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A UCLA Newsroom Q&A with former CSRC associate director Charlene Villaseñor Black included discussion of her work organizing a 2015 conference at the CSRC focused on Central American migration to the US.
José Montoya by Ella Maria Diaz, volume 12 in the A Ver: Revisioning Art History series from CSRC Press, has been nominated for two 2021 International Latino Book Awards. The publication is a finalist for Best Biography and Best Arts Book.
CSRC director Veronica Terriquez is among the co-authors of the report "Emerging Youth Power in the Inland Empire," published by the USC Equity Research Institute. The report takes stock of emerging youth power in the Inland Empire by describing and contextualizing key youth-serving organizations.
Images from the La Raza Photograph Collection at the CSRC were used to illustrate a story on the state of public education for Black and Latino students in the US.
Veronica Terriquez, CSRC director, and Michael Rodriguez, professor of family medicine and CSRC faculty advisory committee member, were among the UCLA faculty who contributed to the research and analysis of a "Latino Scorecard" study for the Alliance for a Better Community. The study revealed that Los Angeles County remains a difficult place for Latinos to thrive.
Google Arts & Culture is now hosting the online exhibition Corky Gonzales: Always Fighting, curated by Grace Muñoz, a graduate student researcher at the CSRC in 2020-21.
A story in La Opinión covered the study "Latino/a Scorecard Report: A Policy Roadmap for Transforming Los Angeles," which was published July 28 by the Alliance for a Better Community, or ABC. Veronica Terriquez, CSRC director, was one of the researchers for the report and wrote its conclusion.
Artfix Daily reported on the return of the DIVERSEartLA program to the LA Art Show. The story mentions an installation organized by the CSRC and curated by Chon Noriega, former CSRC director, which will be part of the program.
ArtfixDaily Artwire, July 29, 2021
UCLA Newsroom previewed the CSRC exhibition at the 2021 LA Art Show. Immersive Distancing: Carmen Argote and Zeynep Abes is curated by former CSRC director Chon A. Noriega. Both Argote and Abes earned their MFA degrees at UCLA.
In anticipation of the opening of the CSRC exhibition Immersive Distancing: Carmen Argote and Zeynep Abes at the Los Angeles Art Show (LAAS), July 29 - August 1 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, read a preview on the CSRC Post of the exhibition and some background about the artists and their work.
Image: Carmen Argote, walking and searching in Los Angeles. Digital photograph, 2020. Image courtesy of the artist.