Artbound - Season 13 (2022)

When FDR created the New Deal, also known as the Works Progress Administration (WPA), as a way to provide paying jobs to millions of unemployed Americans recovering from The Great Depression, no one imagined how far-reaching its impact would be. From the Aliso Street Bridge to the Virgil Middle School Mural, over 140 projects were completed by the WPA in Los Angeles. The WPA created both infrastructure projects benefiting unskilled laborers as well as arts projects benefiting artists. This episode highlights many of these works still standing and asks the question ...

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Since the early-80s, artist Rubén Ortiz Torres has been working as a photographer, painter, sculptor, writer, filmmaker and video producer. Often associated with the development of a Mexican form of postmodernism, Ortiz Torres's life is a collage that explores the social and aesthetic transformations related to cross-cultural exchange and globalization. This episode examines how his past and present informs an uncertain socioeconomic future.