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 ...
World-renowned Mexican-American artist, Mario Ybarra Jr. will lead the way through cultural art workshops. Ybarra lives in Wilmas, a barrio near Los Angeles where he was born and raised, rich in ...
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 ...
and then considers various aspects of the multiple literary and complexly interrelated traditions that emerged from this fractured cultural landscape. Full text views reflects the number of PDF ...
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.