CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
Open: Tue, Thur, 10am-5am, Sat 2-5pm
How to house 7,000 people in Skid Row?
Exhibition created by Rosten Woo with Anna Kobara, Henriëtte Brouwers, John Malpede
We’re talking about housing everyone now living on the streets of Skid Row –and more. At the exhibition, learn together and in public how housing works and could work in L.A.
BLUE BOOK – GREEN PAPER
Designed by Robert M. Ochshorn curated by LAPD/SRHM&A’s John Malpede.
Nov. 22, 2022 – Jan. 28, 2023
The Skid Row Now & 2040 Coalition releases its policy paper Containment and Community: History of Skid Row and its Role in the Downtown Community Plan with the exhibit Blue Book – Green Paper. The Blue Book’s vision, written in 1976, saved Skid Row’s housing.
THE WORLD RESPONDS TO THE WALK THE TALK ARCHIVE
Skid Row History Museum & Archive
Exhibition: Dec. 8, 2022 – January 31, 2023
Open: Tue., Thur.: 10am-5pm and Sat. 2-5pm
December 8, 2022 7pm
SCREENING, PANEL, and OPENING of EXHIBITION
EXHIBITIONS 2022
THE WORLD RESPONDS TO THE WALK THE TALK ARCHIVE
SCREENING, PANEL, and OPENING of EXHIBITION
December 8, 2022 – January 31, 2023
@ Skid Row History Museum & Archive
Video responses that share what artists, scholars and others from California, Canada and Italy have learned from engaging with the 70-plus people celebrated in Walk The Talk.
LAPD exhibit and performances at BIPOC Exchange
@ FRIEZE Los Angeles
February 17 – 20, 2022
LAPD exhibit’s Walk The Talk and performs excerpts from The New Compassionate Downtown
Recognizing Skid Row As A Neighborhood: Skid Row Cooling Resources
@ DIVERSE art LA @ LA Arts Show
January 19 – 23, 2022
DIVERSEartLA, curated by Marisa Caichiolo, kicks off the show by inviting science and art museums to take part in eight unique projects, all with a focus on environmental advocacy.
How To House 7,000 People in Skid Row
@ Skid Row History Museum & Archive
2022
The “Skid Row Now & 2040” plan, created by a coalition of Skid Row community members and groups, identifies funding sources to house people who have extremely low incomes. We’re going to look at the plan–and additional ideas for funding housing that will get people off the streets and into housing.
2020 - 2021
How To House 7000 People in Skid Row
@ Skid Row History Museum and Archive
March 2020 – 2021
The “Skid Row Now & 2040” plan, created by a coalition of Skid Row community members and groups, identifies funding sources to house people who have extremely low incomes. We’re going to look at the plan–and additional ideas for funding housing that will get people off the streets and into housing.
2019
Nick Paul & Diane Prozeller
Nov. 8, 2019 – Jan. 11, 2020
Two artists who make bold fanciful paintings and sculptures in their downtown Los Angeles Hotel-room studios.
READ MORE2018
Zillionaires Against Humanity:
Sabotaging the Skid Row Neighborhood Council
March 9 – June 30, 2018
The elements of the exhibition: illustrations and narrative from Adrian Riskin’s California Public Records Act inquiry from his blog michaelkohlhaas.org; documents of the entire process provided by the Skid Row Neighborhood Council (SRNC) Formation Committee; videos of different stages of the civic process by Linus Shento and photos and ephemera from the SRNC campaign.
2017
THE BACK 9
Golf and Zoning policy in Los Angeles
June 10 – November 12, 2017
A playable educational golf course about zoning and redevelopment politics in Downtown LA. Each hole of the course explores a different aspect of zoning and its political implications. Specifically the course connects with the planned DTLA2040 rezoning plan which will have dramatic effects on Skid Row. Designed by Rosten Woo, in collaboration with LAPD.
