©2003 Marquette University

Essays by Curtis L. Carter, Jayne Cortez, J. Eric Priestley, Budd Schulberg and Johnie Scott.  Poems by Jayne Cortez and Johnie
Scott.

70 pages, 16 color plates, 11 b/w. 9 x 9 in.

Cost:  $20.00

Watts: Art and Social Change in Los Angeles, 1965-2002, focuses on African-American artists and writers who experienced the Los Angeles Watts riot in 1965.  The artists include Jayne Cortez, Dale Davis, Charles Dickson, John Outterbridge, Elliot Pinkney, Noah Purifoy and Melvin Edwards.  The exhibition is presented in conjunction with Milwaukee's sixth annual International Festival for the Arts.  The artists explore the idea of promoting social change through art using a wide variety of media that range from assemblage, sculpture, photography and mixed media often times using found objects taken from the debris left over from the rebellion.  The essays and poems in the catalogue express the artists' feelings and thoughts from the
turbulent decade of the sixties, to the present.  In addition to the essays and color reproductions, this catalogue includes color illustrations, biographies of the artists and a list of the works in the exhibition.