인스타그램 스토리 저장

We are thrilled to announce the second year of Sovern’s Artist in Residency Program is now open to applications! See our link tree for details and application. Apply by June 15th.

This residency provides a platform for two emerging youth artists to deepen their practice while receiving mentorship, professional guidance, and career development support designed to foster a holistic and sustainable artistic career. The program is centered on helping artists refine their voice, expand their creative inquiry, and build confidence in their evolving practice. Participants will be encouraged to experiment, take creative risks, and engage critically with their work within a supportive and collaborative environment.

Selected artists will each receive a $7,000 stipend to support studio time, materials, transportation, and other residency-related needs, in addition to mentorship, professional network-building opportunities, and a culminating three-month exhibition at Sovern opening December 3, 2026. The exhibition will conclude with a public panel event on February 27, 2027, during LA Art Week.

Residents will receive ongoing mentorship with Dale Brockman Davis @dalebrockmandavis — Los Angeles–based artist, educator, and community activist with additional programming and professional development sessions led by Terrell Tilford @terrelltilford , Founder & Creative Director, Band of Vices; Dominique Clayton, @lookatdominique Curator, Writer, Founder, Dominique Gallery; and Riyaana Hartley @riyaanahartley Creative Director. Curriculum topics will include portfolio and artist statement development, pricing and presenting artwork, promotion and visibility strategies, and cultivating the discipline and structure necessary to sustain a long-term creative practice.

We are thrilled to announce the second year of Sovern’s Artist in Residency Program is now open to applications! See our link tree for details and application. Apply by June 15th.

This residency provides a platform for two emerging youth artists to deepen their practice while receiving mentorship, professional guidance, and career development support designed to foster a holistic and sustainable artistic career. The program is centered on helping artists refine their voice, expand their creative inquiry, and build confidence in their evolving practice. Participants will be encouraged to experiment, take creative risks, and engage critically with their work within a supportive and collaborative environment.

Selected artists will each receive a $7,000 stipend to support studio time, materials, transportation, and other residency-related needs, in addition to mentorship, professional network-building opportunities, and a culminating three-month exhibition at Sovern opening December 3, 2026. The exhibition will conclude with a public panel event on February 27, 2027, during LA Art Week.

Residents will receive ongoing mentorship with Dale Brockman Davis @dalebrockmandavis — Los Angeles–based artist, educator, and community activist with additional programming and professional development sessions led by Terrell Tilford @terrelltilford , Founder & Creative Director, Band of Vices; Dominique Clayton, @lookatdominique Curator, Writer, Founder, Dominique Gallery; and Riyaana Hartley @riyaanahartley Creative Director. Curriculum topics will include portfolio and artist statement development, pricing and presenting artwork, promotion and visibility strategies, and cultivating the discipline and structure necessary to sustain a long-term creative practice.

We are thrilled to announce the second year of Sovern’s Artist in Residency Program is now open to applications! See our link tree for details and application. Apply by June 15th.

This residency provides a platform for two emerging youth artists to deepen their practice while receiving mentorship, professional guidance, and career development support designed to foster a holistic and sustainable artistic career. The program is centered on helping artists refine their voice, expand their creative inquiry, and build confidence in their evolving practice. Participants will be encouraged to experiment, take creative risks, and engage critically with their work within a supportive and collaborative environment.

Selected artists will each receive a $7,000 stipend to support studio time, materials, transportation, and other residency-related needs, in addition to mentorship, professional network-building opportunities, and a culminating three-month exhibition at Sovern opening December 3, 2026. The exhibition will conclude with a public panel event on February 27, 2027, during LA Art Week.

Residents will receive ongoing mentorship with Dale Brockman Davis @dalebrockmandavis — Los Angeles–based artist, educator, and community activist with additional programming and professional development sessions led by Terrell Tilford @terrelltilford , Founder & Creative Director, Band of Vices; Dominique Clayton, @lookatdominique Curator, Writer, Founder, Dominique Gallery; and Riyaana Hartley @riyaanahartley Creative Director. Curriculum topics will include portfolio and artist statement development, pricing and presenting artwork, promotion and visibility strategies, and cultivating the discipline and structure necessary to sustain a long-term creative practice.

