Diaz’s first experience with the mural was in the early 2000s while conducting dissertation research on its artist, Esteban Villa, one of the co-founders of the Royal Chicano Air Force — a ...
During the 1960s and '70s, Chicano artists mobilized to imagine liberation through a new identity and visual language.
"The 'cultura [culture]' has to be represented," stated Guillen. "Growing up as a Chicano not knowing what is Chicano it is ...
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 ...
a racially unsophisticated society tied the Chicano artist to the conditions of the barrios, or Latino neighborhoods, regardless of their educational status. SPARC was born of the spirit of this ...
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 ...
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 ...
The show, curated by Ruben C. Cordova, runs through Feb. 9 and features more than 75 works that span the breadth of San ...
The Frist Art Museum will present ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now, an exhibition that explores how Chicano activist artists forged a remarkable and ...
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 ...
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 ...