News
This feature in Artbound examines the use of Lincoln Heights’s Church of the Epiphany by La Raza contributors as a location to organize and meet during the Chicano movement. Images for the article were provided by the CSRC from the La Raza Photograph Collection.
This Artbound feature examines the role of La Raza newspaper and magazine as a political platform for the Chicano movement during its 1967–1977 publication run. The CSRC holds the La Raza Newspaper Collection and the La Raza Photograph Collection; images from the latter were used in this piece.
La Raza, a documentary produced for the series Artbound on KCET, a public broadcasting network, is currently streaming online. The film extensively utilizes images from two special collections at the CSRC: La Raza Photograph Collection and La Raza Newspaper and Magazine Records.
A KCET documentary on La Raza Newspaper and Magazine, traveling exhibitions featuring CSRC materials, a new anthology on the education pipeline, an undergraduate internship opportunity, and more in this month’s newsletter!
(Image: A young woman reads La Raza Magazine during the National Chicano Moratorium, August 29, 1970. Photo by La Raza Staff Photographers. La Raza Photograph Collection)
Los Angeles County Newsroom posted a video to their Vimeo channel on the exhibition LA RAZA at the Autry Museum of the American West. The exhibition was organized by the Autry Museum in collaboration with the CSRC.
This paid summer internship at the CSRC is structured around current and ongoing CSRC projects in the arts. In addition to contributing to the CSRC’s mission to provide information resources on Chicano history and culture, the intern—who must be enrolled in an undergraduate program—will gain career-relevant archival experience. Application deadline: April 27 at 5:00 p.m.
A review written by Charlene Villaseñor Black on the exhibitions Judithe Hernández and Patssi Valdez: One Path Two Journeys and Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell was published in Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art. Villaseñor Black is CSRC associate director and professor of art history and Chicano studies at UCLA.
A profile of artist Amalia Mesa-Bains, whose work was included in the CSRC-organized exhibition Home—So Different, So Appealing, was featured in ArtNews. The article included a reference to the controversial exhibition Revelaciones/Revelations: Hispanic Art of Evanescence at Cornell University in 1993, which included the work of Mesa-Bains and Home artist Daniel Joseph Martinez and was curated by CSRC director Chon A. Noriega.
A feature on the exhibition Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell, which recently opened at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum in Miami.
Harry Gamboa Jr. and photographer Luis Garza took part in a Q&A at the Autry Museum of the American West about cultural representations of Chicanos and Chicanas. Each photographer is featured in a current exhibition at the Autry. In his comments about Harry Gamboa Jr.: Chicano Male Unbonded, Gamboa mentioned CSRC director Chon A. Noriega, whose portrait is included in the exhibition. Garza’s work is included in the Autry exhibition La Raza, which he co-curated and which was produced in collaboration with the CSRC.