LA Art Museums Go Green for Earth Month

0:00Earth month is hitting Los Angeles hard with sustainability vibes at local museums marking 54 years since the first Earth Day in April. 1970 sparked the Environmental Protection Agency and big laws like the Clean Air Act. Spots like the Hammer Museum, Fowler Museum, and Craft Contemporary are dropping exhibitions that blend art with eco-thoughts using living stuff like avocado, clay, and desert granite. Over at the Hammer, the show several eternities in a day, spotlights 22 artists from the Americas, crafting sculptures, paintings, and collages. From organic materials that evolve and break down over time, local towns like Carmen Argo made huge figures by hand, dipping in natural dyes, while Jackie and Mezakeed have built rammed earth pieces from Mojave rocks and ocean water, pushing us to question what lasts in nature. Meanwhile, the Fowler dyes into Philippine Indigenous Rice Farming by the Eiffelgow showing 400 years of land care through videos, carvings, and rituals that fight climate change

1:03and highlight cultural diversity. Craft Contemporary keeps it real as a sustainability leader, recycling old exhibit scraps into new art and dyes from cacti for their upcoming tiara, show. These spots prove craft can heal the planet in our tech-heavy world, drawing crowds to rethink humanity's spot in it all. Hit up the Natural History Museum's Earth Day Festival this Sunday for free films and activities, or Clay L.A. from April 24th to 26th at Craft for hands-on ceramics. With traffic from the festival books, take the metro and dive into these exhibits before they wrap. L.A.'s art scene is leading the green charge right. Now, from your city, powered by AI, this is California News Today. I'm Corey with The Story.