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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][1][2] 18th Street Arts Center’s residency program hosts 60 or more American and international artists and curators a year.
 The courtyard between buildings at the 18th Street Arts Center | |
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| Address | 1639 18th Street |
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| Location | Santa Monica, California |
| Coordinates | 34°01′27″N 118°28′39″W / 34.024157°N 118.477424°W |
| Opened | 1988 |
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| https://18thstreet.org/ | |
History
edit18th 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
edit- ^ "18th Street Arts Center | Visiting Artist Residency Program". Alliance of Artists Communities. 2020. Archived from the original on 2014-07-28.
- ^ "18th Street Arts Center". Res Artis. 2019-03-13. Retrieved 2021-01-09.
- ^ "Susanna Bixby Dakin 18th Street Campus". 18th Street Arts Center. Retrieved 2020-03-30.