accessible by nature and made from relatively humble materials. They are shapeshifters that can be created to take any form\, be that of a creature\, shape\, figure\, or idea. Considering their popularity in our lives and how many memories are made around piñata play\, this contemporary form of cultural craft has been relatively unexamined. \nAs creators of material culture\, craft makers design and build the relics of our everyday\, modern world. This exhibition touches on the ephemeral and performative nature of certain forms of craft. Craft today plays a part in our traditions\, our celebrations\, our relationships\, and it deepens how we experience life\, even when it is destroyed or discarded after use. \nPiñatas are intertwined with childhood experiences\, gatherings of family and friends\, and celebratory turning points in life– all of which have become much more precious to us in this era of COVID. As markers of these events\, piñatas have new resonance and meaning today. They continue to be shaped to reflect changing times. This exhibition spotlights makers who creatively generate these objects in response to our shifting world. \n\n\nFor programming related to this exhibition see the links to the right (desktop)\, bottom (mobile)\, or click here for all upcoming events. \n\n\nFor inquiries or more information\, contact center@craftinamerica.org \n\n\n\n\nVirtual Gallery\nClick and drag\, or use your arrow keys\, to see a 360º view of the virtual space\, including tags with object information and images. \n\nPiñatas as Fantasy\n\nRoberto Benavidez\nBenavidez is a figurative sculptor originally from South Texas\, now based in Los Angeles. After studying bronze casting at Pasadena City College\, Benavidez later switched to paper because it was a more accessible medium. This material shift led him to focus on the piñata technique\, a familiar form from childhood. \nFor his landscape piñatas\, in this case one of the pristine beaches on Santa Rosa in the Channel Islands\, Benavidez uses the feathery qualities of his paper medium and crisp cuts to create reflectivity\, depth\, perspective\, and variations of color and light. \nBenavidez plays with underlying themes of ephemerality\, race\, and sin in his impeccably crafted works. \n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Javelina Girl (Illuminated Piñata No. 14). 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Piñata No. 1\, 2017. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Piñata No. 5.\, 2017. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Piñata No. 2\, 2017. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Installation Image\, Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Hybrid No. 2\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Hybrid No. 1\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Hybrid No. 3\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Moonrise Over Skunk Point\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Moonrise Over Skunk Point (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 2\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 16\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 17\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 18\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 19\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 20\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 22\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 23\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 24\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 25\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 26\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 30\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nPiñatas in 2D\n\nFrancisco Palomares\nPalomares is a first-generation Boyle Heights native who is inspired by the Spanish master painters and the way that brush strokes can convey visual narratives. He reframes present-day social struggles through the lens of art historical precedent. \nPalomares highlights the beauty of the mundane and ordinary by taking his subjects out of context\, making them worthy of a more thoughtful look. \nFrancisco Palomares\, Agarrate Papa\, 2020. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Piñata y Dulces\, 2016. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Guapo\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Chulo\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPolitical Piñatas\n\nDiana Benavidez\nBenavidez is a Binational artist who explores piñata-making as a method of expression and storytelling. Her piñatas reflect her experiences growing up along the San Diego/Tijuana border\, her identity\, and culture. Her work is known for introducing materials not commonly found in traditional piñatas including media and technology. \n\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, La Pinche Migra (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, Border Crosser (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, La Guayina (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, Installation of Border Crosser and La Pinche Migra (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas and Pop Culture\n\nAna Serrano\nSerrano is a first-generation Mexican American originally from Los Angeles and now based in Portland. Inspired by the intersection of her dual cultural identities\, she is best known for using brightly-colored cardboard and paper to highlight elements of Latinx culture. \n\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas: Walter Mercado\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas: Juan Gabriel\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas: Irma Serrano\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas\, María del Barrio\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas El Chapulín Colorado\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Gloria Trevi\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Julio César Chávez\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Cantínflas\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Jesus Malverde\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPiñata Landscapes\n\nJustin Favela\nLas Vegas artist Favela is best known for large-scale installations and sculptures that manifest his interactions with American pop