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"Paint-up day" at the Watts Towers Art Center

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Order Number	00036516
Title	"Paint-up day" at the Watts Towers Art Center
Collection ID	Herald Examiner Collection
Location/Accession	HE box 7305.
Date	1966
Physical Description	1 photograph :b&w
Description	"This is the place where so many hungry kids come to work out their feelings. It's their house and more than 100 a day come here from all over Watts." Arthola Lee, who is curator of the Simon Rodia Towers in Watts was talking about the next-door Community Art Center on East 107th Street which is sponsored by the Towers Committee and provides free art classes, supplies, a place to "hang out" and, most important, the loving help of such people as Miss Lee and art instructors Lucille Krasne, Debby Brewer and William Blum. Photo dated: August 28, 1966.
Subject	Watts Towers Art Center. Art centers--California--Watts (Los Angeles). Herald-Examiner Collection photographs.
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection