LA Art Tours

05/13/2024

serving up a ton of knowledge and awesome art outside our friends at .cannabis this afternoon.

05/10/2024

TUESDAY, MAY 14
Collab this year has been amazing! Our gallerists panel in March and our speakers in April were ridiculously informative and we had some awesome live art. Plus awesome guests, awesome performances and an amazing collection of LA creatives. So can we beat it? We are sure going to try for May!

What is Collab? Started in 2005, it's an art salon, a creative mixer, and a place to help figure out what you want to get up to next. Anyone is welcome, it is super easy to meet people, share ideas, get inspired, find collaborators, or get help on your project! It is a creative retreat for all of you artists, entrepreneurs, techies, makers, mad scientists, film folk, performers, investors, inventors and all around awesome creatives.

Guest speaker schedule:
Rob Richards is a multi-disciplinary artist, engineer, and fabricator with a focus on visualizing the most complex and emotional aspects of the human experience. He will be discussing "Echoes of the Heart which seeks to push the boundaries of sustainable engineering and bring awareness to the long term affects of trauma on the body"

- Matthew Jane is Head of Maintenance Bay 54, which is a post-human-themed immersive experience consisting of a team of diverse talents and backgrounds. He will be discussing his project "MB54 -The robot bar where you find your humanity?"

Featured Live Artists:
Full list TBA

Featured Cuisine
Nate the Taco Guy! $3 tacos all night long!

INVITE YOUR FRIENDS! It’s always better when our community reaches out to create inclusion.

And if you have something you'd like to share on the mic, like always, you are welcome to do so. We always welcome people sharing projects, shorts, or their latest great idea. Just message a host to let them know.

So come join us. First timers, Collab vets, and everything in between. We do ask for a $5 donation at the door, but we've never turned away anyone for lack of funds. If you can't help with $5, we'd love to have you help at the door for 30 minutes or so. We typically have some box wine and snacks, but we also welcome any beverage or food you'd like to add to the mix.

Can't wait to see you at the new COLLAB!

04/09/2024

TOMORROW NIGHT (Tuesday, April 9th) the Collab Art Salon and Creative Mixer returns to Los Angeles!

TUESDAY, April 9th
Another group of great speakers and live artists!

Collab this year has been amazing! Our gallerists panel in March was ridiculously informative and we had some awesome live art. Plus awesome guests, awesome performances and an amazing collection of LA creatives. So can we beat it? We are sure going to try for April!

What is Collab? Started in 2005, it's an art salon, a creative mixer, and a place to help figure out what you want to get up to next. Anyone is welcome, it is super easy to meet people, share ideas, get inspired, find collaborators, or get help on your project! It is a creative retreat for all of you artists, entrepreneurs, techies, makers, mad scientists, film folk, performers, investors, inventors and all around awesome creatives.

Guest speaker schedule:

- "Squirrelor's Tavern. Our journey to building our own Medieval Tavern."
Taylor Frost is a designer and director in Los Angeles. He has worked in film & TV, broadcast, live events, and immersive event design.

- Rebekah Waites is an award winning multidisciplinary artist whose work has been experienced by thousands worldwide. Rebekah’s current installation “Relevé Ladies” continues to not only explore themes inspired by “Relevé” but also the use of repurposed materials.

- Ekaterina Sky will speak on the role of impact art in shifting cultural discourse and highlighting important environmental topics. She will explore how we, as artists, can leverage our creativity and platforms to bring attention to these urgent matters, thereby uniting people in a collective effort to make a difference.

Break Away Group:
RESOLUTIONS. A Follow up gathering for those who made a 2024 creative Resolution, we'll get together and see what we need to get each other on track.

Featured Live Artists:

Kevin Flint - Apocalypse Chic
Dutchess Cerraeh Laykin - tape wall designs

Featured Graffiti Artists
TBA

INVITE YOUR FRIENDS! It’s always better when our community reaches out to create inclusion.

03/28/2024

We focus on graffiti and street art, but we love to stop by and say hi to our friends at with a group. Today we had a group of journalists from Korea join us. Thanks to the crew at Art Share for taking time to show them around! Check out their amazing new show in the main gallery!

03/28/2024

We always love showing future artists what we create and how we live. If you've got kids in school (or you teach,) trick them into learning with a field trip that is super cool but also informative. Approved for all school districts in the LA area. Piece by

03/19/2024

Support
We never take money/bribes from businesses to bring our tours to their doors. Many of the businesses in the Arts District are art destroyers these days, and we actively tell our clients to avoid them. But if you're a business that actually encourages, commissions or lets art thrive, you have our support and we'll send our guests your way. Thank you to House of Cocotte for preserving the Serch tribute and giving the rest of your walls to paint on. If you're in the Arts District, check them out. And if you're an art destroying business buffing murals and graff art and chasing off artists... G**o of the Arts District please.

