Curator A. Laura Brody presents Diverse City 4, a collaboration between The Arroyo Arts Collective and Underdog Bookstore, featuring artists Jan Tamayo and Michael Olivares.

The exhibition opens August 1, 2026, from 11 AM - 1 PM with a pastel portrait workshop led by Jan Tamayo, and the show runs through September 19th.

All supplies will be provided. The workshop and exhibit are free to the public.

Jan Tamayo is a Filipino illustrator and wedding painter based in Los Angeles. With a deep love of portraiture as a driving force in her practice, she delights in creating cute and colorful artwork about identity, nostalgia, and love. For more than twenty years of mixed media painting and communal service, Michael Olivares has shaped a practice rooted in a love for nature and an unending devotion to learning. His work moves through surreal, provocative realms where color and symbol become conduits for the earth’s abstract and wilder languages. He creates to counter the world’s negativity and polemics, summoning rasquachismo, beauty, sensuality, and imagination as forces of renewal.

This is their first time exhibiting together.

Underground Bookstore 312 S. Myrtle Avenue, Monrovia, CA 91016

Through diverse books and inclusive events, Underdog Bookstore aims to amplify underrepresented voices and provide a safe space to explore, connect, and celebrate the wonder of literacy and learning

The Arroyo Arts Collective is a grassroots, community-based organization of artists, poets, musicians, crafts persons and supporters of the creative community in Northeast Los Angeles.