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Tlacuila Visions: Apparitions and Transformations
Moving Parts Press in collaboration with Museo Eduardo Carrillo proudly present Tlacuila Visions: Apparations and Transformations, the third and final book in the Chicana Legacy Codices series, a Califas Legacy Project.
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2025 Eduardo Carrillo Scholars
For the past 22 years Museo Eduardo Carrillo has supported emerging student artists in the UCSC Studio Art program through a scholarship where qualified students are selected each year to receive up to $1000 each to support their individual craft.…
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Cruz Zamarron: Chicano Trickster
Cruz Ortiz Zamarron (1953-2024) was a gifted storyteller. His multimedia artworks are rich with Mexican folklore, colonial history, and the life of a Chicano artist living in Santa Cruz in the 1970s.
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Decolonizing the Artist: Indigenous Mexican identity in the Art of Suzy González and Sage Alucero
Suzy González (She/They) and Sage Alucero (They/He) 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…
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Dis-Placed: Peter Liashkov, Nguyen Ly and Marianne Sadowski
This exhibition brings together three L.A. artists from different continents whose life and works have been informed by their diasporic identities. Mining from personal and observed experiences, the art of Nguyen Ly, Peter Liashkov and Marianne Sadowski explore diverse types…
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Califas Legacy Project Online Exhibition
The 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,…
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Slow Build: A Collaborative Exhibition with Borderline Art Collective
Borderline Art Collective is a Bay Area artist group. The members share the desire for a cooperative environment to work alongside peers, the aspiration to sustain art in the Bay Area, and the commitment to community involvement and social justice.…
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A New Chapter: Art by Recent University and College Graduates
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…
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Seen/Unseen: Stories into Creativity
A Film by by Wallace BossSeen/UnSeen: Stories into Creativity (13 minutes, 2018, Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties, CA) is a film by Wallace Boss. He is a seasoned documentarian whose career has focused on creativity.
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Carlos Jackson: Reckoning With Hxstory
Reckoning with Hxstory, is an online-exhibition curated by Museo Eduardo Carrillo featuring Carlos F. Jackson’s drawings and silkscreen prints. The works in the series present a narrative that underlines hxstories of structural inequalities in the U.S. This online exhibition takes…
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ARRT: Artists Respond & Resist Together
This exhibit, Artists Respond and Resist Together, was synchronistic in its evolution. Before there was an election in 2016 there was the Resource Center for Nonviolence in Santa Cruz, which had been serving the community for 40 years and there…
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The Painting as World: Frank Galuszka’s self-refracting paintings through the edges of Borges and Velasquez
Las Meninas He paints quickly, as if to make sure he captures the thought, the insight while it is still fresh. The very elision of the brushwork shivers with movement, if not urgency, at least a swiftness of purpose. And…
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Immigration: Borders, Boundaries, Beginnings
The art work of Sara Friedlander and Jane Gregorius addresses the current and historic issues of migration and displacement. What does it mean to belong, and who controls who stays?
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At Your Door : The Art of Myra Eastman
“This is my story,” says Myra Eastman in her studio overlooking a garden of flowering trees in a neighborhood where a small California beach town sifts out into quiet-seeming streets of old farmhouses. Her back is to the garden; she’s…
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Topologies of Knowing: The Libraries and Laboratories of Amalia Mesa-Bains
The artist Amalia Mesa-Bains has long explored the relationships among women, colonialism, the Catholic Church, and indigenous cultures of Mexico…
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DOC/UNDOC: A Project of Moving Parts Press
The brainchild of book artist and publisher Felicia Rice, DOC/UNDOC includes work of performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña…
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Collecting as Critique
A word about the collection from Armando Durón The Durón Family Collection consists of over five hundred works of visual art by Chicana(o) artists who reside in the greater Los Angeles area. These works have been acquired over the course…
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The Enchanting World of a Chicano Trickster: The Whimsy in José Lozano’s Pictures
In Junot Diaz’s novel, This is How you Lose Her (2012), he tells of the Dominican experience in the U.S. and in particular Dominican love and life in New Jersey. The narratives portrayed are of everyday folks that simultaneously occupy…
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Desire and Inquiry: The Art of Claire Thorson
An Appreciation by Tom Maderos There are contradictions, questions, and overlapping truths in Claire Thorson’s art—in other words, it’s visionary as well as optical. Light advances on shadow, then turns away from it; space is made from its own obstructions.…
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Lorraine García-Nakata: Navigating by Hand
Accompanied by an essay by Professor Ella Diaz, Cornell University “Navigating By Hand” is an exhibition of the collected works of Chicana artist Lorraine García-Nakata. Spanning four decades of artistic practice and creation, her pieces reveal the complexities of identity,…
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The Alchemy of Painting: Art by Howard Kaneg
Stepping into Howard’s front room, surrounded by his many large acrylic paintings, I was immediately impacted by the vivid pure colors and the currents of movement inviting me to enter into magical spaces, to leave behind the day and enter…