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Since its inception in 2006, La Mancha Gallery has been an avenue and voice for intellectual and social criticism in Los Angeles. We are an event based Gallery and a great resource for Contemporary and Fine Art. Our aim is to be a common atmosphere through diverse ideas and perspectives with the intent to bring together artistic talent and art aficionados.

Smooth Jazz Sunday at Delicious at the Dunbar — this Sunday, June 14.Saxophonist Darryl "D-Wake" Wakefield takes the sta...
06/14/2026

Smooth Jazz Sunday at Delicious at the Dunbar — this Sunday, June 14.
Saxophonist Darryl "D-Wake" Wakefield takes the stage from 2:30 to 4:30 PM, filling the historic Dunbar with live music right in the heart of Central Avenue. Pull up a chair, order from a kitchen that knows how to feed a room, and let the afternoon unfold the way Sundays on the Avenue always have.
And before you leave, spend time with Women of Central Avenue: Keepers of the Flame, the current exhibition presented by La Mancha Gallery. It's a tribute to the women who kept this neighborhood's creative fire burning — a perfect companion to an afternoon of jazz.
🎷 Darryl "D-Wake" Wakefield
📅 Sunday, June 14 · 2:30–4:30 PM
📍 Delicious at the Dunbar, 4229 S. Central Ave, Los Angeles 90011
Great food. Live sax. A neighborhood's history on the walls.
Come be part of it.
https://lamancha.events/delicious/

06/05/2026

One work in the current exhibition stops you completely.
Home, by Skira Martinez, is a circular mixed-media relief — a raised fist crowning an Afro pick, surrounded by a constellation of found and altered objects. Gears. Keys. Coffee beans. Roses. Stars. Kitchen tools. Candles. Coins. Feathers. Every object a piece of the material world of Black domestic life — gathered, honored, and made sacred.
At the center, a dark mask emerges from the lower field. Eyes closed. A third eye at the brow. Cowrie shells hanging like inherited jewelry. She is the keeper of everything assembled above her.
Martinez's use of found, created, and altered objects speaks to a long tradition of Black women's ingenuity — the act of transforming the discarded into the devotional. On Central Avenue, that has never been just art. That has always been survival. Memory. And love.
Women of Central Avenue: Keepers of the Flame is on view now at Arts @ Delicious at the Historic Dunbar Hotel, 4229 S. Central Ave, Los Angeles. Presented by La Mancha Gallery.
Reserve your spot at lamancha.events/dunbar

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.

05/24/2026

Before she was an award-winning artist, Riea Owens was a seven-year-old in Pasadena dragging every visitor into the piano room to see the world she'd built out of doll clothes and drawings. She never lost the drive. She only changed instruments.
This April, Owens brings Oh, Happy Day! to the Historic Dunbar Hotel — a painting of a gospel choir mid-shout, women in red and green with their heads thrown back and the music pouring out of them. "I was not raised in the church," she says, "but a rockin' gospel choir will get me every time. It's soulful, and the base of R&B and Rock N' Roll."
She named it after the 1969 record that carried gospel onto pop radio and never gave it back. And she's hanging it on Central Avenue — the artery of Black music in Los Angeles, the corridor that ran straight through the Dunbar.
The Women of Central Avenue: Keepers of the Flame opens April 2026 at Arts @ Delicious, inside the Historic Dunbar Hotel, 4229 S. Central Ave.
https://lamancha.events/RieaO

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

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