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May 11, 2020

The website Remezcla featured an article about the grant recently received by the CSRC from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The article includes a photograph from the CSRC’s La Raza Photograph Collection. The grant will support a three-year project that will examine the role of faith, spirituality, and religion in Mexican American culture.

May 7, 2020

ARTnews summarized an article published in Hyperallergic about the grant recently received by the CSRC from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

May 7, 2020

Hyperallergic’s weekly news roundup highlighted its article about the grant recently received by the CSRC from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

May 7, 2020

The exhibition catalog La Raza, published by the CSRC Press, was awarded a gold medal in the category of U.S. History in the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs). The awards were announced May 6. Edited by Colin Gunckel, the catalog draws from the more than 25,000 images in the La Raza Photograph Collection at the CSRC.

May 6, 2020

Hyperallergic reported on the grant recently received by the CSRC from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The piece includes images from the CSRC’s Oscar R. Castillo Photograph Collection and La Raza Photograph Collection. The grant will support a three-year project that will examine the role of faith, spirituality, and religion in Mexican American culture.

May 1, 2020

The Chronicle of Philanthropy highlighted Deborah Cullen-Morales’s appointment to program officer at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and noted her former position as a research scholar at the CSRC.

May 1, 2020

The CSRC receives an NEH grant, a new Facebook page dedicated to Aztlán, new videos on the CSRC YouTube channel, an archiving workshop for doctoral students, and more in this month's newsletter!

Spring 1970 "Aztlán" cover image: Judithe Hernández, "Concepto de Aztlán."

April 28, 2020

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced the appointment of Deborah Cullen-Morales as the foundation’s new program officer for arts and cultural heritage. Cullen-Morales is the author of the monograph Rafael Ferrer, a contributor to the exhibition catalog Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell, and a 2019–20 CSRC research scholar.

April 24, 2020

CSRC associate director Charlene Villaseñor Black is quoted in this ARTnews story about the works of late Chicana artist Laura Aguilar. The retrospective exhibition Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell, which opened in 2017 at the Vincent Price Art Museum in collaboration with the CSRC, is also mentioned in the piece.

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