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LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, also called LA Plaza is a Mexican-American museum and cultural center in Los Angeles, California, USA that opened in April 2011.The museum is near Olvera Street in the Los Angeles Plaza Historic District, also called El Pueblo. It is next to La Iglesia de Nuestra Señora Reina de los Angeles, also called La Placita or Plaza Church.The museum contains interactive exhibits designed by experience design expert Tali Krakowsky. Its president is Gustavo Herrera. It is run by the Los Angeles County, along with Los Angeles County Museum of Art and others.HistoryConstructionCounty Supervisor Gloria Molina was called "one of the project's earliest supporters and, by all accounts, the person most responsible for bringing it to fruition" by the Los Angeles Times. Part of the cost was funded by Molina's county discretionary spending funds. The center is on, with a price tag of $54 million and an operating budget of $850,000. It was designed by Chu+Gooding Architects.The rehabilitation of the shell and core of the historic Plaza House and Vickrey-Brunswig Building was completed in December 2009. The LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes Foundation completed tenant improvements to the two buildings and relocated their administrative offices to the fifth floor of the Vickrey-Brunswig Building in October 2010.
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.
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.
Located at El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument, is the premier venue for the expression of traditional and contemporary art and culture from the Mexican, and Mexican American perspective.
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.
The Chado Tea Room is the tea shop that has revolutionized tea drinking in the Los Angeles area. With one of the largest selection of Specialty Teas and exclusive tea accessories, Chado, whether in the shop or online, is a tea lover's' paradise. Chado has over 400 different varieties of tea ranging from the classics to specialty to the very hard to find. Our teas are sourced from all around the world. A tranquil respite from the hectic pace of downtown, we are the perfect location for a quick refreshment or full afternoon spent with tea, sandwiches, scones, and sweets. Our indoor and patio is the perfect venue for a casual outting or special event/tea party. We look forward to serving you, personally, at the Chado Tea Room.
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