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“Decolonizing the Artist” Featured on Google Arts & Culture Latino Hub

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Suzy González and Sage Alucero are two contemporary Chicano/a/x artists who are part of an expanding group of Mexican-Americans who identify strongly with their Indigenous Mexican ancestry. Through choice of art medium, imagery, and historical location these artists create works that explore their indigenous connections in an effort to heal the generational scarring of colonization. A large part of the decolonization of their artwork and themselves as artists is the radical act of uncovering the past and internalizing the indigenous understandings that they have found. González does this through her choice of culturally significant media which she calls “Mestizx Media” and her practice of dietary non-violence, while Alucero does this through their location of queer and non-binary identity within indigenous histories and imagery.

View the Google Stories for Sage Alucero and Suzy González on the Latino Hub of  Google Arts & Culture which will be featured as part of the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month

The virtual exhibit and Google Stories will be on view beginning Friday, September 15, 2023 on the Museo Eduardo Carrillo website

 

Dis-Placed

Dis-Placed: Now in Our On View Gallery

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Museo Eduardo Carrillo thanks documentary filmmaker, Pedro Pablo Celedon, for the introduction to Los Angeles artists Peter Liashkov and Marianne Sadowski and through them, Nguyen Ly.

These three artists come from many parts of the world and felicitously met in Los Angeles. Find out more by reading Dianna Santillano’s thought provoking essay which looks deeply at the art.

In their work they address their own migrations, the reverberations of newness and not being of a place, becoming of a place…

They also see in their chosen southern California community those people around them that are unhoused. They find empathy in and parallel to the issues of un-rootedness, searching for anchor and harbor.

View Peter, Marianne and Nguyen’s artworks here and see if you aren’t prompted to find kinship with those around you.

Califas Legacy Project showcased on Google Arts & Culture

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Califas Legacy ProjectCelebrate Hispanic/LatinxHeritage month with with a visit to Museo Eduardo Carrillo’s Califas Legacy Project on Google Arts & Culture.

Get to know the work of Amalia Mesa-Bains, Ralph D’Oliveira, Carmen Leon, and Yermo Aranda. You will also discover Califas: The Ancestral Journey/ El Viaje Ancestral, a moveable mural book produced by Felicia Rice, Moving Parts Press, in collaboration with Museo Eduardo Carrillo.

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(Scroll down the Latino Art Now page until you see Museo Eduardo Carrillo.)

Or click below to go directly to our new Califas Legacy Project exhibits on Google Arts & Culture:


Califas Legacy Project Online Exhibition

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Carmen Leon, Ralph D'Oliveira, Yermo Aranda, Amalia Mesa-BainsThe Califas Legacy Project online exhibition, offered by the Santa Cruz Art League (SCAL) and Museo Eduardo Carrillo, tells an untold story of Chicano/a/x artists living in the Central California Coastal region. This exhibition includes artworks by Guillermo (Yermo) Aranda, Ralph D’Oliveira, Carmen León, and Amalia Mesa-Bains.  We expand the geographic art historical narratives about Latino artists in the United States that are primarily centered in large, urban environments such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago. 

The Califas Legacy Project has unified the Monterey Bay Crescent through public retrospective and multi-generational exhibitions, zoomed in opportunities, streetside art viewing, portable murals, documentary videos, panel discussions, and a Latinx-based symposium. In 1982, Professor Eduardo Carrillo conceived of the “Califas: Chicano Art and Culture in California” conference to bring together artists, scholars, and creative social instigators to take stock of La Raza y El Movimiendo after several decades of political awakening and action. Together with Philip Brookman, Tomas Ybarra Frausto, and Juventino Esparza, he assembled a remarkable group for a multi-day symposium. They argued and agreed that the Chicano movement in all its variety and manifestations was very much alive and needed continued nurturance. 

Now, almost forty years later, the Califas Legacy Project features the art and ideas of our region’s Chicano/a/x and Latinx creative leaders, the elders in the movement.

Our commitment is to secure the preservation of these artists’ legacies and awaken a new generation to the richness of the Monterey Bay Crescent artists contributions.  Theirs is an un-contained influence – linking the powerful social movements of the 1960s to the next generation of Latinx and other artists. The exhibition surveys work from over four decades per artist, thereby sharing their artistic evolution and making visible what has been here all along.

