Art Share was founded in 1997 by Chip Austin Hunter as an affordable housing project and community arts center. For many years it operated with primary interest in serving the inner city and East LA youth through after schools art classes. Past programs have included BLAST (Building Language Arts Skills Together), FACT (Families and Communities Together) and a variety of free classes in dance, visual arts, music and recording arts. The organization suffered greatly during the recession and as a result, all employees and programs (except for FACT) were suspended in 2011. Building maintenance had been neglected and the organization was near collapse. The board worked tirelessly to bring the building back to life and maintain our residential program. New leadership was put into place and outreach efforts were made to re-establish positive relations between community partners. Art Share was reborn the summer of 2012--the building was repainted, the logo rebranded and new programs and new initiatives are in place.
Founded in 1971, the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center is one of the largest ethnic arts and cultural centers of its kind in the United States. The mission of the JACCC is to present, perpetuate, transmit and promote Japanese and Japanese American arts and culture to diverse audiences, and to provide a center to enhance community programs. The Japanese American Cultural and Community Center is the preeminent presenter of Japanese and Japanese American, and Asian American performing and visual arts nationally. The JACCC also provides office space to a wide variety of nonprofit cultural, educational and community-based organizations in Los Angeles.
Hauser Wirth & Schimmel is the Los Angeles location of Hauser & Wirth, the international gallery devoted to contemporary art and modern masters. A new destination in the heart of the burgeoning Downtown Arts District of Los Angeles, the gallery is located at 901 East 3rd Street. It occupies the restored Globe Mills complex, a collection of interconnected late 19th and early 20th century buildings and internal outdoor spaces that have been adapted by Creative Space, Los Angeles, in consultation with Annabelle Selldorf, Selldorf Architects. Here visitors will discover museum-caliber exhibitions as well as public programs and educational activities that contextualize the art on view for diverse audiences. Hauser Wirth & Schimmel will complement its exhibition program with the first ARTBOOK store in Los Angeles; a gallery space for Hauser & Wirth Publishers’ Book & Printed Matter Lab, the restaurant Manuela, opening summer 2016, featuring seasonal fare and locally-sourced produce with a menu focused upon foods of the American South; a public garden; murals that engage the architecture of the complex; and a dramatic and expansive open-air courtyard, where visitors will find sculpture as well as a place for quiet contemplation and informal gathering. Hauser Wirth & Schimmel is the sixth location of Hauser & Wirth, which was founded in Switzerland in 1992 by Iwan and Manuela Wirth and Ursula Hauser. Today the gallery is a global enterprise, with spaces in Zurich, London, New York, Somerset, and Los Angeles.
The Arts District Co-op is an eclectic mix of retail concepts coming together in a communal environment that fosters creativity and commerce. Located in the heart of the DTLA Arts District, we offer a blank slate for vendors to come together in an avant-garde market environment. Instagram and Twitter: @artsdistrictco_op #artsdistrictco_op #ADCoop
440 Seaton is an urban warehouse venue available for an array of events, weddings, parties, concerts, film and commercial productions and large-scale exhibitions. It offers a unique, rustic, eclectic charm in the heart of the Arts District in Downtown, Los Angeles. A growing artistic and cultured community surrounds it, just steps away from Little Tokyo, Japanese Village and Southern California Institute of Architecture. This grand, one-hundred year old, urban interior space consists of a Cathedral like atrium, with soaring 50 ft. high ceilings, exposed brick walls, wooden beams, concrete and wooden floors and skylights. With 12,000 sq. ft., the Great Hall is a spacious space, which can accommodate up to 1,700 standing guests, 1,400-chair seating and a 600 table seating capacity. This unique space offers endless opportunities in the creative ways you can turn this space into a special and memorable event for both you and your guests! It provides a canvas for your creativity, ability to transform it into a new environment with the raw warehouse space as a backdrop. History 440 Seaton was built in 1913, using brick, steel, redwood and concrete. The Great Hall was originally used as an indoor lumberyard for a furniture manufacturing company.Much of the original structure and details have been preserved including the exposed brick walls, saw tooth roof, concrete and wood flooring and a working freight elevator. The rooftop provides a view/ backdrop of the Downtown skyline and a 15,000 sq. ft. fenced in parking lot that is available for convenient use. The floor space can be sectioned off or used in its entirety. Standing Space: 1,700 Chair Seating Capacity: 1,400 Table Seating Capacity: 600 Stage: Available Power Sources: Available Catering: Available Parking: Available
Tinta Rebelde Custom Tattoos is a Collective Art Gallery & Tattoo Studio. Established in 1997 in humble beginnings by Rockabilly Ray. Tinta Rebelde over the years has established, secured and built up it's clientele in Southern CA to be a reputable Art Gallery & Tattoo Studio. From 2005 to 2015 the studio was located in Hollywood, CA. Today Tinta Rebelde Custom Tattoos is now located at it's new home, in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles. Along with Rockabilly Ray, you have David "Ocean" Hardy & Manu Ponx, and these guys continue to provide quality custom tattoos.
