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LATINOPIA ART THE OPENING OF THE CHEECH

Acclaimed actor, director and social activist Cheech Marin has collected Chicano art for decades. Now his extensive collection has a home venue of its own, The Cheech, an art gallery specifically … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART Tagged With: Cheech Marin, Chicano Art, Latinopia art, The Cheech Opening

June 18, 2022 by wpengine

LATINOPIA ART CÉSAR MARTÍNEZ

César Martínez is a ground-breaking artist and one of the founders of the Chicano Art Movement.  His work goes back to the 1960s when he pioneered in such San Antonio-based art collectives as Con Safo … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART Tagged With: César Martinez, Chicano Art, portrait painting, San Antonio Artists

February 10, 2013 by Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA ART SONIA ROMERO 1

Sonia Romero is a graphic artist, muralist and print maker. The daughter of Chicano art pioneer Frank Romero, she has boldly set out on her own artistic trajectory. Her art includes stunning prints, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART Tagged With: Chicana artists, Chicano Art, She Rides the Lion, Sonia Romero, What's New

October 7, 2013 by Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA ART CARLOS ALMARAZ CAR CRASHES

Latinopia Art Carlos Almaraz Car Crashes from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Renowned Chicano artist Carlos Almaraz (1941-2017) was honored with a retrospective of his works at the Los Angeles County … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART Tagged With: Carlos Almaraz, Chicano Art, Elsa Flores Almaraz, Playing with Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz

October 15, 2017 by Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA ART SONIA ROMERO 2

Sonia Romero is a graphic artist,muralist and print maker. In this second profile on Sonia and her work, Latinopia explores Sonia's public murals, in particular the "Urban Oasis" mural at the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART Tagged With: Chicana artists, Chicano Art, MacArthur Park Metro Station murals, Sonia Romero, Urban Oasis, What's New

October 20, 2013 by Tia Tenopia

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA 06.18.22

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: THE CHEECH ART MUSEUM OPENS! A LATINOPIA VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE EXHIBIT. PLUS CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS GASPAR ENRIQUEZ, SONIA ROMERO, CARLOS ALMARAZ, GILBERT "MAGU" LUJAN AND CÉSAR … [Read more...]

Filed Under: THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA, Tia Tenopia Tagged With: Chicano Art, This week on Latinopia, Tia Tenopia

June 18, 2022 by wpengine

LATINOPIA ART RUPERT GARCIA ON PUBLIC ART

Rupert Garcia is a San Francisco Bay Area artist known for the striking imagery of his silkscreens and posters. Latinopia asked Rupert how he came to silkscreening and discovered that silkscreening … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART Tagged With: 1968 Paris student protests, Chicano Art, Chicano artists, Rupert Garcia

June 1, 2015 by Tia Tenopia

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...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART Tagged With: Carlos Almaraz, Chicano Art, Los Four

November 4, 2012 by Tia Tenopia

ARNIE AND PORFI with SERGIO HERNÁNDEZ “THE SAN PATRICIOS IN BATTLE”

Copyright 2017 by Sergio Hernández. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Arnie & Porfi, Blogs Tagged With: Arnie and Porfi cartoon strip, Chicano Art, San Patriciios, Sergio Hernandez

March 18, 2017 by Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA ART GRONK ON CRITICAL ART

Latinopia Art Gronk on Critical Art from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Gronk (Guglio Nicandro) is a renowned painter, print maker and performance artist. He is co-founder of the performance art … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART Tagged With: ASCO, Chicano Art, Critical Chicano Art, Gronk, Guglio Nicandro

March 5, 2017 by Tia Tenopia

TALES OF TORRES 10.26.15 ‘YA ERA TIEMPO AT MUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART”

Ya Era Tiempo: Chicano Art at the Museum of Latin American Art A new exhibition has opened at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, California. And it signals a shift in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Tales of Torres Tagged With: "Somewhere Over El Arco iris", Chicano Art, Luis R.. Torres, Musuem of Latin American Art, Tales of Torres

October 26, 2015 by Tia Tenopia

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...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART Tagged With: ASCO, Chicano Art, Collective art groups, Gronk, Harry Gamboa Jr., Patssi Valdez, What's New, Willie Herron

