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Ochoa became involved with Chicano activism while he was in college. In April 1970, he saw fliers at the City College Student Center for a park take-over for what would later become Chicano Park. [7] Ochoa recalls leaving class to go to the protest. [7] He and other artists added their own stamp to the protest by starting murals on the park. [11]
Chicano Park is a 7.9 acres (32,000 m 2) park located beneath the San Diego–Coronado Bridge in Barrio Logan, a predominantly Chicano or Mexican American and Mexican-migrant community in central San Diego, California.
Irma Patricia Aguayo, also known as Patricia Aguayo, is a Chicano Park muralist and longtime activist. She was born and raised in San Diego, California.Both of her parents are from Mexico and she grew up in a Mexican culture household but was told by her parents that in order to succeed in America to act American outside her house.
A lowrider car club in San Diego is memorializing its history by creating a mural in Chicano Park, a national and Mexican American cultural landmark.
Much of the art and the artists creating Chicano Art were heavily influenced by Chicano Movement (El Movimiento) which began in the 1960s. Chicano art was influenced by post- Mexican Revolution ideologies, pre-Columbian art, European painting techniques and Mexican-American social, political and cultural issues. [ 1 ]
The recently opened Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture is an essential repository of recent art history.
Torres was one of the founders of the Centro Cultural de la Raza, also in San Diego.He helped form Los Toltecas en Aztlán, a Chicano artists group that was instrumental in converting a former water tank [3] in Balboa Park into a museum and cultural center with the specific mission of promoting, preserving and creating Chicano, native Mexicano, Latin American and Indian art and culture.
Austin native and artist José Francisco Treviño grew with Chicano movement. His story could showcase the city's art and civil rights history.