Equitable Vitrines (EV) works to challenge orthodoxy surrounding the creation, exhibition, and conceptualization of artworks as part of a belief in the potential for art to radically impact the lives of individuals and communities. Working with unconventional venues, EV aims to subject art to scrutiny by a variety of diverse audiences in order to complicate mainstream understandings of culture and push conversations about the connections between art and the humanities beyond the confines of academic discourse. EV’s exhibitions, performances, and educational programming have been situated across Los Angeles County since our founding in 2014.
As an experimental, artist-run organization, EV advances our mission by offering support structures for the artists and thinkers with whom we collaborate that are not reliant on conventional markers of success or market forces. We do this by providing ample time for extensive research and communication, out of which shared goals emerge, and work is conducted at a pace conducive to responding to deep particularities found within our ever-changing sites and audiences.
EV’s public art initiatives engage populations that live and work in the geographic areas surrounding the sites of our exhibitions, utilizing space and language in such ways that the new modes of expression artists develop may become more sensible to broad audiences. Our educational programming aims to scrutinize and enhance connections between contemporary art and academia for audiences that may not dwell within either realm. It has always been our goal to assert that art maintains the capacity to be more than mere entertainment and EV aims to contextualize projects in a manner that encourages viewers to determine, for themselves, what is a meaningful experience of art.