ANGELA’S PHOTO OF THE WEEK 4.17.16 “REACHING HIGH”

April 17, 2016 by Tia Tenopia

TALES OF TORRES 8.11.19 “EL PASO MASSACRE – CONNECTING THE DOTS”

August 11, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

Trump’s Racist Words and Actions Fan Flames of Mass Shootings It sounds like a bad Quentin Tarantino movie: “Massacre in El Paso.” That’s what newspaper headlines screamed and cable news network “up next” billboards trumpeted between commercials. It was a televised weekend of shock, horror and devastating sadness. It was a deadly massacre, no doubt […]

FIERCE POLITICS WITH ALVARO HUERTA 8.11.19 “THE MEXICAN: AN ENDANGERED SPECIES”

August 11, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

Mexicans have officially become members of an endangered or hunted species in the U.S. (I’m not referring to our enormous demographics, as we’ll continue to multiply in el norte—where individuals of Mexican origin represent over 40 million citizens/residents—despite the racist fantasies of Donald J. Trump and his immoral ilk. Throughout the early 1800s to the […]

UTOPIAS DISAFRADAS (ENGLISH) DE JOSÉ E. MURATTI 8.11.19 “THE WEAPONS OF IDENTITY”

August 11, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

During the first weekend of August, in a period of thirteen hours, two white men with assault rifles killed thirty-one people in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. The first one posted a “manifesto” on a social network echoing the Donald Trump’s words to the effect that Latinos were “invading” the U.S. Trump has also […]

UTOPIAS DESCIFRADAS de JOSÉ E.MURRATTI TORO “LAS ARMAS DE LA IDENTIDAD”

August 11, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

Las armas de la identidad Durante el primer fin de semana de agosto, en un periodo de trece horas, dos hombres blancos con armas de asalto, mataron treinta y una personas, en El Paso, Texas y Dayton, Ohio. El primero colgó en las redes sociales un “manifiesto” en el que se hacía eco de las […]

LATINOPIA ART SONIA ROMERO 1

By Tia Tenopia on October 7, 2013

Sonia Romero is a graphic artist, muralist and print maker. The daughter of Chicano art pioneer Frank Romero, she has boldly set out on her own artistic trajectory. Her art includes stunning prints, canvases and public murals. Latinopia visited Sonia at her studio in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles where she spoke about […]

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LATINOPIA ART SONIA ROMERO 2

By Tia Tenopia on October 20, 2013

Sonia Romero is a graphic artist,muralist and print maker. In this second profile on Sonia and her work, Latinopia explores Sonia’s public murals, in particular the “Urban Oasis” mural at the MacArthur Park Metro Station in Los Angeles, California.

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LATINOPIA ART GASPAR ENRÍQUEZ 1 “RETROSPECTIVE”

By Tia Tenopia on May 4, 2014

Gaspar Enríquez is a renowned Chicano artist whose airbrush portraits of barrio youth are haunting and memorable. Drawing from museums and collectors around the United States, in April 2014, the El Paso Museum of Art mounted a retrospective of Gaspar’s art titled Metaphors of the Barrio. Latinopia visited the exhibit and asked Gaspar what inspires […]

Category: Art, LATINOPIA ART