Antonio Bernal, presente!

The CSRC mourns the passing of artist and activist Forrest Antonio Bernal Hopping (Antonio Bernal), widely credited by art historians as “the first Chicano muralist.” In Bernal's final years he donated a portion of his papers to the CSRC Library. He also worked with CSRC Press on the publication of The Artist as Eyewitness: Antonio Bernal Papers, 1884–2019, an award-winning anthology edited by Charlene Villaseñor Black and published in 2021. Bernal passed September 1 at the age of eighty-six.