LATINOPIA ART “ASCO COLLECTIVE
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...]
LATINOPIA ART JOSE LOZANO
Jose Lozano is an artist based in Fullerton, California whose works include paintings, murals and serigraphs. He works in "series" of drawings or paintings which include "luchadores" (wrestlers), … [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...]
JOSÉ MONTOYA – IN HIS OWN WORDS
JOSÉ MONTOYA - CALIFORNIA ARTIST IN HIS OWN WORDS: By the late 1960s, we have the Chicano Movement begin to consolidate. And the whole concept of what is Chicano Art is being discussed … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA ART AZTLÁN ART SHOW
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...]
LATINOPIA ART NOPALITO’S GALERIA
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...]
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 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...]
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...]
VIEW FROM THE PIER with HERMAN SILLAS 11.29.15 “TEETH”
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...]
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 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...]
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...]
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 “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 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...]
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...]
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...]
