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textiles, writing, art, astral projection creative director @sean.leffers topanga, ca

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For the launch of The Shadow of Flowers, we welcomed friends from the Los Angeles design community to Greenleaf Falls in Topanga, home to a 1927 adobe built by architect John Byers.

We spent the afternoon making shadows permanent. With Space Art and Supply, we created cyanotypes using flowers and sunlight, bringing some of the ideas behind the collection to our literal fingertips. Elijah Badua played the tanbur, The Brothers Sushi prepared omakase, and somewhere between making art and eating it, we found time to share the stories behind our newest textiles.

Thank you to everyone who came, and especially to the talented friends who helped us make it happen:

omakase ••• Chef Mark Okuda, The Brothers Sushi
cyanotype ••• Genevieve Ruddock, Space Art and Supply
florals & tablescape ••• Julia Rado, Flames and Flowers
sound ••• Elijah Badua
elixirs ••• Vikhain Hanounik, Mysticopia
showroom partner ••• Kneedler Fauchère

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more from the best day ever 🕊️🕊️🕊️

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g r a t e f u l to create, expand and heal beside you @seanderlust Exciting new collections @sean.leffers

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Did you know that you can be so overcome with gratitude and goodness that it can take you to the cusp of nausea? Me neither, but these beautiful souls took me there. Am truly blown away (like face melted off in Raiders of the Lost Ark fashion) by the gift of sharing space and spirits with just some of the best humans this planet has to offer at @storystudio_chicago I will love you all forever. You all stitched my writing heart back together in ways I didn’t even know I needed. Never forget to mummy scream whenever the situation calls for it, my dear, new friends!

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@dominoe.farris forever our community photographer 🩵bless all of these sweet souls who make my life so bright

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Second annual dance party in celebration of miss @ardenvail on my favorite dance floor in Topanga

#pointandshoot #topangacanyon #danceparty #happybirthday

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Goodbye magical cabin in Topanga. I finished the book! Thank you so much @seanderlust What a wonderful few weeks of writing and hiking and making new friends.

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First day of my two week Topanga writers’ retreat. Thank you @seanderlust! I wrote for three hours and took an hour hike in the hills.

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THIS SATURDAY: Steven Arnold’s Sex & Spirit Symposium at Del Vaz Projects | April 25, 2026, 12-6 PM

Entry $15 | Free for students | Link in Bio

Panel 4: Cruising the Archive: Comparative Chronicles of Illimitable Lives | 5:00 PM
The culminating conversation of the program, this panel is comprised of directors and curators from the symposium’s co-sponsors: @alexisbardjohnson from the ONE Archives at USC Libraries, where Steven Arnold’s archive is now housed; @yung_sch0lar from the GLBT Historical Society Museum, where Steven Arnold: Cocktails in Heaven will travel for the Further Triennial in 2027; and #KyleCroft from Visual AIDS, where a selection of Arnold’s papers are preserved. With diverse philosophies on archival methods, panelists discuss their varying approaches to archives that are often shaped by ephemeral experiences, intimate settings, and cultural erasure.

Steven Arnold’s Sex & Spirit Symposium is an afternoon-long program inspired by the multidisciplinary artist Steven Arnold (b. 1943, Oakland, CA; d. 1994, Los Angeles, CA) whose work is currently on view at Del Vaz Projects.

Presented by @delvazprojects in partnership with
@onearchivesusc, Los Angeles
@glbt_history, San Francisco
& @visual_aids, New York

This program was made possible thanks to the support of Del Vaz Projects Patron Sean Leffers.
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Steven Arnold: Cocktails in Heaven is made possible with support from the Del Vaz Projects Patrons Karen Hillenburg, Stacy & John Rubeli, and Berry Stein.

Del Vaz Projects’ exhibitions, publications, and public programming are made possible through a Multi-Year Program Support grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; a Board-Directed grant from The Teiger Foundation; the Organizational Support Program and a Community Access & Participation grant from the City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs; and the Organizational Grant Program from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Department of Arts and Culture.

@stevenarnoldarchive
#stevenarnold
@delvazprojects
#delvazprojects
@warholfoundation
#warholgrantee
@teigerfoundation
@lacountyarts

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THIS SATURDAY: Steven Arnold’s Sex & Spirit Symposium at Del Vaz Projects | 12-6 PM

Entry $15 | Free for students | Link in Bio

Panel 3: Deviant & Divine Androgynes: Self-Initiated Spiritualism | 4:oo PM

Situating Arnold within the vast lineage of esoteric ritual practice, this panel (Isabelle Albuquerque @isabellealbuquerque, David Evans-Frantz @davidevansfrantz, and Laura Whitcomb @label_curatorial_) explores the movements, organizations, and literature that germinated occult and hippie mysticism throughout twentieth-century California. Investigating Arnold’s tableaux vivant photographs—spectacular visions of his queer community in the form of gods, goddesses, angels, saints, and shamans—the panel considers both how spirituality informs the aesthetics of queer artists, and how queer artists approach aesthetics as a spiritual rite in response to social and religious intolerance.

