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Each year we offer up to six arts exhibitions—including one that features new work commissioned by MACLA—showcasing talented artists whose work is rooted in a Latino aesthetic and history, but inclusive of a broader multicultural sensibility. Our free exhibitions include artist talks, gallery walks and lectures that expand upon the themes and issues addressed and that place artists firmly within their artistic and cultural contexts.

Our visual arts program is fresh, innovative, and risk-taking. Focused on promoting established and emerging artists whose work is rooted in a Latino experience and history, but inclusive of global and multi-cultural movements, we see contemporary Latino art as part and parcel of the larger American experience. 

From hip-hop and spoken word to modern dance, our performance and literary arts tract offers new perspectives on contemporary Latino culture and civic society. Our 100-seat Castellano Playhouse is the leading downt ...