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END OF YEAR FUNDRAISER
Please Donate to Pilele Projects 2024 End of Year Fundraiser
Last year we raised over $8000 in small donations from friends and family.
Your donations were instrumental in keeping the doors open and lights on for all of our 2024 projects.
In 2025 we look forward to continuing our support of Pasifika artists in Southern California, and we need your support!
We are so proud of how much we have grown in 2024. We hosted three cycles of exhibitions and residencies, as well as a series of smaller screening and workshop events.
Our first artist in residensce, Sid M. Duenas, put together an elegant exhibition of text-based artworks, which had a wonderful review in ARTFORUM magazine - a huge success for our first show and a major milestone for Sid!
Our second artist in residence, Dan Taulapapa McMullin, celebrated the publication of the second edition of their book, Healers Wound: A Queer Theirstory of Polynesia with a beautiful exhibition of work based on the book as well as a series of readings which were some of the most moving events hosted at the space this year - they are recorded and available on our website!
And our final project of the year, UNFORGETTING, began as a curatorial residency with Alfred Bordallo who curated six young Pasifika artists into a thoughtful exhibition based on their engagements with the (small but mighty) Pilele Projects library.
Your generosity played a huge part in making all of this possible!
All of our programming is free and open to the public.
Last year's donations subsidized half of our rent for the first half of the year, as well as supporting each of our artists with a $600 stipend.
In 2025 we hope to win some grants, become a full fledged non-profit, build out the gallery walls and lighting, and put on another year's worth of the best Pasifika arts programming that we can!
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RECENT
UNFORGETTING
September 28 - December 7, 2024
UNFORGETTING is a group exhibition curated by Alfred Bordallo featuring six Pasifika Artists based in Los Angeles. The exhibition examines the intergenerational perspectives between these artists and their chosen work of Pasifika literature selected from the gallery's library. Through photography, painting, sculpture, printmaking, and drawing, each artist shares their own perspective that is shaped by the nuances of their culture's oral traditions and growing body of literary texts.
Maxine Alo
Olivia Anderson
Alfred Bordallo
Mylee Etuale
Lucyola Langi
Bryson Nihipali
PROJECTS
October 14, 2023
New Nuebu Call Back
February 24 - April 30, 2024
Queer Theirstories of Polynesia
May 12 - July 28, 2024
September 28 - Dec 7, 2024
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Pilele Projects3307A West Washington Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90018
Gallery hours exhibition dependent.
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Appointments can be made by email or direct message on our Instagram page.
hafa@pileleprojects.org
Los Angeles, CA 90018
Gallery hours exhibition dependent.
See Current
Appointments can be made by email or direct message on our Instagram page.
hafa@pileleprojects.org
ABOUT
Founded by Mariquita “Micki” Davis and Edward Sterrett, Pilele Projects is an exhibition and workshop space dedicated to supporting projects by Pasifika artists in Southern California. We are working towards developing grant funded residencies for artists, cultural practitioners, curators, and scholars emerging from and focused on Pacific Island cultures and their diasporas.
Pilele Projects takes its name from the creative director’s Chamoru Grandfather who ran a Mom and Pop store and Laundro-mat in post-war Guam. The store was beloved in the village for being more than a convenience. It was a community center, a place for ceremonies, and a support for local artisans.
Pilele Projects takes its name from the creative director’s Chamoru Grandfather who ran a Mom and Pop store and Laundro-mat in post-war Guam. The store was beloved in the village for being more than a convenience. It was a community center, a place for ceremonies, and a support for local artisans.