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May 3: Gallery Tour-Don Normark

Don Normark: A Retrospective
April 12 – June 10
Thursday . May 3 . 7 PM . Community Gallery Tour

Join curator Matt Leslie on a gallery tour! Celebrated photographer Don Normark exhibits selections from his three most famous bodies of work. Normark is known widely for his documentation of the Mexican American community of Chavez Ravine in the 1940s before it became the location of Dodger Stadium. More recently, he documented the struggle to preserve the South Central Farm in Los Angeles from development. The Muckenthaler exhibition includes selections from his photographs of gardens for Sunset magazine in the 1960s and 1970s.

A special showing of the documentary “The Garden” will also be held. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, “The Garden” is an engaging and powerful look at the famous political and social battle over the largest community garden in the US (located in South Central Los Angeles). View the trailer here.

Guest speaker Rufina Juarez, a community activist and farmer, who played a prominent role in the South Central Farm, will also be present to talk about her experience working with the film.

Rufina Juarez is activist in the environmental justice movement. Her father was a Bracero who settled in the Imperial Valley where he was a fieldworker. As a child, she joined her family working in the grape fields of Coachella during the summers. She is one of the founding organizers of the South Central Farmers Feeding Families and played a leading role in the anti-eviction struggle from 2003-06 as documented in the Oscar-nominated film, “The Garden.” A graduate of Bernard Baruch College (CUNY), Ms. Juarez has an MA in Public Administration and did her under graduate studies in Political Science at the University of California-San Diego. Rufina grew up on her family’s farm in the Imperial Valley and as a youth learned to recycle everything including water. She continues to farm on the family’s land. She grows heirloom maize and is currently focused on bringing grass-fed beef to inner-city communities. Ms. Juarez is active with La Red Indigena Chicana and is part of the organization’s international committee.

Supported by grants from The James Irvine Foundation and The National Endowment for the Arts

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