Laguna Art Museum

10/15/2026

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Before Laguna Beach became a city, artists were already building its future.

For more than a century, Laguna Art Museum has brought artists, ideas and community together through the ever-evolving story of California art.

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10/13/2026

10/05/2026

October 18: Watch mastery in motion as the de la Torre brothers demonstrate their extraordinary skill in glass, guiding viewers through their creative process step by step in real time. This rare, up-close opportunity is limited to 30 people. Advance tickets highly suggested.

Tickets are available now: https://lagunaartmuseum.org/event-calendar/event/de-la-torre-brothers-glass-blowing-demonstration

Please note: The demonstration will be held at the Sawdust Festival grounds. Details to follow upon ticket purchase.

10/03/2026

Don't miss an exlusive talk by Artist Kim Manfredi on October 4, discussing her brand new exhibition, View with a Grain of Sand!

Tickets are available now: https://lagunaartmuseum.org/event-calendar/event/artist-talk-kim-manfredi

Join artist Kim Manfredi and curators Elizabeth Armstrong and Daniell Cornell for an engaging conversation exploring Manfredi’s exhibition View with a Grain of Sand. Together they will discuss the ideas, materials and process behind the work, offering visitors a deeper look into the artist’s practice and vision.

09/30/2026

Kim Manfredi: View with a Grain of Sand opens this weekend!

This is an exhibition of paintings that explores perception, landscape and the human desire to impose meaning on the natural world. The works draw from direct observation of elemental phenomena, transforming place into an abstract visual language. Using color layered with drips, bleeds and oversprays, the paintings evoke the vitality and unpredictability of nature. Fragmentation within the compositions reflects humanity’s imprint on the environment while also offering moments of visual play.

The exhibition’s title is drawn from Wisława Szymborska’s poem View with a Grain of Sand, which reflects on human insignificance within a vast, objective universe and seeks to dissolve the illusion of separation between ourselves and the world we inhabit. Like poetry, painting offers an incomplete and metaphorical language, pointing toward subjects that exceed or are even indifferent to description. Through attention to fleeting/ephemeral qualities, new ways of seeing emerge. The works invite viewers to reconsider their relationship to nature and their place within it.

Kim Manfredi: View with a Grain of Sand is organized by Laguna Art Museum as part of the Art + Nature initiative.

Image: Kim Manfredi, It exists in this world, 2026. Oil, aerosol and sand on canvas; 72 x 60 in. Courtesy of the Artist

09/28/2026

Have you seen Radiant Terrains: Elements of Light in Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection yet?

Drawn entirely from the museum's permanent collection, Radiant Terrains explores how artists working from the 1960s to the present have transformed light into sculpture, painting, photography, installation, and metaphor.

Rather than tracing a single artistic movement, Radiant Terrains unfolds through a series of visual conversations. Light appears throughout the exhibition as atmosphere, physical energy, optical illusion, environmental condition, technological signal and spiritual metaphor. Artists employ industrial plastics, resin, pigment, metallic surfaces, photography, lenticular imagery and transmitted light to explore how light transforms matter and continually reshapes our understanding of space, landscape, memory and the cosmos.

Image: Peter Alexander, Century, 1989. Oil and acrylic on canvas. 60 x 66 inches. Gift of Ed Moses and Family. Collection Laguna Art Museum. Photo: Peter Alexander Estate. 1991.122

09/25/2026

Opening October 3 at Laguna Art Museum! Kim Manfredi: View with a Grain of Sand

Kim Manfredi's paintings translate natural phenomena into abstraction. The works propose a shift in perception-one that fosters a more attentive, reciprocal relationship with the world we inhabit.

Using color layered with drips, bleeds and oversprays, the paintings evoke the vitality and unpredictability of nature.

The exhibition’s title is drawn from Wisława Szymborska’s poem View with a Grain of Sand, which reflects on human insignificance within a vast, objective universe and seeks to dissolve the illusion of separation between ourselves and the world we inhabit. Like poetry, painting offers an incomplete and metaphorical language, pointing toward subjects that exceed or are even indifferent to description.

Image: Kim Manfredi, We call it a grain of sand, 2026. Oil, aerosol and sand on canvas; 80 x 60 in. Courtesy of the Artist

09/23/2026

Join award-winning writer Rina Palumbo in the gallery for an evening of writing in response to art on September 26! Sign up now: https://lagunaartmuseum.org/event-calendar/event/the-tipping-point-an-ekphrastic-writing-workshop

The immersive and dynamic art installation by Einar and Jamex de la Torre sets the stage for this intensive writing workshop. Just as the exhibit examines the moments when one thing elides another, we will explore, through the rubric of ‘The Seven Deadly Sins’ aspects of these ‘tipping point’ moments using different prompts and craft writing techniques. Expect to come out of this generative workshop with seven pieces of writing, each fully engaging in your sensory, emotional and intellectual interactions with this phenomenal exhibit.

Please, no ink pens, just pencils, paper and/or a computer.

09/22/2026

Now on view! Discover the California experience with these three incredible exhibitions

Radiant Terrains: Elements of Light in Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection
September 19, 2026 – January 10, 2027

de la Torre Brothers: The Tipping Point
August 1, 2026 – January 24, 2027

Latest and Greatest: New Work at Laguna Art Museum
Ongoing

09/19/2026

It's your final weekend to see Andy Moses: Into the Light! The exhibition surveys the artist's work of the last two decades, evincing his increasingly expansive commitment to a kind of painting that at once displays and obscures imagery. This work forces you to decide what it is doing to you, what it is showing you, if and how it is tricking your eyes or playing to their strengths. It’s a kind of magic. Plan your visit at lagunaartmuseum.org