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First Thursday Downtown San Pedro

Art Galleries & Studios dot the old Downtown San Pedro area. Attend an artist opening reception or watch artists at work.

Restaurants: You're in for a real treat visiting San Pedro's restaurants. The cuisine ranges from English to Mexican, Greek to Italian, and several others.

Shops: Take a walk down memory lane visiting antique shops or have a new book signed by the author at one of Williams' Book Stores Signings.

Entertainment: You never know who'll be performing in one of the restaurants and the historic Warner Grand Theatre invites the community to support the myriad of entertainment choices - music, movies and more!

Visit the many downtown merchants and the local artist studios and galleries!

Art galleries, shops and restaurants are open till 9:00 p.m. Some restaurants have a 1st Thursday Night Special.

Most of the participants are on 4th Street to 7th Street, and from Pacific Avenue to Palos Verdes Streets

2nd City Council Art Gallery + Performance Space

435 Alamitos Avenue Long Beach CA, USA
The 2nd City Council is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit art gallery + performance space that was incorporated on January 1,2000. We are dedicated to supporting and promoting California artists, their work and art education. Ourmission is to ...more info
Angels Gate Cultural Center

Angels Gate Cultural Center

3601 South Gaffey Street San Pedro CA, USA
Angels Gate Cultural Center is a place of creative discovery, exploration and enlightenment, providing the Southern California community and visitors from around the world with opportunities for enrichment and education. Situated ...more info

Board Room Gallery

390 W. 7th Street, San Pedro Chamber of Commerce San Pedro CA, USA

Brick Gallery

1105 E. 3rd Street Long Beach CA, USA

Cerritos College Art Gallery

11110 Alondra Boulevard Norwalk CA, USA

Cerritos College Fine Arts Gallery

11110 Alondra Blvd. Norwalk CA, USA
Founded in 1955, Cerritos College is a public comprehensive community college serving an area of 52 square miles of southeastern Los Angeles county. The college offers degrees and certificates in 87 areas of study in nine divisions. ...more info

CSU Dominguez Hills, University Art Gallery

1000 E. Victoria St. Carson CA, USA
The University Art Gallery opened in 1978, and is considered to be one of the major exhibition spaces of the South Bay area. The gallery supports and enhances the Art Department instructional program while giving students from all ...more info
CSU Long Beach, University Art Museum

CSU Long Beach, University Art Museum

1250 Bellflower Boulevard Long Beach CA, USA
Founded in 1973, the University Art Museum (UAM) at California State University, Long Beach, is a unique cultural institution that champions new and often challenging ideas through wide-ranging exhibitions and provocative ...more info

El Camino College Art Gallery

16007 Crenshaw Boulevard Torrance CA, USA
Flazh!Alley Gallery

Flazh!Alley Gallery

1113 S. Pacific Avenue, Suite B San Pedro CA, USA
Flazh!Alley is a space dedicated to showing erotic and adult themed work exclusively. A space where you have to be 18 years of age or older, a space where people who have issues with adult themed work are advised not to attend, a space where ...more info
Gallery Azul

Gallery Azul

731 S. Pacific Avenue San Pedro CA, USA
Gallery Azul is the art studio of Ray Vasquez and Cora Ramírez-Vasquez. Our mission is to provide a venue to explore and investigate the art world via thematic events, dynamic exhibits, and to provide a platform for artist to collaborate ...more info

LAAA South|The Mike Napoliello Gallery

936 Hermosa Ave., #105 Hermosa Beach CA, USA

Long Beach Arts

245 W. Broadway, Suite 260 Long Beach CA, USA
Since 1924, Long Beach Arts has been a non-profit art organization and an on-going collaborative venture between local artists and the community. The gallery hosts a wide variety of group exhibitions in all media. ...more info

Long Beach City College Art Gallery

4901 E. Carson St Long Beach CA, USA

Long Beach Museum of Art

2300 East Ocean Boulevard Long Beach CA, USA

Long Beach Public Library

101 Pacific Avenue Long Beach CA, USA

Manhattan Beach Creative Arts Center

1560 Manhattan Beach Boulevard Manhattan Beach CA, USA
A premier venue for promoting the visual arts to the Manhattan Beach community; displaying works by locally, nationally and internationally renowned artists, as well as by emerging artists. The exhibitions seek to strengthen the ...more info
Michael Levy Gallery

Michael Levy Gallery

5470 E. 2nd Street Long Beach CA, USA
The Michael Levy Gallery has been in Long Beach for over 20 years. We specialize in 19th -20th Century European, North American and Latin Masters. The Gallery carries great work by Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Teodulo Romulo, Theo ...more info
Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA)

Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA)

6228 Alamitos Avenue Long Beach CA, USA
molaa's mission is to educate the public about contemporary Latin American fine art (by artists who have lived and worked in Latin America since WWII) through the presentation of a significant permanent collection, dynamic ...more info

Palos Verdes Art Center

5504 W. Crestridge Road Rancho Palos Verdes CA, USA

Phantom Galleries Long Beach

Long Beach CA, USA
Phantom Galleries LA in partnership with the Long Beach Redevelopment Agency. ...more info
Torrance Art Museum

Torrance Art Museum

3320 Civic Center Drive Torrance CA, USA
The Torrance Art Museum underwent an extensive interior renovation and opened October 2006. There are now 3,958 square feet of total exhibition space. In the Main Gallery (2,922 sq ft), exhibition walls were placed in front of the large, ...more info