culture and the Latinx experience. His painting series pays homage to the legacy of Mexican and Latin American  masterworks. \nJustin Favela\, Baño de los Pescaditos (after José María Velasco)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\nSita Bhaumik\nBhaumik uses art as a strategy to connect memory and history with the urgent social issues of our time. Estamos Contra el Muro / We Are Against the Wall was a collaborative project she led that was installed at Southern Exposure gallery in San Francisco. In response to the 2016 election\, a wall built of hand-crafted piñatas in the form of cinder blocks was installed and ultimately\, at the close of the exhibition\, community members gathered to destroy the proxy wall as one would a piñata\, in an act of defiance against the proposed wall at the border of the US and Mexico. \nSita Kuratomi Bhaumik in collaboration with Cece Carpio\, La Pelanga\, Norma Listman\, People’s Kitchen Collective\, Piñatas Las Morenitas Martínez\, and Little Piñata Maker Estamos contra el muro | We are against the wall\, 2016. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nSita Kuratomi Bhaumik in collaboration with Cece Carpio\, La Pelanga\, Norma Listman\, People’s Kitchen Collective\, Piñatas Las Morenitas Martínez\, and Little Piñata Maker Estamos contra el muro | We are against the wall\, 2016\n\n\nSita Kuratomi Bhaumik in collaboration with Cece Carpio\, La Pelanga\, Norma Listman\, People’s Kitchen Collective\, Piñatas Las Morenitas Martínez\, and Little Piñata Maker Estamos contra el muro | We are against the wall\, 2016\n\n\n\n\nIsaias Rodriguez\nOriginally from Boyle Heights\, CA\, Rodríguez is a multimedia artist known as Little Piñata Maker. Several years ago\, he made his first piñata to hang from his car’s rear view mirror and he now creates limited edition series and custom orders\, each piñata no larger than about 4 inches tall and wide. \nIsaias Rodriguez\, resilience\, 2021\nIsaias Rodriguez installation of resilience\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPiñatas and Permanence\n\nPiñata Design Studio\nFounded by Yesenia Prieto and co-owned with Mia Baez\, La Piñata Design Studio is led by third generation Los Angeles piñata makers and designers reinventing the traditional craft of piñata making through their custom piñatas\, sculptures\, masks\, and installations. They create larger than life installation projects for companies and museums such as LACMA\, Microsoft\, Google\, and celebrities such as Rihanna. \nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, In God We Trust\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, In God We Trust (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, In God We Trust (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, All the Glitters\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, All the Glitters (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas as Commentary\n\nGiovanni Valderas \nDallas native mixed media artist Giovanni Valderas incorporates and deconstructs elements of the traditional piñata in order to transform the piñata’s original identity as one of gratuitous celebration\, into one of cultural construct. \nThe Casita Triste series guerrilla site-specific project draws inspiration from the brightly painted homes found in predominantly Latinx communities\, which are quickly disappearing due to displacement and gentrification. Through the inclusion of cartoonish anthropomorphic elements\, each piñata house speaks to the fragility\, history\, and experiences of the marginalized community. \n\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, Installation Image of Casita Triste (Sad Little House)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, Casita Triste (Sad Little House)\, 2017. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, A Marginal Universe\, 2019. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, No Hay Pedo (Canary)\, 2016. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñata as Performance\n\nJosue Ramirez\nJosué Ramírez AKA Rawmirez is a multidisciplinary artist working in installation\, craft\, video\, and performance. Rawmirez works in the Rio Grande Valley\, along the Texas/Mexico border\, and his current work investigates relationships between personal identity and location. \n\n\n\nJosue Ramirez\, Piñata People (Orange)\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nJosue Ramirez\, Piñata People (Orange) Installation\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas and Cultural Tradition\n\nAmazing Piñatas / Lorena Robletto\nAmazing Piñatas was formed by owner Lorena Robletto nearly a decade ago. After consulting for immigrant-owned businesses and serving as a social worker for immigrant families\, Robletto turned her focus towards the artistry of piñatas and set up a shop in the Los Angeles Piñata District. Her studio and storefront is now located in Mid City\, where her team creates custom piñatas of any scale along with ready-made piñatas and various signature designs. She frequently makes props and commissions for the entertainment industry and other branded events. \n\n\n\nLorena Robletto (Amazing Piñatas)\, Seven Point Star Installation\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nLorena Robletto (Amazing Piñatas)\, Alebrije Installation\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nLorena Robletto (Amazing Piñatas)\, Geometric Piñata Installation (Center)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America\n\n\n\n\nDignicraft\nThe Collaborative Piñata is a long-term project to establish a dialogue between Purepecha crafts people and cultural agents from the region of Baja California\, Mexico and Southern California\, U.S.A. The border city of Rosarito\, Baja California\, is home to a community of up to 250 families who migrated north more than 1\,500 miles from their ancestral homeland located in the island of Janitzio\, Michoacan\, and adopted the making of piñatas as their craft and main source of living. \n\n\n\nDignicraft in collaboration with María Rosa Guzmán Soto\, Eduviges Solorio Morales\, José Raúl Guzmán Soto\, Nadia Iliana Guzmán Solorio\, Bryan Guzmán Solorio\, Evelyn Guzmán Solorio\, María Amparo Guzmán Soto\, Guadalupe Solorio Vargas\, José Vivaldo Jacobo Guzmán\, María De la Luz Solorio Morales\, Javier González Cortez\, Edith González Solorio\, Eréndira Pineda Campos and Leonel Solorio Morales Cheremati (fisherman on canoe) and Nanachi (woman) Installation\, 2015. