News
The exhibition La Raza, now on view at the Autry Museum of the American West and organized in collaboration with the CSRC, was featured in an editorial discussing the strengths of the Pacific Standard Time: LA/ LA initiative.
La Raza was featured in a roundup of exhibitions currently on view across Los Angeles.
Artists Carmen Argote and Daniel Joseph Martinez, whose work was featured in the CSRC-organized exhibition Home—So Different, So Appealing, will be among the Los Angeles-based artists whose work will appear in the 2018 edition of the Made in L.A. biennial at the Hammer Museum. Martinez was also featured in the CSRC’s installation program at the 2018 LA Art Show.
In an interview for the UCLA Library Powell Blog, CSRC librarian Xaviera Flores and CSRC archives specialist Doug Johnson discuss the exhibition they organized, Las Causas: Zines from the Chicano Studies Research Center Archive, which is on view in the Powell Library Rotunda through March 24, 2018.
The Institute of American Cultures (IAC) invites applications for support of research on African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, and Chicanas/os for 2018-2019. The Institute also invites proposals on interethnic relations that will increase collaboration between the Centers and/or between the Centers and other campus units. Deadline to apply: March 1, 2018.
ArtNexus highlighted Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell, organized by the Vincent Price Art Museum in collaboration with the CSRC, as one of the Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA exhibitions that are traveling to new venues. The show opened on March 3 at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University; additional venues are to be confirmed.
CSRC director Chon A. Noriega was quoted in a response to an open letter signed by a number of art professionals calling for a boycott of Swiss artist Christoph Büchel’s proposal to preserve border wall prototypes built in Southern California.
A tribute to Juan Gómez-Quiñones, the passing of two Latina pioneers, a new monograph on Judy Baca from CSRC Press, zine exhibitions, research grants, and more in this month's newsletter! (Image: Poster for Las Causas: Zines from the Chicano Studies Research Center Archive, on view through March 24 in the Powell Library Rotunda)
CSRC director Chon Noriega was quoted in a news story concerning a new campaign by the National Hispanic Media Coalition to draw attention to the underrepresentation of Latinos in Hollywood films.
In a round-up of recent news, the CSRC-organized exhibition Home—So Different, So Appealing was noted in a blurb concerning PST: LA/LA exhibitions that will travel.