Artist Roundtable & Open House Closing Celebration for “Persona: Exploring Self-Portraiture”

Join Forest Lawn Museum for an open house and artist roundtable celebrating “Persona: Exploring Self-Portraiture” on Saturday, August 9, from 2:00-4:00 PM, before the exhibition closes on August 10. Tour the museum galleries, then enjoy a Q&A with Forest Lawn Museum Director James Fishburne, PhD, and several exhibition artists. Light refreshments will be served. The event is free and open to the public.

The exhibition features the work of more than 20 contemporary artists as well as historical self-portraits, spanning over 125 years. It probes the expanses of self-portraiture and examines the concept of visual representations of the self and the human condition. “Persona” features paintings, sculptures, photographs, prints, fused glass, digital art, textile art, illustrations, and more, including Bryan Ida's politically-charged inkwork, Christen Austin's imaginative and introspective paintings, Tom Wilson's Back to the Future character work, celebrity portraitist Ramona Rosales's COVID series, as well as works by Man Ray and Andy Warhol, and Alison Blickle, Brad Donenfeld, Shivy Galtere, Andy Gersh, Patrick Hruby, Janna Ireland, Maren H. Jensen, Jordan Kay, Ruthy Kim, Michelle Kingdom, Huntz Liu, Eric Merrell, Elizabeth Pollnow, Narcissus Quagliata, Semra Sevin, Christopher Slatoff, Jawsh Smyth, and Mika Yokota. 

Forest Lawn Museum is located within Forest Lawn-Glendale at 1712 S Glendale Ave., Glendale, CA 91205.