July 14, 2013 by Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA ART IGNACIO GÓMEZ “ZOOT SUIT POSTER”

Ignacio Gómez is an acclaimed artist, designer and sculptor. His images reflect prideful depictions of the Latino community, especially children and family. On the eve of a monumental lifetime … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART Tagged With: Chicano Art, Ignacio Gómez, Zoot Suit, Zoot Suit Poster

June 3, 2013 by Tia Tenopia

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...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART Tagged With: Camino Real, Chicano Art, Nopalito Restaurant

April 23, 2013 by Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA ART CHICANO MURALS

Today, murals painted by Chicanos  are to be found throughout the United States.  From Bellevue, Washington, to San Anontio, Texas to Chicago, Illinois the mural movement that began in the 1960s has … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, LATINOPIA ART Tagged With: Chicano Art, Chicano murals, United States murals

January 21, 2013 by Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA MUSIC MARK GUERRERO “THE BALLAD OF CARLOS ALMARÁZ”

Mark Guerrero is a singer/songwriter whose lyrics often touch on social themes. He performs here his original composition commemorating the legendary Chicano artist Carlos Almaráz who passed away in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LATINOPIA MUSIC, Music Tagged With: Carlos Almaraz, Chicano Art, Chicano Music, Mark Guerrero

January 7, 2013 by Tia Tenopia

POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS 03.17.23 “IRISH VS KKK: THE IRISH WON “

March 11, 2022 By Tia Tenopia

Irish vs. the KKK: the Irish won… St. Patrick’s Day is nigh upon us. For many, St. Patrick’s Day is a fun day, a time to wear green, drink green beer, and eat corned beef and cabbage. But it’s actually a serious holiday. St. Patrick’s Day celebrates Ireland’s patron saint and national apostle, St. Patrick, […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 03.17.23 THE CHEECH

March 17, 2023 By wpengine

Texas Chicanos Shine in New Cheech Marin Museum in Riverside, California As you enter the new Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture—be prepared. The two story glass sculpture by the de la Torre brothers will take your breath away. The glass and plastic installation, homage to an Aztec deity Coatlicue, silently greets visitors. […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 03.08.23

March 10, 2023 By wpengine

Gini Garcia attained international status with several significant glass works: a commission work for the Vatican;  a one thousand pound chandelier for the Lingner Castle in  Dresden, Germany valued at $250,000, and  a prodigious glass wall for a Marriott in Aruba.  She has completed 50 site artworks worldwide, including 150 pieces for the Harry Potter […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 2.17.23 – JESSE TREVIÑO, AN ENORMOUS LOSS

February 17, 2023 By wpengine

Jesse Treviño: The Latino Art Community Suffers an Enormous Loss By Dr. Ricardo Romo Jesse Treviño, one of America’s premier Latino artists, passed away on February 13, 2023 in San Antonio, Texas. He was 76 years old. Treviño had been ill for the past year following a surgery for cancer. His monumental tile mosaic sculptures […]

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By Tia Tenopia on March 14, 2011

Jalapeño Irish Soda Bread The sweetness of traditional Irish soda bread ingredients—raisins, buttermilk, some sugar—are richly complimented by jalapeño heat. Here’s a soda bread recipe from Ireland brought to the USA from Galway by Mary Patricia Reilly Murray and later transformed  with her blessing by her daughter, Bobbi Murray, who added jalapeño chile.  A real […]

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By Tia Tenopia on March 19, 2013

The effort to organize farm workers under a union contract has been a long and difficult struggle. In 1965, César Chávez and Dolores Huerta created what would become the United Farm Workers Union. From the onset they  faced many obstacles, not the least of which was how to get dozens of California grape growers to […]

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LATINOPIA MUSIC ANGELA ROA “TOCO DESAFINADO”

By Tia Tenopia on June 22, 2014

Angela Roa is a Chilean singer and lyricist residing in Los Angeles, California. Her songs are about the Latino experience in the United States and in Latin America. Here she performs an original song, “Toco Desafinado” (Out of Tune). She is accompanied by Fernando Losada, Rich Silva and Thiago Winterstein..

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