Fifty-minute Docent guided tours available to all guests during Free MOLAA Sundays. Parties meet in lobby.
Fifty-minute Docent guided tours available with paid admission or free for members. Parties meet in lobby.
Join us at the Museum of Latin American Art for a lively, beginner-friendly dance series where art and movement meet. Led by professional instructors from Cielo Dance Events, classes take place every Wednesday from 7:00–8:30 PM in a fun, welcoming atmosphere. This year, each month focuses on one dance style: Merengue in February, Bachata in March, and Salsa in April. Participants may register per class or save with a four-class package. Enjoy great music, community vibes, and a cash bar through joyful social dance.
Art speaks to us. Sometimes in order to craft brilliant poetry, all we need to do is learn how to listen to the art of great artists with our eyes Led by world renowned poets and publishers and the co-founders of El Martillo Press, Matt Sedillo and David A. Romero, participants of all ages will take a poet's tour of MOLAA: encouraging participants to discuss, take notes, and write poetry!
In partnership with Help Me Help You, MOLAA supports our local communities by hosting a food pantry twice a month.
You can come to MOLAA and enter through the 6th Street entrance to receive free groceries for your family. Drive-through and walk-up services will be provided. You do not have to show identification or prove your income. No need to register. You can attend without an appointment.
Join us at the Museum of Latin American Art for a lively, beginner-friendly dance series where art and movement meet. Led by professional instructors from Cielo Dance Events, classes take place every Wednesday from 7:00–8:30 PM in a fun, welcoming atmosphere. This year, each month focuses on one dance style: Merengue in February, Bachata in March, and Salsa in April. Participants may register per class or save with a four-class package. Enjoy great music, community vibes, and a cash bar through joyful social dance.
The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) invites you to learn more about the diversity of Afro-Latinx experiences directly from artists, scholars, and community organizers most actively bringing attention to contemporary Afro-Latinx communities and their histories.
In each chapter, in conversation between the most remarkable artists from Latin America and Latinxs in the US and our MOLAA Chief Curator Gabriela Urtiaga, we place the focus on a series or specific artwork that requires a close inspection and deliberate process of contemplation and exploration; delving into the ideas surrounding the creation of the works, their sources of research and inspiration, in an effort to immerse ourselves in the world of the artists.
Join us at the Museum of Latin American Art for a lively, beginner-friendly dance series where art and movement meet. Led by professional instructors from Cielo Dance Events, classes take place every Wednesday from 7:00–8:30 PM in a fun, welcoming atmosphere. This year, each month focuses on one dance style: Merengue in February, Bachata in March, and Salsa in April. Participants may register per class or save with a four-class package. Enjoy great music, community vibes, and a cash bar through joyful social dance.
In partnership with Help Me Help You, MOLAA supports our local communities by hosting a food pantry twice a month.
You can come to MOLAA and enter through the 6th Street entrance to receive free groceries for your family. Drive-through and walk-up services will be provided. You do not have to show identification or prove your income. No need to register. You can attend without an appointment.
Join us at the Museum of Latin American Art for a lively, beginner-friendly dance series where art and movement meet. Led by professional instructors from Cielo Dance Events, classes take place every Wednesday from 7:00–8:30 PM in a fun, welcoming atmosphere. This year, each month focuses on one dance style: Merengue in February, Bachata in March, and Salsa in April. Participants may register per class or save with a four-class package. Enjoy great music, community vibes, and a cash bar through joyful social dance.
Join us at the Museum of Latin American Art for a lively, beginner-friendly dance series where art and movement meet. Led by professional instructors from Cielo Dance Events, classes take place every Wednesday from 7:00–8:30 PM in a fun, welcoming atmosphere. This year, each month focuses on one dance style: Merengue in February, Bachata in March, and Salsa in April. Participants may register per class or save with a four-class package. Enjoy great music, community vibes, and a cash bar through joyful social dance.
