Exploring intersections of art and activism, Against Monoculture offers a creative lens through which to examine the structural causes and consequences of food inequality. Bringing together artists whose practices foreground the role of food in community, struggle, and survival, the exhibition considers the ways food is a direct link to land, culture, and identity, and how cultivating, preparing, and sharing food are fundamental creative acts. Exhibiting artists: Jackie Amézquita, Paola de la Calle, Beatriz Cortez, gloria galvez, Emily Marchand, Narsiso Martinez, Lina Puerta, Emma Robbins, Hana Ward, Kate Pincus-Whitney, Rosa Huerta-Williamson - In los pobres comen tan rico (the poor eat so richly) artist and activist Dulce Soledad Ibarra draws connections between access to affordable, culturally appropriate foods and food vending culture in Southern California. Using Mexican market bags, or bolsotes, Ibarra creates embroidered wearable aprons featuring beans, tomatoes, corn, and nopales. One bolsote features a multicolored umbrella, or sombra, signifying the enduring but threatened presence of this cultural icon within the Southern California landscape. A portion of this exhibition is presented in the Museum’s front vestibule, which the artist has temporarily transformed into a greenhouse for growing the plants featured in the apron paintings: beans, tomatoes, corn, and nopales.