ANNA BROOME Talks About A Fundraising Gala
By Anna C. Broome
Art Share LA, a community art center located in Arts District Little Tokyo has been the home and gallery of emerging artists since 1997. Cheyanne Sauter, The Center’s Director of Operations, sees Art Share LA as a place for emerging artists to find their voices, styles, concepts without judgement or discrimination. Sauter’s tagline for the community center is “Creation not curation”, which describes perfectly Art Share’s devotion to the early stages of development for artists ranging from musicians to painters, sculptors to writers, dramatists to dancers.
As in the case of any quality non-profit centers, Art Share LA depends largely on donations and contributions to keep it thriving and evolving.
After almost two years of bringing Art Share LA above par financially, Cheyanne Sauter now looks to the future for Art Share LA.as a creative art center with global reach. The center houses artists and community residents with more than 90% of renters being artists. It is the lone wolf resident destination for an every growing and rent increasing district. This shows the importance of a place like Art Share LA that not only offers a gallery, theatre, work spaces, classrooms and classes accessible financially for almost anyone wanting to extend or learn art forms but also a residence in the very location where artists create and thrive off one another.
With nearly ten volunteers of all ages and artists currently in residence specializing in pottery and painting, Art Share is growing and improving as are her needs.
Thursday, May 14th 2015 Art Share L.A. will host a cocktail reception gala event to raise money to fund their mission of supporting emerging artists. Honoree Kent Twitchell is providing 8 images from his 40-year career and 2 never-before-seen images to be displayed on a network of billboards to create a public art exhibition throughout Los Angeles provided by Clear Channel Outdoor.
Since the week of April 20, 2015, images of Kent Twitchell’s large-scale murals were installed on billboards throughout Los Angeles. These billboards will generate 30 million impressions during the month they are installed, giving Kent Twitchell’s work a resurgence as well as connecting community and art enthusiasts to Art Share LA, a long time supporter of artists Los Angeles based as well as from around the world.
Kent Twitchell’s mural billboard locations include: La Cienega Blvd at Jefferson Blvd, La Cienega Blvd at Horner Street, Venice Blvd at Motor Avenue, Pico Blvd at Cotner Blvd, Wilshire Blvd at Western Avenue and la Cienega Blvd at Airdrome Street.
The event is from 6 to 10 PM, May 14th at Art Share LA located at 801 East 4th Place, downtown Los Angeles, CA 90013. For more information, contact Cheyanne Sauter at (310) 926-6657 or at [email protected]
Art Share L.A.’s mission is to support artists by providing a creative environment to reside, develop, perform and exhibit. Art Share inspires artists and provides connection to the community for shared benefit.
To check out the ongoing exhibitions and events at Art Share L.A., visit http://artsharela.org.
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Honey on the road to San Francisco with some of the Spanish explorers
NOTES FROM ABOVE GROUND
By Honey van Blossom
(Honey is a Belgian Marxist former strip-tease artiste)
"Cities of the Golden Gate," Raymond Dabb Yelland, 1893. Most illustrations can be enlarged by clicking on them.
Prologue to the story of the Spanish exploration and settlement of California
Seasonal migrations of animals now extinct in California probably created the roads the native people used before the Spanish land exploration of California. “The heyday of giant mammals in North America was the middle and late Pleistocene, an epoch that started 2.6 million years ago and ended 11,700 years ago, around the time the Earth was thawing out from the Ice Age. The gigantic beasts, which migrated from Asia across a now-vanished land bridge called Beringia, are known as Rancholabrean megafauna, after the famous La Brea tar pits in downtown Los Angeles — the graveyard of thousands of saber-toothed tigers, giant bison and other extinct animals.”[1]
The seasonal migrations of the large mammals may have created the substantial roads used by the indigenous people after their arrival.[2]
Paul S. Martin and Richard G. Klein argue that Paleoindian over-hunting led to the extinction of the megafauna.[3] Others argue that climate change was responsible for mammoth and mastodon extinctions. As the last major glaciation ended around 12,000 years ago, climate warmed too quickly for the megafauna to adapt.
