First Thursday!
Preview Opulent Mobility
& check out
The Glass Show
December 4 • 6-9pm
Ornament Make and Take!
First Thursday DTLA Art Night
DTLA First Thursday Art Night at the Los Angeles Makery
📍 December 4th • 5–9pm
Join us for an exciting evening as we celebrate a soft opening of “Opulent Mobility” and kick off our Holiday Gift Market, where every artwork is under $100 — perfect for thoughtful, artist-made holiday gifts.
✨ Explore three floors of art
✨ Meet local creators
✨ Shop affordable handmade work
✨ Enjoy a festive, creative night in DTLA
Come see what we’re building at the Los Angeles Makery — community, craft, and inspiration.
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Opulent Mobility
✨ Opening This Week at the Los Angeles Makery ✨
We are honored to host the 10th Annual Opulent Mobility Exhibition, celebrating disabled artists and disability arts supporters from around the world.
Join us as we reimagine disability as opulent, powerful, and deeply creative.
📍 Los Angeles Makery
260 S. Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Exhibition Dates
🗓 December 4–28, 2025
🕐 Sundays: 1–4 PM
🕐 Tues–Sat: 12–5 PM by appointment
📞 Call 213-392-2611 to schedule a visit
Special Events
✨ Dec 4, 6–9 PM — Exhibit Preview
✨ Dec 7, 1–4 PM — Opening Reception
• Live music by Tom Peters
• Interactive “skin writing” performance by Teresa Bernadette
📅 Dec 14 — Disability Drawing Club w/ Renée Reizman (11 AM–12:30 PM)
📅 Dec 21 — Masks Required Day (1–4 PM)
📅 Dec 28 — Hybrid Artist Talk (1–2 PM), gallery open until 4 PM
Featuring 31 Artists
April Bermudez, Teresa Bernadette, Ashley Bravin, A. Laura Brody, Kat Chudy, Sky Dai, Adeola Davies-Aiyeloja, Susan Else, Liane Enkelis, Dellis Frank, Ash Hagerstrand, Bailey Ryan Hammond, Josephine “Joey” Hernandez, David Isakson, Kellianne Jordan, KYRIANNA, Heidi Latsky Dance, Ellen Mansfield, Monica Marks, Dennis Miller, Joy Murray, Alexis Neumann, Kristen Olinger, Marina Otchuda Say Gynt, Tom & Linda Peters, Priya Ray, Lee Rosen, Abigail Stockinger, Emily Tironi, Kacy Treadway.
Accessibility
📝 Large-print and QR-coded artwork descriptions
🤟 ASL interpretation for the Dec 28 online artist talk
♿ Fully wheelchair accessible
💬 Contact us 5 business days in advance for parking/access needs — we’re here to help.
A huge thank you to Numotion Foundation for their generous support.
“The Glass Show” Closing Event
✨ Closing Event — The First Annual GLASS SHOW ✨
Join us this Sunday, December 7th, from 1–4 PM as we celebrate the final day of our inaugural Glass Show at The Los Angeles Makery/LAM Gallery.
This exhibition has showcased the incredible range, innovation, and craft of contemporary glass artists. Come experience the work one last time, connect with the artists, and be part of closing out our very first annual show in this series.
📍 The Los Angeles Makery / LAM Gallery
260 S Los Angeles Street • Little Tokyo
10th Anniversary Opening for Opulent Mobility
✨ OPENING DAY ✨
We’re thrilled to open Opulent Mobility in the Main Gallery of the Los Angeles Makery — celebrating disability art, culture, and imagination.
Join us for an unforgettable afternoon of artwork, performance, and community.
🗓 Opening Reception
December 7, 2025
⏰ 1–4 PM
🎶 Live music by Tom Peters
✍🏽 Interactive skin-writing performance by Teresa Bernadette
Experience powerful works from 31 artists reimagining disability as opulent, visionary, and deeply creative.
📍 Los Angeles Makery — Main Gallery
260 S. Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Opulent Mobility returns for its 10th year under the curation of A. Laura Brody and disability arts pioneer Anthony Tusler.
This year’s exhibition continues the mission of celebrating disabled artists and sharing stories that shift perspectives and spark connection.
Disability Drawing Club
✏️ Disability Drawing Club at the Los Angeles Makery ✏️
Join us during Opulent Mobility for a warm, creative, and accessible drawing session led by the incredible Renée Reizman!
🗓 December 14, 2025
⏰ 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM — Disability Drawing Club
🖼 12:00 – 6:00 PM — Gallery open for Opulent Mobility
Whether you’re a seasoned artist or exploring drawing for the first time, this space welcomes all abilities and creative expressions. Come make art, connect, and enjoy the exhibition!
📍 Los Angeles Makery
260 S. Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
🎄✨ Holiday Party + Open House at the Los Angeles Makery! ✨🎄
🎄✨ Holiday Party + Open House at the Los Angeles Makery! ✨🎄
Join us on December 14th from 2–5 PM for our festive annual Holiday Party & Open House in the Main Gallery!
While you’re here, don’t miss our Holiday Market in SubTerra, featuring unique, handmade gifts — all under $100. Perfect for last-minute shopping, supporting local artists, and finding something truly special.
