18TH STREET ARTS COMPLEX
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Mission Statement
18th Street Arts Center provokes public dialog through contemporary art making. We believe art making is an essential component of a vibrant, just and healthy society, that creative action is a vital part of individual wellbeing, and humanity benefits when artists are valued.
About This Cause
18th Street Arts Center is Southern California’s premier artist residency program. We offer fully supported creative time and space in our live/work studios to contemporary artists, and present free, engaging public programs and exhibitions across our one-acre campus. We facilitate community activation, critical dialogue, and artistic production. Founded in 1988, 18SAC nurtures and promotes the work of approximately 100 contemporary artists annually, from around the globe, all disciplines, at various career stages. Our dynamic, multi-tiered residency programs provide artists essential creative time and space for innovation, collaboration, and growth. Annually it provides creative time and space to 25+ visiting artists, 18+ local artists, and commissions 4 to 8 LA- based artists in the creation of new work presented in our exhibition program. Through our bi-annual open studio art festival, publications, events and performances, we present the work of another estimated 50 guest artists a year. To date 18SAC has provided residencies to more than 550 visiting artists from 60 countries and to over 200 local/LA artists. Thousands of artists have been featured in our exhibitions, public programs, and publications. The hallmark of 18th Street Arts Center is its diversity. Its roots are founded in the feminist, civil, and gay rights movements. Artists Linda Frye Burnham and Susanna Bixby Dakin launched 18th Street Arts Center in 1988, as an experimental, physical space to support artists exploring the intersections of art and society, cultures, genders, and disciplines. It grew out of the international magazine "High Performance” Burnham founded and Dakin published from 1978-1998 which was one of the very first publications in the world dedicated to critical discourse on performance art. It covered the work of artists pioneering the fields of performance and social practice art – young artists like Paul McCarthy, Rachel Rosenthal, Suzanne Lacy, ASCO, John Malpede, and Guillermo Gomez-Peña.