18th Street Arts Center

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18th Street Arts Center
The courtyard between buildings at the 18th Street Arts Center
The courtyard between buildings at the 18th Street Arts Center
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Address1639 18th Street
LocationSanta Monica, California
Coordinates34°01′27″N 118°28′39″W / 34.024157°N 118.477424°W / 34.024157; -118.477424Coordinates: 34°01′27″N 118°28′39″W / 34.024157°N 118.477424°W / 34.024157; -118.477424
Opened1988
Website
https://18thstreet.org/

18th Street Arts Center is a nonprofit arts center in Santa Monica, California. It was founded in 1988 and is the longest running artist residency center in Southern California.[citation needed] The mission of 18th Street Arts Center is to "provoke public dialogue through contemporary art making" and its core values are centered on its belief that art making is an essential component of a just, vibrant and healthy society.[1][2] 18th Street Arts Center’s residency program hosts 50 or more American and international artists and curators a year.

History[]

18th Street Arts Center was founded by writer Linda Frye Burnham and Susanna Bixby Dakin, a visual artist and publisher of High Performance Magazine.[3] In 1988, Dakin purchased the former production studio of Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party and four other adjacent buildings in Santa Monica and launched the nonprofit. In 1998 Dakin sold the buildings to the nonprofit 18th Street Arts Center.

References[]

  1. ^ "18th Street Arts Center | Visiting Artist Residency Program". Alliance of Artists Communities. 2020.
  2. ^ "18th Street Arts Center". Res Artis. 2019-03-13. Retrieved 2021-01-09.
  3. ^ "Susanna Bixby Dakin 18th Street Campus". 18th Street Arts Center. Retrieved 2020-03-30.

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