Steven Arnold’s Sex & Spirit Symposium is an afternoon-long program inspired by the multidisciplinary artist Steven Arnold (b. 1943, Oakland, CA; d. 1994, Los Angeles, CA) whose work is currently on view at Del Vaz Projects.

Presented by @delvazprojects in partnership with
@onearchivesusc, Los Angeles
@glbt_history, San Francisco
& @visual_aids, New York

This program was made possible thanks to the support of Del Vaz Projects Patron Sean Leffers.
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Steven Arnold: Cocktails in Heaven is made possible with support from the Del Vaz Projects Patrons Karen Hillenburg, Stacy & John Rubeli, and Berry Stein.

Del Vaz Projects’ exhibitions, publications, and public programming are made possible through a Multi-Year Program Support grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; a Board-Directed grant from The Teiger Foundation; the Organizational Support Program and a Community Access & Participation grant from the City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs; and the Organizational Grant Program from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Department of Arts and Culture.

@stevenarnoldarchive
#stevenarnold
@delvazprojects
#delvazprojects
@warholfoundation
#warholgrantee
@teigerfoundation
@lacountyarts

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RSVP NOW: Steven Arnold’s Sex & Spirit Symposium at Del Vaz Projects | April 25, 2026, 12-6 PM

Entry $15 | Free for students | Link in Bio

Panel 2:
Cross Gender/Cross Genre: Methodologies of Maximalism | 2:00 PM

Framed by Mike Kelley’s definition of the “pastiche aesthetic” in his 1999 essay “Cross Gender / Cross Genre,” this panel (Rita Gonzalez @gonzorita, Joey Terrill @homeboybeautiful, and Anna Bane @anna__bane ) considers the ways in which creatives collage vast genres, cinematic interiors, and recycled materials as a means or circumstance of coding and comprehending queerness. Citing Arnold’s contemporaries across art, film, and design—from Mundo Meza to Tony Duquette, Kenneth Anger, The Cockettes, and Asco’s No Movies—the panel charts the evolution from the psychedelic visual confusion of the 1960s in San Francisco to the streamlined, pop vocabulary of the 1980s in Los Angeles.

Steven Arnold’s Sex & Spirit Symposium is an afternoon-long program inspired by the multidisciplinary artist Steven Arnold (b. 1943, Oakland, CA; d. 1994, Los Angeles, CA) whose work is currently on view at Del Vaz Projects.

Presented by @delvazprojects in partnership with
@onearchivesusc, Los Angeles
@glbt_history, San Francisco
& @visual_aids, New York

This program was made possible thanks to the support of Del Vaz Projects Patron Sean Leffers.
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Steven Arnold: Cocktails in Heaven is made possible with support from the Del Vaz Projects Patrons Karen Hillenburg, Stacy & John Rubeli, and Berry Stein.

Del Vaz Projects’ exhibitions, publications, and public programming are made possible through a Multi-Year Program Support grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; a Board-Directed grant from The Teiger Foundation; the Organizational Support Program and a Community Access & Participation grant from the City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs; and the Organizational Grant Program from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Department of Arts and Culture.

@stevenarnoldarchive
#stevenarnold
@warholfoundation
#warholgrantee
@teigerfoundation
@lacountyarts
@delvazprojects
#delvazprojects

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RSVP NOW: Steven Arnold’s Sex & Spirit Symposium at Del Vaz Projects | April 25, 2026, 12-6 PM

Entry $15 | Free for students | Link in Bio

Panel 1:
Creatures of the Night: Zanzabar & the Studio-Salon Chimera | 1:00 PM

A pilgrimage site on the map of Los Angeles’ subcultural scene, Zanzabar was at once a photography studio, salon venue, and personal residence for Steven Arnold and his elaborate, eclectic cohort— spanning celebrity and cult luminaries. Panelists Beadford Nordeen @foxandhisfriends, Ron Athey @ronathey_4, and Anne Crawford @annecraw4d recount their actual and imagined encounters with Arnold’s home studio, contextualizing the chameleonic space within a broader landscape of the queer underground in Los Angeles in the late-twentieth century—from Club F*ck to Les Deux Cafés and Helena’s—drawing connections to contemporary queer nightlife.

Steven Arnold’s Sex & Spirit Symposium is an afternoon-long program inspired by the multidisciplinary artist Steven Arnold (b. 1943, Oakland, CA; d. 1994, Los Angeles, CA) whose work is currently on view at Del Vaz Projects.

Presented by @delvazprojects in partnership with
@onearchivesusc, Los Angeles
@glbt_history, San Francisco
& @visual_aids, New York

This program was made possible thanks to the support of Del Vaz Projects Patron Sean Leffers.
_

Steven Arnold: Cocktails in Heaven is made possible with support from the Del Vaz Projects Patrons Karen Hillenburg, Stacy & John Rubeli, and Berry Stein.

Del Vaz Projects’ exhibitions, publications, and public programming are made possible through a Multi-Year Program Support grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; a Board-Directed grant from The Teiger Foundation; the Organizational Support Program and a Community Access & Participation grant from the City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs; and the Organizational Grant Program from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Department of Arts and Culture.

@stevenarnoldarchive
@warholfoundation
#warholgrantee
@teigerfoundation
@lacountyarts
#delvazprojects

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