LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC) intends to empower artists of color &culturally enrich residents in Orange County, California. Through social engagement, diverse arts, equitable practices, & direct action, LMAC aspires to counter the impact of gentrification on the local community by providing culturally relevant arts education & reinvesting profits in the local residents, arts industry, & business economy.

Established in 2016 in Santa Ana, LMAC is a community-based collaboration between a mobile bookstore and cultural center practices. It builds on anti-gentrification movement culture & cultivates diversity through literature and the arts by prioritizing Black, Indigenous, people of color and integrating free reading and writing programs, visual exhibits, & year-round creative workshops in Santa Ana, California and its surrounding areas.

For six years and as the only cooperatively-run bookstore in Santa Ana, LMAC has been able to realize its vision for a community-based self-sustaining literary arts center gracias to the dedication of the bookstore community. Recognized across the U.S. for organizing and presenting literary arts programing prioritizing BIPOC and LGBTQ+ artists, LMAC holds some 30 to 45 events per year, many of which draw intersectional and multigenerational audiences from Southern California & virtually across the nation.

As of 2018, bookstore profits, public donations, & capital from grants support the hybrid nonprofit organization fulfill its mission by funding its operating budget, local & guest artists, special exhibitions, establish the Crear Studio gallery, & a variety of arts education programs. In 2020, LMAC established a community-based advisory board that ensures the mission statement is met through all efforts. Arts cooperative members lead daily tasks & initiatives to keep the bookstore and free programming accessible & sustainable to the general public. Muchas gracias to the local comunidad, advisory board, cooperative members, community partners, & book patrons across the nation for their empowerment & commitment to LMAC.