2016
Words We Have Learned Since 9/11
Oct 7 – Dec 3, 2016
A public, participatory photographic project by Clayton Campbell. In workshops, participants are asked to identify words they have learned since 9-11, or words they knew but have taken on different meanings. Their portraits while holding their words on signs are then photographed on site and placed directly into the installation.
read moreThe Dream Walk Exhibit
Aug 20 – Sept 18, 2016
The exhibition by Lamp Art Project features the works of a diverse group of more than 40 Skid Row artists, working in a variety of media. The majority of the works have been created specifically for this exhibition. Salem Rose, the artist who submitted the title, explains: “It’s an art walk (of sorts), walking also implies that we are moving forward. ‘Dream’ implies drive, determination, as well as recreation and restoration of aspirations.”
Walk the Talk
May 18 – July 31, 2016
The exhibition features portraits, interviews, transcripts and ‘Walk The Talk’ performance scripts and videos of 52 people who have lived and worked in Skid Row and have been instrumental in creating a neighborhood in which the interests of its low income residents are prioritized and their voices heard.
2015
Blue Book / Silver Book
April 11 – June 28, 2015
In 1973 “The Blue Book,” was adopted by the city, in part as a strategy that would “contain” poor people in one corner of downtown. Significantly, it had the reverse effect of also preventing upscale development within Skid Row.
About the Skid Row History Museum and Archive
The Skid Row History Museum and Archive is an exhibition /performing arts space curated by Los Angeles Poverty Department. It foregrounds the distinctive artistic and historical consciousness of Skid Row, a 40-year-old social experiment. The Skid Row History Museum and Archive functions as a means for exploring the mechanics of displacement in an age of immense income inequality, by mining a neighborhood’s activist history and amplifying effective community strategies. The space operates as an archive, exhibition, performance and meeting space. Exhibitions will focus on grassroots strategies that have preserved the neighborhood from successive threats of gentrification and displacement, to be studied for current adaptation and use.
The space is activated by performances, community meetings and films addressing gentrification and displacement locally, nationally and globally. The culture that developed here on Skid Row—an activist culture, artistic culture and recovery culture—offers a useful model for other communities navigating gentrification pressures. The museum space also serves as a literal and artistic common ground, a welcoming space for Angelenos to meet and mingle and explore civic issues together.
In a second museum space an extensive archive of Skid Row History (planning documents, articles, videos, audios, interview transcripts etc.), are available for casual and scholarly research. Visitors will be able to access this archive, comment upon it and use it to further explore the show’s themes.
Funders
Los Angeles Poverty Department’s Skid Row History Museum and Archive is supported with funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Upcoming Events
Dec
3
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10:00 am
Blue Book – Green Paper Exhibition
@ Skid Row History Museum & Archive
Blue Book – Green Paper Exhibition
@ Skid Row History Museum & Archive
Dec 3 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
BLUE BOOK – GREEN PAPER EXHIBITION designed by Robert M. Ochshorn curated by LAPD / SRHM&A’s John Malpede. Nov. 22, 2022 – Jan. 28, 2023 Tue, Thu: 10am -5pm and Sat: 2-5pm. The Skid Row Now & 2040 Coalition releases its policy paper Containment and Community: History of Skid Row and its...
Dec
6
Tue
10:00 am
Blue Book – Green Paper Exhibition
@ Skid Row History Museum & Archive
Blue Book – Green Paper Exhibition
@ Skid Row History Museum & Archive
Dec 6 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
BLUE BOOK – GREEN PAPER EXHIBITION designed by Robert M. Ochshorn curated by LAPD / SRHM&A’s John Malpede. Nov. 22, 2022 – Jan. 28, 2023 Tue, Thu: 10am -5pm and Sat: 2-5pm. The Skid Row Now & 2040 Coalition releases its policy paper Containment and Community: History of Skid Row and its...
10:00 am
How to House 7,000 People in Ski...
@ Skid Row Histroy Museum and Archive
How to House 7,000 People in Ski...
@ Skid Row Histroy Museum and Archive
Dec 6 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
EXHIBITION How to House 7000 People In Skid Row. Exhibition created by Rosten Woo with Anna Kobara, Henriëtte Brouwers, John Malpede. How to house 7,000 people in Skid Row? We’re talking about housing everyone now living on the streets of Skid Row –and more. Tired of promises and no solutions...
