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Welcome to the Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts


Box Office

310.506.4522

Hours:* Tuesday–Friday, Noon‑5 PM

*open two hours prior to most performances

Weisman Museum

310.506.4851

Hours:* Tuesday–Sunday, 11 AM‑5 PM

*open one hour prior to most shows through intermission

Upcoming Events

 

Chad Lawson standing in front of a piano

Chad Lawson

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

The Tempest

April 3–6, 2024

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

Saturday, April 13, 2024

 

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Check out music from some of our favorite artists.

Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art

Current Exhibitions: Saturday, January 13–Sunday, March 31, 2024

Makoto Fujimura, Water Flames — Doe of the Dawn, 2021

Makoto Fujimura: Water Flames

Makoto Fujimura has earned an international reputation for his beautiful, deeply moving abstract paintings made using traditional Nihonga materials with delicate washes of natural pigments. Makoto Fujimura: Water Flames brings together a number of his major paintings of the last 20 years, focusing on the poetic paradox between the elements of water and fire, which symbolize, in Fujimura’s words, art’s power to “[turn] the flames of destruction into the flames of sanctification.”


Jeni Spota C., Mistakes, 2008

Jeni Spota C: Encore!

In her thickly impastoed paintings, Jeni Spota C. explores her own Italian heritage and the power of religious imagery by obsessively reworking scenes from Giotto’s 14th-century monumental fresco The Last Judgment. Spota C. abstracts her figures and collapses the neat order of Giotto’s fresco, merging the zones of heaven and hell into chaos. Jeni Spota C: Encore! unites three bodies of work, putting the artist’s earliest and most recent works into conversation, alongside a series that references Spota C.’s great-uncle, a magician, to consider the relationship between painting and magic, myth, and illusion.

Special Programs

ARTSReach musical performance

The ARTSReach program provides free performances to over 5,000 schoolchildren each year.

International Guitarist Andrea Roberto

Every three years, talented young classical guitarists around the world travel to Malibu for the world's preeminent guitar competition.

Pepperdine student production

The Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts brings some of the most exciting performances from around the world to children and families in Los Angeles.