[Libs-Or] Fwd: [UWMOSAIC] ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now

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Date: Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 2:11 AM
Subject: [UWMOSAIC] ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of
Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now
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*¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to
Now*

Reopening 2021    Smithsonian American Art Museum

Join the Smithsonian American Art Museum for a five-part online
conversation series that examines Chicanx graphics

*Information:*

https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/chicano-graphics?utm_source=siedu&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=exhibitions

*Registration:*

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/printing-the-revolution-virtual-conversation-series-tickets-131957296827?aff=CGVirtualConversationSeriesExhibitionPromoCard

*Public Programs*

   - *February 18*, 6:30 pm (EST) - ¡Printing the Revolution! Virtual
   Conversation Series: From Black and Brown Solidarity to Afro-Latinidad
   - *March 25*, 6:30 pm (EST) - ¡Printing the Revolution! Virtual
   Conversation Series: The Legacy of Printmaking
   - *April 15*, 6:30 pm (EST) - ¡Printing the Revolution! Virtual
   Conversation Series: Spirituality and Indigeneity within Chicanx Art
   - *May 13*, 6:30 pm (EST) - ¡Printing the Revolution! Virtual
   Conversation Series: Creating in a Digital Sphere

In the 1960s, activist Chicano artists forged a remarkable history of
printmaking that remains vital today. Many artists came of age during the
civil rights, labor, anti-war, feminist and LGBTQ+ movements and channeled
the period’s social activism into assertive aesthetic statements that
announced a new political and cultural consciousness among people of
Mexican descent in the United States. ¡Printing the Revolution! explores
the rise of Chicano graphics within these early social movements and the
ways in which Chicanx artists since then have advanced innovative
printmaking practices attuned to social justice.

More than reflecting the need for social change, the works in this
exhibition project and revise notions of Chicanx identity, spur political
activism and school viewers in new understandings of U.S. and international
history. By employing diverse visual and artistic modes from satire, to
portraiture, appropriation, conceptualism, and politicized pop, the artists
in this exhibition build an enduring and inventive graphic tradition that
has yet to be fully integrated into the history of U.S. printmaking.

This exhibition will be the first to unite historic civil rights era prints
alongside works by contemporary printmakers, including several that embrace
expanded graphics that exist beyond the paper substrate. While the dominant
mode of printmaking among Chicanx artists remains screen-printing, this
exhibition will feature works in a wide range of techniques and
presentation strategies, from installation art, to public interventions,
augmented reality and shareable graphics that circulate in the digital
realm. The exhibition will also be the first to consider how Chicanx
mentors, print centers and networks nurtured other artists, including
several who drew inspiration from the example of Chicanx printmaking.

Artists and collectives featured in the exhibition include Rupert García,
Malaquias Montoya, Ester Hernandez, the Royal Chicano Air Force, Elizabeth
Sisco, Louis Hock, David Avalos, Sandra C. Fernández, Juan de Dios Mora,
the Dominican York Proyecto GRAFICA, Enrique Chagoya, René Castro, Juan
Fuentes, and Linda Lucero, among others.

¡Printing the Revolution! features 119 works drawn from SAAM’s pioneering
collection of Latinx art. The museum’s Chicanx graphics holdings rose
significantly with an important gift in 1995 from the renowned scholar
Tomás Ybarra-Frausto. Since then, other major donations and an ambitious
acquisition program has built one of the largest museum collections of
Chicanx graphics on the East Coast.

This exhibition is organized by E. Carmen Ramos, curator of Latinx art at
the Smithsonian American Art Museum, with Claudia Zapata, curatorial
assistant. The museum will publish a major catalogue with essays by Ramos
and Zapata, as well as contributions by Terezita Romo and Tatiana Reinoza,
leading scholars of Chicanx and Latinx graphics.

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