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The team behind Band of Vices has been a longtime champion of bringing diverse artists into the fold.
Learn more about the spaces filling the holes left behind by the historically white-centric L.A. art world.
Meet the core artists who were the vanguards of the West Coast edition of the Black Arts Movement: Betye Saar, Noah Purifoy, John Outterbridge and Jayne Cortez.
An arts movement emerged in ‘60s Watts. In response, federal and local law enforcement enacted counterinsurgency programs that infiltrated and co-opted Black arts and culture institutions and surveilled and targeted activists, artists and community member
The Watts Towers Day of the Drum and Simon Rodia Jazz Festivals have been bringing together cultures for generations.
Today, a cadre of local activists and artists in Watts are using storytelling and human relationships to promote change, justice, equality and communal values.
“We get it all the time — people come up to us and say, ‘We didn't know that Black people live in Santa Monica,” Carolyne Edwards said. “And there was a huge population there.”
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Noah Purifoy talks about how arts education could be a way forward.
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"66 Signs of Neon" was an eye opening installation that traveled the country.
Sometimes cool and sophisticated and other times volcanic and primordial, jazz is at once spiritually mindful and a raised fist in protest, inspiring us to push beyond limitations and imagine a brighter tomorrow.
The Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra is an instrument for self-determined socio-political thought in action. Its tenets are now taken up by a new generation of musicians.
How can museums and other arts institutions support Black creatives? For Erin Christovale, it's a little more radical than just hiring Black and buying Black.