Following the guidance of the LA County Department of Health and their reopening guidelines for museums and galleries, 18th Street Arts Center plans to reopen their exhibitions and galleries to visitors as of June 30, 2020. Hours of operation will…
Kate Johnson (1969-2020) Artist/Filmmaker/Publisher/Educator In residence, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA Assistant Professor of Digital Media, Otis College of Art & Design “I have always been deeply interested in ideas about perception and states of mind and have…
July 2, 2020: Due to a spike in coronavirus cases in many California counties, including LA, Governor Gavin Newsom has ordered all museums and galleries (along with other indoor venues) to close for at least the next three weeks. Therefore,…
In observance of Women’s History Month, Virginia Avenue Park, 18th Street Arts Center, and the Quinn Research Center are teaming up to celebrate the life and work of Thelma Terry, a community leader with a lasting legacy around teen recreation,…
Due to the Getty Fire - 18th Street Arts Center is closing our office and our staff is working remotely from home. We advise those of you who can stay away from Santa Monica - to do so. For those…
THE SOCIAL TERRITORIES OF A WARMING WORLD - Episode 7 Self-organised Advocacies for Spatial Justice Public Program and Podcast Series by The Winter Office featuring Arts of the Working Class (AWC) and writer and activist Fred Dewey Saturday, October 26,…
Despite the long hours of Danish sunlight this time of year, Jeannette Ehlers misses LA. She had been here a few times - her work was part of the show Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago at the Museum of Latin American Art…
18th Street Arts Center presents Commons Lab: Place and Public Life, a series of five new artist commissions anchored by live events, which will consider the roles that institutional architecture and cultural policy play in determining the social life and civic…
Rocio thought that she would become a doctor. The daughter of Mexican immigrants, she knew the sciences could be a solid career and pathway to success. Then she signed up for an anthropology class with the (appropriately named) Dr. Smiley, and…
It was 1976, and the slim figure perched inside the loudly sputtering dragster was wearing a pale yellow jumpsuit. She pulled up in front of the Dominguez Hills State College library and began to speak in a rapid-fire monologue. Beginning…