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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 Art: Resistance and Affirmation (or CARA) was a traveling exhibit of Chicano/a artists which toured the United States from 1990 through 1993. [1] CARA visited ten major cities and featured over 128 individual works by about 180 different Chicano/a artists. [2] The show was also intended to visit Madrid and Mexico City. [3]
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.
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.
Torres and other members of Los Toltecas en Aztlán were involved in this protest, calling the area Chicano Park. [9] The Chicano Park protest and other issues became part of a new proposal, citing a great need to create Centro Cultural de la Raza. [1] The new proposal was brought to the city by Alurista, Torres, and Aranda. [1] Despite this ...
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.
Garza later wrote that the Chicano Movement nourished her goal of being an artist and gave her back her voice. [18] She says that her artistic creations helped her "heal the wounds inflicted by discrimination and racism." [18] Garza also feels that by creating positive images of Mexican-American families, her work can help combat racism. [19]
Yreina Cervantez (born 1952) is an American artist and Chicana activist who is known for her multimedia painting, [1] murals, and printmaking. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, [2] and her work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, [3] The Mexican Museum, [4] the Los Angeles County Museum, and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.