Orange County

Ongoing

Divested Interest: Exchange Dialogue with COG•NATE Collective & Ramiro Gomez

Grand Central Art Center

May 4 through July 14, 2013

Divested Interest: Exchange Dialogues with Cog•nate Collective & Ramiro Gomez features artistic exchanges, interruptions and interventions by artists Misael Diaz and Amy Sanchez of Cog•nate Collective and artist Ramiro Gomez.  The artists have been invited to Grand Central Art Center to create artwork that is responsive to the current social climate, built environment and locational identity of Santa Ana through an ongoing series of installations, interviews and workshops.

Saskia Jorda: Unraveling Tradition

Grand Central Art Center

May 4 through July 14, 2013

Unraveling Tradition is an installation that sets out to explore the coming-of-age tradition of the Quinceañera, popular in Latin American cultures.  Through this project, artist Saskia Jorda reflects on what it means for a young girl to experience this rite of passage, and examines the impacts on these young girls families and to their direct communities.

Gems of the Medici

Bowers Museum

April 15 through September 16, 2013

In the mid-1400s, many celebrated artists, goldsmiths, silversmiths and engravers were attracted by the abundance of wealth in the city of Florence, but the most important factor in this gathering of talent was the presence of the Medici family. This exhibition highlights some of the oldest and most unique pieces of the Medici collections including antiquities dating from the 1st century BCE.