Events

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Join artist Terry Chatkupt and special guests for an informal listening party.

Tickets and sponsorship opportunities will be available soon!

Pasadena's arts and culture organizations are swinging open their doors for the evening.

Please join the Armory for a special guitar-based performance by artist Terry Chatkupt.

Create fabric banners with Teaching Artist Rachel Curry.

Join artist Terry Chatkupt for a free photography workshop.

Celebrate the Armory's new exhibition, Terry Chatkupt: A Year.

Join artists Myisha Arellano and Michelle Glass at the Pasadena Community Job Center on January 27.

(Ages 6 - adult) The best holiday gifts are homemade!

Join Mayor Victor M. Gordo in kicking off the holiday season at Pasadena's free family holiday celebration. Enjoy festival music performances by local youth and a holiday craft contest.

we invite you to visit us in person during our regular gallery hours to view and add photos of your loved ones to our community altar (ofrenda)

Learn about zines as a tool for self-expression! Time: Workshop 1:30-2:30 pm, Zine Social 2:30-4:30 pm

Join us for an outdoor event featuring all-ages artmaking activities!

create Risograph prints from hand-drawn and printed matter to create beautiful spooky prints for Halloween!

join artist Sterling Wells and freshwater ecologist Melissa von Mayrhauser for a walk along the Arroyo Seco and Flint Wash.

Practice your figure drawing skills and meet new fellow artists with free Networking Opportunities including a Business Card Exchange, a Speed Networking Session and more!

Join Armory Teaching Artists for fun art-making at this year's 24th Annual Community Resource Fair and Block Party by the 41st Assembly District with Assemblymember Chris Holden.

Join us on opening weekend for a curator-led walk-through and art-making activity for all ages.

Join us to hear artist Marquita “Micki” Davis speak about her installation included in our current exhibit Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology. Following Davis, Patrick McCray will give a talk about his research Waves of Knowing: A Convergence of Nuclear, Oceanographic, and Navigational Knowledge.

Enjoy a community celebration with loved ones, friends, and neighbors. Free fitness & wellness games, arts & crafts, face painting, food, and live entertainment will be offered.

The Tribute to Veterans and Military Families is a longstanding Fifth District tradition and provides Supervisor Barger the opportunity to thank our veterans, service members, and their loved ones for their commitment to a lifetime of service.

a 90 minute workshop that creates space for grief to be acknowledged, witnessed, and welcome.

Online video screening from our current exhibition, which documents international Indigenous responses to the impacts of nuclear production processes on Native peoples and the environment.

Families affected by the LAUSD strike: we can help.

The Armory's first multi-generational student art exhibition

Join us for a community event celebrating the closing of our exhibition At The Table featuring artmaking for all ages and a DJ set from Space Primo.

This final installment of Into the Radical Imaginary: Contemporary Perspectives on Art and Struggle features scholars Ana Vujanović and Bojana Cvejić’.

Contribute your emotional dumplings to the Q’s At the Table installation, giving visitors a chance to come together around a table to create, have conversation, and share their creations and emotions.

Join artist Francisco Palomares as he leads a workshop and join in on collaging and drawing a street vendor fruit cart inspired still life from observation.

Whether you’re looking for giggles or screams, there is something for the whole family to enjoy! The Armory Teaching Artists will be present ready to provide face-painting creations!

Join friends and neighbors at Villa Parke Community Center to celebrate Dia de los Muertos by making your very own clay calavera skull.

This second installment of Radical Imaginary: Contemporary Perspectives on Art and Struggle.

Pasadena's free celebration of art returns in-person and city-wide.

Join artist Francisco Palomares as he leads a workshop and join in on collaging and drawing a street vendor fruit cart inspired still life from observation.

Co-sponsored by the Armory and the CalArts MA in Aesthetics and Politics Program.

A screening of the film Vendedores en Acción (2021) followed by a conversation between alvaro parra, the film’s director, and Faustino Martinez and Caridad Vazquez, street vendors featured in the film.

Contribute your emotional dumplings to the Q’s At the Table installation, giving visitors a chance to come together around a table to create, have conversation, and share their creations and emotions.

Hierarchy Study (Elementary) is a new live work stemming from a 2018-2019 lived performance, Elementary, in which Neha Choksi attended a Los Angeles public elementary school as a kindergarten student.