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Artbound: Cultural Journalism

"Artbound" explores and illuminates the cultural issues of our times, providing critical in-depth analysis of how the arts and culture affects our society. Through one-hour documentaries and an expanded digital footprint, "Artbound" investigates the role that creative industries have in shaping the future of our region and the nation.

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.

Awards:

Golden Mike Awards® 2019: Best Documentary: "That Far Corner: Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles"

LA Press Club, 61st Southern California Journalism Awards 2019: Documentary Short: "Open Your Eyes: Lula Washington Dance Theatre"

LA Press Club, 61st Southern California Journalism Awards 2019: PHoto Essay, Culture/Entertainment: "Land Artifacts: A Didactic of Ruins"

LA Press Club, 61st Southern California Journalism Awards 2019: Feature Photo: "Boarded Up Farmhouse"

LA Press Club, 61st Southern California Journalism Awards 2019: Minority/Immigration Reporting "La Raza"

LA Press Club, 61st Southern California Journalism Awards 2019: Gender/LGBTQ Reporting "Artist and Mother"

LA Press Club, 61st Southern California Journalism Awards 2019: Non-Entertainment Personality Profile/Interview: "Electric Earth: The Art of Doug Aitken"

LA Press Club, 61st Southern California Journalism Awards 2019: Lifestyle Feature (Online) "La Raza: The Community Newspaper That Became a Political Platform"

LA Press Club, 61st Southern California Journalism Awards 2019: Non-Entertainment Personality Profile/Interview: "Electric Earth: The Art of Doug Aitken"

LA Press Club, 11th National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards 2018: Documentary or Special Program, Feature (Over 30 minutes): "That Far Corner: Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles"

LA Press Club, 11th National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards 2018: Photo Journalist of the Year: Osceola Refetoff

LA Press Club, 11th National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards 2018: Photo Essay: A Glimpse of Another America

LA Press Club, 11th National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards 2018: All Media Platforms - Activism Journalism 3rd Place

69th Los Angeles Area Emmy® Awards: Best Arts Program: "Third L.A. with Christopher Hawthorne"

69th Los Angeles Area Emmy® Awards: Best Entertainment Programming: "Fallujah Opera: Art, Healing and PTSD"

Golden Mike Awards® 2017: Best Documentary: “Charles Lummis: Reimagining the
American West”

Orange County Press Club Awards 2017:1st Place for Best Arts/Culture Story or Review, “Laguna Beach in the Sixties: A Colony for the Arts”

Orange County Press Club Awards 2017: 2nd Place for Best Feature Story, "Healing Through Art: PTSD Survival Stories”

68th Los Angeles Area Emmy® Awards: Feature Segment: "The Star Apartments"

68th Los Angeles Area Emmy® Awards: Arts category: "Borderlands"

Golden Mike Awards® 2016: Best News Videography of a Feature Story, Series or Special: "Noah Purifoy's Desert Art Museum"

66th Los Angeles Area Emmy® Awards: Entertainment Programming for "Invisible Cities: An Opera For Headphones"

LA Press Club, 7th Annual National Entertainment Journalism Awards 2014: 1st Place Award for "Best Use of Social Media"

LA Press Club, 7th Annual National Entertainment Journalism Awards 2014: 1st Place Award for "Documentary or Special Program, Short" for Mexicali Rose.

LA Press Club, 6th Annual National Entertainment Journalism Awards 2013: 1st Place Award for "Documentary or Special Program, Feature" for Season 2, Episode 2.

LA Press Club, 5th Annual National Entertainment Journalism Awards 2012: 1st Place Award for "Documentary or Special Program, Short" for Date Farmers: Desert Detritus Becomes Chicano Pop Art.

63rd Annual Golden Mike Awards 2013: "Best Entertainment Reporting" for Artbound Episode 1; "Best Internet News Reporting" for Date Farmers: Desert Detritus Becomes Chicano Pop Art.

LA Weekly Web Awards 2012: "Best Arts and Culture Website"

Credits:

Executive Producer
JUAN DEVIS

Producer + Director of Production
MATTHEW CROTTY

Producer 
JACQUELINE REYNO

Associate Producer 
AMANDA MARIE PINEDO

Video Production
THE WATASE MEDIA ARTS CENTER, JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM
TILAPIA FILMS
DIGNICRAFT
WRONG CREATIVE
STAPLETON PROJECTS

Director of Digital Content
JUSTIN CRAM

Digital Producers
HENRY CRAM
CARREN JAO

Production Assistants
JULIAN RODRIGUEZ
ANN VALDÉS

Online Editor
DAN LEONARD

Production Manager
KATHY KASABA
ROBERT MCDONNELL

Web Development
JASON BAZALAR
NIKOL HASLER
VJ AGUILAR

ARTBOUND is partially funded by the James Irvine Foundation, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the ArtsBoeing, the California Arts Council, the Department of Cultural AffairsCal Humanities, the California Endowment, and the Library Foundation of Los Angeles.

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