Art Share-LA

Art Share was founded in 1997 by Chip Austin Hunter as an affordable housing project and community arts center. For many years it operated with primary interest in serving the inner city and East LA youth through after schools art classes. Past programs have included BLAST (Building Language Arts Skills Together), FACT (Families and Communities Together) and a variety of free classes in dance, visual arts, music and recording arts. The organization suffered greatly during the recession and as a result, all employees and programs (except for FACT) were suspended in 2011. Building maintenance had been neglected and the organization was near collapse.

The board worked tirelessly to bring the building back to life and maintain our residential program. New leadership was put into place and outreach efforts were made to re-establish positive relations between community partners. Art Share was reborn the summer of 2012--the building was repainted, the logo rebranded and new programs and new initiatives are in place.