First Thursday! September 4, 2025
6-9pm
Preview Pressing Matters and experience the opening of “One Shy of a Dozen”, as well as The Dude Show
on the 2nd floor..
The Dude Show Opening Reception
“That rug really tied the room together.” We gave them rug samples donated to The Los Angeles Makery by Marc C Phillips rugs, and they went far beyond the call of duties. You have to see them. Creativity comes alive in the LAM Gallery. You can preview the show during DTLA Art Night on Thursday, 8/7 from 6-9pm, or come by for the opening Saturday, 8/9 from 6-9pm.
Good times.
DTLA Art Night
First Thursday is upon us yet again. We are warm and it’s going to be good to out during the evening seeing art. We have three shows for you to see. You can preview The Dude Show, which opens officially in our LAM Gallery, this Saturday. We also have two other shows that just opened you should check out. LELA International presents Expression of Peace, in our Main Floor Gallery and Founders Room, and in our SubTerra Gallery we have the photography show Artist/Proof, currated by Richard S. Chow, in collaboration with 3G Gallery Collective.
You can also check out the studios of working artists and see what they’re working on. Come see art!
LELA International Opening Ceremony
🕊️ Expression of Peace
🎨 A month-long art exhibition by LELA International Artists
📍 @ The Los Angeles Makery | 260 S Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
📅 August 3 – August 31, 2025
Join us in celebrating peace through art with this powerful and diverse exhibition featuring workshops, performances, and a tribute show.
✨ Opening Reception:
📅 August 3 | 🕒 3–5 PM
🎶 Featuring a live performance by Takeshi Kanemura
🎨 Workshops:
🔸 Clay Workshop with Kenta Takaki
📅 August 10 | 🕒 3–5 PM
🔸 Creative Collage Workshop with
Debra Dobkin, Aleka Corwin & Monica Marks
📅 August 17 | 🕒 3–5 PM
✨ Closing Reception:
📅 August 31 | 🕒 3–5 PM
🌹 Immediately following:
A Memorial Solo Show honoring
Michiko Smith-Cashman
🕔 5–7 PM
Come experience the healing power of art, community, and creative expression.
The Architecture of Perception
The Architecture of Perception
Julie O'Sullivan & Kristine Schomaker
Perception is how we transform the overwhelming chaos of existence into meaning. O'Sullivan and Schomaker process reality through completely different methods, but their work reveals a shared commitment to building structures from the raw materials of experience.
O'Sullivan paints the joy of Los Angeles—sirens bouncing off Little Tokyo buildings, ocean waves near her home, the beautiful cacophony that saved her from small-town Nebraska. Her canvases vibrate with urban frequencies, transforming environmental noise into visual celebration through a studio practice that receives the world's energy and gives it back as color and movement.
Schomaker's work emerges from internal archaeology. For over a decade, she has ritualistically cut up paintings, photographs, and pieces of her past selves—a meditation that intensified through cancer, aging, and existing in a larger body within a shame-based culture. Now in reconstruction mode, she builds wall sculptures from thousands of fragments, creating "metaphorical skins" that take up space aggressively and refuse the erasure society demands from marginalized bodies.
Together, they reveal perception as active construction rather than passive reception. O'Sullivan builds harmony from urban chaos while Schomaker builds new selves from destroyed histories. Both practices resist—O'Sullivan fights the numbing that city life can impose, Schomaker fights societal erasure—proving that our particular ways of processing reality matter enough to claim space and offer transformation as invitation and resistance.
The Glow Show Closing
Glow in the Dark is so much fun. It’s immersive and interactive. This show has been a blast. There will be another next year. Start planning. In the meantime, come in for one last look and to hang out with the artists. Festivities begin at 4 and last through 7. There will be cupcakes, limited supply.
The Voodoo Doll Show & The Glow Show!
