FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 5, 2026
Library, Arts & Culture Media: Maryl Fleisher
Email: MFleisher@GlendaleCA.gov
Phone: (818) 937-7806
City Media Contact: Communications and Community Relations
Email: Communications@GlendaleCA.gov
Phone: (818) 548-3342
Art Talks at Brand Return This Spring
GLENDALE, CA - The Brand Library & Art Center is excited to announce the return of Art Talks at Brand this spring. This series invites contemporary artists to discuss their work and the issues surrounding it. Each talk will be followed by a moderated Q&A session led by Brand staff member, artist, and writer Jennifer Remenchik. The spring series will feature Los Angeles-based artists Lani Trock, Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen, Catherine Menard, and Danny Angel Escalante. The series is sponsored by the Brand Associates and is free and open to the public.
Thursday, March 5, 7:00 PM – Lani Trock is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice centers in harmonious world-building. To awaken the collective imagination and actualize a new operating system for society, she works with organic sculptural materials to cultivate gentle environments and invites visitors to contemplate from their unique voice and vision, how they would imagine the world at peace.
Thursday, March 19, 7:00 PM - Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen is a photographic artist whose work engages the American duality of aspiration and desperation, systems of power, the cinematic, and the abject. In her practice, she has developed a research-based, systematic approach to production by creating her own image database. She creates spaces where beauty becomes a form of confrontation and ornament becomes a language of dissent.
Thursday, April 2, 7:00 PM - Catherine Menard is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans single and multi-channel video, performance, site-responsive installation, expanded painting, and sculpture. Rather than treating these mediums as discrete outputs, she choreographs them as interdependent components—image, sound, object, and body—within immersive environments calibrated to the architecture, circulation paths, and acoustics of a given site, approaching the conditions of a Gesamtkunstwerk or “total work.”
Thursday, April 16, 7:00 PM - Danny Angel Escalante engages in an art practice that explores the quotidian, ranging from the phenomenological every-day to the historical class associations and experiences of the brown body. Inspired by historical works, his Catholic upbringing, indigenous heritage, and contemporary politics, Escalante creates drawings and sculptures that distill the body into gestures, marks, and traces.
About Jennifer Remenchik
Brand staff member and program moderator Jennifer Remenchik is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles. Remenchik began organizing art talks at Brand Library & Art Center to showcase artists who reflect the diversity of the greater Los Angeles art scene.
Visit BrandLibrary.org/Art-Talks for more information on the artists in the Art Talks at Brand series as well as links to recordings of past programs.
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About Brand Library & Art Center
Brand Library & Art Center has been a cornerstone for the arts in Southern California since 1956. This unique public library focuses on visual arts and music and provides free services and programs for a diverse community, including print and online collections, subject specialist librarians, exhibitions, concerts, lectures, dance performances, films, and hands-on craft programs for children and adults. Brand Library seeks to develop innovative programs, services, and collections to serve an ever-widening public interested in the arts. Brand Library & Art Center is a branch of the City of Glendale Library, Arts & Culture Department. For more information visit BrandLibrary.org or contact (818) 548-2051.
About Glendale
Known as the “Jewel City,” Glendale is the fourth largest city of Los Angeles County. With a population of almost 200,000, Glendale is a thriving cosmopolitan city that is rich in history, culturally diverse, and offers nearly 50 public parks & facilities, with easy access to a municipal airport. It is the home to a vibrant business community, with major companies in healthcare, entertainment, manufacturing, retail, and banking. Visit GlendaleCA.gov for more information and follow us on social media @MyGlendale.
About Library, Arts & Culture
Founded in 1907, the Glendale Library, Arts & Culture Department includes eight neighborhood libraries including the Brand Library & Art Center, a regional visual arts and music library and performance venue housed in the historic 1904 mansion of Glendale pioneer Leslie C. Brand, and the Central Library, a 93,000 square foot center for individuals and groups to convene, collaborate and create. The department also serves as the chief liaison to the Glendale Arts and Culture Commission which works to continually transform Glendale into an ever-evolving arts destination. Glendale Library Arts & Culture is supported in part through the efforts of the Glendale Library Arts & Culture Trust (GLACT). For more information visit GlendaleLAC.org, or contact Library, Arts & Culture at (818) 548-2021 or via email at LibraryInfo@GlendaleCA.gov.
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