Saturday, June 22, 2024 at 3:00AM In Fort Worth at Hotel Dryce during Dallas Art Week 2023, in my backyard in Santa Monica doing some R&D with our Somm 2024, in Saint Lucia doing botanical research 2016, in Belize doing Mayan and Olmec archaeology 2005, a rainbow over the farm 2024
Saturday, January 6, 2024 at 5:00AM This fun music history lesson is a great way to vibe into 2024. The song is legendary and the education behind how it all came together is the kind of feel good energy we carrying all through out 2024.
Saturday, May 28, 2022 at 5:00AM Let the spirit move you and let the spirit move through you
My dear friend Alberry is a master painter and craftsman. We first met in Leimert Park where he was doing some woodwork for my neighbor Obi at his African Art Imports shop. I could tell right away how talented Alberry was and I hired him to be our fabricator at the gallery. He constructed pretty much anything we needed to make an exhibition happen, from walls to pedestals to framing structures and building out exhibition design ideas. He can build anything with his hands. And he is also an incredible musician.
Thursday, May 19, 2022 at 5:00AM Upward and Outward
Bend and Stretch
Move and Expand
Photographs by Michelle Joan Papillion
Sculpture by artist Emma Stern
For previous summer playlist listen at this link papillionart.com/dailies/tag/papillion-mixtape
Monday, February 22, 2021 at 5:00AM i know, its no where near summer yet....but 2021 is not holding back, it feels like we should be in summer by now. To be continued...
MJP NEW YEAR illustration graphic by Peter Mabeo of MABEO Furniture
Photographs taken by Michelle Joan Papillion
For the previous summer playlist you can listen here PAPILLION MIXTAPE
Wednesday, March 18, 2020 at 11:11PM I once said in an interview that I would continue doing what I was doing until it was not fun anymore. When it stopped being fun that I would stop and do something else. I kept my word, I just had not realized that the something else would be my bucket list item of being a hermit. I suppose I should do a post about what I've been up to but that's not what this note is about. I guess I'm sharing this note to say that as a person who has been self-isolating for several years now I can offer a small bit of my experience. You will get bored, you will get creative, you will freak out and you will find your composure. If you allow for all of the things that make up you to be present in real time you'll begin to understand who you are to yourself and others.
don’t be afraid to let your light glow
Photographs taken by Michelle Joan Papillion in Joshua Tree National Park
Monday, August 5, 2019 at 5:00AM the *let me call u back* mixtape // summer '19
*photographs taken by Michelle Joan Papillion in Terre-de-Bas
*previous summer mixtapes
PAPILLION SUMMER 2015, PAPILLION SUMMER 2017, PAPILLION SUMMER 2018 *new phone who dis*
Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 5:00AM Kilo Kish has a new video to my favorite song on RRT, "Hello, Lakisha" video is a collaboration with artist Yong oh Kim. She also has a performance in Moscow this week June 10th at the Strelka Institute, catch it if your there!
Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 5:00AM Miguel's conceptial idea "WILDHEART MOTEL" is where this video takes place, it was a trippy experience that I'm glad I got to experience.
Monday, February 1, 2016 at 5:00AM One of our dearest friends and greatest supporters has passed on. Having touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, a true teacher, a true master and one of the main reasons the gallery became a success. I salute you on your journey home Dr. Blair. xo
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at 5:00AM What a weekend, a successful opening for Derek Fordjour & Yashua Klos and an incredible time on the Kingdom Float designed and built by Lauren Halsey for the Martin Luther King Day Parade.
Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 5:00AM Happy to finally debut this after such an amazing time last week at the premiere party. Tiffany Gouché releases the short film Fantasy, the title track off her recent EP. This short film serves as an ode to the city of Los Angeles and specifically the Leimert Park district with its rich cultural history and often misrepresented beauty within.
