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In an interview for KCET's Southland Sessions programming, CSRC director Chon A. Noriega discussed the CSRC archive project "Religion, Spirituality, and Faith in Mexican American Social History, 1940s-Present" and his work as a curator and attempts to diversify the art museum. Listen to the interview here.
The Runner, a student newspaper at Cal State Bakersfield, reported on a campus event in September that featured photographer Luis C. Garza and honored the fifty-year anniversary of the National Chicano Moratorium. The article mentions the La Raza Photograph Collection at the CSRC.
A tribute to Grace Montañez Davis; CSRC launches Chicano Moratorium 50th Anniversary Project; CSRC Press releases a new Aztlán anthology, the fall issue of Aztlán journal, and wins awards; online public programs; fellowship opportunities; and more in this month's newsletter! (Image: Autobiography without Apology, volume 7 in the Aztlán Anthology series from CSRC Press)
Through December 18, 2020, a large selection of CSRC Press books are available at 50 percent off, tax and shipping included! In addition, all Chicano Cinema and Media Arts series DVDs have been discounted to $15, tax and shipping included.
A UCLA Newsroom story on the upcoming public conversation series "10 Questions: Reckoning" hosted by the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture, mentions CSRC director Chon Noriega, who will participate in the discussion "What is Power?" on October 19.
On Full Spectrum, a blog hosted by Stanford University's Center for Comparative Race & Ethnicity, graduate fellow Marco Antonio Flores published an essay on the work of late Chicana artist Laura Aguilar. Flores cites the catalog Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell from CSRC Press.
UCLA Newsroom featured a Q&A with film professor and CSRC faculty advisory committee member Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, co-director of the documentary Aguilas, which discusses the volunteers who try to rescue missing migrants in the Sonora Desert. The film was supported in part by an Institute of American Cultures research grant from the CSRC.
1st Place: Best Cover Photo
1st Place: Best Academic-Themed Book
An announcement on the CODAworx website noted "La Raza Interactive Experience," an interactive platform featuring all of the images in the CSRC's La Raza Photograph Collection and commissioned for the La Raza exhibition at the Autry Museum of the American West, won first place for Institutional projects in the 2020 CODAawards. The awards recognize commissioned projects that integrate art into interior architectural, or public spaces.
The Los Angeles Times reported on the upcoming retirement of W. Richard West Jr., CEO of the Autry Museum of the American West. In the story, West refers to the exhibition La Raza, created in partnership with the CSRC, as an exhibition of which he is "particularly proud."