LatinaLista — Frida Kahlo is perhaps the most recognizable name among Latin American women artists who ever lived — but she is far from the only one. Rather than be seen as the definitive Latin American woman artist, a special exhibit in 1995 highlighted a range of such female artists spanning the years 1915-1995. “Latin American [...]
Chilean art collective works to replace scarred memories of war with words of beauty
LatinaLista — Since 2001, six cities around the world have been bombed. Not with explosives or missiles but with poems! The Bombing of Poems is described as a performance piece but it goes beyond just a simple act of theatrics. Starting with Santiago, Chile in 2001, Dubrovnik, Croatia (2002), Guernica, Spain (2004), Warsaw, Poland (2009), [...]
Spotlight Nonprofit: Allowing budding artists to earn as they learn
LatinaLista — Long before schools decided art wasn’t enough of a worthwhile class that students could learn something from and axed it from their curriculums, one off-campus art nonprofit has been showing that art is not only relevant to students’ lives but can be profitable in a variety of ways. Minneapolis-based Juxtaposition Arts has been [...]
FRIENDS of the National Museum of the American Latino asks public’s help to vote for 2013 campaign design
LatinaLista — The reality of a National Museum of the American Latino is still only a dream. Though the recent introduction of the bipartisan Smithsonian American Latino Museum Act was a positive sign in getting Congress to establish a national museum for Latinos, there’s still a lot of work to be done. The work to [...]
San Antonio artists instigate downtown development
By Dennis M. Ayotte Jr. La Prensa de San Antonio SAN ANTONIO — Last October, Councilman Diego Bernal and the city announced a call for artists to create installation in abandon storefronts downtown in order to help liven up San Antonio’s paltry downtown. Now dubbed, “X Marks the Art” the goal is still to give [...]
Video: Latina artist’s fight for immigrants’ rights takes wing with “Migration is beautiful” campaign
LatinaLista — The fight for the rights of undocumented immigrants in the United States evolved into a national movement when images reflecting the movement aroused empathy and action. Aside from the faces of those immigrants brave enough to step forward and declare their citizenship status, at the risk of being apprehended and deported by Immigration [...]
