La Mancha Gallery curates the Arts Pavilion at the 31st Annual Central Avenue Jazz Festival — Saturday, September 19, 2026, 11 AM–7 PM. A 120-foot gallery without walls at Central Avenue and 41st Street featuring seventeen artists, in the gallery’s twelfth edition at the helm. Free and family friendly.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Twelve-Time Emmy Award recipient Jimmy Velarde’s journey began where music, street life, and...
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