*(Watts, CA) — The Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) celebrated the 41 st anniversary of the Annual Day of the Drum Festival, and the 46 th anniversary of the Annual Simon Rodia Watts Towers Jazz ...

The Watts Towers, a Los Angeles icon of modern art, reopened Friday after a seven-year, $1.9-million seismic retrofitting and restoration after the Northridge earthquake. A lighting ceremony and ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Committee for the Simon Rodia Towers in Watts records measure 0.2 linear feet and date from 1953-1989. The records include clippings, a ...

Los Angeles - The Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) celebrates the 41st anniversary of the Annual Watts Towers Day of the Drum Festival, and the 46th anniversary of the Annual Simon Rodia Watts ...

It took Simon Rodia 33 years to turn steel, concrete, seashells and glass from broken dishes and bottles into a monument to the imagination. By 1954, the unschooled Italian immigrant had left his mark ...

INSPIRATION reveals the magic and influence of craft. Featuring the Saar family (Betye Saar, Alison Saar, and Maddy Leeser), Simon Rodia and Watts Towers, Diedrick Brackens, Ayumi Horie, Suzanne Thao, ...

The Watts Towers aren't officially open for their centennial, having been closed for restoration since 2017. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) A hundred years ago, in what was then the semi-rural ...

People often conjure up images of the 1965 riots when thinking of the Los Angeles neighborhood Watts. Hopefully, after visiting Watts Towers (or “Nuestro Pueblo,” as its creator Simon Rodia originally ...

Introduction: Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts and the search for common ground / Luisa Del Giudice -- Part I: Situating Sabato Rodia and the Watts Towers : art movements, cultural contexts, and ...