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LATINOPIA ART JOHN VALADEZ

John Valadez is a pioneering artist and muralist renowned for his photo-realistic rendering of Chicano life in Southern California.  His subject matter is marginalized people and he uses his … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART Tagged With: Chicano artists, Chicano muralists, John Valadez artist, Los Angeles urban art

July 21, 2013 by Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA ART AVENUE 61 MURAL

Latinopia Art Ave 61 Mural from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. In 1996, Anthony "Eagle" Ortega and Andy Ledesma and other muralists painted "Quetzalcoatl Mural Project: A Sequence of Time and Culture" at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART Tagged With: Andy Ledesma, Anthony "Eagle" Ortega, Avenue 61 Mural, Quetzalcaotl A Sequence of Time and Culture

May 15, 2016 by Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA ART POLI MARICHAL

Latinopia Art Poli Marichal from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Poli Marichal is a multi-talented artist and printmaker accomplished in diverse media. Poli tells latinopia that her work is informed by an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART Tagged With: Latino Printmaking, Poli Marichal, Puerto Rican art

June 24, 2017 by Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA ART “WHAT IS CHICANO ART?”

In the 1960s, Mexican American artists were inspired by the Chicano Civil Rights Movement. They began to question their roles as artists and what kind of art they should be making. In barrios … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART

April 10, 2011 by Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA ART VINCENT SÁNCHEZ CARDONA

Victor Sánchez Cardona is an abstract artist of Puerto Rican descent residing in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In this virtual gallery tour we are introduced to some of his latest paintings. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART Tagged With: Puerto Rican art, Puerto Rican artists, Victor Sánchez Cardona

April 12, 2015 by Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA ART POLI MARICHAL’S SIN FRONTERAS

Latinopia Art Poli Marichal Animation from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Poli Marichal is an artist, printer maker, film producer and film animator. Her animated films, like her stunning prints and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART Tagged With: Latina artists, Poli Marichal, Sin Fronteras

October 28, 2017 by Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA ART CARLOS CALLEJO WALK-OUT MURAL

Latinopia Art Carlos Callejo Walk-Out Mural from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. n March, 1968 more than 5,000 students walked out of the predominantly Mexican American high schools in East Los Angeles to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART Tagged With: 1968 East Los Angeles High School Walkouts, Carlos Callejo, El Sereno Walkout Mural

July 22, 2018 by Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA ART “LETTER TO MAGU”

Renowned artist and social activist Gilbert "Magu" Lujan passed away in July of 2011. His family and friends convened an outdoor memorial service to honor his life and legacy on September 11, 2011. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART

September 20, 2011 by Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA ART GEORGE RODRÍGUEZ DOUBLE VISION

Latinopia Art George Rodriguez Double Vision from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. George Rodríguez is a celebrated photographer whose images encompass the Chicano movement as well as celebrities--Michael … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART Tagged With: Chicano photographers, Double Vision, George Rodriguez

June 15, 2018 by Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA ART RUPERT GARCIA ON PUBLIC ART

Rupert Garcia is a San Francisco Bay Area artist known for the striking imagery of his silkscreens and posters. Latinopia asked Rupert how he came to silkscreening and discovered that silkscreening … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART Tagged With: 1968 Paris student protests, Chicano Art, Chicano artists, Rupert Garcia

June 1, 2015 by Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA ART HOLLYWOOD IN HAVANA 2

Latinopia Cinema Hollywood In Havana 2 from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Carol A.Wells is founder and Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, an activist educational and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART Tagged With: Carol A.Wells, Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Hollywood in havana

December 3, 2017 by Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA ART HOLLYWOOD IN HAVANA

Latinopia Art Cuban Cinema Posters from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Carol A.Wells is founder and Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, an activist educational and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART Tagged With: Carol Wells, Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Cuban Film Posters, Hollywood in havana

November 12, 2017 by Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA ART NAICHE LUJAN ON MAGU

Latinopia Art Naiche Lujan on Magu from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Tracking Magulandia is an exhibit of the works of legendary Chicano artist and social activist Gilbert "Magu" Lujan (1940-2011) at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART Tagged With: Craig Krull gallery, Gilbert "Magu" Lujan, Naiche Lujan, Tracking Magulandia

October 8, 2017 by Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA ART CARLOS AND ELSA – SIDE BY SIDE

Latinopia Art Carlos and Elsa - Side by Side from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Playing With Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz is the first major exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART Tagged With: Carlos Almaraz, Elsa Flores Almaraz, Playing with Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz

October 1, 2017 by Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA ART CARLOS ALMARAZ SYMBOLS AND ICONS

Latinopia Art Carlos Almaraz Symbols & Icons from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Playing With Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz is the first major exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART Tagged With: Carlos Almaraz, Carlos and Elsa - Side by Side, Elsa Flores Almaraz, Playing With Fire: Paintings by Carlos Alamaraz

October 1, 2017 by Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA ART THE ART OF HECTOR CURRIEL

