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Cultural Politics
Artbound
Self Help Graphics & Art's Día de los Muertos Legacy Told Through Prints
Post date:For over four decades, Self Help Graphics & Art become emblematic of the Day of the Dead in L.A. not only through its community celebrations but also through the annual limited-edition prints they commission. Take a look at some of these memorable prints.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Gabriela Ruiz Is Young, Subversive and Forging Her Own Way in the Art World
Post date:With no formal art school training, multimedia artist Gabriela Ruiz is creating her own opportunities to forge a path in a famously stratified field.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Radio Clandestina Gives Voice to a Marginalized Latinx Community
Post date:It was 1996, and big media was swallowing up smaller stations in L.A., leaving little room for Latinx voices. It was into this barren media-scape that the pirate radio station Radio Clandestina emerged.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
The Women of Regeneración: An Incredible History of Organizing, Defying and Empowering
Post date:Chicano and Mexican women of all ages featured in Vincent Price Art Museum's “Regeneración: Three Generations of Revolutionary Ideology” represents a century of transnational resistance against oppression in its many forms.
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Cultural Politics
Artbound
The Many Legacies of Regeneración
Post date:For over 100 years, the word regeneración has been a critical part of the political lexicon of Mexicans, Mexican Americans and Chicanxs in Los Angeles. Learn more about its many iterations over the centuries.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Interactive: A Chicanx Artist's Point of View
Post date:An exhibition in Mexico City titled “Bridges in a Time of Walls: Chicano/Mexican-American Art from L.A. to Mexico,” is introducing Mexicans to Chicano and Mexican-American art across generations and practices. We spoke to four participating artists.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
AltaMed's Extensive Chicano Art Collection is a Balm for Its Patients
Post date:At AltaMed Health Services Corporation, healthcare is going beyond just the physical. It has built an enviable Chicano art collection, which it displays at its clinics all around Southern California.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Rare Exhibit Brings Chicano Art to Mexico City
Post date:“Bridges in a Time of Walls: Mexican/Chicano Art from Los Angeles to Mexico” is a wide-ranging, multigenerational and rare exhibit of Chicano artwork in Mexico’s capital.
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PST: LA/LA
Artbound
Lowriders, Aliens and the Blending of L.A. and Latin America in the Work of Rubén Ortiz-Torres
Post date:Through Ruben Ortiz-Torres' own work over the past three decades, the artist has grappled with and celebrated themes of hybridity, identity and cultural transmission that weave through many of the exhibitions now on view on Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Portraits Reveal the Complexity of the Chicano Identity
Post date:Photographer Harry Gamboa Jr.'s latest exhibit at the Autry features nearly 100 portraits of Chicanos he believes represent the evolution of the term among Mexican-American men.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Photo essay: Chicano Redefined
Post date:In his long-running photo series, “Chicano Male Unbonded," photographer Harry Gamboa Jr. meant to counteract all the negative stereotypes that stem from the word "Chicano." Meet a few of his past subjects.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
The Origins (and Consequent Popularity) of Chicanx-Style Tattoos
Post date:Years ago tattoos were often taboo, but today they've become a popular form of adornment. The Chicanx-style tattoo is among the most famous styles of this art form. Artist Freddy Negrete was key in popularizing this style.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
This Artist's Outsized Piñatas are Colorful Statements on Latinx Culture
Post date:Born and still based in Las Vegas, Justin Favela creates oversized piñatas that comment on Guatemalan-Mexican issues while appearing as non-threatening.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Art as Resistance: Chicano Artists in the Time of Trump
For these artists, paintings represent a political protest against President Donald Trump
Post date:Latino artists are turning to painting, photography and performance art as a way to protest President Donald Trump and his policies.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
These Artists are Bringing to Light the 'Beauty, Struggle and Dignity' of the Latinx Community
Post date:Utilizing photography, and self-made zines as their primary method of distribution, this ensemble of artists are bringing to "light the beauty, struggle and dignity of" the Latinx community.
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![[Left] "Santa Barbara Brown Berets aka Moratorium in Maravilla" 1970. | Photo: Oscar Castillo || [Right] "Not One More (Girl with Beret)" 2016. | Photo: Rafael Cardenas](https://www.kcet.org/sites/kl/files/styles/kl_image_medium/public/thumbnails/image/featured_oscar_castillo_and_rafael_cardenas_photos_brown_be.jpg?itok=k_bdPXgj "[Left] \"Santa Barbara Brown Berets aka Moratorium in Maravilla\" 1970. | Photo: Oscar Castillo || [Right] \"Not One More (Girl with Beret)\" 2016. | Photo: Rafael Cardenas")
film and media arts
Artbound
Photos of Latino Youth Resistance, From the 1960s to Today
Post date:Protest photographs bridge Latino youth cultures across space and time. They remind us that Chicano youth continue to not only speak out about injustice but thrive despite it.
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California Looking Forward
News & Analysis
Go Ahead. Build That Wall. Artists Are Waiting To Paint On It.
Post date:If things don’t go as planned and jobs don’t come to those who voted for Donald Trump, they may want to look to Chicano street artists who have always spoken up by writing on the walls.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Essay For An Ese: A Tribute to Chicano Artist José Montoya
Post date:José Montoya (1932–2013) captured the sentiments and struggles of the Chicano movement. His writings and drawings depicted zoot suiters, campesinos, pachucos and pachucas, revolutionaries, and everyday people that shared Chicano history.
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l.a. letters
History & Society
Defining 'Chicanismo' Since the 1969 Denver Youth Conference
Post date:On March 23, 1969, 1500 Mexican Americans students convened at the Denver Youth Conference, unifying under the term "Chicano." In commemoration, Sybil Venegas, Chair of Chicana/o Studies Department at East Los Angeles College, explains what's changed s...
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![Devon Tsuno, "Invasive Horticulture (Los Angeles River)," 2015. | Photo: Courtesy of the UCR Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts.](https://www.kcet.org/sites/kl/files/styles/kl_image_medium/public/atoms/article_atoms/www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/images/Devon_Tsuno_Invasive_Horticulture.jpg?itok=i-xxVS-e "Devon Tsuno, "Invasive Horticulture (Los Angeles River)," 2015. | Photo: Courtesy of the UCR Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts.")
Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
How 1980s Aesthetics Influence Contemporary Artists Today
Post date:At exhibition "Second Wave," artists who were born and raised in the 1980s look to MTV, Saturday morning cartoons, and technology as influences.