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Gallery Hours
Wednesday through Sunday
Noon to 5 p.m.
Gallery Address and Main Office
LA Artcore Union Center for the Arts
120 Judge John Aiso Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(All correspondence should be sent to this address)
(213) 617-3274 Voice/Messages
(213) 617-0303 Fax
info@laartcore.org
LA Artcore’s headquarters and main gallery are located at the Union Center for the Arts, in Little Tokyo, a short walk from the entrance to the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA): Geffen Museum and the Japanese American National Museum.
The Union Center for the Arts anchors the northwestern end of the Little Tokyo Historic District. It was formerly Union Church, the combined home of three Japanese American congregations, was completed in 1923. With the onset of World War II, it was in front of this building that residents of the district joined the residents of Terminal Island, whose community had been razed 48 hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Residents lined up with a single suitcase allowance awaiting transportation to join 10,000 people sent to the War Relocation Center in Manzanar in 1942. Most of those transported to the internment camps lost all of their property, and were unable to return to living in their old community after the war, scattering the population throughout the city.
During the war the building was used as a community center for African Americans arriving from the deep south in search of work in wartime industry as part of the 'Great Migration'. The neighborhood had some of the only housing in the city that did not have restrictive housing covenants based on color, and quickly became highly populated. Three years into the war, the neighborhood was renamed Bronzeville, and was home to crowded conditions and 'breakfast clubs' - jazz clubs that were known to stay open until dawn. In 1943, a part of the 'Zoot Suit Riots' spread into the area. At the close of 1945 the Japanese Americans gradually began re-establishing a community center, where LIttle Tokyo remains a very diverse part of central Los Angeles.
The building located on Judge John Aiso Street was damaged during the 1994 Northridge earthquake, leaving it unusable. The Little Tokyo Service Center Community Development Corporation completed a multi-million dollar renovation of the building in 1998 to house three arts organizations - the East West Players, Visual Communications and LA Artcore, and is a successful example of adaptive reuse.
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Gallery Hours
Thursday through Sunday
Noon to 4 p.m.
Wednesday
By appointment only.
Gallery Address
650 A South Avenue 21
Los Angeles, CA 90031
(323) 276-9320
info@laartcore.org
Parking is free.
LA Artcore Brewery Annex is located within one of the largest artists' colonies in the United States, the Brewery Arts Complex (or Colony), now known as the Brewery Lofts. It is easily accessed off the Golden State I-5 Freeway. Take the Main Street exit, then continue across main street, passing through two gates and straight to the end.
The Brewery Arts Complex is home to hundreds of artist studios and creative spaces, and was at one time the largest art colony in the country. It hosts two annual Brewery Art Walks where residents have the opportunity to share their studio practices with the public. LA Artcore was for a time centered here, before relocating its office to a second exhibit space at Union Center for the Arts.
We're at the foot of a historic building that in the 1920's housed the Edison Electric Company's Los Angeles #3 Steam Plant. Connected to this building, an epic display of the bygone traditional bricklaying trade, is the famous smokestack towering near the crossroads of the Golden State (5) and Santa Monica (10) freeways. The tower is a piece of local legend, an old Los Angeles landmark which for decades read with the cheery and simple word "BINGO". The smokestack now reads The Brewery (the letter "B" is still original). Our door is set at the very center of the larger building face shown above, on the ground floor.
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