Latino arts, history and culture
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...]
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...]
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...]
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 - 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...]
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 - 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 - 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...]
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THE ARNIE & PORFI CARTOON STRIP, ITS CHARACTERS, IMAGERY, STORYLINE AND CIRCUMSTANCES COPYRIGHTED BY SERGIO HERNÁNDEZ, 2012. … [Read more...]
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...]
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...]
