LATINOPIA ART EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO
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 ART BARBARA CARRASCO
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...]
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...]
LATINOPIA ART DAVID FLURY
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 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...]
LATINOPIA ART MOISÉS SALCEDO MURALIST
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...]
ARNIE AND PORFI by SERGIO HERNÁNDEZ 5.13.12
COPYRIGHT 2012 SERGIO HERNANDEZ … [Read more...]
ARNIE & PORFI by SERGIO HERNÁNDEZ 4.30.12
THE ARNIE & PORFI CARTOON STRIP, ITS CHARACTERS, IMAGERY, STORYLINE AND CIRCUMSTANCES COPYRIGHTED BY SERGIO HERNÁNDEZ, 2012. … [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...]
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...]
PATRICIA RODRÍGUEZ -IN HER OWN WORDS
PATRICIA RODRÍGUEZ - CALIFORNIA ARTIST (MUJERES MURALISTAS) IN HER OWN WORDS: As an artist and a participant of the Chicano Movement, we all participated in many things and I went to the … [Read more...]
Welcome to Latinopia.com
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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...]
COMING SOON TO LATINOPIA ART
LATINOPIA ART BARBARA CARRASCO. Los Angeles based muralist and activist Barbara Carrasco talks about the importance of muralism in expressing the hopes of the community. LATINOPIA ART ESTEBAN VILLA - … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA ART LINKS
LATINOPIA ART LINKS: EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO. The premiere museum of Latino art in New York City. Visit: http://www.elmuseo.org SELF-HELP GRAPHICS. This Los Angeles based community art center has … [Read more...]