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The Downtown Art Walk is a self-guided tour that showcases the many art exhibition venues in Downtown Los Angeles — commercial art galleries, museums, and non-profit arts venues. Ashley McLean Emenegger has been an active leader in the artistic community since 1997. She founded McLean Fine Art in September 2004. McLean Fine Art, www.mcleanfineart.com, provides arts consultancy services, visual artist career coaching, and distinctive fine art exhibitions. McLean Fine Art also offers strategic consultation to art galleries and non-profit organizations. As the former Executive Director of Gallery 825/Los Angeles Art Association (LAAA) — an 80-year-old nonprofit visual arts organization based in Los Angeles that supports emerging artists in Southern California — Ashley presented hundreds of critically recognized exhibitions and educational and artistic programs. Prior to Gallery 825/LAAA, Ashley worked at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA. She is also an exhibiting visual artist. Before her career in the arts, Ashley was involved in television industry and comedy writing and performing. Bert Green Fine Art exhibits the works of contemporary artists, and works to further artistic dialogue and aesthetic development in Los Angeles. Bert Green, Gallery Director, graduated from New York University, and was the executive director of the New York based non-profit arts organization Circumference from 1982 through 1989. From 1992 to 1996, Mr. Green was a co-curator for the San Francisco based non-profit arts organization ArtReach. In the interim and throughout his career, he has organized many independent exhibitions prior to relocating to Los Angeles to open the Circle Elephant Art gallery in 1999, and Bert Green Fine Art in 2004.