Learn more about the artists of ‘Monument Eternal’

In these last few weeks of Alice Coltrane: Monument Eternal at the Hammer Museum, take a deeper look at some of the artists featured in the exhibition with a collection of "Meet the Artist" micro-short films on the Hammer Museum YouTube Channel. Artist Suné Woods, discusses On this day in Meditation, a peaceful, immersive installation she created for Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal. Woods based the project on her own meditation practice, developed in conversation with the spiritual teachings of Alice Coltrane Swamini Turiyasangitananda. "It's a process of becoming empty,” she said.

Another short features Star Feliz who talks about their multi-media sculpture Siren of Oblivion, which is constructed with building materials, natural earth pigments, video, and sound, connecting to their practice as an herbalist, energy healer, and diviner in the Afro-Indigenous traditions. “I study and work with sound as a frequency, a wave, a vibration . . .” Star Feliz emphasizes human relationships to the earth as both what empowers us and what connects us to one another.

Forthcoming shorts will feature artists Cauleen Smith (faculty member in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture) and GeoVanna Gonzalez. Monument Eternal is on view through May 4.

By Jessica Wolf
Posted 04.17.25