After winning a $5,000 grant from GOOD Maker and Tree People, Citizen Forester Gabrielle Newmark embarked on a 10 month journey with her Arts District Green Team to make today's event a reality. Thanks to all our sponsors who helped make this day such an...
Read MoreAfter winning a $5,000 grant from GOOD Maker and Tree People, Citizen Forester Gabrielle Newmark embarked on a 10 month journey with her Arts District Green Team to make today's event a reality. Thanks to all our sponsors who helped make this day such an...
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STEPHEN SEEMAYER EXHIBIT INSPIRED BY OCCUPY L.A. 63 New Artworks Evoke the Struggle to Empower the 99% April 25-May 26, 2013/District Gallery, 740 E. 3rd St., L.A. 90013 Artist Stephen Seemayer will exhibit new works inspired by the tumultuous two months of Occupy L.A.,...
Read MoreThis Wednesday, April 17th, at 6:30pm, there will be a meeting to address community concerns over the bar being proposed on Traction by developer Cedd Moses. This is an important opportunity for the neighborhood to voice it's support or opposition to the new business. We...
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Artwork, photos and ephemera documenting the anti-establishment art scene in the 80’s in downtown LA, focusing on the Art Dock, the Atomic Cafe, the American Hotel and the faces and walls of the Arts District, featuring work by Carlton Davis, Ed Glendinning, Irving Greines and Stephen Seemayer.
There was a an explosion of creative activity in downtown Los Angeles in the 70’s and 80’s when hundreds of artists colonized the empty warehouses and abandoned factory spaces in the eastern section of the urban center, extending into the area by the LA River now known as the Arts District. Street installations, performance art and innovative exhibitions in adapted spaces enlivened the blighted streets and paved the way (regrettably, some might say) for the renaissance of downtown that continues to this day. Artists such as Skip Arnold, Bob & Bob, John Baldessari, George Herms, Paul McCarthy, Llyn Foulkes (to name just a few) benefited from the vigor and vitality of a pioneering community of artists who eschewed traditional gallery venues for non-traditional exhibition space, organized guerilla-style in warehouse spaces, on the street and in your face. Jonathan Jerald
For more than 20 years, LARABA has been a dynamic nonprofit organization devoted to the advocacy of the artists, businesses, and community of the Los Angeles Downtown Arts District.
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