We are pleased to announce the expansion of our supportive artist services to a second campus at the Santa Monica Airport. As the newly appointed Arts Program Managers for the City of Santa Monica’s hangar, on July 1, 2019 we…
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…
SANTA MONICA, CA -- On December 18, 2018, the Santa Monica City Council voted to award 18th Street Arts Center the management contract for the artist studio program at the city airport for the next five years. After an intensive…
18th Street Arts Center is pleased once again to partner with the beautifully filmed PBS documentary series Articulate as it embarks on Season Three. This Emmy-award winning series investigates how creative thinkers shape our cultural and society, and this kind…
Santa Monica, CA - 18th Street Arts Center, Southern California’s largest artist residency program, is thrilled to announce that 5 of its recent commissioned Artist Lab artists have been included in the 2018 Made in L.A. biennial exhibition at the…
18th Street Arts Center is proud to be a media partner for the PBS show Articulate with Jim Cotter, which takes an in-depth look at arts and culture globally, but with a unique American viewpoint. Hosted by veteran journalist Jim…
By Sue Bell Yank and Vasundhara Mathur New Delhi-based artist Mithu Sen was a visiting artist in residence at 18th Street Arts Center from May 1 - June 29, 2017. Her time in Los Angeles began with a lost passport…