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Susan Park

Susan Park was born in Seoul, South Korea. Her family moved to Los Angeles when she was 5 years old. She remembers her parents recreating the traditional Korean kitchen in their first house in the San Fernando Valley in the 1970s. They made jang, Korean fermented soybean pastes and soy…
Marlyn Arzate was raised in the Inland Empire with early memories of making tortillas from scratch alongside her grandmother and picking fruit in the yard. As she grew older, she began to notice a growing disconnect between the foods she grew up with and what was available in her…
Kawaiisu traditional plant harvest & related Kawaiisu language
The Garcia Center for the Arts offers a diverse number of classes which are designed to be affordable, making the joy of creating and experimenting in a supportive community environment accessible. Our classes include ceramics, printmaking, figure drawing, painting, textiles, music, gardening and soon, glassblowing! Many…
California Traditional Artist Plaza

Kai R La Pena

Regalia and associated building techniques of Northern California roundhouse tribes
Region: Northern California
Offerings: Artistic consulting Classes Group instruction Handmade crafts and visual arts for sale Lectures / Lecture-demonstrations Workshops
Service Location: In-person services
Foodways, Tribal ecological knowledge and cultural landscapes, Bahtssal (Eastern Pomo language)
Cultural histories of Oakland
Traditional Indigenous foods, with a focus on acorns