Latinopia Art The Art of Hector Curriel from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Hector Curriel is a Peruvian-born cartoonist and artist from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. His body of work encompasses cartoons, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART Tagged With: Beauford Peever's Animal Family, Hector Curriel, Latino cartoonists

August 13, 2017 by Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA ART CARLOS ALMARÁZ

Carlos Almaráz was a ground breaking artist and political activist who passed away in 1989. Twenty three years after his passing, Karen Rapp, the premiere curator at the Vincent Price Museum of Art … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART Tagged With: Carlos Almaraz, Chicano Art, Los Four

November 4, 2012 by Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA ART GRONK ON CRITICAL ART

Latinopia Art Gronk on Critical Art from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Gronk (Guglio Nicandro) is a renowned painter, print maker and performance artist. He is co-founder of the performance art … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART Tagged With: ASCO, Chicano Art, Critical Chicano Art, Gronk, Guglio Nicandro

March 5, 2017 by Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA SHOWCASE SANTURCE ES LEY

LATINOPIA SHOWCASE SANTURCE ES LEY from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Since 2010, the neighborhood of Santurce, in San Juan Puerto Rico, has celebrated Santurce Es Ley (Santurce Rules), a three-day arts … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LATINOPIA ART, LATINOPIA SHOWCASE Tagged With: Jose Umpierre, Kendall marsh, Santurce Arts Festival, Santurce Es Ley, Santurce Puerto Rico

May 23, 2016 by Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA ART KAY BROWN

Latinopia Art Kay Brown from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Kay Brown is an accomplished artist specializing in print-making. She is a member of the Los de Abajo (The Underdogs) artist collective. For her … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART Tagged With: Kay Brown, Los de Abajo Art Collective, Tulu Art Gallery

April 17, 2016 by Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA ART LILIANA VÁSQUEZ

Latinopia Art Liliana Vasquez from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Liliana Vásquez is the creator of rosary and crucifix art based on ancient traditions. Using an ancient wax mold process she makes her art … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART Tagged With: Latinopia art, Liliana Vasquez, Rosaries, Rosary art, The Rosary tradiion

March 6, 2016 by Tia Tenopia

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RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 10.23.26. LATINA ARTISTS EXPLORE THEMES OF MIGRATION, BORDERS AND CULTURAL PERSISTENCE

October 24, 2026 By wpengine

Latina artists are becoming especially active in painting and sculpture in Southwestern communities with large Latino populations, including Los Angeles, Houston, and San Antonio. In this essay, I highlight two Latina artists who held successful art shows in San Antonio, Texas, over the past year. I begin with the renowned textile weaver Consuelo Jimenez Underwood. […]

EL PROFE QUEZADA NOS DICE – THE SIGNIFICANCE OF RETURNING THE CODEX AZCATITLAN TO MEXICO

October 24, 2026 By wpengine

There are moments when history seems to awaken—when something long kept distant finds its way home, carrying with it the breath of ancestors and the weight of memory.  In Mexico City, such a moment has arrived with the return of the Codex Azcatitlan, a treasured Aztec manuscript that has spent nearly two centuries in France.  […]

POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SALOMON BALDENEGRO 10.15.26

October 15, 2026 By wpengine

Where’s the shame? Esos no tienen vergüenza (Those people have no shame). My saintly Nana Petra (she of blessed memory) My Nana would say that of people who were hypocrites, that is, whose actions contradicted their words. Or of people whose behavior was blatantly, knowingly wrong – e.g., starting or spreading hurtful rumors about someone, […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 10.15.26

October 15, 2026 By wpengine

Vincent Valdez, a Mexican-American visual artist living and working in San Antonio, recently received the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in the 2-D Visual Art category. The John D. and Catherine C. MacArthur Foundation recognized Valdez along with nineteen others as recipients of the annual “genius grants” across the arts, sciences, and humanities. The award provides $800,000 […]

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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 […]

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LATINOPIA FOOD “JALAPEÑO SODA BREAD” RECIPE

By Tia Tenopia on March 14, 2011

Jalapeño Irish Soda Bread The sweetness of traditional Irish soda bread ingredients—raisins, buttermilk, some sugar—are richly complimented by jalapeño heat. Here’s a soda bread recipe from Ireland brought to the USA from Galway by Mary Patricia Reilly Murray and later transformed  with her blessing by her daughter, Bobbi Murray, who added jalapeño chile.  A real […]

Category: Cooking, Food, LATINOPIA FOOD

LATINOPIA WORD JOSÉ MONTOYA “PACHUCO PORTFOLIO”

By Tia Tenopia on June 12, 2011

José Montoya is a renowned poet, artist and activist who has been in the forefront of the Chicano art movement. One of his most celebrated poems is titled “Pachuco Portfolio” which pays homage to the iconic and enduring character of El Pachuco, the 1940s  Mexican American youth who dressed in the stylish Zoot Suit.

Category: LATINOPIA WORD, Literature

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