The Califas Legacy Project fills a vacant part of American art history.

Read more about the Califas Legacy Project | FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

View artworks by Guillermo (Yermo) Aranda | Ralph D’Oliveira | Carmen León | Amalia Mesa-Bains

 

Guillermo Aranda

Guillermo (Yermo) Aranda is an elder and wisdom keeper of the history and ancestral teachings for Chicano/Native/Mexica identified peoples. He was the co-founder of El Centro Cultural de La Raza, a cultural art center focusing on Latino and Indigenous Art forms. As the Centro’s first Administrative Director, Aranda initiated the Chicano Park Murals in San Diego in 1973. Chicano Park is now recognized by the City of San Diego and the State of California as an historical site.

Ralph D’Oliveira

Ralph D’Oliveira has painted more than 100 murals in California and abroad during his 40+ year career as a muralist. He has done dozens of projects with schools and school children. In 2013, he traveled to Norway to do a mural project in Trondheim. He coordinates his projects collaboratively with neighbors and students in schools. He views all these projects as a way to build community. Ralph draws on his multicultural background incorporating native Chumash and Mexican roots.

Carmen León

Carmen León is a painter and teacher of art. In 1975-76, she was involved with a grassroots arts center, the Academia del Arte Chicano de Azlan, painting some of the first murals in Watsonville. In 1985, she began teaching art in the schools, focusing her involvement with the Latino community and drawing on her Peruvian and Mexican heritage. León was one of the co-founders of Galeria Tonantzin in San Juan Bautista, CA, a venue for women’s art. 

Amalia Mesa-Bains

Amalia Mesa-Bains is a curator, author, visual artist, and educator. In her home altars, ofrendas, and writing, she examines the formation of Chicana identity and aesthetic practices, the shared experiences of historically-marginalized communities in the United States, especially among women of color, and the role of multiculturalism within museums and cultural institutions. Her work is in collections worldwide and in 1992 she was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship.

 

Eduardo Carrillo: Comunidad de Califas

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Virtual Exhibition at UCSC’s Sesnon Gallery

Dates: Wedneday, February 3 to Saturday April 3, 2021
Location: online  at https://art.ucsc.edu/sesnon/eduardo-carrillo

Zoom Reception: February 3, 2020 @ 4:00-5:00pm | Register Here
The reception will feature a tour of the virtual exhibition hub, website, and a panel discussion with Amalia Mesa-Bains, Philip Brookman, and others.

Contact:  Shelby Graham sgraham@ucsc.edu and Louise Leong lleong1@ucsc.edu
More programming will be presented throughout the exhibition on Sesnon website—for updated exhibition information check the Sesnon Gallery website.

Image credit: Eduardo Carrillo, Las Tres Mujeres de Tepeyac, 1994, Oil on linen, 48” x 54”, Collection of the Art Museum of South Texas, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Keeler

Califas Legacy Project: January – April 2021

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The Califas Legacy Project has unified the Monterey Bay Crescent through public retrospective and multi-generational exhibitions, zoomed in opportunities, streetside art viewing, portable murals, documentary videos, panel discussions, and a Latinx-based symposium.

SEE FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

The Califas Legacy Project grew out of the recognition that our region represents an opportunity to fill in a missing piece of American art history. The story of Chicano/a art on the Central Coast is decades long, rich and varied.  

In 1982, Professor Eduardo Carrillo conceived of the “Califas: Chicano Art and Culture in California” conference to bring together artists, scholars, and creative social instigators to take stock of La Raza y El Movimiendo after several decades of political awakening and action. Together with Philip Brookman, Tomas Ybarra Frausto, and Juventino Esparza, he assembled a remarkable group for a multi-day symposium. They argued and agreed that the Chicano movement in all its variety and manifestations was very much alive and needed continued nurturance. 

Now, almost forty years later, the Califas Legacy Project features the art and ideas of our region’s Chicano/a/x and Latinx creative leaders, our elders in the movement and the next generation artists across the Monterey Bay Crescent.

