Artists

Betye Saar was born in Pasadena, California. During visits to her grandmother in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts, she watched as the fantastic Watts Towers were slowly being constructed by Simon Rodia out of broken glass, bottle tops, and other junk.

Born 1 March 1848, Dublin, Ireland, of a French father and Irish mother; September, due to Potato Famine, family emigrated to U.S., settling in New York. 1861, apprenticed to a French stone cameo-cutter in New York, then to a shell cameo-cutter until 1867.