Undated. (Cada Casa AIMS) OC Note weaves history lessons into his classes to help spread positive messages to the Chicano community through art, fashion and music. “We really try to teach the ...
At the end of a school day at Beaverton High, a group of students gather and begin shaking cans of spray paint. They’re here at the bi-weekly, no-credit class to learn how to create street art, but ...
During the 1960s and '70s, Chicano artists mobilized to imagine liberation through a new identity and visual language.
Su Teatro began in 1971 as a student-organized theatre group, but it's grown into a nationally-recognized group that speaks ...
but not just any street art - Chicano street art. Three weeks after a 2-year-old girl died of a suspected fentanyl overdose in Northeast Portland, police report warrants out for the mother’s ...
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 ...
Decades since its emergence, lowriding is experiencing a boom, shown by an increase in car shows and conventions nationwide – and even abroad.
Various art of all shapes ... organized celebration of Chicano/a culture and history. The name he gave it was an apt one: Xicanx Month. “There are young, third-, fourth-, fifth-generation ...
“To me, it’s about expressing my art and what I can do ... with origins in Mexican American and Chicano communities, lowriding is an aspect of Latino history in the U.S. in which people ...