I asked. “I would say resilience,” said Valerie Jaimes, Executive Director of the Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center. Resilience in art, and in the movement. “You know, a lot of these ...
César A. Martínez says he does not have a natural ability as an artist. “I was never a prodigy or anything. I liked to paint and draw when I was a kid, but was I good at it? No,” said ...
“There’s something about the American character that’s embodied in this group that’s made up of Salvadorans (Herbert Siguenza and Ric Salinas) and a Chicano (Montoya himself),” he said.
San Jose was home to two legends in the arts: brothers Rudy and Sonny Madrid. Rudy was a trailblazing musician, and Sonny founded Lowrider magazine, a world-renowned publication. "Rudy, he was a ...
Photo credit: lajollaplayhouse.org When I first arrived in San Diego from Mexico City in the early 1980’s, I was a little surprised at how different Mexican culture and Chicano culture were.