Fulcrum Arts presents exhibitions, performances, artist talks, and educational programs in our Pasadena gallery space and with partners in venues all over Southern California. We aim to highlight a multiplicity of perspectives at the nexus of creative practice, science, and social activism, with a special focus on artists working in the Pacific Rim.
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Sam Shoemaker: Mushroom Boat
Exhibition Closed November 27 – 29 and December 20 – January 6 Fulcrum Arts is pleased to present, Sam Shoemaker: Mushroom Boat, featuring works developed around the artist’s August 2025 crossing of the Catalina Channel in a kayak made of mushroom mycelium. Alongside the mushroom boat itself, the exhibition features large-scale projections, time-lapse videos, and soundscapes that immerse visitors…
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Sam Shoemaker
Sam Shoemaker is a Los Angeles-based sculpture artist whose work is a collaboration between himself and species of mushrooms. Sam Shoemaker: Mushroom Boat is exhibited at Fulcrum Arts. Alongside the mushroom boat itself, the exhibition features large-scale projections, time-lapse videos, and soundscapes that immerse visitors in Shoemaker’s journey over 26 miles of open ocean, where…
Listening to Secret Worlds with Aaron Tupac
To coincide with Fulcrum Arts’ exhibition Between the Noise, artist Ian Wellman will lead two field recording workshops in August. Participants will explore select areas along the Arroyo Seco, collect sounds, share recording techniques, and discuss the sonic properties unique to the watershed. As the local landscape recovers from the Eaton and Palisades fires, and threats…
Introduction to Field Recording: Listening to the Air
To coincide with Fulcrum Arts’ exhibition Between the Noise, artist Ian Wellman will lead two field recording workshops in August. Participants will explore select areas along the Arroyo Seco, collect sounds, share recording techniques, and discuss the sonic properties unique to the watershed. As the local landscape recovers from the Eaton and Palisades fires, and threats…
Ian Wellman: Between the Noise
Attuned to phenomena like the flow of water, the behavior of wildlife, and the humming of roadways, Ian Wellman’s Between the Noise explores the local ecologies and infrastructures of the Arroyo Seco passage in LA County. In collaboration with Trevor Baker, whose accompanying videos give visual context to the sounds gathered from the landscape, Wellman documents the…