News
Ozomatli visits the CSRC, Ricardo Valverde retrospective to open at VPAM, a new summer course on Sal Castro and Chicana/o education, an event featuring founders of the Brown Berets, and more!
CSRC visiting scholar Alvaro Huerta was quoted in a story on the "Dreamers" and their movement for immigration reform.
La Opinión, May 1, 2013
In 2012 the Getty Foundation celebrated the twentieth anniversary of its Multicultural Undergraduate Internship program, designed to diversify staff at museums and visual arts organizations by providing students with opportunities to work at arts-related organizations, as well as a modest stipend. CSRC director Chon A. Noriega is interviewed in the celebratory video, viewable here.
The exhibition Asco and Friends: Exiled Portraits was included in a weekend roundup of "10 raisons de sortir" (10 reasons to go out).
Le Monde, April 25, 2014
CSRC associate director Marissa K. López published the essay "On Mentoring First Generation and Graduate Students of Color" for the Committee on the Literatures of People of Color blog sponsored by the MLA Commons. In addition, López coauthored with Daniel Heath Justice an introduction to the piece describing the difficulty they had getting the piece accepted for publication in traditional journals.
CLPC blog, April 25, 2014
Foro + Latino, an online program of the TVC + Latino network, covered the CSRC's advance screening of Cesar Chavez on March 7, 2014, interviewing the filmmakers as well as many of the evening's attendees.
Watch the video here.
Foro + Latino, April 2, 2014
A September 24, 2009 conversation at the Hammer Museum between CSRC director Chon Noriega and University of Texas, Austin, art history professor Roberto Tejada on the work of Celia Alvarez Muñoz is now available on Vimeo. Tejada is the author of a monograph on the artist published by CSRC Press.
Watch the video here.
The late Los Angeles-based photographer and artist Ricardo Valverde (1946-1998) is featured in a career retrospective at the Vincent Price Art Museum (VPAM), May 17- July 26, 2014.
Rafael Ferrer, volume 7 in the A Ver series published by the CSRC Press, was reviewed in The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History.
The Americas, 70:4 (April 2014)