By Haleema Shah | smithsonian.com – SmithsonianMag.com – Image: Tomás Ybarra-Frausto research material on Chicano art, 1965-2004, Archives of American Art. Image: Flyer for Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead | Ritchie Valens Memorial Much of the Chicano...
SI.edu – Image: Archives of American Art. Exhibition catalog for Chicano Aesthetics: Rasquachismo, organized by MARS (Movimento Artistico del Rio Salado), an artspace in Phoenix, Arizona. The catalog features essays by Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, Shifra M. Goldman,...
By Danielle Kelly – LasVegasWeekly.com – Photo: Sun File. Photo: Ed Fuentes takes a break from documenting the murals of Vegas’ Arts District, a role he also performed in LA. Ed Fuentes would have written the hell out of this essay. He wouldn’t have hemmed...
By Shelly Leachman – News.UCSB.edu – Image Not Credited. Image: El Plan de Santa Bárbara led directly to the establishment of Chicano Studies departments at UC Santa Barbara and myriad other institutions In the late 1960s, so few other Latinos attended his...
By Vic Kolenc, El Paso Times – ElPasoTimes.com – Photo: Vic Kolenc | El Paso Times. Photo: The Roberts-Banner Building, at 215 N. Mesa St., in Downtown El Paso, is slated to become a 64-room, upscale boutique hotel. Another historic Downtown building is...
By Javier Rojas WeAreMitu.com – Image: officialsandracisneros | Instagram | Amazon. Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros is widely regarded as one of the most influential novelists of her time. Works like “The House on Mango Street” and “Woman Hollering...