LOS ANGELES TIMES

Compton Native’s Gallery 90220 Provides a Space for Black Creatives to Collaborate

A new Black-owned and operated gallery has just opened in South Los Angeles, sprouting out of a vibrant artistic revival in Compton, California, and paving the way for an urban renaissance centered around the artistic expression of Black and Brown creatives.

ARCHINECT

Gallery 90220’s Founder on Empowering a New Generation of Black and Brown Artists in Los Angeles

For Compton native David Colbert Jr., the goal is always to uplift his city and portray it in a positive light.

GENSLER

Designing a Black-Owned Gallery to Elevate Artists of Color

Kevin Sherrod, Chris Doerr, and Wayne Thomas are colleagues at Gensler Los Angeles and fellow alums of UCLA’s School of the Arts and Architecture. We sat down with them to discuss Gallery 90220, a joint project created together with the support of the firm’s community impact initiative.

NEW YORK TIMES

In Compton, A School That Paved the Way for Generations of Black Artists

Between 1969 and 1975, the Communicative Arts Academy was a vital hub for a community largely excluded from Los Angeles’s cultural institutions.

UCLA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

A South LA art gallery encourages Black creatives to “shoot for the stars”

On a recent Sunday afternoon, I met Kevin Sherrod at Gallery 90220, a new art gallery housed in an industrial stretch of Historic South-Central Los Angeles. Sherrod and a team of designers hope the space will become a hub…