Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery is a facility of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. Founded in 1952, its mission is to promote, interpret, and present to the art of emerging, mid career, and established artists from culturally diverse Southern California. The Gallery showcases art from other parts of the world that is of relevance to the people of the City of Los Angeles. Its 10,000 square foot venue offers a dramatic exhibition space for large thematic group exhibitions that represent the current endeavors of area artists as well as exhibitions of work by individuals who have made a significant contribution to art in Los Angeles in particular and Southern California at large. The curatorial focus of the Gallery includes painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, video, sound, electronic, performance, and installation works. Once a year the Gallery serves as the host venue for the DCA’s City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Individual Artist Fellowships exhibitions, featuring the work of the City’s best mid career artists.
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Barnsdall Gallery Theatre
The Barnsdall Gallery Theatre (BGT) is owned and operated by the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affair’s Community Arts Division as a low-priced rental house for live theatre, dance, music, spoken word, lecture, film and special event presentations. The BGT is located at 4800 Hollywood Boulevard, atop Olive Hill in Hollywood in the Barnsdall Art Park complex. The 11-acre park is also home to the Municipal Art Gallery, a Junior Arts Center and the Hollyhock House designed by the renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
The BGT’s goal is to encourage community and professional producers to present artistic and diverse cultural events at the lowest possible admission price to maximize attendance and audience development.
The BGT is a 299-seat proscenium stage with a basic lighting and sound package, as well as a HD ready digital projector, a built in 16mm film, slide and video projector. Artists of all disciplines are encouraged to request an Application For Use for their particular event. A determination of events will be based on the availability of dates. Fees for usage are very reasonable. Demand for the theatre is high, so please apply well in advance (minimum 90 days in advance) of your desired date(s).
Additionally, the Barnsdall Art Park campus is available for rental to community-oriented festivals or special events and filming.
» Tickets for events at the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre
The Junior Arts Center
Constructed in 1967 through the cooperative efforts of the City of Los Angeles and Junior League, the Junior Arts Center provides and supports quality art programs that educate children and enrich the community through the celebration of art. For more than three decades, Barnsdall Arts/FOJAC has been committed to providing outstanding, affordable arts education programs to young people both on site at Barnsdall Art Park and in extensive outreach. With your help, we continue to develop and administer an impressive array of core programs, distinguished by excellence, imagination and rigor. We currently reach over 8,000 children annually with our art programs.
Some of the programs offered include: Barnsdall Arts Sunday, Artist in Residence Program, Ragan Art Academy, Cotsen Artist Fellowship, Project Silver Lining, Griffith Park Grows Art
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Shakespeare in the Park
Independent Shakespeare Company was founded in 1998 by a group of actors who shared a passion for classical works. Intent on rendering vivid productions of Shakespeare’s plays, our focus was stripping back the conventions of contemporary theater and placing attention onto the spoken word.
In 2003 we partnered with the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles to produce Free Shakespeare in Barnsdall Park. Our first performance in Barnsdall Park in 2003 was attended by 14 people and a dog. Since that time we have grown steadily. Last summer’s Free Shakespeare in Barnsdall Park was attended by more than 7,250 patrons over just eight weeks.