03/19/2024

We ran into putting up a new piece while doing a little bike tour. A lot of gratitude to for letting art thrive in the Arts District. Great piece, I suggest you check it out.

03/14/2024

A bit of in a bike tour alley.

03/14/2024

Down an alley on our Downtown LA bike tour route, always great to find some work by .one.

03/12/2024

TUESDAY, March 12th
Our last several Collab Art Salons were AMAZING!
Awesome guests, awesome live art, awesome performances and an amazing collection of LA creatives. So can we beat it? We are sure going to try for March!

What is Collab? Started in 2005, it's an art salon, a creative mixer, and a place to help figure out what you want to get up to next. Anyone is welcome, it is super easy to meet people, share ideas, get inspired, find collaborators, or get help on your project! It is a creative retreat for all of you artists, entrepreneurs, techies, makers, mad scientists, film folk, performers, investors, inventors and all around awesome creatives.

Guest speaker schedule:

Gallery Owner and Curator Panel
Baha Danesh - ArtShare LA
Petra Wright- Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts
Dale Youngman
(plus a surprise gallerist guest)

Ukraine Charity Speakers
Pavel Sfera

Featured Live Artist
Dutchess Cerraeh Laykin
AND YOU! (we always welcome more live artists, either send us a message to get added to the official event or just show up with your materials to create!)

Featured Graffiti Artists
Sergio and ShanduOne from K2S/STN/LABS
AND YOU! (we always welcome more graffiti artists, either send us a message to get added to the official event or just show up with some cans to create!)

INVITE YOUR FRIENDS! It’s always better when our community reaches out to create inclusion.

And if you have something you'd like to share on the mic, like always, you are welcome to do so. We always welcome people sharing projects, shorts, or their latest great idea. Just message a host to let them know.

So come join us. First timers, Collab vets, and everything in between. We do ask for a $5 donation at the door, but we've never turned away anyone for lack of funds. If you can't help with $5, we'd love to have you help at the door for 30 minutes or so. We typically have some box wine and snacks, but we also welcome any beverage or food you'd like to add to the mix.

Can't wait to see you at the new COLLAB!

03/11/2024

For all you artists and creatives out there, tomorrow (TUESDAY, MARCH 12TH) night is the Collab Art Salon and Creative Mixer. There is a guest panel of gallery curators giving some inside tips on the gallery scene, live art and live spray paint art outside, and 100 or so amazing people to meet and network with!
TUESDAY, MARCH 12TH

TUESDAY, March 12th
Our last several Collab Art Salons were AMAZING!
Awesome guests, awesome live art, awesome performances and an amazing collection of LA creatives. So can we beat it? We are sure going to try for March!

What is Collab? Started in 2005, it's an art salon, a creative mixer, and a place to help figure out what you want to get up to next. Anyone is welcome, it is super easy to meet people, share ideas, get inspired, find collaborators, or get help on your project! It is a creative retreat for all of you artists, entrepreneurs, techies, makers, mad scientists, film folk, performers, investors, inventors and all around awesome creatives.

Guest speaker schedule:

Gallery Owner and Curator Panel
Baha Danesh - ArtShare LA
John Greer - Wonzimer
Petra Wright- Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts
(plus a surprise gallerist guest)

Ukraine Charity Speakers
Gordon Permann
Pavel Sfera

Featured Live Artist
Dutchess Cerraeh Laykin
AND YOU! (we always welcome more live artists, either send us a message to get added to the official event or just show up with your materials to create!)

Featured Graffiti Artists
Sergio and ShanduOne from K2S/STN/LABS
AND YOU! (we always welcome more graffiti artists, either send us a message to get added to the official event or just show up with some cans to create!)

INVITE YOUR FRIENDS! It’s always better when our community reaches out to create inclusion.

And if you have something you'd like to share on the mic, like always, you are welcome to do so. We always welcome people sharing projects, shorts, or their latest great idea. Just message a host to let them know.

So come join us. First timers, Collab vets, and everything in between. We do ask for a $5 donation at the doo

So stop on by and join us!

03/06/2024

Found outside the secret entrance to our secret lair. might be on to our hide out.

03/02/2024

A little spray can work on our bike tour. If anyone knows the artist, let us know so we can give proper credit.

03/02/2024

Oops, we're a few months late posting up New Years wishes... but it is still up on our Downtown LA Arts District Graffiti and Mural tour, so you can see it live.

03/02/2024

A piece by starting off our Arts District walking route.

03/01/2024

Another awesome school group from getting taught the skills for making their own amazing art. If you have kids in school or you teach, get your students down to the Arts District to join us for a tour and painting workshop. They have so much fun, they don't even realize they are learning. And they'll think you're the coolest parent/teacher ever for giving them the opportunity.

