JOSÉ MONTOYA – IN HIS OWN WORDS
JOSÉ MONTOYA - CALIFORNIA ARTIST IN HIS OWN WORDS: By the late 1960s, we have the Chicano Movement begin to consolidate. And the whole concept of what is Chicano Art is being discussed … [Read more...]
JUDY BACA – IN HER OWN WORDS
JUDY BACA IN HER OWN WORDS: When I first became aware of the Chicano Movement was watching the walk-outs in East Los Angeles. I watched on television and began to wonder and question what I was … [Read more...]
YOLANDA LÓPEZ – IN HER OWN WORDS
YOLANDA LÓPEZ - CALIFORNIA ARTIST IN HER OWN WORDS: I did not become aware of our own history until 1968 when there was a call for a strike at San Francisco State, a strike for ethnic studies. I … [Read more...]
GILBERT “MAGU” LUJAN – IN HIS OWN WORDS
GILBERT "MAGU" LUJAN - CALIFORNIA ARTIST IN HIS OWN WORDS: I came out of the Air Force in 1962 and I went to East L.A. College. I took art classes. And as I was learning … [Read more...]
SANTA BARRAZA – IN HER OWN WORDS
SANTA BARRAZA - TEXAS ARTIST IN HER OWN WORDS: I think that my encounter with the civil rights movement and the struggles of Mexican Americans, I first became aware of it when I was at the … [Read more...]
JOHN VALADEZ – IN HIS OWN WORDS
JOHN VALADEZ - CALIFORNIA ARTIST IN HIS OWN WORDS: When I was getting out of high school and into college, a friend of mine and I went to Olvera Street because we had heard about the Siquieros … [Read more...]
AMALIA MESA-BAINS – IN HER OWN WORDS
AMALIA MESA-BAINS - CALIFORNIA ARTIST IN HER OWN WORDS An ofrenda is a temporary offering to the dead and is ephemeral and is time related. An altar is a permanent … [Read more...]
RUPERT GARCÍA – IN HIS OWN WORDS
RUPERT GARCÍA - CALIFORNIA ARTIST IN HIS OWN WORDS: I was in Indochina from 1965 to 1966, at a secret base near Laos. Why were so many of us [Chicanos] there? The answer is simple … [Read more...]
WAYNE ALANIZ HEALY – IN HIS OWN WORDS
WAYNE ALANIZ HEALY - CALIFORNIA ARTIST (EAST LOS STREETSCAPERS) IN HIS OWN WORDS: I started painting murals in 1972 with a group from Mechicano Art Center. For the next two years I … [Read more...]
DAVID BOTELLO – IN HIS OWN WORDS
DAVID BOTELLO - CALIFORNIA ARTIST (EAST LOS STREETSCAPERS) I started painting murals with Goez [Art Gallery] but my first solo mural was Dreams Of Flight. It is based on children, and on … [Read more...]
MALAQUÍAS MONTOYA – IN HIS OWN WORDS
MALAQUÍAS MONTOYA - CALIFORNIA ARTIST IN HIS OWN WORDS: In the 1960s a lot of Chicano artists got together, we certainly did in the Bay Area. We formed an organization … [Read more...]
ESTER HERNÁNDEZ – IN HER OWN WORDS
ESTER HERNANDEZ - CALIFORNIA ARTIST IN HER OWN WORDS: I can talk about the Virgin de Guadalupe because according to art historians mine [La Virgin Defendiendo Los Derechos Humanos] was the very … [Read more...]
BARBARA CARRASCO – IN HER OWN WORDS
BARBARA CARRASCO - CALIFORNIA ARTIST IN HER OWN WORDS: I decided to do politically conscious artwork when I was at UCLA. I became the first female editor of the Chicano newspaper on campus. … [Read more...]
GRONK – IN HIS OWN WORDS
GRONK - CALIFORNIA ARTIST (ASCO) IN HIS OWN WORDS: Harry [Gamboa] was putting together a magazine called Regeneración and he asked me if I wanted to participate along with Patssi [Valdez] … [Read more...]
CÉSAR MARTINEZ – IN HIS OWN WORDS
CÉSAR MARTINEZ - TEXAS ARTIST IN HIS OWN WORDS: I’ve never considered myself a political artist but I am certainly a politically aware person. When I got to San Antonio in 1971 right after … [Read more...]
CARMEN LOMAS GARZA – IN HER OWN WORDS
CARMEN LOMAS GARZA - TEXAS ARTIST IN HER OWN WORDS: I grew up with a lot of discrimination and racism though we were in South Texas it was still very prevalent and I had to deal with a lot … [Read more...]
ZARCO GUERRERO – IN HIS OWN WORDS
ZARCO GUERRERO - ARIZONA ARTIST IN HIS OWN WORDS: I think one of the big things that the Chicano Movement did for us was to relate us to the past. Our history that we knew nothing about, Our … [Read more...]
AMADO PEÑA – IN HIS OWN WORDS
AMADO PEÑA - NEW MEXICO ARTIST IN HIS OWN WORDS: I grew up in Texas and growing up in a border town [Laredo] is very different than growing up in Dallas or Amarillo or Houston. We … [Read more...]
FRANK ROMERO – IN HIS OWN WORDS
FRANK ROMERO - CALIFORNIA ARTIST IN HIS OWN WORDS: Carlos Almaraz had come back from New York and he was living with me and he introduced me to Gilbert Lujan and Gilbert was talking … [Read more...]
HARRY GAMBOA, JR. – IN HIS OWN WORDS
HARRY GAMBOA - CALIFORNIA ARTIST IN HIS OWN WORDS: During the Chicano Moratorium, in the midst of being tear-gassed and chased by police, I met Francisca Flores and she thrust a … [Read more...]
KATHY VARGAS – IN HER OWN WORDS
KATHY VARGAS - TEXAS PHOTOGRAPHER IN HER OWN WORDS: In 1970 I went to work for Bill and Jerry Hayes who ran a small production company here in San Antonio. They made TV … [Read more...]