A Collection of Historic Venues Will Showcase Local Artists on Annual Tour
West Adams Heritage Association Presents Its Annual Spring Historic Homes
& Architecture Tour with A Twist: Art!
Saturday, June 5, 2010
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Last ticket sold at 1 p.m.)
LOS ANGELES, CA – Historic West Adams is a new hotbed for fine art, with a growing number of established and emerging artists who live and/or work in the community. Now, the public is invited to visit a collection of West Adams’ most interesting historic places, showcasing works by some of West Adams’ most talented contemporary artists.
Art in Historic Places: West Adams’ Creative Canvas tour opens the doors to more than a dozen architecturally diverse historic venues throughout West Adams, presented by West Adams Heritage Association (WAHA). Visit Victorian, Craftsman, and Spanish homes and artists’ studios, a 1920s French Norman Revival apartment, an Adams Boulevard mansion, and the Union Theater, a WWI-era movie theater now home to the Velaslavasay Panorama.
A Collection of Historic Venues Will Showcase Local Artists on Annual Tour
West Adams Heritage Association Presents Its Annual Spring Historic Homes
The art on tour will be equally eclectic, pairing historical architecture with bold, cutting-edge works and more traditional contemporary art alike, from landscapes to portraits, to abstract paintings, to sculpture, photography and ceramics.
Among the participating artists are Aaron Morse, whose work has been exhibited at the Hammer Museum and noted local gallery Acme; Marina Moevs, whose paintings have been on view at the Autry; internationally famed ceramicist Mas Ojima; artist-curator-gallery director Steve Irvin; Max Miceli, who has exhibited at such galleries as Klasky Csupo and La Luz De Jesus Gallery and is currently represented at Milo Gallery; abstract painter Jenny Hager, whose work is included in the Riverside Museum of Art Permanent Collection; and photographer-sculptor Taidgh O’Neill, who recently launched the NTBA alternative artist space in West Adams.
Buy your ticket here online now, $30.