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What Was California's Black Arts Movement and Why Was It Important? – ARTnews.com

Forged in the crucible of the Watts Rebellion, the California Black Arts Movement promoted new forms of cultural expression. ....

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When Compton Was a Citadel of Black Political Power

In the 1960s and 70s, young, Black middle-class families flocked to Compton for the opportunity to live in a progressive, Black space created by Black businesses and civic and political engagement. ....

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John Outterbridge, Who Turned Castoffs Into Sculpture, Dies at 87

John Outterbridge, Who Turned Castoffs Into Sculpture, Dies at 87
Leftover wood, rags, rusted metal all were his materials, and pieced together as assemblages, they told stories about history, about culture and about him.
John Outterbridge outside the Watts Towers Art Center in Los Angeles in 1991. He was a leading practitioner of the pieced-together mixed-medium sculpture known as assemblage.Credit.Bart Bartholomew for The New York Times
Jan. 1, 2021
LOS ANGELES John Outterbridge, a Los Angeles cultural leader and artist who made powerful sculptures from what is usually dismissed as junk or castoffs a means of exploring loaded social issues as well as celebrating a history of African-American resourcefulness died here on Nov. 12. He was 87. ....

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John Outterbridge, the Pioneering Assemblage Artist and Los Angeles Community Activist, Has Died at 87

John Outterbridge. Photo: DISTINCT via Facebook.
The artist John Outterbridge has died in Los Angeles. He was 87. His passing was announced by his daughter, Tami Outterbridge, and shared by Tilton Gallery, which represented Outterbridge since 2006. No cause of death was given.
Since the 1960s, Outterbridge was a pioneering figure in LA, serving for decades as the director of the Watts Towers Arts Center and working as a community activist alongside artists such as Noah Purifoy.
In the 1990s, he left Watts Towers to focus on his own practice, which often took the form of assemblages and sculptures that fused the aesthetics of folk art with social commentary on Black American life. He created doll-like figures from discarded objects and found materials, fabrics and scrap metals, wood and old clothes. ....

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