During the 1960s and '70s, Chicano artists mobilized to imagine liberation through a new identity and visual language.
Whether drawing realistic or abstract subjects ... Alternatively, try building tone using several layers of pencil, using softer pencils or working with charcoal.
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 ...
Unidentified Artist, Paño Arte - Barrio Arte (date unknown); ink, colored pencil on handkerchief ... critical their work is and has been to Chicano art more broadly. It is an art form that ...
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 ...
But these are not photographs: each hyperreal image is in fact a color pencil drawing, resulting from between 300 and 500 hours of careful construction. Now, Holmes’ works have been brought ...
I asked. “I would say resilience,” said Valerie Jaimes, Executive Director of the Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center. Resilience in art, and in the movement. “You know, a lot of these ...
Last weekend, the Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center opened its new exhibit, due here through next spring. Chicanismo ...
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. “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 ...