Charles Dickson started sculpting at five years old and sold his first piece at 12 years old. The Los Angeles native, who’s an Artist in Residence at the Watts Tower Arts Center, sculpts in many mediums and has featured work in public art for 36 years. Yet, the 74-year-old considers his sculpture for Destination Crenshaw to be his most substantial.
Dickson’s work will be displayed in Sankofa Park, an open-air museum that’s a part of Destination Crenshaw, a cultural infrastructure development in Los Angeles. The project, which will run for 1.3 miles along Crenshaw Boulevard from 48th to 60th streets, hopes to establish the neighborhood as the go-to place for Black art and culture, similarly to how tourists visit Chinatown or Little Italy.
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