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![Luis A. Jiménez Jr., "El Corazón Lowrider"](https://www.kcet.org/sites/kl/files/styles/kl_image_medium/public/atoms/article_atoms/www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/images/jimenez.jpg?itok=kBSzs34S "Luis A. Jiménez Jr., "El Corazón Lowrider"")
community arts
Artbound
The Chicana/o Printmakers of 'Estampas de la Raza'
Post date:Prints from the late Richard Duardo, Lalo Alcaraz, Jaime GERMS Zacarias, and more Chicano artists will be on display at the Vincent Price Museum in East L.A.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
The Chicana/o Printmakers of 'Estampas de la Raza'
Post date:Prints from the late Richard Duardo, Lalo Alcaraz, Jaime GERMS Zacarias, and more Chicano artists will be on display at the Vincent Price Museum in East L.A.
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!["Stay Sweet"](https://www.kcet.org/sites/kl/files/styles/kl_image_medium/public/atoms/article_atoms/www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/images/Stay%2520Sweet.jpg?itok=8hdxDuYm ""Stay Sweet"")
Visual Arts
Artbound
Eye on the Street: The Visual Language of Daniel Gibson
Post date:L.A.-based artist's Daniel Gibson's artwork continues to be influenced by his upbringing in the remote deserts of Imperial Valley.
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![GERMS, "Pedometer," acrylic on wood, 24" x 16," 2012.](https://www.kcet.org/sites/kl/files/styles/kl_image_medium/public/atoms/article_atoms/www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/images/gallery1_pedometer.jpg?itok=xbeeuKNP "GERMS, "Pedometer," acrylic on wood, 24" x 16," 2012.")
Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Artbound Season 4 Episode 3 'East is Eden'
Post date:In this episode, Artbound investigates arts practices from communities east of Los Angeles, venturing from Lincoln Heights to San Bernardino.
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Cultural Politics
Artbound
Herman Sillas' Art and Activism
Post date:Chicano activist and attorney Herman Sillas' paintings are pictorial memoirs of a witness to social change in 1960s Chicano Los Angeles.
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writing on the wall
History & Society
Images That 'Bookmark' a Neighborhood
Post date:Ed Fuentes tells his personal stories of Casa Blanca, a 16-block barrio in Riverside, where he grew up, through digital mural works that are now on display at the Riverside Art Museum.
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writing on the wall
History & Society
Monthly Mural Wrap: A Dozen Tags for June, 2013
Post date:Here are a few mural- and public art-related stories we like to tag in our Monthly Mural Wrap up for June, 2013.
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!["Pay Me No Mind" by Fabian Debora, 2010, acrylic/canvas. | Courtesy of the artist.](https://www.kcet.org/sites/kl/files/styles/kl_image_medium/public/atoms/article_atoms/www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/images/BoomDebora1.jpg?itok=YeHVvM8e ""Pay Me No Mind" by Fabian Debora, 2010, acrylic/canvas. | Courtesy of the artist.")
Visual Arts
Artbound
From Gangs to Art: The Salvation of Fabian Debora
Post date:Fabian Debora paints like many latter-day Chicano artists, employing visual irony to address wider themes only tangentially related to traditional barrio concerns.
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writing on the wall
History & Society
El Pachuco and the Art of 'Zoot Suit'
Post date:If the stage production of "Zoot Suit" made El Pachuco the flag bearer of identity, its poster became the garrison flag.
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writing on the wall
History & Society
Monthly Mural Wrap: A Dozen Tags for May, 2013
Post date:May 2013 saw more murals coming, then going. Here's some news and notes we like to tag under Monthly Mural Wrap.
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!["Gerardo Posing," oil on wood, glitter, Shizu Saldamando | Courtesy of the artist.](https://www.kcet.org/sites/kl/files/styles/kl_image_medium/public/atoms/article_atoms/www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/images/5.gerardo%2520shizu.jpg?itok=SFvEh0RJ ""Gerardo Posing," oil on wood, glitter, Shizu Saldamando | Courtesy of the artist.")
Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Portraits Among Friends
Post date:Shizu Saldamando's portraits of real, breathing beings actively building their identity are heavily influenced by Chicano art sensibilities and her Japanese heritage.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Counter Cliché: The Asian and Latino Bi-Cultural Experience
Post date:Shizu Saldamando's portraits are heavily influenced by Chicano art sensibilities and her Japanese heritage. Her subjects aren't the cookie-cutter characters we see in popular culture, but real, breathing beings actively building their identity.
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writing on the wall
History & Society
Virginia is for Chicano Art Lovers
Post date:With help from Cheech Marin, a university in a traditionally conservative Virginia town looks at the murals of Los Angeles for a lesson in Chicano/a art.
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writing on the wall
History & Society
Six and a Half Weeks: The Making of 'Opening Night' for the América Tropical Interpretive Center
Post date:Painter and museum educator Sandy Rodriguez shares that experience of creating the interior mural at the The América Tropical Interpretive Center in a guest editorial.
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writing on the wall
History & Society
Monthly Mural Wrap: A Dozen Tags for April, 2013
Post date:April 2013 is filled with random news of street art, murals, and how they fit in public space. Here's some news and notes we like to tag under Monthly Mural Wrap.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
A Conversation on Chicano Art: Artist Jose Lozano and Collector Armando Duron
Post date:Jose Lozano and Armando Duron discuss Chicano art, artists who identify with the Chicano label, and the gallery exhibit "Open Your Eyes/Abre Los Ojos" at the Muckenthaler Cultural Center.
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writing on the wall
History & Society
'América Tropical' Ready To Be Unveiled to The Public
Post date:Eighty years after being completed, David Alfaro Siqueiros' América Tropical will again be seen by the public beginning October 9.
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writing on the wall
History & Society
Muralist Judy Baca On L.A.'s Digital Divide
Post date:Muralists have embraced innovative technology to advance L.A.'s mural tradition -- but some paint-only advocates have been holding them back.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Cristian "SMEAR" Gheorghiu: My SoCal Art History
Post date:To trace the trajectory of Southern California art, Artbound is creating a collective timeline comprised of the decisive events that shaped artists' creative development. Today, we talk to Los Angeles artist Cristian "SMEAR" Gheorghiu.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Cheech and Chong: Alice Bowie and the First Chicano Punk Song
Post date:As Chicano Art moves forward in its documentation, some artistic consideration may have to be made for "Earache My Eye Featuring Alice Bowie," a 1974 Cheech and Chong sketch poking at the commercial record industry. "It wasn't just a parody," says Chee...