Oxy Arts on York (4757 York Boulevard)

Join us for the opening reception of the 2025-26 Studio Art Senior Comps Exhibition: Interwoven.

Presented by Occidental's Intercultural Community Center (ICC) in celebration of National Poetry Month, join us for a powerful evening honoring Los Angeles-based, femme and trans/non-binary poets of color.

Join us for the final iteration of this free art-making workshop series. Participants will create their own watercolor sets using natural pigments, inspired by Roksana Pirouzmand's use of clay and metal in our current exhibition, everything was once something else.

Open to all ages and skill levels, with all materials provided. Stay tuned for more details about the projects we will focus on during this workshop. 

Join us for the 2nd workshop of a 3-part series where we will be creating art projects inspired by everything was once something else, a solo exhibition by Roksana Pirouzmand. In this workshop we will experiment with clay - using different objects to create impressions and decorate clay slabs, inspired by Roksana Pirouzmand's sculptures. 

OXY ARTS, 4757 York Blvd. LA CA 90042

Join us for the 1st workshop of a 3-part free art-making workshop series. In the series, we will be creating projects inspired by our current exhibition, everything was once something else, a solo exhibition by Roksana Pirouzmand. The first workshop focuses on Foil Embossed Stamps. We will make our own stamps out of familiar metal materials, inspired by Roksana Pirouzmand's exhibition.

Join OXY ARTS and the Occidental College English Department for an evening reading by Iranian-American poet, writer, and librettist Sholeh Wolpé. 

Join us for an intimate in-gallery conversation between Roksana Pirouzmand and Candice Lin.

Both Pirouzmand and Lin have been Wanlass Artists in Residence at OXY ARTS, and this dialogue will reflect on their shared commitment to deep, reflective, materially driven work. The conversation will consider their shared approaches and influences, inherited histories, and reflections on pedagogy and mentorship.

What if we could compost the multiple lives within our single lifetime to grow a world? Join sound artist Umi Hsu for an evening of artist talk and concept-based activities that explore mushrooms, mycelium, and trans temporality. Umi Hsu will give a performance lecture introducing their practice that combines oral history, biomaterials, and worldmaking, while playing sounds on a living fungi synthesizer that they built.

4757 York Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90042.

Join us to celebrate the opening of the exhibition Roksana Pirouzmand: everything was once something else.  

From the renowned Palestinian scholar, a memoir of political and queer awakening, of impossible love amidst generations of displacement, and what it means to return home.

Both a love story and a coming-of-age tale that spans countries and continents, Fire in Every Direction balances humor and loss, nostalgia and hope, as it takes us from the Middle East to London, and from 1948 to the present. Tareq Baconi crafts a deeply intimate, unforgettable portrait of how a political consciousness—desire and resistance—is passed down through generations.