Tuesday, June 2, 2026 at 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica
**Intersection with Andres Cortes** Tuesday, June 2nd | 5PM - 7PM 18th Street Arts Center 1639 18th Street. Santa Monica, CA 90404 **Free + Open to the Public** These gatherings are dedicated to gathering our community around good food, conversation, and art. Please stop by for a bite and chat with our community and spotlight artist [Andres Cortes](https://18thstreet.org/artists/andres-cortesapril-may-2026/). Artist bio Andrés Cortes (b. 1985, Los Angeles) is a California-born Chicano artist of Mexican descent. He earned a BFA in Drawing and Painting, with a minor in Comparative World Literature from California State University, Long Beach. He has exhibited his works extensively in California. He is the founder of ARVIA Projects, an artist-run project and community based space for alternative forms of building, living through the creative lens, and mutual aide support efforts, which started in 2016. He is a teaching artist with the Department of Cultural Affairs of Los Angeles and has taught classes through Barnsdall Junior Arts Center, and the Watts Towers Campus. He currently resides and works in North East Los Angeles, CA. This residency was made possible by an artist residency partnership with 18th Street Arts Center through the Call to Dream: The Sam Francis Fellowship and SOMA.