In SubTerra you can experience The Glow Show. Lit by black light we’ve got both art and atmosphere to immerse yourself in. Dress appropriately. We want to see you glow too. And up in the main gallery will be The Voodoo Doll Show, giving us all a great way to vent and release any pent up frustrations due to the current administration and their shenanigans.
We look forward to seeing everyone!
First Thursday! Preview our New Shows!
It’s DTLA Art Night and we’ve got two shows to preview. The Voodoo Doll Show and The Glow Show. This will be nothing but fun! Come by and check us out!
Spring Invitational Closing
Sadly, it’s time for the 3rd Annual Spring Invitational to come down. As usual Cathy has curated a gorgeous show, with artists that are also friends. Come hang out and see the show one last time. YOu might have to take something home with you.
Adeola Davies-Aiyeloja Solo Show
In our SubTerra Gallery we are so pleased to have one of our resident members Adeola Davies-Aiyeloja’s solo show, Veils of Becoming Self. Come see her show and also check out our two other openings, Four Badass Women Artists on the main floor, and the 3rd Anuual Spring Invitational, on the second floor. 3-5pm.
Spring Invitational Opening
Once a year the Makery has the Spring Invitational where we choose some of our favorite artists for a springtime inspired show. This time each of our members are each inviting an artist of their choice. The theme is Finding Joy, which we all need now more than ever. Come see art. There are three openings on each of our floors, in each of our gallery spaces. Finding Joy takes places in our LAM Gallery. IN SubTerra we are featuring Adeola Davies-Aiyeloja. In our Main Floor gallery is Four Bad Ass Women Artists. May 4, 2025, 2-5pm.
Four Badass Women Artists
Four Badass Women Artists are just that and they include Barbara Nathanson, Barbara Tabachnick, Karol Blumenthal, and Fay Samimi. They’re showing in our Main Gallery on the ground level. Festivities begin at 2 through 4pm. You can also see art in our other gallery spaces with a solo show of Adeola Davies-Aiyeloja’s work in SubTerra, and the 3rd Annual Spring Invitational is in the LAM Gallery on the second floor. Come see art!
Reflection/Resilience Closing Reception with Jeff Boynton and Mona Jean Cedar
The Arroyo Arts Collective present the closing reception for Reflection/Resilience, with Poetry and Music by Jeff Boynton and Mona Jean Cedar. Sunday April 27, 2-3:30pm. See you there.
Why Zig When You Can Zag?
Why zig when you can zag? Free hands on workshop. Dive into the /art if Handmade Bookmaking with artist, Yvonne Jongeling. Presented by The Arroyo Arts Collective as part of Refection/Resilience.Saturday, April 19, 1-3pm. RSVP to YvonneJongeling@gmail.com.
Refection/Resilience Opening Reception
The Arroyo Arts Collective presents Reflection/Resilience opening reception. Entertainment by Bart Warburton - Solo Ukalele. Sunday, April 6, 2-3:30pm. See you there.
IE Takeover
Curated by Adeola Davies-Aiyeloja and Christine White, the IE Takeover
invited artists from the Inland Empire region to share their work at The
Los Angeles Makery. See for yourself a fresh view from another part of
SoCal.
Create Art with Recycled Materials
The Arroyo Arts Collective present Create Art with Recycled Materials in a workshop with artist, Aleka Corwin. Saturday, April 5, 2-3:30pm. Free with all materials supplied.
The Arroyo Arts Collective present Poetry Night
The Arroyo Arts Collective presents Poetry Night featuring Linda Kaye, Ed Burgess, S.A. Griffin, with Natalie Fratino on acoustic bass. First Thursday DTLA Art Night, April 3 6-9pm. Poetry begins at 7. See you there!! Also see a preview of the show, IE Takeover in the SubTerra Gallery.
LELA International Spring Awakening Closing Reception
Last chance to see the LELA International Artists show Spring Awakening. Come by between 2-4pm on Sunday March 30. You can also check Hold Dear, the Richard S Chow curated photography show in SubTerra.
