Latino arts, history and culture
Latina and Chicano Art Sightings at Witte Museum and McNay Art Museum The Witte’s collection of Texan Art:Kinship and Culture is extensive, beautiful, and impressive. For this year’s 2023 … [Read more...]
Latina Artists Rise, Speak, and Act to Celebrate International Women’s Month Rise, Speak, Act! an art exhibition recognizing International Women’s Month opened on March 2, 2023 as part of the … [Read more...]
Bienvenidos otra vez a La Voz. Esperamos que el contenido de cada ejemplar le da la oportundiad de saber de lo que esta pasando nada más en su comundidad pero también en otras comunidades en … [Read more...]
Mark Guerrero interviews Max Uballez- founder, leader, singer, guitarist, and chief songwriter of the pioneering East L.A. band of the 60s, The Romancers. This band influenced many of the East L.A. … [Read more...]
Texas Chicanos Shine in New Cheech Marin Museum in Riverside, California As you enter the new Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture—be prepared. The two story glass sculpture by the … [Read more...]
Gini Garcia attained international status with several significant glass works: a commission work for the Vatican; a one thousand pound chandelier for the Lingner Castle in Dresden, Germany valued … [Read more...]
This week we are celebrating the close link between the Irish and the Latino, as evidenced by such enduring examples as the St Patricio Battalion and the numerous American authors, artists and … [Read more...]
Eddie Delgado- bassist of the popular East L.A. band of the 1960s, The Ambertones, who recorded eight 45 rpm singles which have helped their legacy endure to this day. Eddie talks about his musical … [Read more...]
Jesse Treviño: The Latino Art Community Suffers an Enormous Loss By Dr. Ricardo Romo Jesse Treviño, one of America’s premier Latino artists, passed away on February 13, 2023 in San Antonio, … [Read more...]
Octavia Butler (1947-2006) is a renowned science fiction author and McArthur Genius Award recipient. Nikki High has decided to honor the legacy of the late Octavia Butler with a bookstore in Pasadena, … [Read more...]
Dr. King’s Dream Also Inspired Latinos The murder of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota and recent efforts by state legislators and governors to ban selective books and … [Read more...]
Singer/songwriter Mark Guerrero interviews Bobby & Joey Delgado of The Delgado Brothers Band, a blues-based band who have five albums to their credit. Some of the stories covered: Two of their … [Read more...]
Otra vez aqui estamos con La Voz newspaper. In this issue we are highlighting the Chicano Poet Nephtali De Leon who currently lives in San Antonio, Texas. For more than 50 years Nephtali has … [Read more...]
Del Zamora is the producer/director and co-stars in the film The Last Brown Beret. Based on an original play by Alfredo Ramos, the film focuses on four Chicano activists who were members of the Brown … [Read more...]
With the publication of the important book Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Art, Weaving, Vision* by editors Laura E. Perez and Ann Marie Leimer, art lovers are treated to a full account of the life, … [Read more...]
Del Zamora is the producer and director of the film The Last Brown Beret based on the play The Last Angry Brown Hat by Alfredo Ramos. How do you go about adapting a successful stage play that has been … [Read more...]
Rolando Briseño: Latino Artist in New York MOMA Show Four months ago Rolando Briseño flew to New York City for the opening of the New York Museum of Modern Art [MOMA] exhibition, Just Above … [Read more...]
Hello. My name is George Santos. I used to go by a different name—Luis Torres. Actually, I used to go by several different names, but that’s beside the point. What is the point? The point is I wanna … [Read more...]
As a Chicano intellectual and supporter of Chicana/o art and film, I fully support the work-in-progress Chicana/o movie, The Last Brown Beret — produced, directed and co-starred by Del Zamora. As a … [Read more...]
Singer/songwriter Mark Guerrero interviews trumpet player Tom Bray about his career, which included being a member of East L.A. bands who recorded for major labels, The Evergreen Blues in the late … [Read more...]
The organization Gay and Lesbian Latinos Unidos (GLLU) was founded in the 1980s to address issues affecting gay and lesbian Latinos ignored by mainstream and white dominated gay organizations. … [Read more...]
