Sitting in the sun room of his home in Oak Park Heights, his dog Ruby napping nearby, Jimmy Longoria recalled the moment he had a chance encounter with famed Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo. Longoria was ...
AUSTIN — Compared to cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, or San Diego, Austin is not often considered an important hub for the Chicano Movement or Chicano artmaking. But a new exhibition at the ...
OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- A new exhibit now open at the Oakland Museum celebrates the Chicano movement. It was a push for fair treatment, equal opportunity, civil rights and cultural appreciation of ...
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles City Council approved the additions Tuesday of the Centro de Arte Publico and the Mechicano Art Center in Highland Park to the city’s list of Historic-Cultural Monuments ...
The Old Orange County Courthouse is the site of the Orange County History Center and government offices, as well as, for a limited time, a Chicano art exhibit. The Chicano Collection/La Colección ...
Uniquely is a Sacramento Bee series that covers the moments, landmarks and personalities that define what makes living in the Sacramento area so special. Inside Sacramento’s Washington Neighborhood ...
In 1975, Chicano artist Amado M. Peña depicted police brutality by showing the bloodied head of 12-year-old Santos Rodriguez, whom Dallas police had shot for allegedly stealing $8 from a vending ...
Richard “Cheech” Marin–the iconic comedian and actor–had for 30 years established himself as a preeminent collector of Chicano art by the time officials from the City of Riverside, California and the ...
Saturday was a red-letter day for the history of art in Southern California. On June 18, the Riverside Art Museum opened its Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture in a handsomely renovated, ...
On an almost six feet tall sculpture made up of produce boxes, there’s a full body sketch of a man in ink and charcoal. The boxes, wearing recognizable brands like Chiquita and Sunkist, are stacked up ...
BEAVERTON, Ore. (KOIN) — At the end of a school day at Beaverton High, a group of students gather and begin shaking cans of spray paint. They’re here at the bi-weekly, no-credit class to learn how to ...
Someone far wiser than me once said, “We’re burying too many good people lately.” The end of November and beginning of December were devastating to the art world, because we lost two of the Chicano ...
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