The Studio of David Inocencio and Minette Siegel

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
California Countercultures: The Sixties

"California Counterculture: The Sixties" is a documentary work commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as a component to their exhibition "Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000". The documentary is a 15 minute long, 3-screen / 6 projector multi-image slide show, screened in a theater within the exhibition's gallery devoted to "1960 to1980". To enhance and augment the art and ephemera displayed within the exhibition, "California Counterculture: The Sixties" focuses on the cultural and political revolutions of the 1960s that were widely associated with California. Showcased are --the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley; the hippies in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district during the "Summer of Love"; the Vietnam War protests; the strikes by the United Farm Workers; the Native American assertion of "Red Power" on Alcatraz; the community service provided by the Black Panther Party; the early Women's Liberation and Gay Rights movements; and culminating back in Berkeley, with the demonstrations at People's Park.

Trivia Questions:

1
What was an earlier suggusted name for what became known as the Free Speech Movement?

2
Where was The Grateful Dead headquarters located?

3
What former governor of California ordered the National Guard to Berkeley?

Answers...

Photo: Paula Paulin

Photos: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

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	"California Counterculture: The Sixties" is a documentary work commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as a component to their exhibition "Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000". The documentary is a 15 minute long, 3-screen / 6 projector multi-image slide show, screened in a theater within the exhibition's gallery devoted to "1960 to1980". To enhance and augment the art and ephemera displayed within the exhibition, "California Counterculture: The Sixties" focuses on the cultural and political revolutions of the 1960s that were widely associated with California. Showcased are --the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley; the hippies in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district during the "Summer of Love"; the Vietnam War protests; the strikes by the United Farm Workers; the Native American assertion of "Red Power" on Alcatraz; the community service provided by the Black Panther Party; the early Women's Liberation and Gay Rights movements; and culminating back in Berkeley, with the demonstrations at People's Park. Trivia Questions: 1 What was an earlier suggusted name for what became known as the Free Speech Movement? 2 Where was The Grateful Dead headquarters located? 3 What former governor of California ordered the National Guard to Berkeley? Answers...

Photo: Paula Paulin

Photos: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
More images from this show...

Los Angeles County Museum of Art California Countercultures: The Sixties

Trivia Questions:

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
California Countercultures: The Sixties