The nine organizations participating in the Califas Legacy Project
Museo Eduardo Carrillo
Monterey Museum of Art
Moving Parts Press
Santa Cruz Art League
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Watsonville Public Library
UCSC Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery
UCSC Institute of Arts and Sciences
UCSC Library Special Collections & Archives

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Museo Eduardo Carrillo 
TITLE: The Califas Legacy Project 
(online retrospective of Califas Legacy artists with video vignettes and the book, Califas The Ancestral Journey/ El Viaje Ancestral)
DATES: March 5, 2021 ongoing
ADDRESS: museoeduardocarrillo.org and Google Arts & Culture
CONTACT: Betsy Andersen spark@cruzio.com

Carmen León Exhibit at Google Arts & Culture

Monterey Museum of Art
TITLE: The Califas Legacy Project: The Ancestral Journey/El Viaje Ancestral 
Virtual exhibit of CALIFAS artists, partners, and the book, along with other Moving Parts Press books)
DATES: January 8 – April 11, 2021
ADDRESS: 559 Pacific St, Monterey, CA 93949
CONTACT: Allyson Hitte ahitte@montereyart.org
Programming TBA

Monterey Museum of Art
TITLE: Change = Action/Time: Generational Activism in Chicanx and Latinx Art
(Zoom symposium)
DATES: January 9 (10:00-5:00)
CONTACT: Allyson Hitte ahitte@montereyart.org
ADDRESS: https://montereyart.org/event/symposium/

Santa Cruz Art League
TITLE: The Califas Legacy Project
(Online retrospective of Califas Legacy artists with video vignettes and the book, Califas The Ancestral Journey/ El Viaje Ancestral) with Museo Eduardo Carrillo
DATES: March 5 – May 31, 2021
ZOOM RECEPTION: March 5, 2021 (5:30-6:30)
ADDRESS: 526 Broadway Ave, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
CONTACT: Valeria Miranda valeria@scal.org
Online exhibition: Click here to view
View recorded panel discussion with the Artists/Charla con los Artistas

Santa Cruz Public Libraries
TITLE: Califas: The Ancestral Journey/El Viaje Ancestral 
(Series of banners displayed in street facing windows with the book displayed inside)
DATES: January 8, 2021 ongoing
ADDRESS: 224 Church St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Contact: Diane Cowen cowend@santacruzpl.org and Susan Nilsson nilssons@santacruzpl.org
Programming TBA

Watsonville Public Library
TITLE: Califas: The Ancestral Journey/El Viaje Ancestral 
(Series of banners displayed in outward facing windows in the City Hall rotunda with the book displayed inside)
DATES: January 8, 2021 ongoing
ADDRESS: 275 Main St, Watsonville, CA 95076
CONTACT: Alicia Martinez alicia.martinez@cityofwatsonville.org
Programming TBA

Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, UCSC
TITLE: Eduardo Carrillo: Comunidad de Califas
(Virtual exhibition of Eduardo Carrillo monographic retrospective)
DATES: February 3 – April 3, 2021
ZOOM RECEPTION: February 3, 2020 @ 4:00-5:00pm
(Tour of the virtual exhibition hub, website, and a panel discussion) Register here
ADDRESS: https://art.ucsc.edu/sesnon/eduardo-carrillo
CONTACT: Shelby Graham sgraham@ucsc.edu and Louise Leong lleong1@ucsc.edu
Programming: Sesnon website

Institute of the Arts and Sciences and UCSC University Library with Moving Parts Press
TITLE: Rising From the Ashes: The Artistry and Perseverance of Moving Parts Press
(panel moderated by Rachel Nelson, Director, Institute of the Arts and Sciences, UCSC, sponsored by UCSC Special Collections and IAS, featuring Felicia Rice)
DATES: January 28, 2020 (5:00-6:30pm)
ADDRESS: https://ucsc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pvl55rODS0CJcG-15MRQsw
CONTACT: Teresa Mora tmora1@ucsc.edu and Felicia Rice frice@movingpartspress.com

Brief description of the event: 
In June 2020, book artist Felicia Rice completed her most recent piece, The Necropolitics of Extraction. Two months later the book, along with Rice’s studio, was destroyed by the wildfires that ravaged the Santa Cruz Mountains. The only extant copies of the work are those that had already found homes in various institutions across the country. Despite this massive loss Rice’s work continues as Moving Parts Press works to rise through the ashes.
 
