During the 1960s and '70s, Chicano artists mobilized to imagine liberation through a new identity and visual language.
By 1979, they had produced 15 murals in Sacramento. Their art coincided with the rise of labor leader Cesar Chavez and the Chicano movement’s push for political and social rights. In 2018 ...
but not just any street art. Chicano street art. “Here at Beaverton, I would say 90% of the CANS class is Mexican American,” said OC Note, an MC, singer-songwriter and graffiti artist from ...
It’s 1993, and the Mexican American artist, then 52 years old and on a day off from his job as a city maintenance worker, drives to San Antonio to see the largest exhibit of Chicano art ever ...
I asked. “I would say resilience,” said Valerie Jaimes, Executive Director of the Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center. Resilience in art, and in the movement. “You know, a lot of these ...
The Frist Art Museum will present ¡Printing ... rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s and beyond, Chicano artists used prints and posters to reflect their culture and advocate for equal ...
“However, a key intervention that this exhibition hopes to make through showcasing the ingenuity and artistic skill of these artists is how critical their work is and has been to Chicano art ...
SAN ANTONIO — An exhibit at the Contemporary at Blue Star highlights the past, present and future of Chicano and Chicana culture, right down to its modernized name: “Xicanx: Dreamers ...
Louis Carlos Bernal, a Chicano photographer born in the Arizona ... framed family photographs, altars, posters, religious ...
Art has always been a saving grace for Chicano-American muralist Fabian “Spade” Debora, who proudly represents Boyle Heights in East Los Angeles. “I always loved the arts and wanted to ...