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Now on its 11th season, "Artbound" is an Emmy® award-winning arts and culture series that examines the lives, works and creative processes of arts and culture innovators making an impact in Southern California and beyond. This season, join "Artbound" as it explores the artists and movements in California with a focus on the social movements of the 1960s and the legacy that continues today, from a jazz ethos passed on through generations in Leimert Park to the Light and Space movement that began in the 1960s. Through broadcast episodes and multimedia projects, "Artbound" brings to light the region’s rich cultural legacy and diversity. "Artbound" is the winner of multiple Emmys, Golden Mikes and Press Club awards.
The role of "Artbound" is not just to record, report and broadcast the cultural stories of our time and our region; our aim is to create mechanisms — be it partnerships, projects or online tools — through which audiences participate in an ongoing narrative. Episodes will also be streaming here following its broadcast, as well as on Amazon, YouTube, Roku and Apple TV.
Catch episodes Wednesdays at 9 p.m. PT
Full Episodes
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S11 E1: Light & Space
Season 11, Episode 1
Robert Irwin, Larry Bell and Helen Pashgian explore perception, material and experience.
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S11 E2: The New West Coast Sound - An L.A. Jazz Legacy
Season 11, Episode 2
Drummer Mekala Session and other artists carry forward Los Angeles’ rich jazz legacy.
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S11 E3: CURRENT:LA FOOD
Season 11, Episode 3
Artists created works to spark conversation about L.A. and sustainable futures.
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S11 E4: The Watts Towers Arts Center
Season 11, Episode 4
The Watts Towers Arts Center was born out of the resilience of 1960s Black L.A.
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S10 E1: Masters of Modern Design - The Art of the Japanese American Experience
Season 10, Episode 1
From the typeface of “The Godfather” book cover to the Noguchi table, the influence of Japanese American artists and designers in postwar American art and design is unparalleled. Learn how the World War II incarceration affected their lives and creations.
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Clips & Segments
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"66 Signs of Neon" was an eye opening installation that traveled the country, but it was an unconventional art work. Noah Purifoy and art historians recount the beginnings of the seminal "66 Signs of Neon," its eventual demise and significance today.
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Cultural leader Charmaine Jefferson parses the issues that led to under investment in Black communities and Noah Purifoy talks about the how arts education could be a way forward and the consequent role of Watts Towers Arts Center.
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The Watts Towers Arts Center has been a beacon in the community for almost 60 years, and was born out of the resilience of 1960s Black Los Angeles.
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Mekala Session shares his views on what jazz is and what it can do, informed Horace Tapscott's perspective on music's role in society. It is Black American classical music that can teach and empower people.
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The Watts Towers Arts Center
Season 11, Episode 4
The Watts Towers Arts Center was founded by artists and educators in the 1960s and has been a beacon of art and culture in the community for decades. This episode features the work of artists including Noah Purifoy, John Outterbridge, Betye Saar, Charles White and Mark Steven Greenfield.
Articles
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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.
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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
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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.
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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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Public art in America has changed a great deal in scope and scale. What role does it play today?
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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.
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