Artist Noah Purifoy Wins Financial Grant

Noah Purifoy, an 83-year-old artist who in 1964 founded and directed the Watts Towers Art Center and served on the California Arts Council from 1976-1987, has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

The New York-based foundation was established by the late Lee Krasner, a painter and wife of Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock, to benefit artists who need financial assistance to continue their work.

In 1989, Purifoy moved from Los Angeles to the desert community of Joshua Tree, where he is creating an environment of sculptures made of discarded objects.