"How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance." written by Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau is onsale now at La Tienda en MOLAA.
Global superstar Bad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, like many other Puerto Ricans, has lived a life marked by public crises—blackouts, hurricanes, political corruption and oppression, among others—that have exposed the ongoing impacts of colonialism in Puerto Rico. Offering a portrait of the past and future of Puerto Rican resistance through one of its loudest and proudest voices, P FKN R draws on interviews with musicians, politicians, and journalists as well as ethnographic research to set Bad Bunny and Puerto Rican resistance in a historical, political, and cultural context. Authors Vanessa Díaz and Petra Rivera-Rideau—creators of the “Bad Bunny Syllabus”—demonstrate Bad Bunny’s place in a long tradition of infusing both joy and protest into music and honor the many evolving forms of daily resistance to oppression and colonialism that are part of Puerto Rican life.
In partnership with Help Me Help You, MOLAA supports our local communities by hosting a food pantry twice a month.
You can come to MOLAA and enter through the 6th Street entrance to receive free groceries for your family. Drive-through and walk-up services will be provided. You do not have to show identification or prove your income. No need to register. You can attend without an appointment.
Join us at the Museum of Latin American Art for a lively, beginner-friendly dance series where art and movement meet. Led by professional instructors from Cielo Dance Events, classes take place every Wednesday from 7:00–8:30 PM in a fun, welcoming atmosphere. This year, each month focuses on one dance style: Merengue in February, Bachata in March, and Salsa in April. Participants may register per class or save with a four-class package. Enjoy great music, community vibes, and a cash bar through joyful social dance.
Join us at the Museum of Latin American Art for a lively, beginner-friendly dance series where art and movement meet. Led by professional instructors from Cielo Dance Events, classes take place every Wednesday from 7:00–8:30 PM in a fun, welcoming atmosphere. This year, each month focuses on one dance style: Merengue in February, Bachata in March, and Salsa in April. Participants may register per class or save with a four-class package. Enjoy great music, community vibes, and a cash bar through joyful social dance.
Join us for the annual 2026 MOLAA Gala!
This year it will take place on Saturday, October 3, 2026 at 6:00 PM in MOLAA. Check back for more details about this year’s LEGADO Award honorees.
For table sales or sponsorship opportunities, please email gala@molaa.org.
Join us for our annual Día del Cariño/Valentine’s Day workshop where we open the MOLAA Art Studio to all and celebrate this special day in the U.S and parts of Latin America. Attendees are invited to drop-in and make their own valentine card with craft supplies and kind messages. All ages are welcome; all materials are provided!
Join us at the Museum of Latin American Art for a lively, beginner-friendly dance series where art and movement meet. Led by professional instructors from Cielo Dance Events, classes take place every Wednesday from 7:00–8:30 PM in a fun, welcoming atmosphere. This year, each month focuses on one dance style: Merengue in February, Bachata in March, and Salsa in April. Participants may register per class or save with a four-class package. Enjoy great music, community vibes, and a cash bar through joyful social dance.
In partnership with Help Me Help You, MOLAA supports our local communities by hosting a food pantry twice a month.
You can come to MOLAA and enter through the 6th Street entrance to receive free groceries for your family. Drive-through and walk-up services will be provided. You do not have to show identification or prove your income. No need to register. You can attend without an appointment.
Join us as we do a deep dive into the fascinating work of Afro-Dominican artist and scholar, Patricia Encarnación (she/they). Encarnación is an Afro-Dominican interdisciplinary artist whose work critically engages with colonial legacies across various cultural layers within Afro-diasporic communities. Through explorations of material culture, collective memory, and cultural identity, Encarnación challenges tropes of Caribbean and tropical aesthetics by recontextualizing everyday objects, landscapes, and aesthetics from her upbringing. In this session, we will explore examples of her diverse artistic projects and provide a hands-on art activity based on her themes. This session is in-person and includes light refreshments.
