2023
Native Nights at the Hahamongna Native Plant Nursery
Join us for an outdoor event featuring all-ages artmaking activities! Armory teaching artist Joe Galarza will lead a printmaking workshop inspired by the native wildlife of the Hahamongna area. Learn nature Shodo calligraphy symbols with Keiko Takioto Miller and create pressed flower buttons with Pasadena Water and Power. Refreshments will be provided. This free event is co-presented by the Armory, Arroyo Seco Foundation, and Pasadena Water and Power. Light refreshments will be provided.
About the Presenters
Joe Galarza is a Xica-indio visual artist and musician raised in El Sereno, CA. He uses his childhood experiences growing up in East LA to educate at-risk youth on the healing power of combining art, music, an culture to combat societal oppression and intergenerational trauma. Currently joe teaches art and music at correctional facilities, universities, community centers, and emergent sites of collective action, such as Standing Rock.
Keiko Takioto Miller is a retired professor emeritus of the World Languages and Cultures of Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pennsylvania. Born and raised in a rural “Back Japan,” she later joined her father in NYC in the 1960’s. With her BA and MA in French Education, she further applied her knowledge to teach Japanese language and literature, cross-cultural symbology and Far Easten calligraphy. Her belief in cultivating meaningful language is deeply rooted in her childhood time spent in nature and practicing Japanese calligraphy known as Shodo, or “the way of the brush.”