Upcoming Arts Lectures & Events
Alberto Lule
Artist Talk
Wednesday, March 15th @ 4:00 pm in-person in the SBCC Administration Building Lecture Hall Room 211
Lule began making art while serving a thirteen-year sentence in a California Prison. He uses readymades and mixed media installations to examine and critique mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex in the United States, particularly the California prison system. Starting from his origins as a graffiti artist and writer, Lule draws on his own experiences in prison to create artworks that explore institutional roles of gatekeepers of knowledge, authorities of culture, and administrators of discipline and punishment.
Through his activist artworks, Lule brings awareness to the prison industrial complex, mass incarceration, and ICE camps. After serving his prison sentence, he enrolled in SBCC Transitions, a program providing guidance and access to college for individuals released from the criminal justice system. As a full-time student at SBCC, he excelled in his art classes and completed a prestigious internship with the SBCC Atkinson Gallery, sponsored by the SBCC Foundation. He graduated from SBCC in 2018 and was invited to be the student speaker at commencement. He transferred to UCLA, where he earned a BA in 2020 and worked at the Hammer Museum. He is currently enrolled at the University of California, Irvine, where he is earning a Master of Fine Arts degree.
Artist Talk
Wednesday, March 15th @ 4:00 pm in-person in the SBCC Administration Building Lecture Hall Room 211
Lule began making art while serving a thirteen-year sentence in a California Prison. He uses readymades and mixed media installations to examine and critique mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex in the United States, particularly the California prison system. Starting from his origins as a graffiti artist and writer, Lule draws on his own experiences in prison to create artworks that explore institutional roles of gatekeepers of knowledge, authorities of culture, and administrators of discipline and punishment.
Through his activist artworks, Lule brings awareness to the prison industrial complex, mass incarceration, and ICE camps. After serving his prison sentence, he enrolled in SBCC Transitions, a program providing guidance and access to college for individuals released from the criminal justice system. As a full-time student at SBCC, he excelled in his art classes and completed a prestigious internship with the SBCC Atkinson Gallery, sponsored by the SBCC Foundation. He graduated from SBCC in 2018 and was invited to be the student speaker at commencement. He transferred to UCLA, where he earned a BA in 2020 and worked at the Hammer Museum. He is currently enrolled at the University of California, Irvine, where he is earning a Master of Fine Arts degree.
Natasha Wheat
Artist Talk
Wednesday, April 26th @ 4:00 pm in-person in SBCC Humanities Lecture Hall Room H-111
Natasha Wheat is an artist whose diverse body of work explores social experience as a sensual phenomenon that is riddled with hierarchical complexity. Her objects, installations, and interventions engender and disrupt materials, often existing as traces of violent experience. Recent works examine the collapse of human created belief systems, and the spaces between our confinements within civilization and evolutionary wildness.
Wheat is the founder of Project Grow, an art studio and urban farming program based in Portland, Oregon, that collaborated with developmentally disabled adults and investigated the intersection of food, value systems, society, and physical contact with the earth as a form of de-institutionalization. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at such venues as The Detroit Art Museum, the Wattis, The Museum of Folk and Craft Art San Francisco, Berkeley Art Museum, Roberts Projects and The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Her studio is in Los Angeles, CA.
Artist Talk
Wednesday, April 26th @ 4:00 pm in-person in SBCC Humanities Lecture Hall Room H-111
Natasha Wheat is an artist whose diverse body of work explores social experience as a sensual phenomenon that is riddled with hierarchical complexity. Her objects, installations, and interventions engender and disrupt materials, often existing as traces of violent experience. Recent works examine the collapse of human created belief systems, and the spaces between our confinements within civilization and evolutionary wildness.
Wheat is the founder of Project Grow, an art studio and urban farming program based in Portland, Oregon, that collaborated with developmentally disabled adults and investigated the intersection of food, value systems, society, and physical contact with the earth as a form of de-institutionalization. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at such venues as The Detroit Art Museum, the Wattis, The Museum of Folk and Craft Art San Francisco, Berkeley Art Museum, Roberts Projects and The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Her studio is in Los Angeles, CA.