Join us for February’s members-only book club featuring Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-García, a Jazz Age fantasy following Casiopea Tun as she embarks on a perilous journey with a Mayan death god. Light refreshments will be served.
Join us for a morning workshop led by teaching artist Maria Guadalupe in our Corner Garden. All materials will be provided by MOLAA! Admission cost is $5 and is non-refundable. Please arrive on time, your spot will be offered to another attendee if you arrive more than 15 minutes late. *Location subject to change to indoors if we experience inclement weather.
This session will be a fun and informal meet and greet for individuals interested in volunteering for MOLAA’s Educational Programs! Learn about the different volunteer roles, incentives, and how you can help empower individuals and communities through art. Light refreshments will be served.
In each chapter, in conversation between the most remarkable artists from Latin America and Latinxs in the US and our MOLAA Chief Curator Gabriela Urtiaga, we place the focus on a series or specific artwork that requires a close inspection and deliberate process of contemplation and exploration; delving into the ideas surrounding the creation of the works, their sources of research and inspiration, in an effort to immerse ourselves in the world of the artists.
In Coded Earth (2025), artist Marcela Armas uses chromatography to investigate the composition of soils and people! Chromatography is a technique used by scientists to separate mixtures by combining water and gravity. We invite you to this drop-in art workshop where you'll make your own creature and landscape using special paper, ink, water, and gravity! All ages are welcome, all materials provided. Sponsored by the LA 2050 SNAP Foundation.
Join us for a morning workshop led by teaching artist Maria Guadalupe in our Corner Garden. All materials will be provided by MOLAA! Admission cost is $5 and is non-refundable. Please arrive on time, your spot will be offered to another attendee if you arrive more than 15 minutes late. *Location subject to change to indoors if we experience inclement weather.
In partnership with Help Me Help You, MOLAA supports our local communities by hosting a food pantry twice a month.
You can come to MOLAA and enter through the 6th Street entrance to receive free groceries for your family. Drive-through and walk-up services will be provided. You do not have to show identification or prove your income. No need to register. You can attend without an appointment.
New Years Resolution: Capture Memories in a New Way! In this experimental photography workshop, participants will learn to transfer images from a Polaroid Film onto another surface. An ephemeral film composition will be transferred to the lid of a small box which you can use to store additional photographs or trinkets throughout the year. All materials provided! Sponsored by LA 2050. Cost is $5 dollars.
This month we will be reading The Many Mothers of Dolores Moore by Anika Fajardo. Good reads summary describes the book as, “In the span of a year, Dolores Moore has become a thirty-five-year-old orphan. After the funeral of the last living member of her family, Dorrie has never felt more lost and alone. That is, except for a Greek chorus of deceased relatives whose voices follow her around, giving unsolicited advice and opinions. And they’re only amplifying Dorrie’s doubts about keeping the deathbed promise she made to return to her birthplace in Colombia. Light refreshments will be served.
Fifty-minute Docent guided tours available with paid admission or free for members. Parties meet in lobby.
Explore your creativity in Creative Doodling with Lynne Okon Scholnick, an in-person drawing workshop designed for all ages and skill levels. Join us on Saturday, January 10, 2026, from 1:00–3:00 PM in the MOLAA Art Studio for a relaxed, playful approach to drawing and self-expression. All materials are provided, so just bring your curiosity. Space is limited to 30 participants. Cost is $20. Advance registration is encouraged. This engaging class is perfect for families, beginners, and anyone looking to unwind through art together in a community art setting.
In partnership with Help Me Help You, MOLAA supports our local communities by hosting a food pantry twice a month.
You can come to MOLAA and enter through the 6th Street entrance to receive free groceries for your family. Drive-through and walk-up services will be provided. You do not have to show identification or prove your income. No need to register. You can attend without an appointment.
Fifty-minute Docent guided tours available to all guests during Free MOLAA Sundays. Parties meet in lobby.