Enjoy art, community, creativity, and some holiday cheer across all three floors of the Makery. 🎁❤️
📍 Los Angeles Makery
260 S. Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
⏰ December 14, 2025 | 2–5 PM
Double Trouble Closing
It’s your last chance to see Double Trouble, the fabulous show featuring the neon art of Michael Flechtner and Linda Sue Price. It’s in SubTerra which is the perfect spot for some cool neon. 2-5pm. See you there. You can also check out The Glass Show in the LAM Gallery, upstairs.
“When the Canvas Speaks Louder” Closing Event
✨ Closing Reception — When The Canvas Speaks Louder ✨
Join us this Sunday, November 23rd from 2–5 PM as we wrap up an incredible month of art, community, and creative expression at The Los Angeles Makery.
This exhibition, curated by Susan Karhroody, brought together a powerful group of artists whose voices shine through every canvas. Come celebrate their work one last time, connect with the art community, and experience the energy that has filled our space all month long.
📍 The Los Angeles Makery
260 S Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
We can’t wait to see you there. 💜🎨
First Thursday Show Preview Night
We’re previewing three fabulous shows in one evening! On the Main Floor Gallery you’ll see When the Canvas Speaks Louder, curated by Susan Karhroody In SubTerra we have Double Trouble, featuring the neon art of Michael Flechtner and Linda Sue Price. Upstairs in the LAM Gallery we are hosting our First Annual Glass Show, with over a dozen fabulous glass artists. There will be fire…torchwork demos.
Three Generations
Showing in SubTerra. Never before shown together, their artwork shares a visual conversation. Collectively, our work spans over 75 years. We are related not only by blood but also by color, dedication, and exploration. Sophie Corwin was a feminist artist during a time when women artists were not recognized. Aleka was a member of the feminist art movement in the 70’s and 80’s, and Miranda is interweaving feminist spirituality in every piece she creates.
While you visit, you can also see Aleka’s work in Enter The Goddesses 3 and The Assemblage Show.
Enter the Goddess Opening
-Opening Sunday, October 5, 1-4 PM
Tarot readings from Annaliese
PUSSY POWER Poets: Linda Kaye, Ed Burgess, Anna Broome, Richard McDowell with Natalie Fratino on bass.
Plus poems from Minette Achanking and Diana Olney
First Thursday Enter the Goddess 3 Soft Opening
Enter the Goddesses 3
Celebrate Goddesses in their myriad forms!
Goddesses have been with us since the beginning of recorded history. They embody
love, birth, death, forgiveness, jealousy, rage, and self-knowledge; and they command
our imagination and senses. In a time full of war, pain, poverty, climate destruction, and
denial of human and earthly dignity it is well past time to embrace Goddess nature once
more.
-Preview and goddess crafts Thursday, October 2, 6-9 PM (with DTLA Artnight)
Curated by A. Laura Brody, founder of Opulent Mobility.
Pressing Matters Closing
We’re sad to see it go. It’s the Pressing Matters show’s closing shindig. Last chance to pick up a cool print piece. We’d love to see you! And FYI, earlier there’s an artist talk for The Assemblage Show. Come see both! Sounds like a plan!
The Assemblage Show Artist Talk
So much to know! Where do they get their goodies, their stuff, their version of paint? What inspires them? From 1-4pm Sunday, September 28, you can find out. Come to The Assemblage Show artist talk and you can learn about their art and how it came to be. Right after the talk we’ll have the closing for Pressing Matters, our print show, and One Shy of a Dozen will be closing in the Main Floor Gallery. So much art to see!
One Shy of a Dozen Mid-Show Open House
Hang out with the artists in the show One Shy of a Dozen and learn more about their art. Maybe you’ll find something you might like to take home with you. The event is from 3:30-5:30 in the Main Floor Gallery. While you’re here check out our two other shows, Pressing Matters, our second annual print show in the SubTerra, and The Assemblage Show in the LAM Gallery. Good times.
The Assemblage Show Opening
This show is so good! We have assembled some of the coolest assemblage pieces you have ever seen. Don’t miss the opening this Saturday, September 13, from 6-9pm. The show is located in the LAM Gallery on the second floor. There will be tacos…first come, first served. I’m thinking about making cookies as well. And if you are interested, come early and see the artist talk for Pressing Matters, our Second Annual print show, located in the SubTerra Gallery.
Pressing Matters Artist Talk
Come by Saturday, September 13 from 4-6pm to the SubTerra Gallery, to hear the hows, wheres ,whys, the artists did what they did. They’ll talk technique, inspiration, and answer most reasonable questions. And stay for the opening of our first annual Assemblage Show, in the LAM Gallery, which starts at 6.
Pressing Matters
It’s the opening for Pressing Matters, our Second Annual Print Show. The party starts at 3 and goes until 6. And for more fun you can check out the two other shows we’re hosting, The Dude Show (which is closing), and One Shy a Dozen, that just opened. Good times!
The Dude Show Closing
This has been one of the most fun shows here at The Los Angeles Makery since we opened. That rug really tied the room together. It’s your last chance to check out The Dude Show. Come by 3-6pm Saturday. You can also check out the opening for Pressing Matters, and One Shy of a Dozen, our other shows here at The Makery.
First Thursday DTLA Art Night
One Shy of a Dozen, opens this Thursday during DTLA Art Night. Come by to see their show in our Main Floor Gallery, from 6-9pm. We’ll also be hosting the soft opening for our show, Pressing Matters, which is our Second Annual Print Show, located in SubTerra. And if you haven’t caught the Dude Show yet, the LAM Gallery on our second level is the place for that.
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!
