Billed as the “world’s largest art complex”,  Bordered on the East by the 5 Freeway, on the South by the Union Pacific Trainyard, and on the West by the UPS facility, The Brewery looks like whatever steampunk utopia Downtown’s Edison bar is trying to be, The Brewery -- which actually used to be an Edison electric plant -- has been for decades
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Imagine Burning Man with more art, and no end date -- right here in LA. Well, that’s The Brewery -- Los Angeles’ historic art colony. Since 1982 The Brewery has created a safe haven for artists to live, work, and commune on 16 acres in Lincoln Heights, right outside of DTLA. Art spills out from windows, rooftops, hand-painted garage doors, and the occasional bus. Walk around, and you might stumble across someone constructing a life-size replica of a dream they had or a nude woman painted bronze posing on miscellaneous slabs of iron (indeed, many of the "ships" for Burning Man originated here).

The Brewery Artist Colony in Los Angeles is a 16-acre compound that sits on twenty-one former industrial buildings and includes the original #3 Edison steam power plant dating back to 1904. The current Brewery structure was built as the Pabst Blue Ribbon Brewing Company in 1957. Prior to that, The Los Angeles Brewing Company (aka East Side Brew) stood in the same footprint as the leading beer producer for Los Angeles, since 1897.
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Since 1982, among the remnants of this booming industrial era, lives a community of artists and art production of all forms. From hand-forging artisans to composers of expression and dance. To this day, The Brewery has maintained complete artist occupancy and continues to support a thriving coral reef—an authentic artist’s community.