Join us for an exciting series of dance classes at the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), where art and movement come together! Offered by professional instructors from Cielo Dance Events, each class explores dynamic Latin American and Caribbean dance styles—Salsa, Cumbia, Bachata, Banda, and Merengue—celebrating the rhythms and cultures that inspire them. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced dancer, you’ll enjoy a fun, energetic atmosphere surrounded by art. Come solo or bring a partner, and let loose, stay active, and connect with community through the joy of dance.
In each chapter, in conversation between the most remarkable artists from Latin America and Latinxs in the US and our MOLAA Chief Curator Gabriela Urtiaga, we place the focus on a series or specific artwork that requires a close inspection and deliberate process of contemplation and exploration; delving into the ideas surrounding the creation of the works, their sources of research and inspiration, in an effort to immerse ourselves in the world of the artists.
Celebrate the season with us at our festive Member’s Holiday Party! This cheerful gathering is our way of saying thank you for being a part of our community. Get into the holiday spirit with a fun and creative ornament-making session, perfect for all ages and skill levels. Enjoy delicious food, festive drinks, and great company as we come together to spread joy and make memories. We can't wait to celebrate with you! Reservation required!
Join us at MOLAA for a special presentation of the Crossborder Women: Alejandra Phelts exhibition catalog. Gabriela Urtiaga, MOLAA Chief Curator, will lead an engaging in-person conversation with artist Alejandra Phelts, offering insight into her creative process and the stories behind her work. Following the talk, guests are invited to participate in a Q&A and meet the artist during an exclusive catalog signing.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to connect with one of today’s most compelling crossborder voices in contemporary art!
Our book of the month is One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women—brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul—this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction. Light refreshments will be served.
Celebrate the warmth and traditions of the season at AJUA’s Holiday Posada, a festive community gathering filled with music, dance, art-making, and cultural heritage for families of all ages! RSVP in Eventbrite!
Join us for an exciting series of dance classes at the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), where art and movement come together! Offered by professional instructors from Cielo Dance Events, each class explores dynamic Latin American and Caribbean dance styles—Salsa, Cumbia, Bachata, Banda, and Merengue—celebrating the rhythms and cultures that inspire them. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced dancer, you’ll enjoy a fun, energetic atmosphere surrounded by art. Come solo or bring a partner, and let loose, stay active, and connect with community through the joy of dance.
Fifty-minute Docent guided tours available to all guests during Free MOLAA Sundays. Parties meet in lobby.
Established in 2011, the Latino Comics Expo is the premiere event to connect with Latinx and Latin American comic artists and animators, experts, and fans. This year, the Latino Comics Expo in collaboration with MOLAA, will be held in the Viva Event Center on December 7th!
Join us for a special morning art workshop led by teaching artist Maria Guadalupe in our Corner Garden. Medium is Ink Wash on Paper. All materials will be provided by MOLAA. Registration is required. Please arrive on time, as space is limited. Your spot will be offered to another attendee if you arrive more than 15 minutes late. Cost: $5.00
Fifty-minute Docent guided tours available with paid admission or free for members. Parties meet in lobby.
Join us for an exciting series of dance classes at the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), where art and movement come together! Offered by professional instructors from Cielo Dance Events, each class explores dynamic Latin American and Caribbean dance styles—Salsa, Cumbia, Bachata, Banda, and Merengue—celebrating the rhythms and cultures that inspire them. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced dancer, you’ll enjoy a fun, energetic atmosphere surrounded by art. Come solo or bring a partner, and let loose, stay active, and connect with community through the joy of dance.
Join us for this wildly fun session dedicated to Latin American comics and comic creators! Special guest artists and a hands-on story-boarding workshop with industry professionals. This session is in-person and includes light refreshments. You don’t want to miss this! Have a passion for comics? Be sure to also “Save the Date” for MOLAA’s upcoming 2025 Latino Comics Expo scheduled for Sunday December 7th from 11AM to 5PM. Admission for both events is free.
