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Border Art is a contemporary art practice rooted in the socio-political experience(s), such as of those on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, or frontera.Since its conception in the mid-80's, this artistic practice has assisted in the development of questions surrounding homeland, borders, surveillance, identity, race, ethnicity, and national origin(s).
Ana Teresa Fernández (born 1981) is a Mexican performance artist and painter. She was born in Tampico, Tamaulipas, and currently lives and works in San Francisco. [1] After migrating to the United States with her family at 11 years old, [2] Fernández attended the San Francisco Art Institute, where she earned bachelor's and master's of fine arts degrees. [3]
A large art piece displayed projecting out from the La Jolla museum roof in 2007 The entrance of Museum of Contemporary Art, downtown San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, downtown San Diego Founded in 1941 in La Jolla as The Art Center in La Jolla , a community art center, through the 1950s and 1960s the organization operated as the La Jolla ...
This is a list of museums in San Diego County, California, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public ...
This is a list of public art in San Diego, California, United States. The artworks include one public art collection, the Stuart Collection; several outdoor sculptures, including many at the May S. Marcy Sculpture Garden; and a variety of works sponsored by the Port of San Diego.
Several art museums, such as the San Diego Museum of Art, the Timken Museum of Art, the Mingei International Museum featuring folk art, and the Museum of Photographic Arts are located in Balboa Park. The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego is located in an oceanfront building in La Jolla and has a branch located downtown at Santa Fe Depot .
Yolanda Margarita López was born on November 1, 1942, in San Diego, California, [4] to Margaret Franco and Mortimer López. [2] She was a third-generation Chicana. [5] [6] Her grandparents migrated from Mexico to the United States, crossing the Río Bravo river in a boat while avoiding gunfire from the Texas Rangers. [7]
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.