Artbound

Artbound’s fifth season kicks off with an exciting collaboration with MOCAtv, featuring all original pieces including Wildflowering L.A., a Los Angeles county-wide public initiative by artist Fritz Haeg; a performance art video featuring the movement group WIFE; painter John Knuth’s unusual practice of getting flies to “paint” on canvas; and more.

To commemorate KCET's 50th anniversary, "Artbound" dives into the vaults to uncover groundbreaking arts programming that aired during the 1980s and 1990s, featuring land art from environmental artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Lita Albuquerque, and Rachel Rosenthal.

Artbound visits Kathy Kobayashi who discusses the Shades of L.A. photography archive at the Downtown L.A. Library, which explores community based photos illuminating diversity in Southern California. Then, Ana Serrano shows us her cardboard-constructed pieces based on her cultural explorations around Los Angeles. Next, we travel to Mexicali Rose, an artist organization in Mexicali.

To commemorate KCET's 50th anniversary, Artbound dives into the vaults to uncover groundbreaking arts programming that aired during the 1980s and 1990s. In this episode, host Mary Woronov, a former "Warhol superstar," reflects on the cultural discourse of the Los Angeles arts scene of the 60s, and how it contributed to a renewed cultural arts movement in the 90s.

In this episode of Artbound, we visit the Zorthian Ranch artist community in Altadena. We also view some of the current art installations at LAX airport. Micol Hebron confronts gender inequality in the art world through her project Gallery Tally. Alan Nakagawa gives an eclectic musical performance utilizing ambient sounds collected from the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona and the Watts Towers in L.A.

Artbound digs into the KCET vaults to uncover a gem from the early 1970s. Iconoclast writer and poet Charles Bukowski reads from his work to a live audience. Also featuring candid behind the scenes footage.

Artbound explores Social Practice arts, featuring: Olga Koumoundouros' occupation of foreclosed homes in Los Angeles; The Workers' Rug/La Alfombra Del Trabajador, an art project by day laborers, organizers affiliated with IDEPSCA, artist Katie Bachler, and Jade Thacker, and the Craft and Folk Art Museum; Public Matters’ Market Makeover project addressing the "grocery gap" in "food deserts."

Artbound travels to Southern California’s desert regions. Featuring the landscape painting and video art of visual artist Diane Best whose work personifies the creative spirit found throughout the Joshua Tree region; the Coachella artists the Date Farmers who infuse abstract expressionism with a politically charged, pop culture update; a draw-in with Hillary Mushkin’s Incendiary Traces and more.