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...]
LATINOPIA ART “LETTERS TO SIQUEIROS”
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...]
DAY OF THE DEAD CALENDAR OF EVENTS
DAY OF THE DEAD CELEBRATIONS As most of you may know, Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a celebration where family and friends remember the passing of loved ones. With its origins in Mexico, … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA ART ELSA FLORES 1
Elsa Flores Almaráz is the widow of renowned and pioneering Chicano artist Carlos Almaráz (1941-1989). Elsa is also an accomplished artist in her own right. Latinopia asked her how she manages to … [Read more...]
YOLANDA LÓPEZ – IN HER OWN WORDS
YOLANDA LÓPEZ - CALIFORNIA ARTIST IN HER OWN WORDS: I did not become aware of our own history until 1968 when there was a call for a strike at San Francisco State, a strike for ethnic studies. I … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA ART ARIZONA LATINO ARTS CENTER
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...]
LATINOPIA ART ANGELA ORTIZ
Angela Ortiz is a Panamanian-born still photographer who resides in Los Angeles. Her works covers the gamut from celebrity photography to serious artistic endeavors. She shared with Latinopia three … [Read more...]
GILBERT “MAGU” LUJAN – IN HIS OWN WORDS
GILBERT "MAGU" LUJAN - CALIFORNIA ARTIST IN HIS OWN WORDS: I came out of the Air Force in 1962 and I went to East L.A. College. I took art classes. And as I was learning … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA ART SERGIO HERNÁNDEZ
For more than forty years Sergio Hernández has been an accomplished artist and cartoonist. He began his artistic trajectory in the 196os when he met artists and writers who producing the Los … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA ART WAYNE HEALY
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...]
LATINOPIA ART “EAGLE ROCK TROMPERS”
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...]
LATINOPIA ART “WHY AZTLÁN?”
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...]
LATINOPIA ART “SHIFRA GOLDMAN ON CHICANO ART”
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 ART GEORGE RODRÍGUEZ
George Rodríguez is a renowned commercial photographer and photo journalist who has photographed such American legends as Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, The Doors, Dr. Dre as well as documenting key … [Read more...]
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...]
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...]
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...]