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Scenes from LAVA’s visit to Stendahl Galleries

Richard Schave

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On April 22, 2012, LAVA – The Los Angeles Visionaries Association invited the public to an Open House at the historic home/gallery of LAVA Visionary April Dammann and her husband Ron Dammann, president of Stendahl Galleries, a participating gallery in Pacific Standard Time.

April gave informal gallery tours and spoke about her new book, Exhibitionist: Earl Stendahl, Art Dealer as Impresario, which chronicles the life and times of her husband’s grandfather, a pioneering art dealer in Los Angeles. Exhibitionist made book critic David Kipen’s top ten list of “Best Books” published in California in 2011. See scenes from the day here.

After his undergraduate studies in art history at UC Santa Cruz, Richard Schave set out to explore the American interior as an itinerent brick mason. His return to his native Los Angeles coincided with a renewed acquaintance with Kim Cooper, a once-detested academic colleague who would become his bride. Together, fusing scholarly research with new digital tools, they launched the 1947project time travel blog, along with In SRO Land, and On Bunker Hill, as well as the Esotouric tour company. With the success of Kim's True Crime tours, Richard developed a series of Literary and California Culture excursions. Off the bus, Richard is a dedicated preservationist, and the host of the LAVA Sunday Salon and the LAVA Literary Salon series, named Best L.A. Literary Salon by Los Angeles Magazine. He also curates an ongoing series of forensic science programs at Cal State Los Angeles. To stay informed about Richard's off-the-bus programs, including his much-beloved, Broadway On My Mind walking tour series, subscribe to the LAVA newsletter.

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