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Corita Art Center is seeking volunteer participants to help us stage The Unordinary Procession, a living artwork inspired by the historic Mary’s Day celebrations of the mid-1960s (which also inspired our current exhibition: Unordinary Days, Celebration as Resistance). Taking place as part of The Art Parade—a large-scale public celebration marking the opening of LACMA’s David Geffen Galleries—we will carry handmade and screen-printed signs with text and imagery that centers themes of joy, justice, and collective care.
How to participate:
A procession needs people (people like us? YES). We will provide everything: signs, decorations, t-shirts, and other festive items. All participants must gather at the parade site at 5pm to set up, and the procession begins at 6pm along the parade route on Wilshire Blvd, heading down Museum row in a loop.
About The Art Parade
The Art Parade is a large-scale public celebration marking the opening of the David Geffen Galleries. In a public procession on Museum Row/Wilshire Blvd, the parade showcases mobile sculptures, costumes, banners, inflatables, music, and movement-based works that activate public space through collective artistic expression.
Conceived two decades ago by influential art dealer and curator Jeffrey Deitch, The Art Parade ran annually in New York's SoHo from 2005 to 2008, bringing together more than 1,000 participants each year in a creative procession that transformed the streets into a living gallery.
This Los Angeles edition marks a pivotal moment in LACMA's history and for the city itself. The opening of the David Geffen Galleries culminates a two-decade campus transformation, with the new Peter Zumthor-designed building adding 110,000 square feet of gallery space and creating 3.5 acres of new outdoor public space at LACMA.
The Art Parade both celebrates this cultural moment and underlines LACMA's longstanding commitment tocelebrating artists, presenting art in public spaces, and engaging broad anddiverse audiences.
The Art Parade is part of the Grand Opening Weekend, June 18–22.
