A day after her 18th birthday, Flick Chafer-Smith hit rock bottom when she was sent to jail. She found salvation through art.

Visualizing the Future” takes on profound meaning when imagined by young people who once weren’t sure they’d have one. That ...

The work of more than 50 multidisciplinary North Texas artists is featured in the “Chicano” art exhibition at the Art on Main gallery. A myriad of Chicano art is on display at an East Dallas art ...

He took major financial risks that, for a time, paid off in multimillion-dollar sales, mostly in American modernism, to ...

In 1970, a collective of artists and activists took flight at Sacramento State. Two new professors harnessed the energy of students and community artists to fight for farmworkers’ rights and serve ...

A large photo of Esteban Villa, José Montoya, Ricardo Favela and Pedro "Pete" Hernandez by Harold Nihel is displayed at the “Rebels With La Causa: Royal Chicano Air Force Art and Activism, 1970-1990,” ...

For Maira Meza, it started with those poster contests for kids encouraging them to say no to drugs. As a kid who loved to draw, she entered those annual contests and won — twice. Later, she got ...

In the Curator’s Words is an occasional series that takes a critical look at current exhibitions through the eyes of curators. When Rafael Barrientos Martinez first discovered Ramsés Noriega’s art, he ...

The University of Wyoming, in collaboration with Paño Connections Traveling Prison Art Exhibition and Programming, will feature a series of events both on campus and off Thursday-Friday, Sept. 25-26, ...

More than 500 pieces from his personal collection now make up the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture in Riverside, Calif., which has two traveling shows. Michael Puente recently ...

Zachary Roman tours the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture with TODEC, an educational group for children of Coachella Valley farmworkers. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) In 2022, the ...