Latino arts, history and culture
As a youth, I hated to visit the dentist. In fact I have never met anyone who said they love to visit dentists . . . or attorneys for that matter. But my teeth demand I see a dentist. That got me … [Read more...]
The Eagle Rock Trompers is a vintage car club founded in 1945 in the Northeast Los Angeles community of Eagle Rock. Originally created to race hot rods, the club has since evolved into a club of … [Read more...]
During the Chicano Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, the term "Aztlán became popular as a way of referring to the American Southwest. Many Chicano artists adopted the term in their art … [Read more...]
David Flury is a self-taught artist who grew up in South Central Los Angeles and whose work is very much informed by graffiti art as well as the work of an earlier generation of Chicano artists. He … [Read more...]
Wayne Healy grew up in East Los Angeles. He was educated as a engineer but in 1972 he met artists from the Mexicano Art Center and soon shifted careers and became one of the leading Chicano … [Read more...]
The late Dr. Shifra Goldman (1926-2011) is considered by many as the foremost scholar and historian of Chicano Art. Beginning in the 1960s, she was instrumental in putting Chicano Art movement on … [Read more...]
El Museo Del Barrio, founded in 1969, is the first museum in New York to showcase art made by Puerto Ricans and other Latinos in the United States. Latinopia visited the museum and interviewed … [Read more...]
Latinopia.com - Moises Salcedo from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Moisés Salcedo is a self-educated Phoenix muralist whose works embody imagery of the Chicano experience. Latinopia asked him about his … [Read more...]