Hold Dear Closing Reception
Last chance to see Hold Dear, the Richard S Chow curated photography show in SubTerra.. Come by between 2-5pm on Sunday March 30. You can also check the LELA International Artists show Spring Awakening.
Hold Dear Artist Talk
Join us for an artist talk for the show Hold Dear. Listen to the artists express themselves about their work. Sunday March 23, from 3-5pm. See you there!
LELA Internation presents Batik Class
LELA International presents a batik workshop led by renowned international artist Setsuko Hayashi. RSVP by March 15. Or come by and watch, and check out the art show by the artists of LELA International. 2-4pm on March 23rd. See you there.
Hold Dear Opening
Hold Dear is this year’s Makery hosted photography show curated by resident member Richard S. Chow. The show is in the SubTerra gallery at The Makery between 2-5pm. See you there!
First Thursday
Come by and see our two current shows, LELA International’s Spring Awakening show, and in SubTerra Hold Dear, a photography show curated by Richard S. Chow.
Playtime 3 Artist Talk
Come on down to hear what each artist has to say about their work. Aren’t you curious. I know I am. Saturday, February 15, from 2-5pm, we’ll go from floor to floor, to our various gallery spaces, The Main Gallery, SubTerra, and our newest space, LAM Gallery, and learn what motivates and inspires the artists in their creations. We’ll start in the Main Gallery at 2pm, SubTerra at 3pm, and LAM at 4pm. Come for it all. Maybe you might find something cool to buy. And there will be refreshments. See you there!
Playtime Opening
It’s Playtime 3! Every time we expand at The Makery, we celebrate with another Playtime show. Our newest addition is LAM Gallery, on our second floor. This is so exciting! Playtime will be in all three gallery spaces, the Main Gallery, SubTerra, And LAM. Come see the most fun art in Los Angeles. The show is up from February 1-28. The opening is February 2, from 2-5. You can see the show during First Thursday DTLA Art Night, February 6, from 6-9pm. There will be an artist talk on February 15, from 2-5pm, and pour closing is February 23, 2-5pm. See you there.
Opulent Mobility
Opulent Mobility is an international annual exhibit that asks artists
to re-imagine disability as opulent and powerful. It imagines a world
where disability is celebrated instead of denied, ignored, and feared.
These exhibits are curated by founder A. Laura Brody and disability arts
activist and photographer Anthony Tusler and include art and artworks
from across the country and around the globe.
Hosted at the Los Angeles Makery, 260 S. Los Angeles St. LA, CA 90012
December 5-29th, 2024 and online at www.opulentmobility.com. Open
Saturday-Sunday 12-5 PM, weekdays by appointment; call (213) 392-2611.
The artists will be Amabelle Aguiluz, Megan Bent, April Bermudez, Rora
Blue, Rebecca Bond, Becca Cerra, Kat Chudy, Yaron Dotan, Susan Else,
Patricia Fortlage, Dellis Frank, Kellie Gillespie, Bronte Grimm, Ash
Hagerstrand, Bailey Hammond, Bev Hickson-Snook, Nicola Hopkins, Sandy
Huse, David Isakson, Suzann Kundi Taylor, Heidi Latsky, Ellen Mansfield,
Monica Marks, Joy Murray, Kristen Olinger, Julie O'Sullivan, Lia Pas,
Awilda Pasco-Stardust, Tom and Linda Peters, Annelies Slabbynck, Emily
Tironi, Lisa Tomczeszyn, Rachel Ungerer, and Kemi Yemi-Ese.
Holiday Pop Up, Bake Sale, & Fun Raiser
It’s that time of year and we’re having a shindig! There will be baked goods for sale, as well as handmade ornaments, gifts $100 and under, and a registry to help contribute to The Makery’s newest growth spurt. Yes, we’re growing yet again. The 2nd floor is our newest level up. Check it out. Get a tour. Live the dream!