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writing on the wall
History & Society
Cheech Marin on 'What is a Chicano Artist?'
Post date:The comedy actor and Chicano Art collector learns what it means to be a "Chicano Artist" with the help of John Valadez.
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art
History & Society
Sketch of Early Chicano Mural Discovered
Post date:Newly discovered sketch for a 1974 mural shows the beginning of political idealism of contemporary Chicano art.
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Great Wall of Los Angeles
History & Society
Silvana Jeyd Paredes: Soldier of Peace and Art
Post date:Sonya Fe spotlights the work and philosophy of artist Silvana Jeyd Paredes.
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Chicano Art
History & Society
Chicano Artist Manuel Cruz: A Diamond in the Rough
Post date:Artist Sonya Fe remembers Manuel Cruz, whom she cites as the Godfather of the Chicano Art movement.
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art
SoCal Focus
Latin America Begins Here: Echo Park Anarchists Inspire Long Beach Art Show
Post date:This show's mix of Mexican, Chicano, and art by Charles and Ray Eames and Julius Schulman is a temporary vision of the possibilities of a Latino museum in Southern California.
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Highland Park
History & Society
Resurrected Histories: Voices from the Chicano Arts Collectives of Highland Park
Post date:Resurrected Histories explores the Chicano/a art movement through art collectives such as Centro de Arte Publico and Mechicano Art Center in Highland Park during the 1970s. It culminates as an exhibition opening this Saturday at Avenue 50 Studio.
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Highland Park
Departures
Reclaiming The City
Post date:The murals, writings and ephemera created by artists, thinkers and activists in the Highland Park area prefigured a symbolic occupation of the city, or, as some historian and cultural critics have put it, the gradual Latinoization of Los Angeles.
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Highland Park
Departures
Yo Soy Chicana: A Chicana Feminist Movement
Post date:A Chicana feminist movement emerged in reaction to the complexities of Latina empowerment, often facing resistance from male Chicano leaders and organizers.
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Highland Park
Departures
Shifra Goldman: Chicano Art Scholar
Post date:Shifra Goldman was the first academic to take a scholarly look at the emergent Chicano art movement, publishing some of the most important works on Chicano art as well as initiating the movement to restore David Alfaro Siqueiros' mural, "America Tropic...
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Highland Park
Departures
Chisme Arte: Chicano Art
Post date:Chisme Arte was a publication of the Concilio de Arte Popular, a statewide arts advocacy group founded to interconnect and stabilize the network of Chicano arts organizations throughout California.
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Highland Park
Departures
Centro De Arte Publico
Post date:Centro de Arte Publico was founded in 1977 on 56th and Figueroa in Highland Park, producing works that focused on Los Angeles street scenes and urban Chicana/o youth.
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Chicano Art
SoCal Focus
RIP: Shifra Goldman, 85, Longtime Champion of Chicano, Latin American Art
Post date:Goldman earned her PhD in art history from UCLA but her true education was in traveling to meet artists and furiously debating the creation of their art and its influences.
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Chicano Art
SoCal Focus
1970s L.A. Chicano Conceptual Art Group Gets its Due
Post date:I'm worried. The internet is not a history book and if the book is dead, maybe so will be the exploits of the legendary East LA art group ASCO.
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commentary
SoCal Focus
Out
Post date:A very simple question seemed to follow me like a rain cloud last Friday. Are Chicanos outsiders anymore?
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East LA
SoCal Focus
Uni
Post date:The late nun who founded Self Help Graphics would get a kick out of the 41 year old organization's new home in Boyle Heights. It's next door to Purgatory Pizza.
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Chicano Art
Commentary
Engage
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Chicano Art
Commentary
See
Post date:The first book in the Old Testament of contemporary Southern California art is being written under our noses.
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Latinos
Commentary
Follow
Post date:These artists made music drip, cut its head off, sewed it into quilts and laser cut it into sheets of metal.
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poetry
Commentary
Haiku
Post date:A parking lot a block from MacArthur Park used to be the Vagabond Theater. As a teenager in the late 1960s painter John Valadez spent a lot of time there watching art house films.