The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California, Davis, will feature “Shiva Ahmadi: Strands of Resilience,” opening Sunday, Jan. 28. Ahmadi, a professor of art at UC Davis, uses painting as a form of truth-telling, combining luminous colors and mystical beings with violent imagery to draw attention to urgent global issues of migration, war and brutality against marginalized peoples.
Carlos Tortolero and five other staffers from Bowen High School were disgusted with how Mexican culture was taught at CPS. So they did something about it.
The chef Dominica Rice-Cisneros and the artist Momoca wove together Mexican and Japanese harvest traditions for a meal at the restaurant Bombera in Oakland, Calif.