CSRC Newsletter - November 2018

In an interview with the College Art Association (CAA), CSRC associate director Charlene Villaseñor Black discussed her work with CAA, her thoughts on the field, and what goes into making the CAA Annual Conference a reality each year. The video is available here.

CAA News Today, October 23, 2018 (PDF)

 

CSRC director Chon A. Noriega was interviewed for a piece by Artbound about the Bridges in a Time of Walls exhibition currently on view in Mexico City. The CSRC is a lender to the exhibition, which is a collaboration between the Mexican government’s cultural department and AltaMed, and Noriega contributed to the catalog.

Artbound, October 22, 2018 (PDF)

 

The Daily Bruin featured a piece on comments made by artist and retired UCLA professor Judy Baca during the recent event "Judy Baca and Anna Indych-López in Conversation," which was co-organized by the CSRC and the Hammer Museum.

Daily Bruin, October 19, 2018 (PDF)

 

A preview of the exhibition Viva Las Fotos: A Day of the Dead Memorial for Laura Aguilar included images courtesy of the CSRC and the artist’s estate.

ARTnews, October 19, 2018 (PDF)

 

Performer, producer, and CSRC donor Dan Guerrero was interviewed by NBC News Los Angeles for a feature celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month. The interview was partially filmed at the CSRC Library and features a glimpse of materials in the Dan Guerrero Research Collection. View the segment here.

NBC News, October 7, 2018 (PDF)

 

In an interview regarding the lifetime achievement award he recently received from the Oscar B. Cintas Foundation, art historian Juan A. Martínez discussed his career and notable publications, including María Brito, published by the CSRC Press as part of the A Ver: Revisioning Art History series.

Diario de cuba, October 9, 2018 (PDF)

 

CSRC associate director Charlene Villaseñor Black was interviewed by the Daily Bruin for a piece on the Faculty-in-Residence program at the undergraduate dorms.

Daily Bruin, October 8, 2018 (PDF)

 

Jacqueline L. Angel and CSRC faculty associate Juan Fernando Torres-Gil, investigators for the Latinos and Economic Security project, published an op-ed in The Philadelphia Inquirer in which they discuss the implications of an aging and majority-minority population. The project is a partnership between the CSRC and the UCLA Center for Policy Research on Aging. 

The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 4, 2018 (PDF)

 

CSRC director Chon A. Noriega was interviewed for a piece in Hyperallergic concerning the history, research, and findings of the Invisible No More study published in September by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative (LPPI) and the CSRC. The study examines the Smithsonian Institution’s progress toward implementing the ten recommendations in a 1994 report by the institution's Task Force on Latino Issues.

Hyperallergic, October 3, 2018 (PDF)

 

Hoy Los Angeles reported on the release of the Invisible No More study conducted by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative (LPPI) and the CSRC.

Hoy Los Angeles, September 10, 2018 (PDF)

 

La Opinión reported on the Invisible No More study, conducted by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative (LPPI) and the CSRC, and highlighted key findings from the study.

La Opinión, September 10, 2018 (PDF)

 

HVA Design's website featured a list of awards recently given to the exhibition catalog Home—So Different, So Appealing, published by the CSRC Press.

HVADesign.com, September, 2018 (PDF)

 

The mural Chicano History, created for the CSRC in 1969 by four artists and currently traveling as part of the exhibition Testament of the Spirit: Paintings by Eduardo Carrillo, was mentioned in a review in the Sacramento Bee.

Sacramento Bee, July 06, 2018 (PDF)

 

 

The Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT), the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (UCLA), and Martín Camps (University of the Pacific) invite you to a panel and conversation with four Mexican writers from the border: Cristina Rascón, Amaranta Caballero, Nadia López García, and Ana Fuente Montes de Oca. The writers will offer their perspective on transnational and binational relations between Mexico and the United States and recent literary production in Mexico pertaining to topics such as indigeneity, migration, and gender. This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies, and the CSRC.

 

This panel brings together UCLA alums who organized and participated in oppositional acts at UCLA in the 1990s and early 2000s. These include walkouts and building occupations against tuition hikes and the elimination of affirmative action and protests against institutional racism and for the establishment of Chicanx studies. Speakers include York Chang, artist and chief counsel, Service Employees International Union Local 1000; Robert Karimi, interactive storyteller, writer/producer, and interdisciplinary conceptual artist; and Jolie Chea, UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Literature at UC Riverside. The event will include visual presentations of undergraduate research for AAS 19, “100 Years of Protests at UCLA.” This panel is part of Refugee Re/Enactments, a series of activities that remembers and revives the history of social and political engagement at UCLA. The event is organized by the UCLA Asian American Studies Department and co-sponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies, and the CSRC.

 

Leticia Alvarado, assistant professor of ethnic studies and American studies at Brown University and former CSRC visiting scholar, will present her book Abject Performances: Aesthetic Strategies in Latino Cultural Production (Duke University Press, 2018), which explores the work of artists Ana Mendieta, Nao Bustamante, and the Chicano art collective Asco. Alvarado discusses how these artists use a strategy of abjection—incorporating uncertainty, disgust, unbelonging—to represent experiences that occur at the edge of mainstream Latina/o struggles for social justice. She argues for the continuing relevance of aesthetic theory in Latina/o studies and its importance to political practice and the formation of a diverse Latinidad. Books will be available for purchase and a reception will follow the event. This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Performance Studies, the UCLA Department of English, and the CSRC.

