Conversations

Artist Talk: Sam Durant & Charles Gaines

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Having taught since the 1970s, Charles Gaines has mentored and influenced generations of artists living and working in Los Angeles and elsewhere. Sam Durant, a former student of Gaines and a current colleague at CalArts, joins in a conversation reflecting on Gaines’s career as an artist and educator.

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