Skateboarding Hall of Fame<\/a>, said before 1962, it wasn\u2019t possible to buy a skateboard in a store.<\/p>\n Keep up with LAist.<\/p>\n
If you’re enjoying this article, you’ll love our daily newsletter, The LA Report. Each weekday, catch up on the 5 most pressing stories to start your morning in 3 minutes or less. <\/p>\n
\u201cSkateboarding started as a craft,\u201d Huber said on AirTalk, LAst 89.3\u2019s daily news program. \u201cSomewhere in the 50s until 1962, if you wanted to sidewalk surf, as they called it, you had to make your own out of roller skates.\u201d<\/p>\n
What to expect<\/p>\n
Emily Zaiden, the director and lead curator of the Craft in America Center based in Los Angeles, told LAist\u2019s AirTalk the exhibit was tricky to curate.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we wanted to do was focus on both the history and then expand into how this has been an object that people have interpreted in so many different ways since the very beginning,\u201d Zaiden said.<\/p>\n
Artists who craft skateboards not only think of design, but also of the features that give riders the ability to do tricks, such as wheelies and kickflips.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ways that people have constructed boards, engineered boards, design boards \u2026 people are really renegade, which I think is really the spirit of skateboarding overall,\u201d Zaiden said. \u201cThis very independent, out-of-the-box approach and making boards that allow them to do all kinds of wacky tricks and do all kinds of things that no one imagined possible physically with their body, but through the object of the board.\u201d<\/p>\n
Know before you go<\/p>\n
The exhibit at Craft in America Center<\/a> opens to the public on Saturday. Admission is free. The museum is open from noon to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new exhibit in L.A. \u2014 Vehicles of Expression: The Craft of the Skateboard \u2014 arrives this weekend,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[97517,48,52,51,47,50,49,97518,97519],"class_list":["post-212113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-craft-in-america","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-skateboard","tag-skateboarding-hall-of-fame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}