The gallery’s global learning programs are centered around three pillars: community, academic, and career access. In Downtown Los Angeles, learning activities of all kinds have engaged nearly 100,000 youth and adults since opening. The gallery’s long-term partnership with Cal State LA through the shared project Community Impact Media has supported diversity in filmmaking, resulting in the creation of over 20 documentaries on local nonprofits and countless networking and professional opportunities for students. In 2022 alone, the LA gallery partnered with seven nonprofits, including PILAglobal, Las Fotos Project, and The Big Draw Festival, to foster career-development workshops for young creatives and art-making activities for all age groups providing access to our exhibitions and artists. Dive deeper into the gallery’s global learning program.

The Downtown gallery has hosted over a thousand public programs, including over 50 performances of dance, theater and music, and has fostered collaborations between artists and companies revered both locally and around the world, including Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Trisha Brown Dance Company and Saint Heron. In 2022, on the occasion of our 30th anniversary, The Performance Project was conceived – a dedicated space and program with future performances by the House of AWT; GABE: a collective project by artists EJ Hill, Morgan Bassichis, DonChristian Jones and [jef]Frey Michael Austin; and from the mind of Jeremy O. Harris.

Publishing has been a cornerstone of the gallery’s mission since its founding and has grown to become a leading imprint for unique, world class books. The Downtown gallery’s Book & Printed Matter Lab, which explores the intersection between books and artists, has included significant presentations dedicated to Richard Jackson, organized by the late Dagny Corcoran, as well as August Sander, created in partnership with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and curated by Stephanie Barron, senior curator and head of modern art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). More recently, the Lab featured ‘Marcel Duchamp’ which illuminated the  journey to resurrect the critically acclaimed first monograph and catalogue raisonné of legendary artist. In 2019, the gallery partnered  with Los Angeles Review of Books to present the inaugural edition of LITLIT: The Little Literary Fair, a two-day event celebrating West Coast publishers.