The Brewery Art Colony
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The Brewery Art Colony, located in Los Angeles
, has been called the largest live-and-work artists' colony in the world. The compound sits on twenty-one former warehouses — with an old Edison power plant chimney dating to 1903 — house work studios, living lofts, restaurants and galleries. The Brewery is home to practitioners of a variety of artistic mediums from painting, sculpture and photography to industrial design, architecture and experimental new media.
brewery. Years later it was converted into artist lofts.
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, has been called the largest live-and-work artists' colony in the world. The compound sits on twenty-one former warehouses — with an old Edison power plant chimney dating to 1903 — house work studios, living lofts, restaurants and galleries. The Brewery is home to practitioners of a variety of artistic mediums from painting, sculpture and photography to industrial design, architecture and experimental new media.
The Beginnings
The Brewery Art Colony began in 1903 as the Edison Electric Steam Power Plant and then as a Pabst Blue RibbonPabst Blue Ribbon
Pabst Blue Ribbon is a brand of beer sold by Pabst Brewing Company, originally established in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but now based in Los Angeles. Pabst Blue Ribbon is contract-brewed in six different breweries around the U.S...
brewery. Years later it was converted into artist lofts.