Cartoons, murals and public art let us in fast. A bright color, a clean line, a shape we half-remembered, a wall we always walk by, a sculpture in the lobbyway of our office building, outside a stadium, in a park. In all of these forms, we are given access before we have decided whether we want it or how we want to engage it. And these forms can hold almost anything: humor, grief, violence, the personal and the political at once. This Happy Hour brings the artists from the current exhibition, Cast Shadows, together with other artists working with accessible art forms into conversation with the CXLA community to ask what access really means, for contemporary art, for public art, for the cartoon and 
the caricature, and for difficult content that needs a way in.