The Los Angeles Center For Digital Art is dedicated to the propagation of all forms of digital art, new media, digital video art, net art, digital sculpture, interactive multimedia, and the vast panorama of hybrid forms of art and technology that constitute our moment in culture. We are committed to supporting local, international, emerging and established artists through exposure in our gallery. We have an ongoing schedule of exhibits and competitions, produce editions of wide format archival prints, and collaborate in the production of digital artworks in our studio. As well we are involved with curating digital exhibits at institutions and festivals outside of the LACDA gallery schedule.
Royale Projects focuses on the history and continuing advancement of West Coast abstraction in painting and sculpture as well as leading edge artists that find their roots in Conceptualism. Royale Projects provides space to foster the growth of new ideas by featuring artists working in experimental and alternative mediums and artists who innovate time-honored traditions.
Since opening in 2007, The Box’s mission has been to create a diverse art program surveying historical artists and their contemporaries. By exhibiting artists of multiple generations, the gallery has established a discursive critical voice in addressing and viewing varying perspectives of art within the larger context of contemporary artistic practices. Covering a time span of nearly five decades, our artists have dealt with the historical elements that have been integral to the development of art today. Whereas younger artists supply a fresh mode of thinking, artists belonging to past generations provide a historical basis in which to contextualize the expansive development of art today. We are interested in working with artists who think in an unconventional way about the expansion of art’s definition through artists’ questioning of space and spatial boundaries, artist responsibility, and the movement of art out of the traditional gallery space. The Box showcases, as well as commissions emerging contemporary work with artists who work using variety of mediums including but not limited to painting, sculpture, dance, video, film, performance and musical performances. Working with and alongside living artists creates unique opportunities for both the gallery and the artists to explore new modes of curating. We believe that by broadening the scope of art shown, viewers are encouraged to think about art more liberally, to explore their own boundaries. Many of our represented artists have had limited formal recognition by mainstream art institutions. We believe that not only to these artists deserve to be shown, the viewers of Los Angeles deserve to see this work. Influential exhibitions include Wally Hedrick’s socio-political “War Room” (2008), the Los Angeles Poverty Department’s “Skid Row History Museum,” John Altoon’s “Drawings 1962-68” (2008) and Barbara T Smith’s “Field Piece” (2008). We are fortunate to have seen our artists such as Judith Bernstein, Simone Forti, John Altoon, and Barbara T Smith achieve greater visibility and critical success, both in the US and internationally, since exhibiting their work at the Box. The Box’s programming creates a unique environment that encourages viewers to discuss the work they see. Events range from video and film screenings, panel discussions, open forum discussions, lectures and performances that are specific to the coinciding exhibition. In many cases these events create a casual social space where the viewer is welcomed in the artists’ investigative properties of process, matter, and procedure. The importance of such diverse programming lies in the assertion that what is important are not the answers given, but the questions asked. Most importantly, the Box remain committed to the idea that the responsibility of the gallery is that of curator, editor, collaborator, cultural critic, and at times artwork co-producer, in creating a dynamic system to present and reinterpret artwork through its exhibitionary platform.
