Downtown Art Walk

Schave Resigns as Head of Downtown Art Walk

By Ed Fuentes and Eric Richardson — November 10, 2009 — 8 Comments

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With just two days before the November Downtown Art Walk, the popular monthly event event is without a leader. Executive Director Richard Schave confirms to blogdowntown this afternoon that he has resigned his position, effective yesterday. While declining to give a statement, Schave said that he was sad about the move.

Schave was handed charge of the event earlier this year by Art Walk founder Bert Green. He led the creation of a non-profit to run the effort, and that organization's board will now be responsible for naming a new director. — Continued Inside...

Not So Fast, Food Trucks and Crafts: It's Still Art Walk

By Ed Fuentes — October 12, 2009 — 14 Comments

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Art Walk Preview for October, 2009

By Ed Fuentes — October 07, 2009 — 8 Comments

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With Halloween just weeks away, let's imagine Downtown Art Walk founder Bert Green as the scientist who created the creature that now runs rampant in the streets. After dark, he closes the doors of his gallery and finds refuge at the Farmers and Merchants Bank, once a month cleverly disguised as gallery space.

Meanwhile, the new caretakers of Art Walk listen to the original intent of the second Thursday of the month and are finding new ways to introduce Downtown as a tamed beast, complete with walking tours and an official blog. — Continued Inside...

Around the September Art Walk

By Ed Fuentes — September 14, 2009 — 5 Comments

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|Photo Gallery| I am happy to report Downtown Art Walk hasn't crumbled yet. There were plenty of people milling in and around Gallery Row last Thursday, despite fewer opening night receptions. Still, some galleries continued to limit their presence to avoid the crowds.

Before we claim the name "Art Walk" is merely theory, it has to be remembered that the event began as a venturesome exercise to bring people to the Historic Core. Its success was, and still is, based on providing community outreach and authenticating a contemporary Downtown culture. — Continued Inside...

Art Walk Preview for September, 2009

By Ed Fuentes — September 09, 2009

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The Downtown Art Walk has its believers and non-believers.

Some say the second Thursday of the month is an apparition of urban activity appearing from nowhere, asking for a faith in Downtown. Others wait for the crash as some gallery owners shift hours to avoid the crowds. A few will say that the vision of people visiting Downtown's core is just a haze fueled by the search for wine.

Still, the monthly pilgrimage to Gallery Row continues and there is art to be found. — Continued Inside...

Art Walk Preview for August, 2009

By Ed Fuentes — August 11, 2009 — 12 Comments

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|Photo Gallery| The August Downtown Art Walk is already here, and Thursdays weather is expected to be a high of 83 degrees, a low of 64, with a scattered shower of poets and performance art. Here's a peek at this months street experience known as Art Walk.

Gary Leonard's Take My Picture gallery (860 S. Broadway) has a cross night of Real Estate and Advertising poetry alongside "The Billboard Show: Selling the So-Cal Lifestyle. Photographic Landscapes of the 1950s and 1960s."

Joining Ed Rosenthal, the Poetbroker of Downtown Los Angeles, is Jack Skelley, Senior VP of Roddan Paolucci Roddan. Providing music are members of The French Semester, who just returned from Europe and a gig at Joel Bloom Square. — Continued Inside...

Around the July Art Walk

By Ed Fuentes — July 12, 2009 — 1 Comment

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|Photo Gallery| During the summer of 2008, residents of GilVille were first heard mumbling about the crowd Art Walk was bringing in. Yet most were out watching the parade of out of town guests––west of the 110––discovering the new life of an old Downtown.

As Thursday was filled with regulars and newcomers, you wonder how the Old Bank District would respond if Friday and Saturday evenings were as busy as Art Walk night. With the streets filled at capacity one night a month, Old Bank District dwellers watch the kids for one night, seeming almost thankful the masses are elsewhere for the rest of the month. — Continued Inside...

Art Walk Preview for July, 2009

By Ed Fuentes — July 08, 2009 — 8 Comments

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Has it been a month already? Downtown Art Walk continues to roll forward, with the July event taking place on Thursday the 9th. Some say that the Art Walk took a few steps backward when the party took over, but those looking for the art instead of the party will still find it.

Perhaps the proper commentary on the night would involve parking a catering truck on a prominent corner and selling curated pieces that mock bad art.

Until the funding comes through for that, here is some of what you can find around the streets of Downtown Thursday night. — Continued Inside...