EPISODE · Jan 20, 2026 · 1H 14M
284 Ever Velasquez on Artist Careers, Spiritual Practice, and Power Inside the LA Art World
from What’s My Thesis? · host Javier Proenza
In this episode of What’s My Thesis?, Javier Proenza speaks with Ever Velasquez, Director of Charlie James Gallery, about her path from collage and community organizing to gallery leadership, and the values guiding the gallery’s long-term commitment to artists in Los Angeles. Velasquez discusses curatorial pacing, group exhibitions as frameworks for career development, and the labor behind gallery work, alongside reflections on collage as a lifelong practice and Afro-diasporic spiritual traditions as discipline rather than aesthetic. The conversation centers self-advocacy, boundaries, and responsibility as essential to sustaining artistic and curatorial practice.
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Javier Proenza speaks with Ever Velasquez, Director of Charlie James Gallery, about artist career development, curatorial responsibility, collage practice, Afro-diasporic spirituality, and community-based work in the Los Angeles art world.
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