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nDignicraft in collaboration with María Rosa Guzmán Soto\, Eduviges Solorio Morales\, José Raúl Guzmán Soto\, Nadia Iliana Guzmán Solorio\, Bryan Guzmán Solorio\, Evelyn Guzmán Solorio\, María Amparo Guzmán Soto\, Guadalupe Solorio Vargas\, José Vivaldo Jacobo Guzmán\, María De la Luz Solorio Morales\, Javier González Cortez\, Edith González Solorio\, Eréndira Pineda Campos and Leonel Solorio Morales Cheremati (fisherman on canoe) and Nanachi (woman)\, 2015\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas for This Day and Age\n\nAmorette Crespo\nAmorette Crespo began making piñatas in 2017\, when her daughter requested a Selena themed piñata for her 10th birthday. Crespo taught herself through practice\, trial and error\, and has been making custom piñatas ever since. From concept\, to design\, to prototype\, to shopping for supplies to the finished product\, Crespo is a one-woman operation. Crespo makes all of the piñatas in her home in El Sereno\, in Los Angeles\, CA\, but she has customers all over the country. \n\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas) Selena\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas)\, Hot Cheetos\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas)\, Zoom Laptop\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas) Folklorico Dancer\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas) Selena and Hot Cheetos Installation\, 2021. Mari Carson (Plaid Hamster Knits)\, Uterus Piñata\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America\n\n\n\n\nMari Carson\nCarson is a costume and sound designer based in the Sacramento area. She began making piñatas in 2014: \nSeven years ago I was diagnosed with cervical cancer and the treatment was a radical hysterectomy. As a response\, my friends threw a farewell party for my uterus. I made a piñata in the shape of a uterus\, filled it with glitter\, condoms\, lube and the tampons I would never need again and destroyed it with a baseball bat. \nSince then\, I wanted to share this awesome piñata with the world. This piñata is made to order to celebrate your uterus or the uterus of someone you love. \nMari Carson (Plaid Hamster Knits)\, Uterus Piñata\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America\n\n\nLisbeth Palacios\nPalacios’s All Party Art is a party supply business that specializes in piñatas. Palacios began her business in Venezuela and is now based in Tampa\, Florida. \nLisbeth Palacios (All Party Art)\, COVID Vaccine\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nHours\n\nTuesday – Saturday: 12:00pm – 5:00pm \n\n  \nFor additional information\, visit the website @ \nhttps://www.craftinamerica.org/\n \n  \nFind more \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.free2funla.com/event/pinatas/2021-10-21/
LOCATION:Craft in America\, 8415 W. THIRD ST.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90048\, United States
CATEGORIES:-West Hollywood,Arts & Crafts,Fun 4 Couples,Fun 4 Kids,Fun 4 Seniors,Fun 4 Teens,Fun 4 the Family,Museums
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SUMMARY:PINATAS: THE HIGH ART OF CELEBRATION
DESCRIPTION:EVERY TUESDAY – SUNDAY- 3rd Street\n\nPINATAS: THE HIGH ART OF CELEBRATION\n9/4/2021 – 12/4/2021\n\n\nThe Craft in America Center is pleased to present a dynamic in-person and virtual exhibition of about fifty works made by fifteen artists and artist collectives from across the U.S. and Mexico\, which focuses on the overlooked craft of handmade piñatas and piñata-based art objects. \n\nPiñatas: The High Art of Celebration at Craft in America\, Gallery Installation View. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\nPiñatas: The High Art of Celebration at Craft in America\, Gallery Installation View. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPiñatas\, ubiquitous and often the focal point of parties and festive occasions across the U.S.\, are handcrafted and ephemeral objects that signify happiness\, joy\, release\, and celebration. This exhibition touches on the role that they play in modern material culture and how they are made to embody social commentary\, along with the ways that artists address piñatas as conceptual and technical launching points for their vision. \nThe work of traditional piñata artisans is presented alongside the creations of artists who reinvent and reinterpret the piñata through engaging sculptural practices. The contemporary artists featured in this exhibition reconsider the techniques\, materials\, form\, function\, and notion of the piñata\, forming a new language for expression. \nPiñatas are a deeply rooted Mexican tradition that has become widespread and beloved across cultures. Piñatas are accessible by nature and made from relatively humble materials. They are shapeshifters that can be created to take any form\, be that of a creature\, shape\, figure\, or idea. Considering their popularity in our lives and how many memories are made around piñata play\, this contemporary form of cultural craft has been relatively unexamined. \nAs creators of material culture\, craft makers design and build the relics of our everyday\, modern world. This exhibition touches on the ephemeral and performative nature of certain forms of craft. Craft today plays a part in our traditions\, our celebrations\, our relationships\, and it deepens how we experience life\, even when it is destroyed or discarded after use. \nPiñatas are intertwined with childhood experiences\, gatherings of family and friends\, and celebratory turning points in life– all of which have become much more precious to us in this era of COVID. As markers of these events\, piñatas have new resonance and meaning today. They continue to be shaped to reflect changing times. This exhibition spotlights makers who creatively generate these objects in response to our shifting world. \n\n\nFor programming related to this exhibition see the links to the right (desktop)\, bottom (mobile)\, or click here for all upcoming events. \n\n\nFor inquiries or more information\, contact center@craftinamerica.org \n\n\n\n\nVirtual Gallery\nClick and drag\, or use your arrow keys\, to see a 360º view of the virtual space\, including tags with object information and images. \n\nPiñatas as Fantasy\n\nRoberto Benavidez\nBenavidez is a figurative sculptor originally from South Texas\, now based in Los Angeles. After studying bronze casting at Pasadena City College\, Benavidez later switched to paper because it was a more accessible medium. This material shift led him to focus on the piñata technique\, a familiar form from childhood. \nFor his landscape piñatas\, in this case one of the pristine beaches on Santa Rosa in the Channel Islands\, Benavidez uses the feathery qualities of his paper medium and crisp cuts to create reflectivity\, depth\, perspective\, and variations of color and light. \nBenavidez plays with underlying themes of ephemerality\, race\, and sin in his impeccably crafted works. \n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Javelina Girl (Illuminated Piñata No. 14). 