We are thrilled to announce the second year of Sovern’s Artist in Residency Program is now open to applications! See our link tree for details and application. Apply by June 15th.

This residency provides a platform for two emerging youth artists to deepen their practice while receiving mentorship, professional guidance, and career development support designed to foster a holistic and sustainable artistic career. The program is centered on helping artists refine their voice, expand their creative inquiry, and build confidence in their evolving practice. Participants will be encouraged to experiment, take creative risks, and engage critically with their work within a supportive and collaborative environment.

Selected artists will each receive a $7,000 stipend to support studio time, materials, transportation, and other residency-related needs, in addition to mentorship, professional network-building opportunities, and a culminating three-month exhibition at Sovern opening December 3, 2026. The exhibition will conclude with a public panel event on February 27, 2027, during LA Art Week.

Residents will receive ongoing mentorship with Dale Brockman Davis @dalebrockmandavis — Los Angeles–based artist, educator, and community activist with additional programming and professional development sessions led by Terrell Tilford @terrelltilford , Founder & Creative Director, Band of Vices; Dominique Clayton, @lookatdominique Curator, Writer, Founder, Dominique Gallery; and Riyaana Hartley @riyaanahartley Creative Director. Curriculum topics will include portfolio and artist statement development, pricing and presenting artwork, promotion and visibility strategies, and cultivating the discipline and structure necessary to sustain a long-term creative practice.

We are thrilled to announce the second year of Sovern’s Artist in Residency Program is now open to applications! See our link tree for details and application. Apply by June 15th.

This residency provides a platform for two emerging youth artists to deepen their practice while receiving mentorship, professional guidance, and career development support designed to foster a holistic and sustainable artistic career. The program is centered on helping artists refine their voice, expand their creative inquiry, and build confidence in their evolving practice. Participants will be encouraged to experiment, take creative risks, and engage critically with their work within a supportive and collaborative environment.

Selected artists will each receive a $7,000 stipend to support studio time, materials, transportation, and other residency-related needs, in addition to mentorship, professional network-building opportunities, and a culminating three-month exhibition at Sovern opening December 3, 2026. The exhibition will conclude with a public panel event on February 27, 2027, during LA Art Week.

Residents will receive ongoing mentorship with Dale Brockman Davis @dalebrockmandavis — Los Angeles–based artist, educator, and community activist with additional programming and professional development sessions led by Terrell Tilford @terrelltilford , Founder & Creative Director, Band of Vices; Dominique Clayton, @lookatdominique Curator, Writer, Founder, Dominique Gallery; and Riyaana Hartley @riyaanahartley Creative Director. Curriculum topics will include portfolio and artist statement development, pricing and presenting artwork, promotion and visibility strategies, and cultivating the discipline and structure necessary to sustain a long-term creative practice.

Introducing From Gallery To Garment, the new ELLERALI brand video.

This film is a visual story of what ELLERALI has always believed: fashion is art, clothing carries meaning, and what already exists can be recreated into something powerful, beautiful, and new.

The concept begins in a gallery, where people are viewing art on the walls. As the story unfolds, the art comes to life through the garments they wear. It is a reminder that creativity is not only something we look at, it is something we can live in, move in, and express ourselves through.

ELLERALI is built on upcycling, sustainability, and one of a kind design. Every piece is created from repurposed garments and textiles, transforming what could have been discarded into wearable art.

From gallery to garment.
From waste to wonder.
From what was, to what can be.

Watch the full brand video and explore the collection at ellerali.com
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SPECIAL THANKS TO THIS AAAMAAZZIINNG CREW!!

