Latino arts, history and culture
Roberto Chavez is a pioneering Chicano muralist and figurative painter know for his expressionistic work that has been featured at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C. and many other … [Read more...]
Estrada Courts is a neighborhood housing project in East Los Angeles. In 1973, Charles "Cat" Félix, a Chicano artist and muralist, decided that the walls of this community merited murals reflective of … [Read more...]
Willie Herron is an artist, muralist and musician. In 1972 his brother John was attacked and nearly killed by gang members in an East Los Angeles alley. Willie depicted the attack in an iconic mural … [Read more...]
Los Angeles-based artist, sculptor and muralist José Ramírez is a Chicano artist in the tradition of the greats of Mexico (Los Tres Grandes) as well as pioneering Chicano artists. Latinopia caught up … [Read more...]
ASCO (Spanish for "nausea") is the celebrated avante garde Chicano art collective founded by Harry Gamboa, Jr., Gronk, Willie Herron and Patssi Valdez in 1972. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s ASCO was … [Read more...]
Barbara Carrasco is an artist and muralist based in Los Angeles. Her works run the gamut from pen and ink drawings, to paintings, to posters and many, many murals. Latinopia asked Barbara how she got … [Read more...]
In 2003, Frank Garcia curated the first Aztlan Art Show at the dA gallery in Pomona, California. The show brought together different generations of Chicano and Chicana artists. Since that time, the … [Read more...]
When he's not managing his parent's popular Las Cruces restaurant, "Nopalito," Victor Gallegos is managing one of the first art galleries in Las Cruces to be owned and operated by Mexican … [Read more...]
2012 marks the 80th anniversary of the unveiling of the mural,"America Tropical," painted by Mexican muralists David Alfaro Siqueiros in 1932. The mural was later whitewashed because of its … [Read more...]
The Arizona Latino Arts and Cultural Center (ALAC), in Phoenix, Arizona was created in 2007 to advance Latinos in the state through education, advocacy and the celebration of Latino arts. Latinopia … [Read more...]
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...]
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...]
