La Mancha Gallery

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Eighteen years ago, I took La Mancha Gallery off its foundation. Rent on a permanent space in Los Angeles is a tax on am...
05/25/2026

Eighteen years ago, I took La Mancha Gallery off its foundation. Rent on a permanent space in Los Angeles is a tax on ambition, and that tax falls hardest on the artists and audiences I most wanted in the room. So I built something else — a gallery that goes to the people instead of asking them to come to it.
More than 200 exhibitions later, that model has landed at the Historic Dunbar Hotel on Central Avenue, the building that was the heart of Black Los Angeles when no other hotel in the city would have it. The current show, Women of Central Avenue: Keepers of the Flame, puts nine women on those walls.
My new essay on The Cultural Thread is about why this kind of programming matters and how it actually gets built.
Read it here: 🔗 https://lamanchagallery.substack.com/p/on-the-alternative-venue-exhibition
The exhibition is up through the end of May at Arts @ Delicious inside the Dunbar.

Sunday afternoon on Central Avenue calls for live music. This week it comes from multi-instrumentalist Rob Leopold, who ...
05/22/2026

Sunday afternoon on Central Avenue calls for live music. This week it comes from multi-instrumentalist Rob Leopold, who brings "All That Jazz" to the Historic Dunbar Hotel — with special guests alongside him, and one of the most storied rooms in Black Los Angeles to fill.

Two hours, live. The kind of Sunday you don't get back if you miss it.

Presented by Mowatt Entertainment.

Sunday, May 24 · 2:30–4:30 PM
Historic Dunbar Hotel · 4229 S. Central Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90011
Reservations strongly recommended · $30 food & drink minimum · 323-918-2087

And while you're at the Dunbar, on view "The Women of Central Avenue: Keepers of the Flame" — La Mancha Gallery's current exhibition.. The music and the exhibition share a venue, not a program. Come for one, discover the other.
https://lamancha.events/delicious/

05/21/2026

Look closely... and you'll see her.
In Adrianne Devine's canvas, a young Black woman steps forward — mortarboard squared to the sky. Confident. Educated. Paid. Beside her stands a classic figure bearing water, embodying self-reliance, spirituality, and protection. The ancestral and the modern, side by side. The vessel and the diploma.
Behind them, a multiplicity of windows creates a timeless cityscape where yesterday, today, and tomorrow coexist. Mothers. Daughters. Schoolgirls. Matriarchs. Their quiet presence forms the living architecture of the scene. Above, celestial bodies pause to charge infinite horizons. Angels rise in jubilation. At the women's feet, golden blooms open toward the sun.
Every element points, unmistakably, toward light. Toward legacy. Toward the great expectations carried forward.
Adrianne Devine is a featured artist in Women of Central Avenue: Keepers of the Flame, presented by Arts @ Delicious at The Historic Dunbar Hotel — 4229 S. Central Ave, Los Angeles.
Curated by Omar Holguin · La Mancha Gallery
https://lamancha.events/dunbar

Sunday afternoons belong to live jazz on Central Avenue. 🎷The Mateo Arce Trio returns to Delicious at The Dunbar this Su...
05/16/2026

Sunday afternoons belong to live jazz on Central Avenue. 🎷

The Mateo Arce Trio returns to Delicious at The Dunbar this Sunday, May 17, from 2:30 to 4:30 PM — a beautiful way to spend the afternoon inside one of South LA's most storied buildings.

And while you're here, take time to walk through Women of Central Avenue: Keepers of the Flame, our current exhibition featuring nine extraordinary artists — Adrienne D., Gail O., Buena J., Diana S., Riea O., Nina Syii, Skira Martinez, Christen Austin, and X.Darvi — honoring the women who have carried this avenue's cultural flame forward.

📍 Historic Dunbar Hotel · 4229 S. Central Ave, Los Angeles
🎟 Reserve your spot: lamancha.events/Reservations
Bring family. Bring friends. We'll see you Sunday.

Tomorrow, 2:30 to 4:30 PM. Darryl "DWake" Wakefield at Delicious at The Dunbar.Mother's Day. Nine women on the walls. A ...
05/09/2026

Tomorrow, 2:30 to 4:30 PM. Darryl "DWake" Wakefield at Delicious at The Dunbar.
Mother's Day. Nine women on the walls. A hundred years of jazz in the floorboards. Bring your mother. Bring yourself.

