Walk inside on any given day and chances are Roz Knight will be there, a gregarious 69-year-old art teacher with tufts of short, white-blond hair. She is the creator of the place, its heart.

Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for criticism and was a finalist for the prize in 1991, 2001 and 2007. In 2020, he also received the Lifetime ...