# Event Details - **Event Name**: The Mandy and Cliff Einstein Visiting Artist Series: Kelly Akashi - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 19 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 19 Feb, 2026 at 08:30 pm - **Event Description**: Join us for Material Witnesses: A lecture with Kelly Akashi, part of the Mandy and Cliff Einstein Visiting Artist SeriesAbout this EventThe Mandy and Cliff Einstein Visiting Artist Series: Kelly AkashiThursday, February 19, 2026Artist Lecture & Q&A: 7:00–8:30 pmT he Forum on the Otis College of Art and Design Campus9045 Lincoln Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045Join us for an evening with acclaimed artist and Otis alum Kelly Akashi, whose boundary-pushing practice has captivated audiences around the world. Space is limited, and admission is available on a first-come, first-served basis.This lecture is made possible thanks to the generous support of Cliff Einstein and his late wife Mandy. The Mandy and Cliff Einstein Visiting Artist Series offers the Otis community an opportunity to engage with acclaimed creatives who are shaping contemporary art today.About Kelly AkashiExecuted with deft manual skill and astute material knowledge, Kelly Akashi’s visual language emphasizes the impermanence of the natural world, recording and indexing fragmented moments in time. Her singular practice is characterized by a rigorous conceptual approach, yet the work is distinguished by a deep reverence for process. Always a student, Akashi is perpetually studying new practices and physical techniques such as glass-blowing, casting, candle-making and stone carving. The repeated use of the hand as motif serves as a symbol for Akashi’s ongoing investigation into the temporality of the human experience. Often cast in bronze or crystal, her hands bear the mark of time on her body, her growing fingernails, and aging flesh. Towering sculpted weeds, delicately glass-blown flowers, a to-scale depiction of her body in polished travertine, enlarged casts of extinct species of shells; Akashi poetically and objectively encapsulates the notion of mortality in a ritualistic gathering of objects. However, her take on her own practice is not a morbid one. Akashi references the phrase mono no aware. “It refers to a wistful awareness of impermanence—the ‘pathos of things.’ It’s central to hanami, the Japanese custom of venturing out to enjoy the brief season of cherry blossoms.”Kelly Akashi was born in 1983 in Los Angeles. She received a BFA from Otis College of Art & Design in 2006 and an MFA from the University of Southern California in 2014. She also studied at the prestigious Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Städelschule) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 2010. Akashi was the Artist in Residence at Pilchuck Glass School for 2025. Recent solo exhibitions include Kelly Akashi, Lisson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (February 19 - March 29, 2025), Kelly Akashi–Converging Figures, Fondazione Furla Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan, Italy (September 13 - December 8 2024), Kelly Akashi: Encounters at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (September 30, 2023 - June 15, 2024), and her 10-year survey, Formations, which began at the San José Museum of Art in 2022, travelled to the Frye Art Museum in Seattle and then to the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, through 2024. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/los-angeles/the-mandy-and-cliff-einstein-visiting-artist-series-kelly-akashi/100001977106718417 - **Event Categories**: art, fine-arts, business, exhibitions - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fthe-mandy-and-cliff-einstein-visiting-artist-series-kelly-akashi-tickets-1977106718417 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Los Angeles - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: Otis College of Art and Design - **lat**: 33.9566849 - **long**: -118.4171575 - **full address**: Otis College of Art and Design, 9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles, United States ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Otis College of Art and Design (https://allevents.in/org/otis-college-of-art-and-design/19077387) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/46148df2f4f45706b2fca082c1d11a90463e8e02d16c36c82aa7e2a9579e6089-rimg-w1200-h600-dc010101-gmir.jpg?v=1765861404 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/cd86f15114150137d7104da3a452768249f27e39131b50904106b5b733bc03d6-rimg-w400-h400-dc010101-gmir.jpg?v=1765861403 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Thu, 19 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Otis College of Art and Design, 9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles, United States - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 USD - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Otis College of Art and Design - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** art, fine-arts, business, exhibitions - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about The Mandy and Cliff Einstein Visiting Artist Series: Kelly Akashi ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "The Mandy and Cliff Einstein Visiting Artist Series: Kelly Akashi", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/46148df2f4f45706b2fca082c1d11a90463e8e02d16c36c82aa7e2a9579e6089-rimg-w1200-h600-dc010101-gmir.jpg?v=1765861404", "startDate": "2026-02-19", "endDate": "2026-02-19", "url": "https://allevents.in/los-angeles/the-mandy-and-cliff-einstein-visiting-artist-series-kelly-akashi/100001977106718417", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Otis College of Art and Design", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "9045 Lincoln Boulevard", "postalCode": "90045", "addressLocality": "Los Angeles", "addressRegion": "CA", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "33.9566849", "longitude": "-118.4171575" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Join us for Material Witnesses: A lecture with Kelly Akashi, part of the Mandy and Cliff Einstein Visiting Artist Series", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "2026-02-19", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/los-angeles/the-mandy-and-cliff-einstein-visiting-artist-series-kelly-akashi/100001977106718417" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "url": "https://allevents.in/los-angeles/the-mandy-and-cliff-einstein-visiting-artist-series-kelly-akashi/100001977106718417", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Otis College of Art and Design", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/otis-college-of-art-and-design/19077387", "description": "Established in 1918 as Los Angeles’ first professional school of the arts, Otis College of Art and Design is a non-profit 501(c)3 institution and a national leader in art and design education. 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