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Piñata No. 1\, 2017. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Piñata No. 5.\, 2017. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Piñata No. 2\, 2017. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Installation Image\, Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Hybrid No. 2\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Hybrid No. 1\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Hybrid No. 3\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Moonrise Over Skunk Point\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Moonrise Over Skunk Point (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 2\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 16\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 17\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 18\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 19\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 20\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 22\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 23\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 24\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 25\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 26\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 30\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nPiñatas in 2D\n\nFrancisco Palomares\nPalomares is a first-generation Boyle Heights native who is inspired by the Spanish master painters and the way that brush strokes can convey visual narratives. He reframes present-day social struggles through the lens of art historical precedent. \nPalomares highlights the beauty of the mundane and ordinary by taking his subjects out of context\, making them worthy of a more thoughtful look. \nFrancisco Palomares\, Agarrate Papa\, 2020. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Piñata y Dulces\, 2016. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Guapo\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Chulo\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPolitical Piñatas\n\nDiana Benavidez\nBenavidez is a Binational artist who explores piñata-making as a method of expression and storytelling. Her piñatas reflect her experiences growing up along the San Diego/Tijuana border\, her identity\, and culture. Her work is known for introducing materials not commonly found in traditional piñatas including media and technology. \n\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, La Pinche Migra (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, Border Crosser (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, La Guayina (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, Installation of Border Crosser and La Pinche Migra (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas and Pop Culture\n\nAna Serrano\nSerrano is a first-generation Mexican American originally from Los Angeles and now based in Portland. Inspired by the intersection of her dual cultural identities\, she is best known for using brightly-colored cardboard and paper to highlight elements of Latinx culture. \n\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas: Walter Mercado\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas: Juan Gabriel\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas: Irma Serrano\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas\, María del Barrio\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas El Chapulín Colorado\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Gloria Trevi\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Julio César Chávez\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Cantínflas\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Jesus Malverde\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPiñata Landscapes\n\nJustin Favela\nLas Vegas artist Favela is best known for large-scale installations and sculptures that manifest his interactions with American pop culture and the Latinx experience. His painting series pays homage to the legacy of Mexican and Latin American  masterworks. \nJustin Favela\, Baño de los Pescaditos (after José María Velasco)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\nSita Bhaumik\nBhaumik uses art as a strategy to connect memory and history with the urgent social issues of our time. Estamos Contra el Muro / We Are Against the Wall was a collaborative project she led that was installed at Southern Exposure gallery in San Francisco. In response to the 2016 election\, a wall built of hand-crafted piñatas in the form of cinder blocks was installed and ultimately\, at the close of the exhibition\, community members gathered to destroy the proxy wall as one would a piñata\, in an act of defiance against the proposed wall at the border of the US and Mexico. \nSita Kuratomi Bhaumik in collaboration with Cece Carpio\, La Pelanga\, Norma Listman\, People’s Kitchen Collective\, Piñatas Las Morenitas Martínez\, and Little Piñata Maker Estamos contra el muro | We are against the wall\, 2016. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nSita Kuratomi Bhaumik in collaboration with Cece Carpio\, La Pelanga\, Norma Listman\, People’s Kitchen Collective\, Piñatas Las Morenitas Martínez\, and Little Piñata Maker Estamos contra el muro | We are against the wall\, 2016\n\n\nSita Kuratomi Bhaumik in collaboration with Cece Carpio\, La Pelanga\, Norma Listman\, People’s Kitchen Collective\, Piñatas Las Morenitas Martínez\, and Little Piñata Maker Estamos contra el muro | We are against the wall\, 2016\n\n\n\n\nIsaias Rodriguez\nOriginally from Boyle Heights\, CA\, Rodríguez is a multimedia artist known as Little Piñata Maker. Several years ago\, he made his first piñata to hang from his car’s rear view mirror and he now creates limited edition series and custom orders\, each piñata no larger than about 4 inches tall and wide. \nIsaias Rodriguez\, resilience\, 2021\nIsaias Rodriguez installation of resilience\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPiñatas and Permanence\n\nPiñata Design Studio\nFounded by Yesenia Prieto and co-owned with Mia Baez\, La Piñata Design Studio is led by third generation Los Angeles piñata makers and designers reinventing the traditional craft of piñata making through their custom piñatas\, sculptures\, masks\, and installations. They create larger than life installation projects for companies and museums such as LACMA\, Microsoft\, Google\, and celebrities such as Rihanna. \nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, In God We Trust\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, In God We Trust (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, In God We Trust (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, All the Glitters\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, All the Glitters (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas as Commentary\n\nGiovanni Valderas \nDallas native mixed media artist Giovanni Valderas incorporates and deconstructs elements of the traditional piñata in order to transform the piñata’s original identity as one of gratuitous celebration\, into one of cultural construct. \nThe Casita Triste series guerrilla site-specific project draws inspiration from the brightly painted homes found in predominantly Latinx communities\, which are quickly disappearing due to displacement and gentrification. Through the inclusion of cartoonish anthropomorphic elements\, each piñata house speaks to the fragility\, history\, and experiences of the marginalized community. \n\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, Installation Image of Casita Triste (Sad Little House)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, Casita Triste (Sad Little House)\, 2017. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, A Marginal Universe\, 2019. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, No Hay Pedo (Canary)\, 2016. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñata as Performance\n\nJosue Ramirez\nJosué Ramírez AKA Rawmirez is a multidisciplinary artist working in installation\, craft\, video\, and performance. Rawmirez works in the Rio Grande Valley\, along the Texas/Mexico border\, and his current work investigates relationships between personal identity and location. \n\n\n\nJosue Ramirez\, Piñata People (Orange)\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nJosue Ramirez\, Piñata People (Orange) Installation\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas and Cultural Tradition\n\nAmazing Piñatas / Lorena Robletto\nAmazing Piñatas was formed by owner Lorena Robletto nearly a decade ago. After consulting for immigrant-owned businesses and serving as a social worker for immigrant families\, Robletto turned her focus towards the artistry of piñatas and set up a shop in the Los Angeles Piñata District. Her studio and storefront is now located in Mid City\, where her team creates custom piñatas of any scale along with ready-made piñatas and various signature designs. She frequently makes props and commissions for the entertainment industry and other branded events. \n\n\n\nLorena Robletto (Amazing Piñatas)\, Seven Point Star Installation\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nLorena Robletto (Amazing Piñatas)\, Alebrije Installation\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nLorena Robletto (Amazing Piñatas)\, Geometric Piñata Installation (Center)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America\n\n\n\n\nDignicraft\nThe Collaborative Piñata is a long-term project to establish a dialogue between Purepecha crafts people and cultural agents from the region of Baja California\, Mexico and Southern California\, U.S.A. The border city of Rosarito\, Baja California\, is home to a community of up to 250 families who migrated north more than 1\,500 miles from their ancestral homeland located in the island of Janitzio\, Michoacan\, and adopted the making of piñatas as their craft and main source of living. \n\n\n\nDignicraft in collaboration with María Rosa Guzmán Soto\, Eduviges Solorio Morales\, José Raúl Guzmán Soto\, Nadia Iliana Guzmán Solorio\, Bryan Guzmán Solorio\, Evelyn Guzmán Solorio\, María Amparo Guzmán Soto\, Guadalupe Solorio Vargas\, José Vivaldo Jacobo Guzmán\, María De la Luz Solorio Morales\, Javier González Cortez\, Edith González Solorio\, Eréndira Pineda Campos and Leonel Solorio Morales Cheremati (fisherman on canoe) and Nanachi (woman) Installation\, 2015. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nDignicraft in collaboration with María Rosa Guzmán Soto\, Eduviges Solorio Morales\, José Raúl Guzmán Soto\, Nadia Iliana Guzmán Solorio\, Bryan Guzmán Solorio\, Evelyn Guzmán Solorio\, María Amparo Guzmán Soto\, Guadalupe Solorio Vargas\, José Vivaldo Jacobo Guzmán\, María De la Luz Solorio Morales\, Javier González Cortez\, Edith González Solorio\, Eréndira Pineda Campos and Leonel Solorio Morales Cheremati (fisherman on canoe) and Nanachi (woman)\, 2015\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas for This Day and Age\n\nAmorette Crespo\nAmorette Crespo began making piñatas in 2017\, when her daughter requested a Selena themed piñata for her 10th birthday. Crespo taught herself through practice\, trial and error\, and has been making custom piñatas ever since. From concept\, to design\, to prototype\, to shopping for supplies to the finished product\, Crespo is a one-woman operation. Crespo makes all of the piñatas in her home in El Sereno\, in Los Angeles\, CA\, but she has customers all over the country. \n\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas) Selena\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas)\, Hot Cheetos\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas)\, Zoom Laptop\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas) Folklorico