Production company: @black_iiris 
Directed by @kozhakhat 
Producer: @peppermint.rina 
1st AD: @christianyamane

DP: @sean_ok06
1st AC: @markchenbei
Colorist/2nd AC: @_not_mk_
Steady cam operator: @steadistarzak
Camera PA/BTS: @andrewhsiehh

Gaffer: @jovannyjovel
Key Grip: @kareemrvbie

Production Designer: @carmi1la
Stylist: @cupidsvixen

Models:
@bbysoysauce
@andrewj_tong
@twofitslou
@vv_fham
@zhanenicole

MUA: @val_makupartist, @ediebo.mua

Location: @sovern.la

Clothing Donations made possible by @salvationarmythriftstoreuswest. Purchases and Donations to The Salvation Army Thrift Stores fund local life-changing programs in the community. ♻️

THANKS!! 🥰🥰

#sustainablefashion #upcycledfashion #upcycledclothing #smallbusiness #ecofashion

Art+: The Politics of Visibility⁠
Facilitated by @sovern.la⁠
12:30 - 1:30 pm, May 31, 2026 at Occidental College⁠
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Now Let's Talk, Los Angeles - Community Conversation⁠⁠
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RSVP 🔗 in bio⁠
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This community conversation explores art as a shared social space where different experiences, identities and perspectives meet, challenge one another, and shape collective understanding. Together, we’ll examine and discuss how artistic practice can move beyond aesthetics, toward healing, accountability, and imagining more just futures in the face of systemic justice.⁠
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This will be a phones-down, dialogue focused gathering for artists and arts workers of all genders to discuss and connect. Part of the Now Let’s Talk, Los Angeles programming. ⁠
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@18thstreetarts @angelsgateart @curativeprojects @armoryarts @artconvergecommunity @art.galleria @artcenterexhibitions @_arternal_ @artistscontract @theartistsoffice @artistscommit @artlogicplatform @arts4la @artworkarchive @avenue50studio @bentonatpomona @blueroof.art @calarts @thechapterhousela @cgumfa @cherryworks.art @clockshopla @altereddaily @coritaartcenter @craftcontemporary @crenshawdairymart @culture_list @eastwestbank.us @feministcenterforcreativework @forfreedoms @lafreewaves @fulcrumarts @grandcentralart @guerrillagirls @gyopo.us @hoffman.donahue @theicala @isabelavila.photo @jamuseum @jorifinkel @thejudithcenter @lacommons @welcometolace @nomadicdivision @levelground.co @labandartgallery @losangelesartistcensus @lacarchive @metabolicstudio @meztliprojects @nowbehereart @otiscollege @oxyarts @pamuseum_ @pileleprojects @pitzerartgalleries @primerarchives @ruthchandlerwilliamsongallery @sandrajacksondumon @shg1970 @sidestreetorg @sovern.la @uscroski @warholfoundation @wendemuseum⁠
#nowbeherela26

The talented @patrickchuka will be leading an ALL AGES drawing and painting exploration on Sunday June 7 at @sovern.la !

Open to ages 5+

Kiddos and adults welcome!

This hands-on workshop introduces participants to the fundamentals of drawing and painting through the study of flowers. 🌹

Using a curated selection of fresh flowers and visual references, participants will observe form, color, and texture while developing their own creative interpretations.

Each participant will choose their subject and preferred medium— pencil, watercolor, or acrylic— encouraging independent decision-making and personal expression.

Guided demonstrations will cover simplifying complex forms into basic shapes, building structure through sketching, and applying color through layering and mixing techniques.

Refreshments will be provided.

Sign up link in bio.

We’re pleased to announce our summer exhibition, “Into the Pluriverse”.

This exhibition, curated by Nordia Simmonds (@_drdiggy), is an interdisciplinary, group exhibition that incites the co-conspiracy of many ways of being human. The term pluriverse is a Zapatistan term that illustrates a commitment to and the concept of a world in which many worlds fit (Malandonado-Villalpando, 2022). The show proposes the artworks of Jessica Taylor Bellamy (@jbellzamy), April Bey (@aprilbey_), and Nia Lee (@nialeeomg) as tools of interrupting systems of oppression and erasure.

