Artbound

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.

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Southland Sessions

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'90s Photos of LAPD Reveal a City in Pain

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What Is Current:LA Food?

Projects

The Mojave Project

Tastemakers & Earthshakers

Current:LA Food

High & Dry

Invisible Cities

Incendiary Traces

Arts Shrink

UCR ARTSblock

Arts for LA

18th Street Arts Center

LA Islam Arts Initiative

AgH2O

Borderblaster

Chats About Change

Forêt Intérieure/Interior Forest

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From the Archives

Hear and Now

Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre

Love on San Pedro

Monomania L.A.

Nuestro Lugar: North Shore

Performance Crafting

Play the LA River

Public Matters' Market Makeovers

SoCal Artist Timelines

Soldadera

Songs in the Key of L.A.: The Bedrock Sessions

The Unfinished

The War on Both Sides

There It Is-Take It!

Terminus of Los Angeles Aqueduct in Sylmar, California, also known as the Cascades.

ARID

Annenberg Space for Photography

BOOM Magazine

Big City Forum

Classical KUSC

Freewaves

Friends of Friends

Getty Villa Outdoor Theater

Half Cut Tea

Independent Shakespeare Co.

LACMA9 Art + Film Lab

MOCAtv

Machine Project

Made in L.A. 2014

Mexicali Rose Media/Arts Center

Otis Report on the Creative Economy

Panther Productions

SOC(i)AL: Art + People

Skid Row Freewalls Project

The Broad

The Colburn School

The Luckman Fine Arts Complex

USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism's Engine 30 Project

USC Libraries

Voice of San Diego

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The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles

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The Past That Resounds Today: A New Season of 'Artbound' Begins

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As If I was Carrying a Gun: Art and Surveillance in 1960s Watts

Carla Jay Harris "Sphinx," 2019. Archival pigment print. Two panels, 40 x 30 in. each. The work features a beautiful Black woman wearing a dark blue dress kneeling down in a golden meadow under a starry sky and bright orange sun. | Courtesy the artist

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Now More Than Ever: The Need for Alternative Cultural Spaces

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The Watts Towers Arts Center

The Watts Towers Arts Center was born out of the resilience of 1960s Black L.A.

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CURRENT:LA FOOD

Artists created works to spark conversation about L.A. and sustainable futures.

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The New West Coast Sound - An L.A. Jazz Legacy

Drummer Mekala Session and other artists carry forward Los Angeles’ rich jazz legacy.

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Light & Space

Robert Irwin, Larry Bell and Helen Pashgian explore perception, material and experience.

Jeffrey Deitch at his desk | Still from "Artbound" Jeffrey Deitch's Los Angeles

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Jeffrey Deitch's Los Angeles

A behind-the-scenes look at the contemporary art world through the eyes of a legendary art dealer and curator, Jeffrey Deitch.

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How Sweet The Sound: Gospel In Los Angeles

Gospel music would not be what it is today if not for the impact left by Los Angeles in the late 60’s and early 70’s, a time defined by political movements across the country.

Woman in calavera face paint during Día de los Muertos | Photo from "Día de los Muertos/Day of the Dead" ABs10

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Dia de Los Muertos / Day of the Dead

Inspired by Oaxacan traditions, Dia de Los Muertos was brought to L.A. in the '70s as a way to enrich and reclaim Chicano identity. It has since grown in proportions and is celebrated around the world.

Heathware being stamped | Still from "Heath Ceramics: The Making of a California Classic" ABs10

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Heath Ceramics: The Making of a California Classic

"Artbound" looks at the dinnerware of Heath Ceramics and a design that has stood the test of time since the company began in the late 1940’s.

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Masters of Modern Design

Japanese American influence in postwar American art and design is unparalleled.

Artist Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle with her son, Johari | Still from KCET Artbound's "Artist and Mother" Mother AB s9

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Artist and Mother

There's a persisting assumption in contemporary art circles that you can't be a good artist and good mother both. These fou artists are working to shatter this cliché, juggling demands of career and family and finding ways to explore the maternal.