News
Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, dean of UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, and Carola Suárez-Orozco, professor of education at UCLA, published an opinion piece on September 10 in U.S. News & World Report regarding immigration rhetoric.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has published an “Art Museum Staff Demographic Survey” citing its undergraduate curatorial fellowship pilot program as an effort toward making “the country’s art museums more representative of the growing diversity of the American people.”
PolyCentric, an online publication of Cal Poly Pomona, reported on the May 13 event "Organizing Latino Immigrants in the Informal Economy" that took place at the CSRC.
Luis Cruz Azaceta, the tenth volume in the CSRC Press's A Ver: Revisioning Art History series, won 1st Place, Best Arts Book (English) at the 2015 International Latino Book Awards. The awards took place June 27, 2015 in San Francisco. This is the thirty-third book award received by the CSRC Press.
An opinion piece by Fernando Torres-Gil, professor of public policy and social welfare at UCLA, director of the UCLA Center for Policy and Research on Aging, and CSRC faculty associate, has been published by Zócalo Public Square and Time.
Cuban Art News told readers to "Save the Date" for the first Biennial of Latin(o) American Art hosted by the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) in celebration of the institution's 20th anniversary.
Results of a study that was funded in part by a CSRC research grant have been published by the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.
A feature in the San Antonio Express-News discussed four exhibitions on the work of Chicano artist and Con Safo member Mel Casas, each curated by Ruben C. Cordova. Cordova is the author of Con Safo: The Chicano Art Group and the Politics of South Texas (CSRC Press, 2009).
UCLA's Daily Bruin profiled Juan Fernández, a fourth year Chicana/o studies student who, as part of his senior thesis on performance art in queer culture, curated an event at the CSRC in May featuring Los Angeles-based artist and DJ group Maricón Collective.
A blog post on artist Linda Vallejo, whose work was featured in the 2015 CSRC library exhibition Make 'Em All Mexican.