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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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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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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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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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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The Chicano Movement, also referred to as El Movimiento (Spanish for "the Movement"), was a social and political movement in the United States that worked...
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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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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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Jesse Treviño (category Chicano art)
hand. Based in San Antonio, Texas, his paintings and murals largely depict the Mexican American/Chicano community of San Antonio, including cinemas and neighborhood...
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Estrada Courts (redirect from Estrada Courts Murals)
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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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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Salvador Torres (section Chicano Park)
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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Plaza Verde Park (section Murals)
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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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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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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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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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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Alma López (section Heaven 2 Mural)
2013-02-02. Retrieved 30 June 2011. "Why Did Huntington Beach Allow a Chicano Mural to Get Whitewashed". OC Weekly. September 8, 2017. Retrieved February...
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La Marcha Por La Humanidad (redirect from La Marcha Por La Humanidad aka The Chicano Mural At The University of Houston)
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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paintings, murals and installations. Over forty murals were shown via slideshow. The first section of the show contained a short history of Chicanos going...
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supposedly demonstrates Chicano, an American first with cultures of Mexican descent. In 2019, Lucero began a trio of expansive murals during her tenure as...
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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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Gronk (artist) (section Murals and Commissions)
1954 in East Los Angeles, California, USA), born Glugio Nicandro, is a Chicano painter, printmaker, and performance artist. His work is collected by museums...
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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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of the most famed Chicano murals, the California Dreamscape. While Almaraz was already an icon among Chicanos because of his murals across California...
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Roberto Esteban Chavez (section Murals)
Cockcroft; Holly Barnet-Sánchez (1993). Signs from the Heart: California Chicano Murals. UNM Press. pp. 45–46. ISBN 978-0-8263-1448-2. Material prepared for...
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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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