For generations, artists in Mexico have used printmaking as a way to share news and political opinions as well as to celebrate cultural traditions. The Sun Valley Museum of Art is opening a new exhibit on Friday called "The Mexican Graphic Tradition: Printmaking and the Political". Joining us are Courtney Gilbert, Sun Valley Museum of Art curator of visual arts and artist Christie Tirado.
New exhibition features reimagined Mexican zodiac
George Rodriguez and Eric J. Garcia; Iguana, 2021; Ceramic, acrylic paint.
BELLINGHAM, WA
.-The Whatcom Museum announced the opening of the exhibition El Zodíaco Familiar. Championed by Seattle-based ceramic artist George Rodriguez, the exhibition features new works by Rodriguez and thirteen collaborating artists and opened June 19 at the Museums Lightcatcher building. It will be on view through October 24, 2021.
Rodriguezs large scale ceramic sculptures are a blend of traditional folk art and contemporary fine art and craft. Hand built and often at human scale, he enhances his figures with various surface patterns, colors and glazes.
The Chicago Headline Club announced Friday that ProPublica won six Peter Lisagor Awards, recognizing the best journalism produced across the Chicago region. ProPublica projects won for best feature story, best illustration, best education reporting, best individual blog post, online best non-deadline reporting and online best feature story.
“Inside the Lives of Immigrant Teens Working Dangerous Night Shifts in Suburban Factories” by Melissa Sanchez won best feature story, as well as online best feature story or series. The piece revealed that immigrant teenagers as young as 13 or 14, who attend school by day, are routinely working in illegal and often dangerous jobs on factory assembly lines at night. Sanchez unveiled a world operating in plain sight in one Chicago suburb and in places like it around the country. The story prompted the high school the teenagers attended to convene meetings to discuss how to better support its students, and a number of residents in the area donat