 

Join us as Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara presents his newly published book, Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer (University of California Press, 2018), which is a memoir of his life and a counterhistory of the city of Los Angeles. Guevara is a native Angelino, a Chicano singer-songwriter, a record producer of Chicano rock-and-roll and rock en español compilations, and a performance artist, poet, short story writer, historian, journalist, and activist. This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Center for Latino Arts and the CSRC. Books will be available for purchase at the event. A reception will follow.

 

 

On October 11, at the CSRC Open House, Xaviera Flores, CSRC librarian, was recognized by members of the California State Assembly for her contributions toward preserving the memory and political legacy of Nell and Phil Soto through the creation of the Nell and Phil Soto Papers collection. Flores drew on this collection for Family, Community, Country: The Nell and Phil Soto Story, a CSRC Library exhibition that is on view through the fall quarter. Flores also received recognition from the City of Pomona and Mayor Tim Sandoval for her contribution to the groundbreaking ceremony for Phil and Nell Soto Park, which took place in Pomona on September 27.

 

The Alturas Films Records have been processed. Alturas Films is a production company based in Emeryville, California that specializes in documentaries on Latina/o and Latin American culture. The founder, Rick Tejada-Flores, made his first film in 1973. The collection consists of scripts, grant proposals, budget material, correspondence, research material, and publicity documents from the years 1958 to 2000. Films represented include Low ‘n Slow (1983), about Chicano lowrider culture, and Elvia, the Fight for Land and Liberty (1988), about Honduran civil rights activist Elvia Alvarado. The collection also includes material on films that were not produced. The finding aid is now available at the Online Archive of California.

 

Artist and UCLA Medal recipient Raphael Montañez Ortiz donated an additional 2 linear feet of CDs and audio reels to be added to the Raphael Montañez Ortiz Papers. Charlotte Lerchenmuller, education activist and wife of the late educator Sal Castro, donated over 4 linear feet of CDs, LPs, and audiovisual materials to the Sal Castro Collection.

 

On October 13, CSRC librarian Xaviera Flores participated in the workshop “Teacher Creativity Studio: Fostering Global Competence in the Classroom” at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes. The event was part of a series of programs developed in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institute. Flores led a section titled “Archiving Community History: Documenting a Community and Building a Collective Memory.” Francisco E. Balderrama, professor of Chicano studies at Cal State LA, and Christine Valenciana, associate professor of elementary and bilingual education at Cal State Fullerton, also served as workshop instructors.

 

On October 19, Flores met with six graduate students in F/TV 221A, “Media, History, and the Archive,” to discuss the requirements and responsibilities of managing, collecting, and preserving Chicano film and working with Chicano filmmakers.

 

Family, Community, Country: The Nell and Phil Soto Story celebrates the lives and careers of Nell and Phil Soto. Both were pioneering Latino politicians who served in the California legislature and their local city councils and school districts. The Sotos promoted public health policies, green spaces and parks for children, protecting the environment and air quality, equal housing, and head-start education. Nell (1926–2009) and Phil (1926–1997) were also parents, raising six children, and active church members. The exhibition draws from the recently donated Nell and Phil Soto Papers and will be on view in the library and vitrine through the fall quarter. The exhibition is free to the public and viewable during library hours, Monday–Friday, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

 

An online version of Sonidos de la Frontera: Music across Borders and Time, featuring images of artifacts and links to recordings, is now available as a UCLA Library Research Guide. The exhibition, currently on view at the UCLA Music Library, highlights the Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings, the world’s largest repository of commercially produced Mexican and Mexican American musical recordings.  The exhibition provides a gateway to the collection by using a fraction of the music in combination with material from more than a dozen of the CSRC’s archival collections to present significant moments in Mexican and Mexican American music history. Curated chiefly by CSRC archives specialist Doug Johnson, in collaboration with CSRC librarian Xaviera Flores and music inquiry and research librarian Matthew Vest, the exhibition includes photographs, posters, clippings, pamphlets, flyers, songbooks, and audio recordings in a variety of formats. CSRC collections represented in the exhibition include the Humberto Cané Papers, the Pedro J. Gonzalez Papers, and the Anthony Beltramo Collection. The exhibition, which is a collaboration between the Music and CSRC Libraries, will be on view outside the Music Library Reading Room at the Schoenberg Music Building for approximately one year. The Music Library is open seven days a week during regular session. For hours, click here. The recordings in the Frontera Collection are available to the public through the University of California’s Digital Library Program.

 

“Guerra Family of Los Angeles County,” a circa 1918 photograph from the CSRC Los Angeles Latino Family Photo Project, is featured in a new mural at the Wells Fargo bank branch at 11934 Garvey Avenue in South El Monte. Installed in late September, the mural is composed of colorized archival images that reflect the agricultural and civic history of the El Monte area from the mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. Created as part of the Wells Fargo Community Mural program, the mural is scheduled to remain on view for five years.

 

The following off-campus exhibitions include images and artworks from CSRC collections and are on view in November:

 

 

Altermundos: Latina@ Speculative Literature, Film, and Popular Culture is the recipient of a 2018 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. Edited by Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson and B. V. Olguín, Altermundos is the first collection focused on Chicana/o and Latina/o speculative cultural production. The volume provides a comprehensive alternative to the view of speculative fiction as a largely white, male, Eurocentric, and heteronormative genre. Altermundos features original essays from more than twenty-five scholars as well as interviews, manifestos, short fiction, and new works from Chicana/o and Latina/o artists. American Book Award winners are nominated and selected by a panel of writers, editors, and publishers who represent the diversity of American literary culture. It is available from the distributor, University of Washington Press.

 

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