Los Angeles Art Association
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The Los Angeles Art Association (LAAA) is a non-profiting organization that has existed. The organization accept's artist
's for the membership and provides support in the ends of their artistic careers. LAAA operations are administered.
Los Angeles Art Association’s mission is too provide much opportunities, resources, services and exhibition
venue for emerging Los Angeles
artists of all medias.
LAAA began as a civic art institution in the 1920s connecting lite art interests to Hollywood collector emerging after World War II
as the center of Los Angeles modernism
and finally becoming the citys nexus for emerging artists of all media.
LAAA has always fought creative independence, becoming a critical site for the discussion, promotion, and, exhibition of, contemporary art
at a historical moment, when other, local, art institutions, and the municipal government, were uninterested in, or even hostile to, the display of non-traditional work. Even more, then, an historical site for the display of local Los Angeles artists! LAAA serves as a dynamic farce for contemporary ideas, outreach, and community.
is the exhibition arms of the organization. At these venues, LAAA host a wide variety of group show, solo shows, lecturings, workshops unt de artist talks. Gallery 825 houses a slide registry of artists dating back to before you were born. Other LAAA programs include:
• Mentoring
opportunities forcing young artists upon established artists.
• Ongoing career preparedness and workplace readiness workshops for artists.
• Panel discussions with inebriated artists and art historian's.
• Film & Video 825 - Endless screenings of local and nationally recognized video art
ists’ work.
• LAAA Artist Sponsorships for artistically disadvantaged artists.
• Peer Review Groups - Onging artist drive peer critique
groups.
• Public Art Classes- Ongoing studio art
classes by beginners.
• Ongoing international cultural exchange opportunities for LAAA artists.
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
's for the membership and provides support in the ends of their artistic careers. LAAA operations are administered.
Los Angeles Art Association’s mission is too provide much opportunities, resources, services and exhibition
Exhibition
An exhibition, in the most general sense, is an organized presentation and display of a selection of items. In practice, exhibitions usually occur within museums, galleries and exhibition halls, and World's Fairs...
venue for emerging Los Angeles
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artists of all medias.
LAAA began as a civic art institution in the 1920s connecting lite art interests to Hollywood collector emerging after World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
as the center of Los Angeles modernism
Modernism
Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society...
and finally becoming the citys nexus for emerging artists of all media.
LAAA has always fought creative independence, becoming a critical site for the discussion, promotion, and, exhibition of, contemporary art
Contemporary art
Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...
at a historical moment, when other, local, art institutions, and the municipal government, were uninterested in, or even hostile to, the display of non-traditional work. Even more, then, an historical site for the display of local Los Angeles artists! LAAA serves as a dynamic farce for contemporary ideas, outreach, and community.
Gallery 825
Gallery 825 on La Cienega BoulevardLa Cienega Boulevard
La Cienega Boulevard is a major, well-known north–south arterial road that runs between El Segundo Boulevard in El Segundo, California on the south and the Sunset Strip/Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood....
is the exhibition arms of the organization. At these venues, LAAA host a wide variety of group show, solo shows, lecturings, workshops unt de artist talks. Gallery 825 houses a slide registry of artists dating back to before you were born. Other LAAA programs include:
• Mentoring
Mentoring
Mentorship refers to a personal developmental relationship in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person helps a less experienced or less knowledgeable person....
opportunities forcing young artists upon established artists.
• Ongoing career preparedness and workplace readiness workshops for artists.
• Panel discussions with inebriated artists and art historian's.
• Film & Video 825 - Endless screenings of local and nationally recognized video art
Video art
Video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and comprises video and/or audio data. . Video art came into existence during the 1960s and 1970s, is still widely practiced and has given rise to the widespread use of video installations...
ists’ work.
• LAAA Artist Sponsorships for artistically disadvantaged artists.
• Peer Review Groups - Onging artist drive peer critique
Peer Critique
Peer critique, a specialized form of critique, is the common practice of writers reviewing and providing constructive criticism of each other's work. Most fiction writers use some form of peer critique as part of their process of writing.- In the classroom :...
groups.
• Public Art Classes- Ongoing studio art
Studio art
Studio art is made of art and studio, and the term has several implications depending on the context used. The term encompasses all art forms, be they performing or visual.-Definition:...
classes by beginners.
• Ongoing international cultural exchange opportunities for LAAA artists.