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An image can have powerful consequences. Explore how artists are using the visual arts to empower and elevate a point of view.

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Artbound’s fifth season kicks off with an exciting collaboration with MOCAtv, featuring all original pieces including Wildflowering L. A.
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Lili Bernard's art explores traumas experienced by women, from the struggle to attain an ideal of beauty to the pain of sexual assault.
Pathos in Papier-mâché by Robert Williams
Robert Williams, founder of Juxtapoz Magazine, is widely regarded as the godfather of the low brow and pop surrealist art movements.
Memory Palace
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This "Artbound" special episode, in partnership with MOCAtv, features The Museum of Contemporary Art's current programming.
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Artist Fawn Rogers' "Visible Light" series aims to bring awareness to the disenfranchisement of the elderly population in the U.S.
Former football quarterback Ryan McCann makes his art with a blowtorch and takes critical aim at the trappings of the contemporary art world.
American Purgatory
55:32
Artbound explores the paintings of Marc Trujillo, Kim Stringfellow’ s Mojave Project, Dave Lefner’s colored wood block prints of neon signs, and the subculture of Brazilian cholos who emulate lowrider culture from East Los Angeles.
Portraits Among Friends and Melrose Graffiti
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This episode of Artbound features the portrait work of artist Shizu Saldamando and Nery Gabriel Lemus, a history of the Melrose graffiti scene, the mapping of Tijuana's burgeoning arts scene and performance by the folk-country band I See Hawks in L.A.
America Deserta
53:30
Travel to Southern California’s desert regions with an episode of "Artbound" that includes work by visual artist Diane Best, the Date Farmers from Coachella, and Hillary Mushkin’s Incendiary Traces.
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The new exhibition "Histories Absolved" displays posters of the Cuban Revolution conceived in solidarity with Muslim liberation movements in the Middle East.
Virtual Domains
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In this episode of Artbound, we visit the Zorthian Ranch artist community in Altadena.
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The Lewis Carroll Collection in the Special Collections department of USC Libraries houses an exhaustive archive of the famed author's works and their adaptations.
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