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“I think that, for us, is the biggest challenge, like, how do you convey what can be a really powerful and beautiful experience for people through these virtual channels?” explains Self Help Graphics Executive Director Betty Avila.
Today, a cadre of local activists and artists in Watts are using storytelling and human relationships to promote change, justice, equality and communal values.
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The Watts Towers Arts Center was born out of the resilience of 1960s Black L.A.
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Hosted by designer Rosten Woo, this episode explores L.A. civic art and culture during the pandemic.
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Mekala Session and the "Ark" ring in the new year with a jazz music celebration.
From performing with an ensemble to working at the Smithsonian to mentoring Watts youth (including a young Nipsey Hussle), WTAC's advocate has done it all and keeps fighting for her adopted neighborhood.
All around the United States is a 100-mile border zone where one can be searched and one's things seized. Policies way beyond what the constitution allows is regularly implemented. Artists drew on select sites. Here's what they realized.
Michael Rakowitz, the internationally-acclaimed Iraqi American artist reconstructs Room F in Iraq’s Northwest Palace of Nimrud, and tackles a history of migration and displacement that has been going on for hundreds of years.
As a sculptural artist, Ry Rocklen endorses the hyper familiar in a whimsical, surreal fashion. He turns Palms Park into a veritable digestive system and peoples it with... life-sized, dancing fast food.
“New Shores: The Future Dialogue Between Two Homelands,” is a Current:LA event series highlighting the cuisine of nearby neighborhoods and the immigrant stories that thread them together.
“Imperishable,” a public art installation boasting 8-foot-tall towers full of Cheetos, focuses on food accessibility and equity and how this impacts Los Angeles’s diverse communities.