This post was updated Oct. 28 at 8:42 p.m.

This fall’s art scene is looking to connect with museumgoers.

Bruins can take a quick break from midterm season to reconnect with their creative sides through brand new exhibits opening around Los Angeles. From glimpses into everyday life to interactive experiences, there is an exhibition fit for every art lover.

Continue reading to learn more about the art exhibits Daily Bruin Arts believes should be end-of-the-year staples.

“Sadie Barnette: How to Fly” (California African American Museum)

Art exhibit enthusiasts can now take flight, metaphorically, through the work of Sadie Barnette.

The multimedia artist from Oakland, California, is the genesis behind “Sadie Barnette: How to Fly,” a new exhibition that launched at the California African American Museum on Sept. 30. The display – an original photomural placed in the museum’s atrium – will be open to the public through October 2027. Offering a piece of Barnette’s personal history that invites visitors to become immersed in the images around them, the exhibit blends together photographs of the artist’s family with stills she has captured across California.

As the daughter of Rodney Barnette – a founder of the Compton, California, chapter of the Black Panther Party and owner of the New Eagle Creek Saloon, the first Black-owned gay bar in San Francisco – Sadie Barnette’s influences for her art’s depictions of Black life run deep. Naturally, “Sadie Barnette: How to Fly” includes visuals, such as a shot of Toni Morrison’s 1992 novel “Jazz,” while infusing imagery the artist has used before, such as rhinestones, plants, glitter and cars.

Angeleno art aficionados would be well-served to see into the mind of Sadie Barnette, a self-proclaimed “keeper of the past.”

– Reid Sperisen

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“The Black Interior: Imagining Home in the Permanent Collection” (California African American Museum)

“The Black Interior” treats home as an archive of memory and object.

Since its opening Sept. 30, “The Black Interior: Imagining Home in the Permanent Collection” has featured a rich display of nearly 20 artists, from glassblowers and sculptors to painters and photographers, whose works were all selected from the California African American Museum’s permanent collection. Inspired by the titular 2004 essay collection by poet Elizabeth Alexander, the exhibition evokes the subconscious behind everyday routines and traditions.

The artists were selected by independent curator Kristin Juarez, a senior research specialist at the Getty Research Institute, whose work has focused on the similar intersecting themes of art, race and culture. Juarez’s curation offers an intimate glimpse into domestic life, the home as an interior space of refuge and reflection. Works include an arrangement of household items as subjects of imaginative material, such as a phone, handkerchief and shower.

It’s an apt metaphor for the exhibit’s ethos – home is not a setting but a character with walls that listen and objects that remember.

– Jacob Tristeza

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“Learning to Draw” (Getty Center)

“Learning to Draw” serves as a shrine to the sketchbook.

The exhibit, running from Oct. 21 to Jan. 25 at the Getty Center, celebrates the discipline of drawing. The free, two-room display shows pieces with creations ranging from the 16th to 19th centuries that were drawn as practice. Each piece refers to the educational process of drawing, whether that be scenes of art classes or actual practice sketches from artists. “Learning to Draw” is an ode to the discipline and practice that serves as the foundation for nearly all art forms.

The pinnacle of the exhibit is the central drawing table, where visitors can sketch their own images and hang them by the entrance. Allowing the tradition of “Learning to Draw” to live on in the 21st century, museumgoers hunch over the table and draw their best renditions of the given model, going through the same motions as the artists scattered across the walls.

“Learning to Draw” turns the amateur sketcher into a brilliant artist and allows museumgoers to be transformed in the same way.

– Lilly Leonhardt