Professionals to Speak on Careers in Art at West Los Angeles College

Renowned art dealer, curator and radio personality Molly Barnes has joined West Los Angeles College as an artist in residence. In addition to sharing her wealth of experience and knowledge with the college’s aspiring artists, she will coordinate a free, bring your lunch lecture series for the college that is also open to the public.

The series begins this spring on Wed. April 24 from 12 – 3 p.m. in the Fine Arts Theater at West with the topic, “A Career in Art – To Do’s and To Don’ts.”

Samuel Freeman, owner of the Samuel Freeman Gallery, will share his top 10 list of how to break into the art world and what not to do. Other panelist include Tressa Williams, director of the George Billis Gallery L.A; Tim Nye, owner of Nye + Brown and Donna Stein, associate director of the Wende Museum Postwar Artifacts.

The Wende Museum preserves the cultural artifacts and personal histories of Cold War-era Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union to inform and inspire a broad understanding of the period and its enduring legacy. It houses more than 60,000 objects from Communist-era Eastern Europe, including furniture and décor, paintings, sculptures, posters, flags and banners, signs, political propaganda, clothing, tapestries, textiles, books, scrapbooks, films, electronics, remnants of Checkpoint Charlie and the longest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany. The Wende is simultaneously an archive of material culture and educational institution, fusing interdisciplinary scholarship with its programs.

The Wende Museum recently acquired the old Culver City Armory building, enabling it to open the world’s largest Cold War visual archive.  

All of the galleries represented at the WLAC talk are located in or adjacent to Culver City’s Art District referred to as a "nascent Chelsea” by the New York Times.

Guests should park in the South Parking Structure, which is immediately adjacent to the Fine Arts Theater. A parking pass can be purchased for $2.00 at the pass dispenser machines. Exact change (coins or bills) is required.

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