Image:

Jessica Taylor Bellamy
Pyrocumulus Daisy Portals
Oil on Canvas
57 1/2" x 47"
2025

Join us on June 25th from 7 to 9 PM for the opening reception. RSVP link in bio!

As Islamophobia continues to rise across the country, films like I’d Rather Be Dead Than Silent feel less like history and more like a warning.

Join Sovern LA and Isma/Shema Consulting for a screening of this gripping documentary following Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl — one of the most prominent Muslim scholars speaking out against extremism, authoritarianism, and the climate of fear and anti-Muslim hate that intensified after 9/11.

The forces this film names — fear, division, and the silencing of dissent — do not exist in a vacuum. They shape our communities, our politics, and the ways we see one another, often in ways we fail to fully confront.
Join us June 4 for an evening of film, reflection, and conversation grounded in community, courage, and the urgency of speaking up.

Tiffany Conway’s NO Painting invites us to establish loving boundaries that carve out time and space for ourselves. One of the major themes of ‘sacred’ is self-care. For many folks of color, self-care is considered an unaffordable luxury. This exhibition challenges that idea and offers everyday tools for caring for yourself.

Check out @tiffanyconwayartwork on Artsy (link in bio).

(Work Pictured)
The NO Painting
Oil on canvas
40 x 30
On Loan

For purchase inquiries, email sales@sovern.la or check out our Artsy page.

New date! May 29th from 7 PM -8:30 PM.

Esoteric Esa is a Mexican-Peruvian American published writer, astrologer, numerologist, and expert in the esoteric fields. She’s contributed to Remezcla, Mitú, and Cosmopolitan. Her work focuses on eliminating misconceptions around taboo subjects in Latine spirituality such as astrology, brujería, and decoloniality along with energy healing as means to reclaim Indigenous and ancestral practices. She is a second-generation psychic tarot reader based in Los Angeles.

Honey Balm is a healers-for-healers evening of reciprocity & collective care, held by the vision & generosity we all bring to the circle. This is a potluck gathering inspired by the honeybee & the acronym BALM: Belonging, Access, Listening, and Medicine.

Together we will co-create sacred space through altar building, an opening prayer & meditation honoring the four directions, & explore the wisdom of circles to nurture & support both personal & collective capacity to resolve & envision.

This healing justice based container will be guided by @remember_thisfeeling , @jxsmineayala & @vwhitehawk.

Please feel free to bring a personal sacred item or earth offering (flowers, crystals, feathers, shells, etc.) to add to our collective altar.

Honey Balm is a healers-for-healers evening of reciprocity & collective care, held by the vision & generosity we all bring to the circle. This is a potluck gathering inspired by the honeybee & the acronym BALM: Belonging, Access, Listening, and Medicine.

Together we will co-create sacred space through altar building, an opening prayer & meditation honoring the four directions, & explore the wisdom of circles to nurture & support both personal & collective capacity to resolve & envision.

This healing justice based container will be guided by @remember_thisfeeling , @jxsmineayala & @vwhitehawk.

Please feel free to bring a personal sacred item or earth offering (flowers, crystals, feathers, shells, etc.) to add to our collective altar.

Honey Balm is a healers-for-healers evening of reciprocity & collective care, held by the vision & generosity we all bring to the circle. This is a potluck gathering inspired by the honeybee & the acronym BALM: Belonging, Access, Listening, and Medicine.

Together we will co-create sacred space through altar building, an opening prayer & meditation honoring the four directions, & explore the wisdom of circles to nurture & support both personal & collective capacity to resolve & envision.

This healing justice based container will be guided by @remember_thisfeeling , @jxsmineayala & @vwhitehawk.

