The stories below have been provided by Michelle Cahill, an Animal Care Center volunteer for the past 25 years. Photo credits: Kelly Pacino Rodgers.
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
The City of Irvine resumed its One Irvine program on February 14, 2022. One Irvine is a neighborhood revitalization program that enhances neighborhood conditions as neighborhoods age and transition
In honor of 40 years of the Irvine Animal Care Center, we asked our staff to put together a list of the 40 most requested donation items. Please consider donating any of the items below.
The City of Irvine and the Fair Housing Foundation are hosting a free virtual workshop Tuesday, March 1 from 1:30 to 3 p.m.
The Fair Housing Foundation, a nonprofit partner dedicated to eliminating housing discrimination and promoting equal access to housing, will share information including but not limited to:
The next Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Meeting will be held February 24, at 5 p.m.
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Inspired by crisis, Perin Mahler’s large-scale, epic narrative paintings reflect a recent and profound period of self-interrogation on behalf of the artist in light of social and environmental justice-related events. Informed by philosophic, sociological, and art historical developments, and concepts, Mahler’s works in Mirror represent a significant pivot in the artist’s oeuvre.
Navigating the intersection of parenthood, artistic production, and constructions of identity inform Kaitlynn Redell’s newest works on view in Mirror. The artist will discuss how periods of “intense togetherness” between her and her young children during COVID-19, led to the creation of work that is simultaneously specific and broadly accessible.
History—familial and historical—and the haze of memory inform Gretchen Batcheller’s paintings on view in Mirror. Situated between abstraction and representation, her paintings critically revisit her family’s generations of military service, as well as her earliest memories of living on military bases throughout Japan.
Meet Alkaid Ramirez, an emerging OC-based photographer whose newest mixed-media work in Terrain pays homage to and spotlights his local community. His photographs of swap-meet locals, coupled with material references to domestic spaces, yield work that is simultaneously playful and sentimental.
Alkaid’s work has been exhibited at Redwood Art Association, Eureka, California; Carnegie Plaza at MUZEO, Anaheim, California; and the Latinx Project.
Meet cross-disciplinary artist Beth Davila Waldman, whose work is featured in the exhibition Terrain. Learn about her creative practice, conceptual and material explorations, and how the “Divisions” series reflects her personal and social concerns. Her art practice has been influenced by borrowed symbols and landscapes from her maternal homeland Peru as well as other international sites such as Hong Kong and Vietnam.