Los Angeles Music And Art School
About
LAMusArt provides affordable, multidisciplinary and sequential arts instruction during non-school hours to predominantly K-12 students residing in the greater East Los Angeles area. Programming in music, art, dance and drama is offered Mondays thorough Thursdays from 2pm- 8pm and on Saturdays from 8am-6pm in our 11,000 square foot facility that features 20 classroooms, four multi-purpose rooms, and a recording studio.
Established in 1945.
The Los Angeles Music and Art School (LAMusArt) was founded by educator Pearle Irene Odell in 1945. Ms. Odell was a visionary educator who recognized the tremendous need to offer after-school arts programs to the underserved youth of East Los Angeles and the surrounding communities. With the School's founding Music Director, Robert R. Webb, LAMusArt began providing music instruction in two small, Victorian-style homes on South Boyle Avenue in Boyle Heights. By the late 1950s, LAMusArt acquired its present site on East Third Street in the mid 60s. Construction of the school building was completed in 1967 and an addition to the school parking lot was completed in 1994.