Under One Roof Curator's Talk
Sunday, April 12th
2:30PM - 4:30PM
3026 Airport Ave, Santa Monica, CA
An intimate curator talk in conversation with our Under One Roof exhibition.
The most illuminating way to experience an exhibition is often through the eyes of the person who built it.
Join us for an afternoon of candid conversation between Under One Roof curator Peter Frank and arts advocate Andi Campognone: two voices who have spent decades thinking deeply about what art means, how it moves through the world, and why it matters now more than ever.
Whether you've already visited Under One Roof or are coming for the first time, this talk is a meaningful way to go deeper.
Space is limited. RSVP available on Eventbrite.
Earth Day Mindfulness Art Walk with Mark Landsman
In celebration of Earth Day, certified mindfulness teacher Mark Landsman will lead a 60-minute guided mindfulness art walk through Studios 3026. Explore our Under One Roof exhibit in a new light while embracing the present moment. Form opinion with fresh attention, and to discover what emerges when you give yourself permission to simply be with a work of art. This guided experience invites participants to slow down, observe, and engage with the creative environment through a contemplative lens.
Whether you are a seasoned gallery-goer or someone who has not set foot in an art space in years, you'll walk away with a renewed sense of what it means to truly look.
Start Earth Day the way it deserves to be started: with intention.
Free and open to the public. RSVP available on Eventbrite.
Weekly Figurative Drawing Workshop with M Susan Broussard
Wednesdays | 12:00-3:00PM and 4:00PM-7:00PM
3026 Airport Ave, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Each Wednesday in 2026, Studios 3026 artist M Susan Broussard hosts an uninstructed figurative drawing workshop with live model(s), offering artists time and space for focused, sustained practice.
Short Pose: 12:00–3:00 PM
Long Pose: 4:00–7:00 PM
Artists may attend either session or both.
April's workshops take place on April 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th.
Under One Roof Exhibition
February 22 - May 31
Thursday - Sunday 12:00PM - 5:00PM
3026 Airport Ave, Santa Monica, CA
The party continues! Under One Roof curated by Peter Frank will be on display in the Propeller Gallery until May 31st.
Under One Roof brings together artists working throughout the building in a studio-wide exhibition that reflects both individual practices and the shared environment in which they unfold. The exhibition offers a rare opportunity to experience the range of work being developed across Studios 3026 at this moment.
Thank you to everyone who attended the opening of Under One Roof on February 22nd. The conversations we shared were outstanding
April Artist Spotlight: Gwen Samuels
By Sam Spiegel
If you know Gwen Samuels, you already know her work. And if you know her work, you know Gwen.
Gwen makes what she calls wire tapestries. She prints her own photography onto transparency film, stitches it together with wire, and builds up layers of springs and thread until something emerges that resists every category you try to put it in. It is not quite painting, not quite sculpture, not quite collage, though it's also all of those things. The process is entirely her own, shaped over years and reflective of the many layers of her life.
Her photographs come from everywhere. A cracked sidewalk. A railing at the Santa Monica Pier. Tie-dyed ribbons laid flat on a board. She doesn't Photoshop, correct color, or interfere with the raw photo. Rather, she looks. And then she looks again. A blue railing becomes kindling for a unique pattern.
The transparency film casts shadows that are as much a part of each piece as the stitching. Threads she once trimmed are now left to hang. A standing fan interjected during our conversation stirring the threads on one of her pieces, she lit up. "How fun is that?" A happy accident, she called her unwoven threads. But what you’ll notice spending time with her: She's open.
Her process has no fixed destination. She starts with wire, makes a shape, follows it. Some pieces come like an already established river. “Those are the ones I love,” she said. “They flow.” Others resist from the start, and she has learned to recognize that signal. “When it’s a struggle, I know this is not good.” The difficulty, she has found, often traces back to a preconceived idea, something she is trying to reach instead of responding to. “You keep working toward that idea,” she said, “and I think it can be more successful when you don’t have an idea.”
Not everything is a winner. She knows that, and she says it plainly. Some pieces get cut apart. Some get rebuilt into something else entirely. She used to commit to an idea too early, stitching everything in before stepping back to assess; only to discover too late that the piece wasn't working. Now she works more loosely and openly , using tape, stepping back, and adjusting as she goes. “I don’t know why it took me so long,” she said, laughing.
She's been doing this for fifteen years and the materials are still giving her new gifts. Although Gwen has a way about her work, a method, a process, a style, every piece she makes is serendipitous.
What strikes you, standing in her studio, is how little is wasted: not a thread, not an accident, not a failed idea. Everything gets folded back in. Her background in textile design inspires her instinct for pattern, but the transparency, the wire, the layering, and structure belong entirely to her.
She invites every visitor to touch her work. The finished pieces are sturdier than they look. Layers of fragile materials come together into something strong, held by wire and stitching that can take a knock, a bend, and often a curious kid.
That's Gwen. Generous, direct, and individual in her own right. She is a mirror image of her art, a beautiful story stitched together from many other different stories.
She's at a moment now where she's asking harder questions – about scale, about which opportunities are worth her time, about what she still hasn't made and what she needs to. She's closer to the end of her career than the beginning, and she'll say so plainly. But what is clear to every person she meets is that what she won't do is slow down.
Recognizing that everything is in a constant state of evolution, Gwen gets excited to see how her work keeps changing. And like old friends, they change together.
Gwen Samuels' work is on view at Studios 3026 as part of Under One Roof.
Check out more of her work on her website, https://gwensamuels.com/
Studios 3026 Artists in the Wild
Crystal Michaelson
Crystal Michaelson
Crystal Michaelson
Janssen Art Space
255 East Tahquitz Canyon Way, downtown Palm Springs
March 14 – April 19, 2026
Elizabeth Gorcey
Crystal Michaelson
Crystal Michaelson
N. La Cienega, Los Angeles, CA 90069
Opening: May 9th, 2:00–5:00 PM
Runs through June 12, 2026
May Sun
Crystal Michaelson
May Sun
Destiny is a Rose: the Eileen Harris Norton Collection
901 East 3rd Street, DTLA
February 24 – August 16, 2026
Boathouse Gallery, Plaza De La Raza
3540 North Mission Road, Los Angeles 90031
March 19 – April 12, 2026
City Hall, Culver City
9770 Culver Blvd., corner of Culver Blvd. and Duquesne Ave.
Save the Date!
Under One Roof Exhibition Closing Reception + Open Studios
Saturday, May 31st | 2:00PM – 5:00PM
3026 Airport Ave, Santa Monica, CA
Mark your calendars for the Under One Roof closing reception and open studios event on May 31st. Celebrate the exhibition's final day with the artists, explore their studios, and enjoy an afternoon of art and community.
More details and RSVP available on Eventbrite.