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Lancaster, CA. August 1, 2024 – The Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) formally invites the public to an artist panel discussion with exhibiting artists Ann Diener, Debra Scacco, and Los Angeles Times environment reporter Rosanna Xia. The panel discussion will take place on Saturday, August 3, 2024, at 2 p.m. in the main gallery of MOAH. Join us for an insightful discussion concerning the environment, water as a resource, and sustainability.
Ann Diener earned her bachelor's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her works have been exhibited in museums and galleries, among them the Weatherspoon Museum in North Carolina, the Art, Design, and Architecture Museum at University of California, Santa Barbara, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Torrance Museum, Otis College of Art and Design, the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, and the Riverside Art Museum, as well as numerous art fairs in the US and Europe.
Debra Scacco’s research-based practice spans the creation of studio works, installations, public art, curating, teaching, writing, community engagement and oral history. Her practice is dedicated to lateralizing knowledge to challenge hierarchies and historic structures of power. Rooted in her own experiences of immigration, she re-envisions the visible and invisible lines that seek to establish boundaries of access and understanding. Scacco is Founding Director of climate-focused creative research program Air Projects, Co-Director of Getty Pacific Standard Time project Brackish Water Los Angeles, and Co-Founder of art worker mutual aid cooperative Contemporary Art League.
Rosanna Xia is an environmental reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where she specializes in stories about the coast and ocean. She was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2020 for explanatory reporting, and her coverage of a toxic dumpsite in the deep ocean has been anthologized in the “Best American Science and Nature Writing” series. Her award-winning book, “California Against the Sea,” has been praised as a poetic and mind-expanding exploration of what we stand to lose in the face of rising water.
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