03/01/2024

Our head guide showing how it's done in a spray can workshop. Previously only for private tours, we're now doing a weekly public class, every Sunday! You can take the class alone or as part of a tour. Head over to our website to sign up!

02/29/2024

One great thing about a bike tour vs a walking tour... the amount of ground we can cover so easily. And we get everything from postage stamp size street art and back alley graffiti to massive murals covering entire buildings.
Always REAL ARTISTS showing you the art they know by artists they actually know (including their own.)
Come join us for a bike ride (bike not required, we start next to a bike rack, so you can check out a rental bike before we start!
Head to our website to book.

02/11/2024

We are disappointed (but not surprised) by the rush to clean up and sanitize the amazing, spontaneous, staggering display of art which sprang up last week in Downtown LA Art the abandoned Oceanwide Plaza site. This was a world class artistic achievement involving daring, creativity and skill. And the city is rushing to erase it.

The Arts District is basically on life support. Where thousands of artists once lived and worked in 'Artist in Residence' code buildings (a building code created decades ago by city leaders that actually wanted art to thrive,) there are now cookie cutter organic juice bars and tech bros in generic apartments blocks. A new high rise is going up like an ugly blot on the skyline, created by the blatant graft and corruption of a city council that couldn't even police itself (the federal government had to take care of Jose Juizar.)

Street artists creating fantastic art with spray can, with steel, with yarn, are harassed endlessly by LA's "safety teams," pedaling around on bikes with their blue, red or yellow shirts. The city looks a blind eye as massive developers move in, and immediately erase historic murals and fanastic alleys filled with art. As long as the dollars are there, the art is quietly destroyed. And the city leaders let it happen over and over.

But artists don't go easy. What happened this week at Oceanwide Plaza - an abandoned skyscraper development that the city has long ignored- was truly incredibly. Inspiring. It put LA back on the art map. We cannot salute enough the artists who made it happen.

Art heroes all.

01/27/2024

He took bribes and payoffs to transform the Arts District from a place thousands of artists created in, thrived in and called home into a generic condo development with overpriced organic juice bars and bland tech firms. The high rise he took bribes for continues to be built, towering over the district.

The resident artists are almost all gone. The dozens of 'artist in residence' buildings that once dotted the District bought by out of town developers who are openly hostile to art and creativity. New businesses arrive who immediately scrub all art away. So much amazing creativity lost - replaced with relentless conformity. Generations of awesome art filled alleys scrubbed clean. Murals and street art replaced with bland store fronts and corporate logos. 100 year old brick buildings filled with artist residences replaced with cruise ship looking apartments stretching for blocks. It was a place where graffiti artists and loft artists and art cars and explosive performances and all manner of absurd and experimental creativity could share space...now almost gone.

Thanks Jose. Your legacy of destroying a district once brimming with creativity will continue as you waste away in prison. Your replacement has just as little regards for the arts as you did. I have my doubts any elected officials really care much about a thriving LA art scene when corporate conformity and giant developers wag dollar bills.

But the battle goes on. We love all you artists who soldier on, fighting the good fight, trying to keep the artistic fire alive in an Arts District being relentlessly assaulted by generic, corporate, big developer conformity and their corrupt political lap dogs. We salute all of you. And we remember all of you who were forced away by greed and conformity.

01/25/2024

We ran into outside the on today's Arts District Graffiti and Mural tour, touching up his iconic Kobe Bryant mural.

12/10/2023

This TUESDAY! December 12th 7:30 PM to 11:30 PM.
The Collab Art Salon and Creative Mixer welcomes a whole group of toy and game-centric creators and artists including from and Flaming Drinks by and game designer .richard and by Aiman Akhtar and Puppet fabricator

Plus bring an unopened, unwrapped toy for as we'll have a couple of young Marines on hand to collect! If you do, we've got an awesome secret reward!

Collab Art Salon and Creative Mixer for December
Tuesday, December 12th 7:30-11:30 PM
341 South Avenue 17, Los Angeles CA 90031

12/02/2023

This WEEKEND! Saturday and Sunday at 1030 AM! Join graffiti artist for another amazing tour! Every one of our guides is an actual artist, not some suburbanite who read a Wikipedia page. Get the real story from the artists who lived it. Link on bio.
Www.laarttours.com

11/25/2023

Join us for an Arts District Graffiti and Mural walking tour Saturday and Sunday. 10:30 AM. Head to our site at www.LAarttours.com (linked in profile}

11/25/2023

It's a lovely weekend for an art tour! Come join us Saturday or Sunday at 10:30 AM in the DTLA Arts District for our famous graffiti and Mural tour.

Downtown Los Angeles Arts District – Graffiti and Mural Tour When we did our first graffit/mural tour back in 2010, it was a treasure hunt for unique urban art that often vanished soon after it appeared. What a difference the years have made. The Los Angeles Graffiti and Mural scene- especially in...