About this Event
Echándole Ganas: A Conversation about the Arts and Labor
Saturday, November 14, 2026, 2 PM, Lantern Room
Join artists noé olivas and Verónica Preciado in a conversation moderated by exhibition curator Heber Rodriguez. The discussion will trace the inspiration, ideas, and experiences that helped shape the artwork featured in the exhibition with a special focus on the relationship between labor and the arts.
Echándole Ganas: Una conversación sobre la labor y el arte
Sábado 14 de noviembre de 2026, 2 PM, Lantern Room
Acompaña a noé olivas y Verónica Preciado, artistas de la exposición , para una conversación moderada por el curador de la exhibición, Heber Rodriguez. La charla explorará la inspiración, las ideas y las experiencias que ayudaron a dar forma a las obras presentadas en la exhibición, con un enfoque especial en la relación entre el trabajo y el arte.
About the artists
Verónica Preciado (b. 1997, Fontana, CA) is an interdisciplinary artist based in California’s Inland Empire. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of California Irvine having studied art, engineering, and medical humanities. Primarily using metal fabrication, Verónica creates interactive sculptural installations. Her work often focuses on the Xicanx identity, issues of social justice, and the natural properties of her materials. Utilizing welding, metal shrinking/stretching, and hand forming techniques, Verónica takes flat sheets of metal and creates detailed works of art. She strikes a balance between symbolism, steel’s industrial nature and a sense of delicacy. Layers of symbols: color, design, and installation culminate in work that transmit ideas which language cannot. Her recent works explore the concepts of portals, alternative spaces, science fiction, and human existence. Verónica’s work has been exhibited across California including exhibitions at The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture and The Smithsonian’s traveling exhibition "Lowrider Culture in the United States / Cultura Lowrider en los Estados Unidos". Her work is a part of private and collegiate collections across the US.
noé olivas (b. 1987, San Diego, CA—occupied Kumeyaay land) lives and works in South Central Los Angeles. He received his MFA from the University of Southern California in 2019, and his BFA from the University of San Diego in 2013. olivas' makes sculptures, prints, and performances that investigate the poetics of labor, specifically labor's relationship to leisure as well as its access to liberation. His work has been exhibited at the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College, Claremont (2024); Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles (2023, 2019); Mandeville Gallery at the University of California, San Diego (2023); Candlewood Festival, Borrego Springs (2022); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2022); The Front Arte Y Cultura Gallery, San Ysidro (2021); Napa Hall Gallery at the California State University Channel Islands, Camarillo (2020); Open Mind Art Space, Los Angeles (2019); Residency Art Gallery, Inglewood (2019); La Jolla Historical Society, San Diego (2018 San Diego Art Institute, California (2017); The New Children’s Museum, San Diego (2017); and the San Diego Museum of Art. (2017). As part of the 2018 Mexicali Biennial, his work was also included in the traveling exhibition Calafia: Manifesting the Terrestrial Paradise at the Robert and Frances Fullerton Art Museum at the California State University, San Bernardino (2018), and Armory Center of the Arts, Pasadena, California (2019- 2020).
Event venue & nearby stays
Lancaster Museum of Art and History, 665 West Lancaster Boulevard, Lancaster, United States
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