Sculptor Charles Dickson

I’m Very Much a Futurist

Charles Dickson is a self-taught artist, sculptor, and designer whose public artwork spans decades and can be found throughout Southern California. Before joining us for the program “Is Car Culture the Ultimate Act of Community in Crenshaw?” with Destination Crenshaw, which commissioned Dickson to create the sculpture “Car Culture” as part of its 1.3-mile-long monument to Black L.A. history, art, and culture, the artist sat down in the green room with us to chat about his summer plans, working with plastic, and his 1993 Ford F-250.

Destination Crenshaw Lead Historian Larry Earl | Zocalo Public Square • Arizona State University • Smithsonian

Destination Crenshaw Lead Historian Larry Earl

I Fancy Myself Retiring and Becoming a Lounge Singer

Larry Earl is the founding lead historian for Destination Crenshaw. Before joining us for the Zócalo and Destination Crenshaw public program “Is Car Culture the Ultimate Act of …

What If We Saw Cars Like Rolling Sculptures?

The Automobile Represents an Engine of Possibility for Black L.A., Said Panelists at “Is Car Culture the Ultimate Act of Community in Crenshaw?”

Where Crenshaw and Leimert boulevards meet, the silver glint of artist and sculptor Charles Dickson’s “Car Culture” is beginning to take shape. One of Dickson’s largest public artworks to date, …

Los Angeles City Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson

Los Angeles Communities Are Wealthy Communities

Marqueece Harris-Dawson is the Los Angeles City Council president pro tempore. He represents the Eighth District of Los Angeles, where Destination Crenshaw is being erected. Before sitting on the panel …

Architect Gabrielle Bullock

I Wanted to Change How My People Lived

Gabrielle Bullock is a principal architect and the director of global diversity at the architecture firm Perkins&Will. The second Black woman to graduate from the architecture department of Rhode Island School of …