Dancer\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas) Selena and Hot Cheetos Installation\, 2021. Mari Carson (Plaid Hamster Knits)\, Uterus Piñata\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America\n\n\n\n\nMari Carson\nCarson is a costume and sound designer based in the Sacramento area. She began making piñatas in 2014: \nSeven years ago I was diagnosed with cervical cancer and the treatment was a radical hysterectomy. As a response\, my friends threw a farewell party for my uterus. I made a piñata in the shape of a uterus\, filled it with glitter\, condoms\, lube and the tampons I would never need again and destroyed it with a baseball bat. \nSince then\, I wanted to share this awesome piñata with the world. This piñata is made to order to celebrate your uterus or the uterus of someone you love. \nMari Carson (Plaid Hamster Knits)\, Uterus Piñata\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America\n\n\nLisbeth Palacios\nPalacios’s All Party Art is a party supply business that specializes in piñatas. Palacios began her business in Venezuela and is now based in Tampa\, Florida. \nLisbeth Palacios (All Party Art)\, COVID Vaccine\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nHours\n\nTuesday – Saturday: 12:00pm – 5:00pm \n\n  \nFor additional information\, visit the website @ \nhttps://www.craftinamerica.org/\n \n  \nFind more \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.free2funla.com/event/pinatas/2021-10-05/
LOCATION:Craft in America\, 8415 W. THIRD ST.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90048\, United States
CATEGORIES:-West Hollywood,Arts & Crafts,Fun 4 Couples,Fun 4 Kids,Fun 4 Seniors,Fun 4 Teens,Fun 4 the Family,Museums
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SUMMARY:PINATAS: THE HIGH ART OF CELEBRATION
DESCRIPTION:EVERY TUESDAY – SUNDAY- 3rd Street\n\nPINATAS: THE HIGH ART OF CELEBRATION\n9/4/2021 – 12/4/2021\n\n\nThe Craft in America Center is pleased to present a dynamic in-person and virtual exhibition of about fifty works made by fifteen artists and artist collectives from across the U.S. and Mexico\, which focuses on the overlooked craft of handmade piñatas and piñata-based art objects. \n\nPiñatas: The High Art of Celebration at Craft in America\, Gallery Installation View. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\nPiñatas: The High Art of Celebration at Craft in America\, Gallery Installation View. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPiñatas\, ubiquitous and often the focal point of parties and festive occasions across the U.S.\, are handcrafted and ephemeral objects that signify happiness\, joy\, release\, and celebration. This exhibition touches on the role that they play in modern material culture and how they are made to embody social commentary\, along with the ways that artists address piñatas as conceptual and technical launching points for their vision. \nThe work of traditional piñata artisans is presented alongside the creations of artists who reinvent and reinterpret the piñata through engaging sculptural practices. The contemporary artists featured in this exhibition reconsider the techniques\, materials\, form\, function\, and notion of the piñata\, forming a new language for expression. \nPiñatas are a deeply rooted Mexican tradition that has become widespread and beloved across cultures. Piñatas are accessible by nature and made from relatively humble materials. They are shapeshifters that can be created to take any form\, be that of a creature\, shape\, figure\, or idea. Considering their popularity in our lives and how many memories are made around piñata play\, this contemporary form of cultural craft has been relatively unexamined. \nAs creators of material culture\, craft makers design and build the relics of our everyday\, modern world. This exhibition touches on the ephemeral and performative nature of certain forms of craft. Craft today plays a part in our traditions\, our celebrations\, our relationships\, and it deepens how we experience life\, even when it is destroyed or discarded after use. \nPiñatas are intertwined with childhood experiences\, gatherings of family and friends\, and celebratory turning points in life– all of which have become much more precious to us in this era of COVID. As markers of these events\, piñatas have new resonance and meaning today. They continue to be shaped to reflect changing times. This exhibition spotlights makers who creatively generate these objects in response to our shifting world. \n\n\nFor programming related to this exhibition see the links to the right (desktop)\, bottom (mobile)\, or click here for all upcoming events. \n\n\nFor inquiries or more information\, contact center@craftinamerica.org \n\n\n\n\nVirtual Gallery\nClick and drag\, or use your arrow keys\, to see a 360º view of the virtual space\, including tags with object information and images. \n\nPiñatas as Fantasy\n\nRoberto Benavidez\nBenavidez is a figurative sculptor originally from South Texas\, now based in Los Angeles. After studying bronze casting at Pasadena City College\, Benavidez later switched to paper because it was a more accessible medium. This material shift led him to focus on the piñata technique\, a familiar form from childhood. \nFor his landscape piñatas\, in this case one of the pristine beaches on Santa Rosa in the Channel Islands\, Benavidez uses the feathery qualities of his paper medium and crisp cuts to create reflectivity\, depth\, perspective\, and variations of color and light. \nBenavidez plays with underlying themes of ephemerality\, race\, and sin in his impeccably crafted works. \n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Javelina Girl (Illuminated Piñata No. 14). 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Piñata No. 1\, 2017. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Piñata No. 5.\, 2017. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Piñata No. 2\, 2017. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Installation Image\, Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Hybrid No. 2\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Hybrid No. 1\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Hybrid No. 3\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Moonrise Over Skunk Point\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Moonrise Over Skunk Point (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 2\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 16\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 17\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 18\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 19\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 20\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 22\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 23\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 24\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 25\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 26\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 30\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nPiñatas in 2D\n\nFrancisco Palomares\nPalomares is a first-generation Boyle Heights native who is inspired by the Spanish master painters and the way that brush strokes can convey visual narratives. He reframes present-day social struggles through the lens of art historical precedent. \nPalomares highlights the beauty of the mundane and ordinary by taking his subjects out of context\, making them worthy of a more thoughtful look. \nFrancisco Palomares\, Agarrate Papa\, 2020. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Piñata y Dulces\, 2016. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Guapo\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Chulo\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPolitical Piñatas\n\nDiana Benavidez\nBenavidez is a Binational artist who explores piñata-making as a method of expression and storytelling. Her piñatas reflect her experiences growing up along the San Diego/Tijuana border\, her identity\, and culture. Her work is known for introducing materials not commonly found in traditional piñatas including media and technology. \n\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, La Pinche Migra (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, Border Crosser (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, La Guayina (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, Installation of Border Crosser and La Pinche Migra (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas and Pop Culture\n\nAna Serrano\nSerrano is a first-generation Mexican American originally from Los Angeles and now based in Portland. Inspired by the intersection of her dual cultural identities\, she is best known for using brightly-colored cardboard and paper to highlight elements of Latinx culture. \n\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas: Walter Mercado\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas: Juan Gabriel\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas: Irma Serrano\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas\, María del Barrio\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas El Chapulín Colorado\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Gloria Trevi\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Julio César Chávez\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Cantínflas\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Jesus Malverde\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPiñata Landscapes\n\nJustin Favela\nLas Vegas artist Favela is best known for large-scale installations and sculptures that manifest his interactions with American pop culture and the Latinx experience. His painting series pays homage to the legacy of Mexican and Latin American  masterworks. \nJustin Favela\, Baño de los Pescaditos (after José María Velasco)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\nSita Bhaumik\nBhaumik uses art as a strategy to connect memory and history with the urgent social issues of our time. Estamos Contra el Muro / We Are Against the Wall was a collaborative project she led that was installed at Southern Exposure gallery in San Francisco. In response to the 2016 election\, a wall built of hand-crafted piñatas in the form of cinder blocks was installed and ultimately\, at the close of the exhibition\, community members gathered to destroy the proxy wall as one would a piñata\, in an act of defiance against the proposed wall at the border of the US and Mexico. \nSita Kuratomi Bhaumik in collaboration with Cece Carpio\, La Pelanga\, Norma Listman\, People’s Kitchen Collective\, Piñatas Las Morenitas Martínez\, and Little Piñata Maker Estamos contra el muro | We are against the wall\, 2016. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nSita Kuratomi Bhaumik in collaboration with Cece Carpio\, La Pelanga\, Norma Listman\, People’s Kitchen Collective\, Piñatas Las Morenitas Martínez\, and Little Piñata Maker Estamos contra el muro | We are against the wall\, 2016\n\n\nSita Kuratomi Bhaumik in collaboration with Cece Carpio\, La Pelanga\, Norma Listman\, People’s Kitchen Collective\, Piñatas Las Morenitas Martínez\, and Little Piñata Maker Estamos contra el muro | We are against the wall\, 2016\n\n\n\n\nIsaias Rodriguez\nOriginally from Boyle Heights\, CA\, Rodríguez is a multimedia artist known as Little Piñata Maker. Several years ago\, he made his first piñata to hang from his car’s rear view mirror and he now creates limited edition series and custom orders\, each piñata no larger than about 4 inches tall and wide. \nIsaias Rodriguez\, resilience\, 2021\nIsaias Rodriguez installation of resilience\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPiñatas and Permanence\n\nPiñata Design Studio\nFounded by Yesenia Prieto and co-owned with Mia Baez\, La Piñata Design Studio is led by third generation Los Angeles piñata makers and designers reinventing the traditional craft of piñata making through their custom piñatas\, sculptures\, masks\, and installations. They create larger than life installation projects for companies and museums such as LACMA\, Microsoft\, Google\, and celebrities such as Rihanna. \nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, In God We Trust\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, In God We Trust (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, In God We Trust (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, All the Glitters\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, All the Glitters (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas as Commentary\n\nGiovanni Valderas \nDallas native mixed media artist Giovanni Valderas incorporates and deconstructs elements of the traditional piñata in order to transform the piñata’s original identity as one of gratuitous celebration\, into one of cultural construct. \nThe Casita Triste series guerrilla site-specific project draws inspiration from the brightly painted homes found in predominantly Latinx communities\, which are quickly disappearing due to displacement and gentrification. Through the inclusion of cartoonish anthropomorphic elements\, each piñata house speaks to the fragility\, history\, and experiences of the marginalized community. \n\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, Installation Image of Casita Triste (Sad Little House)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, Casita Triste (Sad Little House)\, 2017. