“Amalia Mesa-Bains” Wins Gold Medal from ILBAs

By CSRC Press

November 13, 2025

Amalia Mesa-Bains: Rituals of Memory, Migration, and Cultural Space earned top honors at the 2025 International Latino Book Awards, which were presented at a ceremony October 25 at MiraCosta College in Oceanside, California.

The monograph, authored by Tomás Ybarra-Frausto with a foreword by Chon Noriega, earned a gold medal for Best Arts Book. The title previously earned a gold medal from the 2025 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the BIography category.

Amalia Mesa-Bains: Rituals of Memory, Migration, and Cultural Space is volume 13 in the A Ver: Revisioning Art History Series from UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press. The series is distributed by University of Minnesota Press.

Amalia Mesa-Bains gray book cover with an installation with a mirrored armoire in the center and green glass plants on each side.

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