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Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College

Name: Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College
Address: Claremont, CA, US
Telephone: (909)6218283

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The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College originates lively and innovative art experiences that foster creative and critical thinking.

06/24/2026

Frieze writer Christina Catherine Martinez reviews ‘John Sparagana: Interference Patterns’ at the Benton, describing the collages in the artist’s first survey as “the odd fusion of the chic and the ominous [which] suffuses the exhibition, spiked with invitations to intimacy.”

Read the full article at the link in bio, then plan your visit to see ‘John Sparagana: Interference Patterns’ for our final week of spring exhibitions! We’ll be open Thursday 11 am–8 pm and Friday–Sunday 11 am–6 pm.

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Images:
1. John Sparagana, Between the Eyes #8, Afghanistan Citizens, American Soldier, Military Transport Vehicle/Helio Oiticica, ‘Metesquema,’ 1957 (three times) (detail), 2010. Sliced and mixed inkjet prints and oil pastel on paper, 58 1/4 x 87 3/4 inches (148 x 222.9 cm). Courtesy of the artist
2. Photo: Jeff McLane

06/19/2026

Scenes from our most recent Artist-Led Workshops 🎨✂️

LA-based artist Stephanie Mercado Stephanie Mercado led a two-part workshop in block printing and weaving. Inspired by the collages in our current exhibition ‘John Sparagana: Interference Patterns,’ participants learned how to carve their own image on a rubber block, print the image on paper, and use their own block prints to make paper weavings. These workshops offered a meditative moment for everyone to slow down, work with their hands, and tell their own stories through creating tactile artworks.

This Artist-Led Workshop was designed by our community engagement intern Yadira Barrales ’26.

06/15/2026

Artist Manuel López manuel reflects on his personal ties to the landmarks in Boyle Heights depicted in the 1988 film ‘Stand and Deliver.’

“I just think it’s like this really beautiful reminder of what East LA was and what it’s still, sort of. It still carries that essence to it.”

This Thursday, June 18, come and see ‘Stand and Deliver’ as part of our Summer Film Series program! Check out Manuel’s mural of East LA on view in our Art Hall, then join us in the courtyard at 8 pm to see the very film that impacted him.

🎞️ Summer Film Series: ‘Stand and Deliver’ (1988)
🕗 Thursday, June 18 at 8 pm
📍 Benton Museum of Art
🍿 Free and open to the public

06/12/2026

Let the games begin! ⚽

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Image: Leonard Freed, Apprentice boys play football during lunch hour at the Upper Clyde shipyard, Glasgow, Scotland, 1971. Publisher: Magnum Photos. Gelatin silver print on paper, 6 7/16 x 9 11/16 in. (16.35 x 24.61 cm). Pomona College Collection, Restricted Gift of Michael Mattis and Judy Hochberg, Fernando Barnuevo, and Dr. Jim Pearl, P2016.15.11

06/05/2026

Last month to see our spring exhibitions, now until June 28 🌸 Admission is always free—plan your visit today!

On view ↓
John Sparagana: Interference Patterns
The Meditative Object
Art Hall Projects 1: Manuel López

Open Thursdays 11 am–8 pm and Fridays–Sundays 11 am–6 pm.

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Photos: Jeff McLane

06/03/2026

In collaboration with the , join us on Friday, June 12 at James Turrell's Skyspace on Pomona College's campus for a special live music event featuring siblings CJ and Harris Harper.

Harris Harper is a songwriter from Los Angeles with a penchant for the delicate, the ruminative, and the sparse. She will play a set of original songs, accompanied by Jesse Strauss.

Electronic musician CJ Harper is posting music online using the alias Four AM, while exploring methods of composition for black cinema at SunHaus in Los Angeles. His mix debuting at the Skyspace includes soulful found recordings, and original material made on an EMS Synthi.

This program is organized in conjunction with our current exhibition, The Meditative Object, on view at the Benton until June 28, 2026.

Registration is required; RSVP here: https://www.pomona.edu/museum/events/2026/06/music-skyspace-folk-music-center

06/02/2026

Salim and Nilo here 👋 This past Sunday, we represented the Benton at 10-year anniversary of their community photo and artist-centered programming. As one of many Community Conversations that day, we led a group discussion on artist legacies, asking attendees what do they envision for their artwork, where their art would go, and who would steward their works 💭

We want to shout-out Skye Tausig PZ ’24 (photo 1, center), our former museum intern who invited us to participate in this event. Seeing her actively involved in a local organization that fosters support for women and non-binary artists in the LA arts community fills us with tremendous pride and joy!!

05/29/2026

This isn’t a drawing of just any tree—this is a drawing of El Pino ✍🏼

Standing 100 feet tall, El Pino is a bunya pine tree that towers over the corner of Folsom and Indiana streets in East LA. While no one is sure exactly when the tree was planted, we do know that El Pino grew on the property of Dr. Okuno, a Japanese immigrant who was forcibly removed to a concentration camp during World War II. Decades later, the tree would be prominently featured in the 1993 crime drama ‘Blood In, Blood Out’ as the meeting spot of the main characters.

When a false rumor circulated about the possibility of the tree being cut down for new property development, community members rallied together to protect the tree. It became a cultural symbol against the ongoing gentrification of the neighborhood.

For Manuel, who was born and raised in Boyle Heights, El Pino is a local landmark that represents resilience amid changes in neighborhood demographics and land development in the last 100 years. In the museum’s Art Hall, he draws El Pino as part of the sprawling landscape that he recalls from his childhood, much of which he saw through bus windows on his frequent rides across the city.

See Manuel’s interpretation of El Pino and East LA in ‘Art Hall Projects 1: Manuel López,’ on view until June 28, 2026.

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Image 3: Hollywood Pictures

05/27/2026

SUMMER FILM SERIES LINEUP 🍿🎞️

Bring your blankets, chairs, and snacks to the Benton’s courtyard for the return of our popular outdoor film screenings! Swipe to see our lineup of films, carefully curated to be in conversation with topics in our current exhibitions on view through June 28.

June 4: Samsara (2011) dir. Ron Fricke
June 11: Fail Safe (1964) dir. Sidney Lumet
June 18: Stand and Deliver (1988) dir. Ramón Menéndez
June 25: It Was Just an Accident (2025) dir. Jafar Panahi جعفر پناهی

Share this post with a friend you want to bring to the outdoor screenings. See you there!

🎞️ Summer Film Series
🕗 Every Thursday evening in June at 8 pm
📍 John and Louise Bryson Courtyard at the Benton
🍿 Free and open to the public

05/26/2026

A Conversation on Art, Faith, and Meditation

Last month, several of our museum staff members, student interns, and print scholars gathered in the galleries for a Study Day with Anne Searle Bent, collector and co-author of ‘Art and the Experience of the Divine.’ She presented her insights into art and the Christian faith in the context of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century drawings of biblical themes from her collection, two of which she lent the Benton for the exhibition ‘The Meditative Object.’

We’re grateful for the generosity of Anne Searle Bent and for the opportunity to bring together a group of scholars to further develop our understanding of works on paper—and contemplative traditions.

See these works in person in ‘The Meditative Object,’ on view until June 28, 2026.

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Photos 1 & 2: Justine Bae Bias, Photo 3: Jeff McLane

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Thursday	11am - 8pm
Friday	11am - 6pm
Saturday	11am - 6pm
Sunday	11am - 6pm

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(909)6218283

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