Edited sentence: Even more than an historical site for the display of local Los Angeles artists, LAAA serves as a dynamic force for contemporary ideas, outreach, and community.LAAA began as a civic art institution in the 1920s, connecting elite art interests to Hollywood collectors, emerging after World War II as the center of Los Angeles modernism and finally becoming the city’s nexus for emerging artists of all media.LAAA has always fought for creative independence, becoming a critical site for the discussion, promotion, and exhibition of contemporary art at a historical moment when other local art institutions – and the municipal government, were uninterested in (or even hostile to) the display of non-traditional work.Los Angeles Art Association’s mission is to provide opportunities, resources, services and exhibition venues for emerging Los Angeles artists of all media