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    A Chicano mural is an artistic expression done, most commonly, on walls or ceilings by Chicanos or Mexican-American artists. Chicano murals rose during...
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    where it served as inspiration for the Chicano art movement. Mexico has had a tradition of painting murals, starting with the Olmec civilization in...
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    the murals Under the Bridge - Documentary film on Chicano Park Mural photographs by Carlo Terlizzi Photography Victor Ochoa talks about the murals (video)...
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    with murals. Murals represented the main form of activism in Mexico prior to the Chicano Movement taking place in the United States. The murals depicted...
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    Chicano (masculine form) or Chicana (feminine form) is an ethnic identity for Mexican Americans that emerged from the Chicano Movement. Chicano was originally...
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    The Chicano Movement, also referred to as El Movimiento, was a social and political movement in the United States that worked to embrace a Chicano/a identity...
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    California. In particular, murals in Los Angeles have been influenced by the Chicano art movement and the culture of Los Angeles. Murals are considered a distinctive...
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  • Alicia Cardenas (category Chicano art)
    feature of Denver. She was featured in a documentary on Chicano muralism by the Chicano Murals of Colorado Project, referred to as These Storied Walls...
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    Estrada Courts began to evolve, in the 1970s a total of eighty murals were painted by Chicano muralists. Estrada Courts is owned by the City of Los Angeles...
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    the present, and the future. The murals are huge, some as large as 70 meters by 9 meters. This section of the mural depicts ancient Aztec culture. An...
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  • Purple Heart and Medal of Distinguished Service. In November 2022, the Chicano Murals of Colorado Project released a documentary called These Storied Walls...
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    Centro Cultural de la Raza (category Chicano)
    first community-based Chicano cultural centers and one of the largest in the Southwest. It is identifiable by a number of murals painted near the building's...
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  • the mural, as it had been damaged by graffiti. In 2022, Lucha Martinez de Luna organized a preservation project to protect Colorado's Chicano murals, including...
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    with designs from multiple artists. Murals were painted throughout Sacramento (many now painted over) as well as Chicano Park in San Diego and in Washington...
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    Mexican-American painter, graphic artist, and muralist. He was part of the Chicano art collective Los Four for a few years. De la Rocha was also influential...
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  • Chicano nationalism is the pro-indigenist ethnic nationalist ideology of Chicanos. Violence and discrimination against Mexican Americans (usually against...
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    Los Four (category Chicano art)
    is scheduled for 2016. Murals of Los Angeles "Los Four/Murals of Aztlán The Street Painters of East Los Angeles". UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center...
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  • La Marcha Por La Humanidad, also known as the Chicano Mural, is a mural housed at the University Center on the campus of the University of Houston. In...
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  • Mexican-American community. It follows the intertwining lives of three Chicano relatives from 1972 to 1984. They start out as members of a street gang...
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  • it became the largest collection of Chicano murals in the world. In 1980 the city designated the park and its murals as a San Diego Historical Site. Torres...
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  • Victor Ochoa (category Chicano)
    has painted over 100 murals, many of them in San Diego, California. He is considered one of the pioneers of San Diego's Chicano art movement. Ochoa was...
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    Asco (art collective) (category Chicano art)
    Asco was an East Los Angeles based Chicano artist collective, active from 1972 to 1987. Asco adopted its name as a collective in 1973, making a direct...
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  • The queer Chicano art scene emerged from Los Angeles during the late 1960s and early 1990s composing of queer Mexican American artists. The scene’s activity...
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  • Chicana/Chicano Arts Movement. Murals are a form of visual art that experienced a rise in popularity during this movement. Chicana/Chicano mural art became...
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    Chicanismo (redirect from Chicano culture)
    cultural consciousness behind the Chicano Movement. The central aspect of Chicanismo is the identification of Chicanos with their Indigenous American roots...
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  • the Horizons Unlimited murals (exterior and interior) in 1972, at 22nd and Folsom Streets, which was one of the earliest murals in the Mission District...
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  • Chicanismo Chicano art Chicano Blowouts Chicano films Chicano literature Chicano Moratorium Chicano Movement Chicano poetry Chicano Park Chicano rock Chicano rap...
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    Ritchie Valens (category Chicano rock musicians)
    singer and songwriter. A rock and roll pioneer and a forefather of the Chicano rock movement, Valens died in a plane crash just eight months after his...
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  • linocut prints, murals, and public art based in Los Angeles. She is known for depicting Los Angeles, Latin American imagery, and Chicano themes in her work...
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    Acosta-Colon, Maria “Chicano Art: It’s Time for a New Aesthetic” ‘’Los Angeles Times’’, 1990-09-24 Beal, Tom “Art's 'eagle' renews his murals and his spirit”...
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