The Luggage Store Gallery, also known as 509 Cultural Center,[1] is a non-profit, multi-disciplinary arts organization founded in 1987, and has two venues located in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco, California.
[4] Since June 1991, the organization has a second venue in a second floor walk-up at 1007 Market Street in the Tenderloin, The Luggage Stre, aka the "509 Cultural Annex".
[4] Their programs are designed to broaden social and aesthetic networks, and to encourage the flow of images and ideas between the diverse cultural communities that cross paths in their exceptionally dynamic downtown San Francisco neighborhood.
[4][6] The Luggage Store Gallery runs the "Tenderloin National Forest" (also known as Cohen Alley), a community space, garden, and beautification project which started in 1989.
[22] In 2010, the gallery hosted Carlos Villa's seminal group exhibition, Rehistoricizing The Time Around Abstract Expressionism, to promote and publicize formerly overlooked art contributions by women and artists of color.