From its inception, as a not for profit organization, Artcore has dedicated itself to the task of finding and exposing artists locally and internationally whose work shows dedication, excellence and originality. Artcore focuses on artists of all walks of life spurring the creativity of both emerging and established artists. Artcore's operative word has always been "opportunity," both for the artists, and for the community to have access to art. Artcore is committed to its mission of making art accessible without the constraints of the market economy. As such it exercises freedom of choice based strictly on quality and contribution to the community. One of our strategies is to expand contact between visual artists regionally and internationally by seeking the artists’ involvement in our vision. Another strategy is to draw increasingly diverse audiences from the widest possible spectrum of our community. Mature developed artists will establish year-round art programs and workshops designed for children, youth and adults to discover visual arts and its core values.
Tokyo Status in a traveling airship featuring talented artists and bands found by Rayko of Japanese-American band Lolita Dark. Featuring artists from the U.S., Asia, and all parts of the world, Tokyo Status offers a unique line-up of epic alt-rock and metal with a global twist! Other attractions at the event include DJ after party, Karaoke, fashion vendors and the airline-themed "Tokyo Status" flight crew! All Ages Welcome! We're looking for local bands! Booking: [email protected] About Lolita Dark Lolita Dark is a 6 piece Female Fronted Bilingual Rock Band with roots in Southern California and Japan who formed in 2012. Their sound weaves together crunching guitar riffs, progressive bass lines, lush harmonies, and complex melodic structures in songs that reflect both angst and optimism in an increasingly interconnected world of disconnected residents. The core of Lolita Dark is formed by singer/songwriter/Multi-Instrumentalist Rayko (Ray), Bassist/Engineer Rain Balen, and Drummer Joey Felix who are also members of the Los Angeles rock band “Dig Jelly.” After months of writing, recording, and self producing, Lolita Dark enlisted lead guitarist Patrick Cabrera, co vocalist and keyboardist Kaoru (K-Lu), and the newest member/second lead guitar Christopher Fuentes. Lolita Dark gained a massive popularity especially in the Anime Convention Circuit throughout the States, over 2000 copies of their debut release “Tokyo Status” and their second album "Queen's Decade" were sold out in just a few months after it's release, independently. Lolita Dark became a fan favorite as Guest Of Honors at quite large numbers of Anime Conventions and Lolita Dark was also invited by NAMM 2015 to host a panel to talk about their success in finding a niche in independent music market. Lolita Dark got signed to a Japanese record label called Spark in 2015, and their International debut album "Citizen's Revenge" was released on July 6th 2016 through Universal Records Japan. Lolita Dark is working on their third release while they perform as an opener to national acts from Japan, and headlines local clubs and anime convention circuits. 2012 年に結成。米国・カリフォルニアを拠点とする日米双方にルーツを持つ個性派ロックバンド。壮大なハーモニーと複雑なメロディのアンサンブルを特徴的な激し いギターやプログレッシブなベースラインに乗せることにより、幻想的で独創性溢れる世界観を生み出している。バンドのフロントマンであるRay は闇と光、怒りと喜び、過去と現在、東洋と西洋など、現世に存在しうる全ての相反する事象や矛盾の「融合」を音楽を通じて表現しているという。 The core of Lolita Dark is formed by singer/ songwriter / guitarist / multi-instrumentalist Rayko (Ray), Bassist Rain Balen, and Drummer Joey Felix who are also members of the Los Angeles rock band "Dig Jelly", and co vocalist and keyboardist Kaoru Enjoji (K-Lu), lead guitarist Patrick Cabrera, and the newest member/second lead guitar Christopher Fuentes. LD はバンドの中核を担うリーダー・Rayを筆頭に、苦楽を共に過ごした地元の音楽仲間であるRain Balen(Bs)、Joey Felix(Dr)、Patrick Cabrera(Gtr).沖縄出身のMay(Keys/Vocal)の移住の後、北海道出身のK−Luを加え、新たに新メンバーとして east coast 出身のChristopher Fuentes (Gtr) を加えた国際的なバンド構成。 2015年には日本のレコード会社、Sparkと5年間の契約を結び、翌年7月6日に国際デビュ＝アルバム "Citizen's Revenge" を Universal Records Japan から発売！ これからもバンドの大活躍が期待されている。
XLanes LA is Located in the heart of Little Tokyo in Downtown LA. XLanes LA features an extravagant, fun for the whole family venue including 24 lanes of LED-lit bowling (with eight private lanes), a redemption arcade (featuring over 100 arcade games), a nine-table billiard room, exclusive VIP lounges, a lavish sports bar and full-service American-Italian family restaurant. Make us your destination for family birthday parties, corporate outings, extravagant socials or to watch the big game! We have packages to suit your every need with an outstanding staff to provide you with an experience you'll be telling all of your friends about!