Rice’s work has always hinged on collaboration and community in order to explore and comment on some of the most tangled issues of our time, from questions surrounding identity to the sustainability of our planet. This event invites a number of her closest collaborators, including UCSC Arts Faculty, T.J. Demos and Jennifer González to join Rice in conversation about her work, the process of collaboration and the impact of the medium of artists’ books. 

We thank the generous sponsors of the Califas Legacy Project

California Arts Council
California Humanities
Arts Council Santa Cruz County
Santa Cruz Arts Commission
Hit and Run Press

2020 Eduardo Carrillo Scholarship Winners: Virtual Group Show

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Museo Eduardo Carrillo invites you to a virtual group show of the 2020 Eduardo Carrillo Scholarship Winners. The Eduardo Carrillo Scholarship, established in 1997 in memory of UC Santa Cruz Art Professor Emeritus and famed Chicano muralist Eduardo Carrillo, is awarded to the most talented emerging student-artists in the Art Department. Since its inception, the scholarship has benefited over 300 students.

View the exhibition on the UCSC Art Department website

UCSC Oakes College students create Museo exhibit on Google Arts & Culture

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As part of a course titled “Building Websites for Social Change, a team of students from UCSC’s Oakes College collaborated to create an exhibit for Museo Eduardo Carrillo on Google’s Arts & Culture Platform. Due to the COVID-19 shutdown of in-person instruction, the class was conducted completely online via Zoom. Thanks to the students Davis O’Shea, Jazmin Sosa Herrera and Kaelen Alexander, and to instructor Vicki Winters! Scroll on to read students’ reflections on working on the exhibit, and view the exhibit itself.

Davis O’Shea:

I am a third year at UC Santa Cruz majoring in the History of Art and Visual Culture. I grew up in between the Bay Area and Nayarit. I am especially interested in visual cultural studies, graphic design and sound design.

My experience working on the Museo Eduardo Carrillo exhibition was thoroughly educational and enlightening. Not only was it an opportunity to learn about how to prepare and curate an exhibition as a team, but it was also an opportunity to work with and learn about local latinx artists such as Eduardo Carrillo, Amalia Mesa Bains, and others. Furthermore, it was really a unique experience learning about this entire process (team meetings, curation) in an online setting and exhibiting on the Google Arts and Culture platform. One personal highlight from the project was creating the collage at the beginning of the exhibition. While creating the collage, I was able to fully engage with the artworks directly and respectfully. As I arranged and cropped the artworks, my eyes latched on to the fine details and I grew to appreciate consistencies shared between the pieces. Many of the artworks tell powerful local and ancestral stories which resonate with the Califas Legacy writings. I hope that viewers can appreciate the details and the stories embedded in these artworks and writings. I also hope to apply the knowledge/skills that I have developed throughout this project (such as curation, research and design) in future professional and personal projects.

Jazmin Sosa Herrera

I am a third-year student double-majoring in Spanish Studies and Politics at UC Santa Cruz. I’m from San Diego, CA, and spend the majority of my time working as a Pre-Law Peer Adviser under the university’s Career Success Center, where I mainly focus on providing students with information regarding the law school application process and advise in professional development.

Working on the Museo Eduardo Carrillo exhibit has been a very rewarding and positive experience. Being able to learn how to create and edit exhibits through Google Arts and Culture was a new experience that I was able to use as a creative outlet for myself. The artwork displayed is very touching so being able to view it and structure how it should be displayed in the exhibit was really honorable. One particular thing I really enjoyed about this project was being able to read the Califas Legacy stories and tying them to some of the artwork. Those stories were very fun and relatable for me to read. Some other things I learned besides how to edit exhibits on Google Arts and Culture were how to convert images. I hope to use these skills in the future with personal projects, as well as the data entry skills I honed through this experience.

 

Califas Legacy Project: Documenting our region’s Chicano/a cultural treasures

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The Califas Legacy Project is a multi-year, multi-medium, collaborative endeavor launched by Museo Eduardo Carrillo to document the legacy of five Central Coast Chicano/a cultural treasures: Guillermo (Yermo) Aranda, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Eduardo Carrillo, Ralph D’Oliveira, and Carmen León. Nine organizations are contributing to a series of events and exhibitions taking place between January and April 2021 (full schedule here).
 