Buffet brunch 9 AM–5 PM. Bottomless mimosas. Live jazz.
Reservations at 9, 11, 1, and 3 — $65 / person, children 2–9 $27.
Call 323-918-2087.

📍 4229 S. Central Ave
🎷 Sunday · 2:30 to 4:30 PM · Darryl "DWake" Wakefield
🔗 https://lamancha.events/dunbar
🔗 Reservations https://lamancha.events/Reservations

05/08/2026

The women on these walls kept the fire burning on Central Avenue for decades. This Sunday, we honor them the way Central Avenue has always honored its own — with art, jazz, and a table worth gathering around.

The Women of Central Avenue: Keepers of the Flame is on view now through June 30 at Delicious at The Dunbar — nine women artists, three generations, one unbroken legacy. Come see the show. Stay for the music.

And this Mother's Day — Sunday, May 10 — Delicious at The Dunbar is hosting a Mother's Day Buffet Brunch with bottomless mimosas and live jazz, 9AM–5PM. Reservation times: 9AM, 11AM, 1PM, and 3PM. $65/person. Call 323-918-2087 to book.

Nine women artists on the walls. Live jazz in the room. Your mother at the table. That is a Mother's Day worth showing up for.
📍 4229 S. Central Ave, Los Angeles
📞 323-918-2087
🎨 Free exhibition · Open to the public

🌼 Mother's Day on Central Avenue 🌼This Sunday, May 10, the Historic Dunbar opens its doors for a Mother's Day Buffet Bru...
05/08/2026

🌼 Mother's Day on Central Avenue 🌼

This Sunday, May 10, the Historic Dunbar opens its doors for a Mother's Day Buffet Brunch — and we're setting the soundtrack with the soulful sound of Darryl "DWAKE" Wakefield live on the bandstand.

Bottomless mimosas. A full buffet brunch. Live jazz drifting through the dining room. The perfect way to honor the women who taught us to listen.

🎷 Darryl "DWAKE" Wakefield — Live
📅 Sunday, May 10, 2026 (Mother's Day)
🕘 Reservations: 9 AM • 11 AM • 1 PM • 3 PM
💵 $65 / person • Children 2–9: $27
📍 Delicious at The Dunbar — 4229 S. Central Ave, LA 90011

📞 Reserve: 323-918-2087
🔗 Or book online: my.linkpod.site/Reservations

1.5-hour reservation limit • 18% gratuity added for parties of 5+
Live music presented by Mowatt Entertainment

I'm asking my community for a favor today — and it's an easy one. 🌟My friend Katia Moraes is in a public voting competit...
05/02/2026

I'm asking my community for a favor today — and it's an easy one. 🌟

My friend Katia Moraes is in a public voting competition, and I'd love for all of you to vote for her.

Katia is a Brazilian singer and songwriter — a Carioca from Rio de Janeiro — who came to Los Angeles in 1990 planning to stay just one year. That one year turned into a lifelong career. She got her first U.S. break in Venice with Banda Mistério, then co-founded The Rio Thing with musicians from France, Germany, Peru, and the United States. For decades she has been one of the key figures bringing Brazilian music to California — through bands, festivals, and cultural projects that build bridges across communities.

If she wins this competition, she takes home $25,000, gets featured in Artforum magazine, and exhibits her artwork at the Art of Elysium's Salon. She plans to use the winnings to invest in her Brazilian Heart print-on-demand line, publish another book of poems, short stories, lyrics, and visual art, and launch a podcast. Everything she's building gives back to artists and to culture.

Voting opens Monday, May 4th, and you can vote once a day until the contest ends.

Vote here 👉 https://peoplesartist.org/2026/k-tia-moraes

If Katia's work has ever moved you, or if you simply trust me when I tell you who's worth supporting — please vote, and please share this with your circle. ☀️

This Sunday, live music returns to Delicious at The Dunbar — and it may be your last chance to experience Legacy on Cent...
04/25/2026

This Sunday, live music returns to Delicious at The Dunbar — and it may be your last chance to experience Legacy on Central before the exhibition closes April 30. Blue Quatro takes the stage with bossa nova, boleros, jazz, and timeless standards. The kind of music that fills a room and stays with you.

While you're here — walk through Legacy on Central, our current group show honoring culture and history through the lens of contemporary art. Nine artists. One avenue. A living legacy. After April 30, a new and exciting exhibition takes its place. Don't miss your window.

📍Delicious at The Dunbar | 4229 S. Central Ave, Los Angeles
🔗 https://my.linkpod.site/delicious

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