District Gallery is a project of Los Angeles Downtown Arts District Space (LADADSpace), a 501(c)(3) arts non-profit founded in 2004 dedicated to preserving and nurturing the culture of creativity in Los Angeles' downtown Arts District and to the creation of an Arts District Center for the Arts. Among the artists whose work has been shown at the gallery are William Acedo, Richard Ankrom, A.S. Ashley, Matt Aston, Bill Barminski, Iva Hladis, Jamie Itagaki, Jose De Juan, David Hollen, Catherine Kaleel, Richard Kessler, Emmeric Konrad, Tod Lychkoff, Suzi Moon, J.W. Pippen, Rick Robinson, Sheila Rollins, Alex Schaefer, Rafael Serrano, Alex Tavoularis and Zenka
Sad People Talking is an experimental weekly live comedy show, featuring new material from the best Los Angeles and national stand-up comedic performers. ______________________________________________________
We are on the cusp of a new soundscape. Over Easy LA is a monthly music club that promotes progressive music and culture.
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World Wide Star Search was founded in 1998 by a coalition of industry professionals who grew tired of cattle call conventions that focused more on quantity over quality and dry showcases where there is no interaction with the performers. Many of the talent who have attended Worldwide Star Search have moved on to major movies, television shows, modeling campaigns, tv commercials, designer runway shows, Broadway musicals, national tours, international tours and more! Thousands audition for us every year but only the top 100 are selected from around the world to become tomorrow's stars!
Since opening in 2007, The Box’s mission has been to create a diverse art program surveying historical artists and their contemporaries. By exhibiting artists of multiple generations, the gallery has established a discursive critical voice in addressing and viewing varying perspectives of art within the larger context of contemporary artistic practices. Covering a time span of nearly five decades, our artists have dealt with the historical elements that have been integral to the development of art today. Whereas younger artists supply a fresh mode of thinking, artists belonging to past generations provide a historical basis in which to contextualize the expansive development of art today. We are interested in working with artists who think in an unconventional way about the expansion of art’s definition through artists’ questioning of space and spatial boundaries, artist responsibility, and the movement of art out of the traditional gallery space. The Box showcases, as well as commissions emerging contemporary work with artists who work using variety of mediums including but not limited to painting, sculpture, dance, video, film, performance and musical performances. Working with and alongside living artists creates unique opportunities for both the gallery and the artists to explore new modes of curating. We believe that by broadening the scope of art shown, viewers are encouraged to think about art more liberally, to explore their own boundaries. Many of our represented artists have had limited formal recognition by mainstream art institutions. We believe that not only to these artists deserve to be shown, the viewers of Los Angeles deserve to see this work. Influential exhibitions include Wally Hedrick’s socio-political “War Room” (2008), the Los Angeles Poverty Department’s “Skid Row History Museum,” John Altoon’s “Drawings 1962-68” (2008) and Barbara T Smith’s “Field Piece” (2008). We are fortunate to have seen our artists such as Judith Bernstein, Simone Forti, John Altoon, and Barbara T Smith achieve greater visibility and critical success, both in the US and internationally, since exhibiting their work at the Box. The Box’s programming creates a unique environment that encourages viewers to discuss the work they see. Events range from video and film screenings, panel discussions, open forum discussions, lectures and performances that are specific to the coinciding exhibition. In many cases these events create a casual social space where the viewer is welcomed in the artists’ investigative properties of process, matter, and procedure. The importance of such diverse programming lies in the assertion that what is important are not the answers given, but the questions asked. Most importantly, the Box remain committed to the idea that the responsibility of the gallery is that of curator, editor, collaborator, cultural critic, and at times artwork co-producer, in creating a dynamic system to present and reinterpret artwork through its exhibitionary platform.
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