The development of  Califas The Ancestral Journey/ El Viaje Ancestral  accordion book, December 2019.

Califas: The Ancestral Journey/El Viaje Ancestral
A collaboration with Moving Parts Press

In recognition of this need to focus on the Latinx artists of the Central Coast Califas: The Ancestral Journey/El Viaje Ancestral is being produced jointly by Museo and Moving Parts Press as an integral part of the Califas Legacy Project. In order to capture the public mural and installation forms in which these artists work, the artists created a one-of-a-kind collaborative “mural,” hand painted in an accordion-fold book with an assemblage shadow box on the cover. The book was designed and letterpress printed by Felicia Rice of Moving Parts Press and co-published with Museo Eduardo Carrillo. A commercially printed trade edition of the book is being given to libraries, schools, and other youth-serving organizations in the Central Coast region. Learn more about the book on the Moving Parts press website here.

The Monterey Museum of Art has the book on display in their virtual exhibit devoted to the work of Chicanx and Latinx artists of the Monterey Bay Crescent here.

The MMA is also showing more books and broadsides from the Moving Parts Press Chicanx/Latinx Series in their virtual exhibit here.

The Santa Cruz and Watsonville public libraries have developed a suite of banners to launch of the book this winter. Find all of these events here.

We recognize the need to bring visibility to the vacant places in our culture’s art history through sharing the work of our region’s leading Chicano/a/x artists. Books need to be in people’s hands and the art needs to be part of people’s social consciousness.

Califas Legacy Project Documentary

Integral to the Califas Legacy Project is a documentary film by Wallace Boss. He records the artists in their own words and films them in their studio settings. It will complement and enhance the programming this coming summer and fall.

Collaboration with Young Writers’ Program

The sixth book in Hablamos Juntos series will come out this Spring. It will feature the Califas Legacy artists. The annual reading at Bookshop Santa Cruz offered by our long-time collaborator, the Young Writers Program, will feature some of the young authors reading their narratives inspired by the artists’ images. Join us.

Traveling exhibition

Exhibitions of the Califas project celebrate Latino arts in the Monterey Bay Crescent and begin in January 2021 at the Monterey Museum of Art. Other books from the Moving Parts Press Chicanx/Latinx Series will also be on view in Felicia Rice in Virtual FLUX at the museum.

The online Califas Legacy Project exhibitions launch on March 5, 2021 on the Museo Eduardo Carrillo and Santa Cruz Art League web sites. A virtual reception and panel discussion hosted by SCAL takes place the evening of March 5th. Museo’s Google Cultural Initiative exhibition launches on sequential Tuesdays beginning March 9, 2021.

A series of banners of the book, CALIFAS The Ancestral Journey/El Viaje Ancestral, is on display in the windows of both the Santa Cruz Public Library  and the Watsonville Public Library. Santa Cruz Public Libraries has been awarded a California Humanities grant for this programming.

Support

Thanks to the Arts Council of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz City Arts, and hit & run press for their support for this project.

 

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Would you like to know more? Please contact us with your questions and thoughts, or post a comment below. We welcome your input.

 

A New Chapter: Art by Recent University and College Graduates

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The time post graduation after earning a Bachelor’s degree in visual arts often is followed with the question, “What Next?”

How do we blend studio practice with practical needs like making a living supporting oneself and maybe a family.

This work reflects the time of transition right before or just after leaving school.

The artists are Jorge Gomez-Gonzalez, Jennifer Ortiz, Natalie Jauregui Ortiz and Karina Tavares Perez from University of California, Santa Cruz,  Narsiso Martinez from California State University, Long Beach, and Ysabel Martinez from the Cafritz Art Center at Montgomery College, Silver Springs, Maryland.

We have also featured these artists in our Hablamos Juntos series of broadsides. The 11 x 17 posters are available for downloads, along with text of interviews with each artist.

Keep an eye out for the work by these artists- you will see more of it in the ensuing years- I’m sure of it.