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The CSRC is partnering with the UCLA Latino Politics and Policy Institute (LPPI) to undertake a formal study of employment equity at the Smithsonian and how the nation’s preeminent art and cultural institution reflects and represents Latinos as part of U.S. cultural heritage.
A summary of CSRC initiatives in 2017-18, a visiting scholars report, awards and accolades for CSRC partners and publications, spring book sale through June 15, and more in this month's newsletter!
(Image: Cover photo from The Jazz Pilgrimage of Gerald Wilson by Steven Loza. A book talk and signing will be held Wednesday, June 6 at 4 p.m. at UCLA Schoenberg Music Building, room 1230.)
Included in a roundup of acclaimed exhibitions currently on view across Los Angeles are La Raza at the Autry Museum of the American West, which was organized in collaboration with the CSRC, and Testament of the Spirit: Paintings by Eduardo Carrillo, on view at the Pasadena Museum of California Art.
Included in a roundup of acclaimed exhibitions currently on view across Los Angeles are La Raza at the Autry Museum of the American West, which was organized in collaboration with the CSRC, and Testament of the Spirit: Paintings by Eduardo Carrillo, on view at the Pasadena Museum of California Art.
Charlene Villaseñor Black, CSRC associate director and professor of art history and Chicana/o studies, previewed the new peer-reviewed journal Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, for which she serves as editor-in-chief. The journal will publish its first issue in January 2019.
The Daily Bruin covered a CSRC-hosted event whose themes were the 1993 hunger strike undertaken to support the creation of a UCLA Chicano studies department and the future role of indigeneity in Chicano studies.
Charlene Villaseñor Black, CSRC associate director and professor of art history and Chicana/o studies, was quoted in a piece discussing Mattel’s release of a Barbie designed to resemble late Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.
Included in a roundup of acclaimed exhibitions currently on view across Los Angeles are La Raza at the Autry Museum of the American West, which was organized in collaboration with the CSRC, and Testament of the Spirit: Paintings by Eduardo Carrillo, on view at the Pasadena Museum of California Art.
The Miami Herald featured a review of the exhibition Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell, on display at the Frost Art Museum through June 03, 2018. The images presented in the show and review are courtesy of the artist and the CSRC.
Photographer Luis Garza took part in a Q&A with Artnews about his work with La Raza newspaper and magazine and the continuing legacy of the 1968 Chicano blowouts.