18th Street Arts Center is closed due to fire
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 — Self-organised Advocacies for Spatial Justice
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,…
We are expanding to the Santa Monica Airport!
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…
It empowered her to be in LA
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’s Commons Lab kicks off in July 2019
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…
She thought she would become a doctor
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…
She was Cinderella on a dragster
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…
18TH STREET ARTS CENTER AWARDED NEW MANAGEMENT OF SANTA MONICA AIRPORT STUDIOS
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…
Articulate Returns for a Thoughtful, Creative Season Three
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…
Five 18th Street Arts Center Artists Included in Hammer Museum’s 2018 Made in L.A.
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…