Finding Los Angeles: Barbara Carrasco’s L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective
Forty-three mural panels are languishing in a Pasadena storage facility, some ten miles and thirty-five years away from the...
Wall of Empowerment? The Story of the Fountain Valley Mural
It was the mid-1970s. The social, political, and cultural strivings of the Chicano and Chicano Art Movements were impacting...
“Enroll in Chicano Studies”: Roberto Chavez’s 1970s Mural at East Los Angeles College
Mural detail, The Path to Knowledge and the False University, c. 1974–1975. Private collection; photo: Manuel Delgadillo. There was new hope...
Q & A with the Curators/Authors of ¡Murales Rebeldes! L.A. Chicana/o Murals under Siege
How did ¡Murales Rebeldes! come about? Erin M. Curtis: LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes and the California Historical Society...
Remembering the Zoot Suit Riots
During World War II, a cultural war smoldered on the streets of Los Angeles. The wartime fear that swept across...
This Day in History – May 20, 1942: “S.F. Clear of All But 6 Sick Japs”
From May 1942 to January 1945, in the name of national security, nearly 120,000 West Coast residents of Japanese ancestry...
Cinco de Mayo: Two Wars, Two Nations, and a Holiday with California Origins
155 years ago years today, on May 5, 1862, an assault was waged by French soldiers against Mexico. Its outcome...
Honoring César Chávez, March 31, 2017
César Chávez died with an art book in his hands. This final image of the great visionary is appropriate and...
Murals: Creating a Legacy
There was a time in 1932 when patrons at the rooftop beer garden of the Italian Hall on Mexican-themed Olvera...
Celebrating El Día de los Muertos / The Day of the Dead
Candles. Crucifix. Flowers. Incense. Fruit. Calaveras. These and other elements comprise the ofrenda, or offering—an essential component of Day of the...
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