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Venice Family Clinic kicks off its 42nd annual Art Walk auction Apr. 28, 2021 at 6:00 am Art: ‘The offering’ by Rose Leila Fanner is one of over 200 pieces. Also pictured is a work by Kim McCarty. Courtesy images Beginning today and running through May 12, the Venice Family Clinic is hosting a virtual auction of more than 200 pieces of art to help fund its vital health services for people in need. Venice Family Clinic was founded in 1970 as a tiny operation running out of a borrowed dental office, and has since blossomed into an essential community resource that serves over 27,000 patients at 14 sites annually. ....
John Outterbridge, Who Turned Castoffs Into Sculpture, Dies at 87 Leftover wood, rags, rusted metal all were his materials, and pieced together as assemblages, they told stories about history, about culture and about him. John Outterbridge outside the Watts Towers Art Center in Los Angeles in 1991. He was a leading practitioner of the pieced-together mixed-medium sculpture known as assemblage.Credit.Bart Bartholomew for The New York Times Jan. 1, 2021 LOS ANGELES John Outterbridge, a Los Angeles cultural leader and artist who made powerful sculptures from what is usually dismissed as junk or castoffs a means of exploring loaded social issues as well as celebrating a history of African-American resourcefulness died here on Nov. 12. He was 87. ....