LACMA opens an exhibition of recent work by Cauleen Smith
Installation photograph, Cauleen Smith: Stars in My Pocket and the Rent Is Due, Los Angeles County Museum of Art at Charles White Elementary School Gallery, May 29September 25, 2021, © Cauleen Smith, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA.
LOS ANGELES, CA
.-The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It, featuring the interdisciplinary artist who creates films, installations, objects, and performances that ruminate on the everyday possibilities of imagination. In this presentation of her recent work, Smith foregrounds Southern California artists and visionaries who engaged in creating and sustaining place and community. As is frequent in Smiths oeuvre, the artistic, musical, and textual references she draws from celebrate the experimental and radical practices of Black expression.
Two Major U S Foundations Are Giving $5 Million to Latinx Artists, Who Have Long Lacked Dedicated Support
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The director of UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center is stepping down after nearly two decades
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Chon Noriega speaking during a tour of the Chicano Studies Research Center–organized exhibition “Home So Different, So Appealing” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2017. Noela Hueso |
May 21, 2021
When Chon Noriega became director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, he saw it as an opportunity for him to take some of the things he was doing at other institutions around the country bringing artist papers into archival settings, developing media-based teaching materials on race and ethnicity, and curating exhibitions and festivals and bring them into one place at UCLA.
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The year was 1969. It was a time of social protest over civil rights and representation issues. Those protests echoed at UCLA, where Mexican American students were demanding improved access to higher education, as well as greater resources devoted to the study of the Mexican experience in the U.S.
Enter the university’s Mexican American Cultural Center, which was established to support research in what was then the new field of Chicano studies. In the 52 years since, that center now known as the Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) has grown from a small student- and faculty-led initiative to a full-blown academic center, supporting original research and publications, the maintenance of archival collections and a library.
Refugio “Benny” Gonzalez, age 58, of Holland, passed away Friday, March 5, 2021.
Benny was born in Alice, Texas to Refugio Gonzalez and Silvestra Ramirez on April 17, 1962. He attended school in Alice, Texas. He played many sports growing up and loved his Dallas Cowboys. Benny spent a lot of time on his grandfather’s ranch in Texas and also had a love for fishing and being outside. He was hard working and gifted with his hands, as well as, a natural when it came to auto mechanics. He was known to always have a powerful stereo system in his cars and you could hear him coming a mile away by his loud Tejano music. Ramon Ayala was one of his many favorites. Benny was also a people person. He constantly put others before himself and had a genuine heart for helping others. He would give you the shirt off his back. His respect for other people and easy smile gave him the ability to get along with anyone that he crossed paths with. His great sense of humor will be missed. Benny also l
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