Company Profile
Laguna Art Museum
Company Overview
Laguna Art Museum exists to enlighten and engage people of all ages through art that embodies and preserves the California experience.
Company History
The museum traces its origins to the Laguna Beach Art Association (LBAA), formed by local artists in 1918 and incorporated with artist Edgar Payne as its first president. Always focused on art created in California or representing California, initially the members met and showed their works in a converted board-and-batten cottage. However, in 1929, following a successful fundraising drive headed by another early Laguna Beach painter, Anna Hills, a grand, custom-built gallery was opened. The building was designed by well-known Los Angeles architect Myron Hunt and is known today as the Steele Gallery which is within the present day building. With the growth of a permanent collection of donated works from the LBAA members and others, and the beginnings of a program of loan exhibitions, the gallery started to take on characteristics of a museum. In 1972 it became the Laguna Beach Museum of Art and later changed names to Laguna Art Museum in 1986 with the physical expansion that completed the building as it now stands. In 2018 the museum celebrated 100 years of artistic legacy in the community, with special exhibitions, an array of events and programs, including artist talks, concerts, family days, Art & Nature festival, the annual art auction, the Centennial Ball, a documentary produced by filmmaker Dale Schierholt, several publications, and more.
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
The museum traces its origins to the Laguna Beach Art Association (LBAA), formed by local artists in 1918 and incorporated with artist Edgar Payne as its first president. Always focused on art created in California or representing California, initially the members met and showed their works in a converted board-and-batten cottage. However, in 1929, following a successful fundraising drive headed by another early Laguna Beach painter, Anna Hills, a grand, custom-built gallery was opened. The building was designed by well-known Los Angeles architect Myron Hunt and is known today as the Steele Gallery which is within the present day building. With the growth of a permanent collection of donated works from the LBAA members and others, and the beginnings of a program of loan exhibitions, the gallery started to take on characteristics of a museum. In 1972 it became the Laguna Beach Museum of Art and later changed names to Laguna Art Museum in 1986 with the physical expansion that completed the building as it now stands. In 2018 the museum celebrated 100 years of artistic legacy in the community, with special exhibitions, an array of events and programs, including artist talks, concerts, family days, Art & Nature festival, the annual art auction, the Centennial Ball, a documentary produced by filmmaker Dale Schierholt, several publications, and more.
Benefits
Weekly optional work from home day on Mondays