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...]