Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 3, No. 14 - April 8, 2021
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Experience Artwork at ESMoA
By Kiersten Vannest
“The nice thing is, you never know what
you’re getting.” Stated Barbara Boehm, director
of operations at the El Segundo Museum
of Art (ESMoA), a public nonprofit. Hailing
from Berlin, her background is in architecture,
but now she handles all things informational
regarding ESMoA, what they call an art lab
here in El Segundo. She explains the innovative
nature of the small museum located
on Main Street.
Boehm and her “small, but mighty” team,
Holly Crawford and Eugenia Torre, oversee
the museum and its exhibits, programs,
education, outreach, and beyond.
At ESMoA, the shows or exhibits are called
“experiences.” They utilize all the senses and
are thematic and conceptual. To enter one of
their experiences is to see the world in a new
way, consider a perspective you hadn’t, and
hopefully, learn something about the world
and yourself.
“We’re truly an art laboratory,” says Eugenia
Torre, “We test things, and experiment, and
things stick, and they grow.” Torre came from
Italy and helped head ESMoA’s film festival,
which incidentally became an international
film festival as they received submissions
from forty-nine different countries last year.
Past experiences include their ongoing
“Living Library,” where real-life people offer
their time as living books, open to answering
questions, teaching, and just chatting. Guests
have the chance to “check out” a Living Book
for a twenty-minute one-on-one conversation.
As part of their Oz-themed experience,
they hosted a Queens and Kings drag show.
They’ve had an experience called “Eat,” calling
on guests to consider the role of food
in our lives and our art, and another called
“Matriarchs,” an art experience curated and
created by indigenous women.
Currently, the small museum features an
experience called “Freestate.” Within this
exhibit, artist Cole Sternberg explores the
idea of The Free Republic of California.
What could a more enlightened society look
like? From sculpture, visual art, websites,
merchandise, and even an entire constitution
checked by constitutional legal experts,
than spending so much time reading what
is on the walls.
Within their organization, the museum
has three pillars of its structure: experiences,
arts education programs, and artists in residence.
The experiences consist of workshops, art
talks, presentations, and other public events,
all of which are free and open to the public.
On the museum education and programming
side, Holly Crawford heads up an effort to
increase diversity, inclusion, and community
relations. This includes school programs and
artist-led workshops and family days, and
creative experiences for K-12 in LA and
the South Bay.
Crawford comes from the east coast, has
a background in art, and is a practicing
Sternberg explores the answer.
Unlike most museums, no work in the
building is labeled. Rather, every piece
is assigned a number, which can then be
looked up on a grid online and explored
further. As Boehm describes it, this is meant
to encourage engaging with the art rather See ESMoA, page 7
The team behind ESMoA. From left to right: Holly Crawford, Eugenia Torre, Barbara Boehm.