The Los Angeles Institute of the Humanities invites Dorothy Braudy

On Friday, December 12, at Noon, LAIH will have its last meeting of 2025, as well as its last meeting for the foreseeable future, bar a donor angel ex machina allows it to arise phoenix-like from the ashes.

As many of you are aware, in September LAIH lost its financial support from USC at the same time that our wonderful Executive Director Janice Littlejohn was timed out as what the University calls a resource employee.

Nevertheless, with the vital and energetic help of our work-study student Adina Aaron, we have managed to mount two fascinating presentations: a dialogue between Fellows Amir Hussain and Jack Miles, hosted at Loyola Marymount, on Amir’s new book on Islam and Christianity, One God and Two Religions; and an intricate overview by longtime eco-activist Deborah Gregory of the efforts by Ballona Creek Renaissance to protect its wetlands, with implications for other areas of the whole Los Angeles watershed ecosystem.

Our final presentation, on December 12, will be held at USC and will feature Dorothy Braudy in conversation with Louise Steinman. Dorothy Braudy, a longtime LAIH Fellow, has been making visual art since 1950. She will discuss the struggles of pursuing a lifelong artistic career amid the pressures of the polemical definitions of art itself as well as the vagaries of the art market.

Her work, which includes painting, photography, and printmaking, has been shown in New York, Washington, Baltimore, and Los Angeles, and is included in many public and private collections. Among her many shows are “Animal Rites,” which was part of LAX/94; a career retrospective at the Ellen Kim Murphy Gallery in Bergamot Station in 2000; “Marking Time” (2005) and “Double Feature” (2007) at Hamilton Galleries in Santa Monica. In 2015 she collaborated in New York with her son, David Fitzgerald, and her grandson, Travis Fitzgerald, in a show entitled “(3) Generations,” and in 2021 she and David Fitzgerald collaborated again at New York’s Viridian Gallery in “Alone Together.”

In this presentation, which will include images of her work from her website, Braudy will be in conversation with Louise Steinman, writer, artist, and independent literary curator. Louise was the longtime head of the ALOUD series for the Los Angeles Public Library and is co-director of LAIH.

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