Please feel free to bring a personal sacred item or earth offering (flowers, crystals, feathers, shells, etc.) to add to our collective altar.

Now Be Here’s 10-Year Anniversary Photo & Now Let’s Talk, Los Angeles Programming
May 31, 2026, 9 am - 3 pm, Occidental College. RSVP link in bio or @nowbehereart

We’re excited to share the programs for the Now Let’s Talk, Los Angeles events at the end of May! The programming is free and open to artists of all genders.

Panels:
Equal Percent: Ongoing Strategies for Resisting Sexism in the Art Market / No Unsolicited Submissions: Navigating Relationships with Curators and Gallerists

Community Conversations:
How Do We Do This Differently? / When the Margin is the Center: Identity, Politics, and Art / For Freedoms School: Navigating the Currents of Change, Intersession / Artists, Community Resilience & Mutual Aid / Archiving for Us / Procession: Art as Ecological Practice / Where Are You Now? Where Will Your Work Go? / Art+: The Politics of Visibility

Now Let’s Talk, Los Angeles is organized by Now Be Here and OXY ARTS in collaboration with a coalition of 50+ regional arts organizations, and made possible through generous donations by Artlogic, ArtConverge, East West Bank, and Claremont Graduate University Art Department, with thanks to Fulcrum Arts.

For more information and to RSVP, please see the link in bio or @nowbehereart

Now Be Here’s 10-Year Anniversary Photo & Now Let’s Talk, Los Angeles Programming
May 31, 2026, 9 am - 3 pm, Occidental College. RSVP link in bio or @nowbehereart

We’re excited to share the programs for the Now Let’s Talk, Los Angeles events at the end of May! The programming is free and open to artists of all genders.

Panels:
Equal Percent: Ongoing Strategies for Resisting Sexism in the Art Market / No Unsolicited Submissions: Navigating Relationships with Curators and Gallerists

Community Conversations:
How Do We Do This Differently? / When the Margin is the Center: Identity, Politics, and Art / For Freedoms School: Navigating the Currents of Change, Intersession / Artists, Community Resilience & Mutual Aid / Archiving for Us / Procession: Art as Ecological Practice / Where Are You Now? Where Will Your Work Go? / Art+: The Politics of Visibility

Now Let’s Talk, Los Angeles is organized by Now Be Here and OXY ARTS in collaboration with a coalition of 50+ regional arts organizations, and made possible through generous donations by Artlogic, ArtConverge, East West Bank, and Claremont Graduate University Art Department, with thanks to Fulcrum Arts.

For more information and to RSVP, please see the link in bio or @nowbehereart

Naomi Stewart is the curatorial mind behind ‘sacred’, an exhibition that centers Black art, joy, and healing in a world that devalues these contributions. Naomi’s intention and care is evident in the authentic relationships built with the exhibiting artists, selection of works, and deep connection to the spiritual work at play in the exhibition. (@naomithewanderess)

Connect with Naomi tonight at the Closing Reception of ‘sacred’ at 7PM.

For purchase inquiries of works in ‘sacred’, email sales@sovern.la or check out our Artsy page.

Don’t miss your last chance to check out Dellis’ work at the closing reception of ‘sacred’ @sovern.la this Thursday May 7th at 7PM.

We were honored to have exhibiting artist Dellis Frank (@dellisfrank_theartist) break down her piece, “Be Amended”. Dellis explores the history of The Three-Fifths Compromise which tried to diminish Black people to subhuman. This multimedia piece rejects this idea by celebrating blackness with images of Black Lives Matters protest, excerpts from The Constitution, and news headlines from NFL controversies of players taking a knee during the National Anthem. Dellis’ works remind us of our wholeness and sacredness.

(Work Pictured)
Be Amended (2019)
Acrylic on canvas, repurposed items, fiber, paper collage, resin
40 x 30 inches
$5,000

For purchase inquiries, email: sales@sovern.la or check out our Artsy page.