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Since time immemorial, artists have been using what is available to them to share their message. Learn how creativity cross-pollinates among disciplines.

Doug Aitken, "Underwater Pavilions." | Photo: Matt Crotty
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Rosie Lee Hooks | Courtesy of Watts Towers Arts Center
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.
Detail of the Great Wall of Los Angeles
Judith Baca’s mural work asks tough questions about public art and what role it plays in a multicultural society. These seven books illuminate the intersection between Baca’s work, public histories and art practice.
A mural honoring Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, who died in a helicopter crash along with seven others. The mural was painted by artist Artoon | Ronen Tivony / Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media via Getty Images
Kobe Bryant will forever be remembered as one of the brightest lights to ever shine in the City of Angels. His life ripples through L.A.'s collective cultural consciousness.
Jim Wharff looking at papers beside the Middle Camp claim | Kim Stringfellow
On a smaller scale, recreational prospecting is thriving throughout the West — especially in its desert regions.
The Yellow Aster Mine in Randsburg, CA | Kim Stringfellow. January 2019
Exploration of the Mojave Desert was directly driven by the desire to locate gold. These hell-bent gold seekers would bring about enduring cultural transformations and irreversible environmental legacies within California and other western states.
Patricia Valencia, Felicia Montes, and Martina Estrada Melendez at the National Day of Protest Against the Massacre in Chiapas, Los Angeles. January 2, 1998. | Arnoldo Vargas
Chicano and Mexican women of all ages featured in Vincent Price Art Museum's “Regeneración: Three Generations of Revolutionary Ideology” represents a century of transnational resistance against oppression in its many forms.
Avocados on the tree
There are hundreds of varieties of avocado, but the Hass is by far the most popular. It has a special relationship with California, which grows over 90% of avocados grown in the U.S., most recently around 350 million pounds a year.
Swank One at "Don't Believe the Hype"
"Don't Believe the Hype: L.A. Asian Americans in Hip Hop" examines the genre as a tool for “resistance, refuge and reinvention” to represent everything from breakdancing and graffiti to DJs and MCs.
Artwork by Penelope Umbrico for the MOONS exhibition
At the exhibition "Moons," artists consider moons and how people have perceived them through time and through scientific discovery.
Dead Tree Nests & Thermal Plants - Infrared Exposure - Salton Sea, CA - 2014  | Osceola Refetoff
Our lives are short. When compared to the landscape around us, we are the proverbial mayfly. Given the brevity of our mortality, we swell with pride, or shutter from embarrassment about what we have done to our home.
Carmen Argote, "If it were only that easy...," 2018. Moto Guzzi V11 motorcycle in Guadalajara, in the artist's father's house | Courtesy of the artist
A motorcycle journey becomes Los Angeles-based artist Carmen Argote's latest medium to explore explore themes of home and identity.
Installation view of Doug Aitken: Electric Earth, September 10, 2016–January 15, 2017 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles | Joshua White
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For more than 20 years, Doug Aitken has shifted the perception and location of images and narratives. His diverse works demonstrate the nature and structure of our ever-mobile, ever-changing, image-based contemporary condition.
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