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, A Marginal Universe\, 2019. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, No Hay Pedo (Canary)\, 2016. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñata as Performance\n\nJosue Ramirez\nJosué Ramírez AKA Rawmirez is a multidisciplinary artist working in installation\, craft\, video\, and performance. Rawmirez works in the Rio Grande Valley\, along the Texas/Mexico border\, and his current work investigates relationships between personal identity and location. \n\n\n\nJosue Ramirez\, Piñata People (Orange)\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nJosue Ramirez\, Piñata People (Orange) Installation\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas and Cultural Tradition\n\nAmazing Piñatas / Lorena Robletto\nAmazing Piñatas was formed by owner Lorena Robletto nearly a decade ago. After consulting for immigrant-owned businesses and serving as a social worker for immigrant families\, Robletto turned her focus towards the artistry of piñatas and set up a shop in the Los Angeles Piñata District. Her studio and storefront is now located in Mid City\, where her team creates custom piñatas of any scale along with ready-made piñatas and various signature designs. She frequently makes props and commissions for the entertainment industry and other branded events. \n\n\n\nLorena Robletto (Amazing Piñatas)\, Seven Point Star Installation\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nLorena Robletto (Amazing Piñatas)\, Alebrije Installation\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nLorena Robletto (Amazing Piñatas)\, Geometric Piñata Installation (Center)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America\n\n\n\n\nDignicraft\nThe Collaborative Piñata is a long-term project to establish a dialogue between Purepecha crafts people and cultural agents from the region of Baja California\, Mexico and Southern California\, U.S.A. The border city of Rosarito\, Baja California\, is home to a community of up to 250 families who migrated north more than 1\,500 miles from their ancestral homeland located in the island of Janitzio\, Michoacan\, and adopted the making of piñatas as their craft and main source of living. \n\n\n\nDignicraft in collaboration with María Rosa Guzmán Soto\, Eduviges Solorio Morales\, José Raúl Guzmán Soto\, Nadia Iliana Guzmán Solorio\, Bryan Guzmán Solorio\, Evelyn Guzmán Solorio\, María Amparo Guzmán Soto\, Guadalupe Solorio Vargas\, José Vivaldo Jacobo Guzmán\, María De la Luz Solorio Morales\, Javier González Cortez\, Edith González Solorio\, Eréndira Pineda Campos and Leonel Solorio Morales Cheremati (fisherman on canoe) and Nanachi (woman) Installation\, 2015. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nDignicraft in collaboration with María Rosa Guzmán Soto\, Eduviges Solorio Morales\, José Raúl Guzmán Soto\, Nadia Iliana Guzmán Solorio\, Bryan Guzmán Solorio\, Evelyn Guzmán Solorio\, María Amparo Guzmán Soto\, Guadalupe Solorio Vargas\, José Vivaldo Jacobo Guzmán\, María De la Luz Solorio Morales\, Javier González Cortez\, Edith González Solorio\, Eréndira Pineda Campos and Leonel Solorio Morales Cheremati (fisherman on canoe) and Nanachi (woman)\, 2015\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas for This Day and Age\n\nAmorette Crespo\nAmorette Crespo began making piñatas in 2017\, when her daughter requested a Selena themed piñata for her 10th birthday. Crespo taught herself through practice\, trial and error\, and has been making custom piñatas ever since. From concept\, to design\, to prototype\, to shopping for supplies to the finished product\, Crespo is a one-woman operation. Crespo makes all of the piñatas in her home in El Sereno\, in Los Angeles\, CA\, but she has customers all over the country. \n\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas) Selena\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas)\, Hot Cheetos\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas)\, Zoom Laptop\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas) Folklorico Dancer\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas) Selena and Hot Cheetos Installation\, 2021. Mari Carson (Plaid Hamster Knits)\, Uterus Piñata\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America\n\n\n\n\nMari Carson\nCarson is a costume and sound designer based in the Sacramento area. She began making piñatas in 2014: \nSeven years ago I was diagnosed with cervical cancer and the treatment was a radical hysterectomy. As a response\, my friends threw a farewell party for my uterus. I made a piñata in the shape of a uterus\, filled it with glitter\, condoms\, lube and the tampons I would never need again and destroyed it with a baseball bat. \nSince then\, I wanted to share this awesome piñata with the world. This piñata is made to order to celebrate your uterus or the uterus of someone you love. \nMari Carson (Plaid Hamster Knits)\, Uterus Piñata\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America\n\n\nLisbeth Palacios\nPalacios’s All Party Art is a party supply business that specializes in piñatas. Palacios began her business in Venezuela and is now based in Tampa\, Florida. \nLisbeth Palacios (All Party Art)\, COVID Vaccine\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nHours\n\nTuesday – Saturday: 12:00pm – 5:00pm \n\n  \nFor additional information\, visit the website @ \nhttps://www.craftinamerica.org/\n \n  \nFind more \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 
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