Skira Martinez turns salvaged piano keys, speakers and tape decks into twelve works about Black music in The Music Stayed; Past, Present & Future Frequencies at the Historic Dunbar Hotel. Opens Sunday, Oct 25 with live jazz. Through Jan 30.
South Central artist Skira Martinez turns salvaged piano keys, speakers and tape decks into twelve works on sustainability and Black music. Opening day with live jazz at the Historic Dunbar Hotel, Sun Nov 1, 2:30–4:30 PM. Free.
Kenneth Gatewood paints in watercolor, a medium that hides nothing. Three movements — music, children, legacy — hang at The Dunbar Aug 8–Sep 30, timed to the Central Ave Jazz Festival, where he’s the Arts Pavilion’s featured artist Sept 19.
And for the twelfth edition under its stewardship, dating back to 2014, La Mancha Gallery returns to curate the festival’s Arts Pavilion — the visual heartbeat of the day, housed in a 120-foot tent between Central Avenue and 41st Street, steps from the Dunbar itself.
Rent for permanent space in Los Angeles is a tax on ambition, and that tax falls heaviest on those artists and audiences I most want in the room together. So I took my gallery off its foundation. This is what we call the Alternative Venue Exhibition Model.
Before she was an award-winning artist. Before she was a Senior Art Director at The WB/CW and E! Television. Before any of it — Riea Owens was a seven-year-old in Pasadena dragging visitors into the piano room. Forty-plus years later, she is still dragging people in.
You enter into the work of the elder. You encounter the bridge generation. You arrive at the inheritors — the women who are actively tending the flame right now. By the end of the room, you understand: this was never one woman’s fire. It was always a relay.
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There are places in a city that hold memory in their walls — not as nostalgia, but as living evidence of what a community has survived, built, and refused to let go. The Dunbar Hotel on South Central Avenue is one of those places.
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