News
In a blog for the Poetry Foundation, Roberto Tejada reflected on a photograph by Oscar Castillo titled “Early 1970s, California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo” in the Oscar Castillo Papers and Photograph Collection at the CSRC. The post is the third section of the talk “Diagonal and Self-Possessed: Group-Portrait with Liminal Figures,” which was given as the keynote address at the 2017 Thinking Its Presence conference, hosted by the University of Arizona Poetry Center.
UCLA Newsroom published a piece on the life and career of retiring professor Leo Estrada. Estrada was a CSRC Faculty Associate and served on the CSRC Faculty Advisory Committee throughout his tenure as UCLA faculty, which began in 1976. He retired at the end of the 2017-18 academic year.
The University of California Irvine’s School of the Arts featured a write-up on the inclusion of Daniel Joseph Martinez in the CSRC-organized exhibition Home—So Different, So Appealing at LACMA.
A summary of CSRC initiatives in 2017-18, a visiting scholars report, awards and accolades for CSRC partners and publications, spring book sale through June 15, and more in this month's newsletter!
(Image: Cover photo from The Jazz Pilgrimage of Gerald Wilson by Steven Loza. A book talk and signing will be held Wednesday, June 6 at 4 p.m. at UCLA Schoenberg Music Building, room 1230.)
The exhibition The 1968 Walkouts: Selections From UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Collections at the Vincent Price Art Museum was featured by Best Things California. The exhibition is organized by the CSRC, and is curated by CSRC Assistant Director Emeritus Dr. Carlos Manuel Haro.
Included in a roundup of acclaimed exhibitions currently on view across Los Angeles are La Raza at the Autry Museum of the American West, which was organized in collaboration with the CSRC, and Testament of the Spirit: Paintings by Eduardo Carrillo, on view at the Pasadena Museum of California Art.
Included in a roundup of acclaimed exhibitions currently on view across Los Angeles are La Raza at the Autry Museum of the American West, which was organized in collaboration with the CSRC, and Testament of the Spirit: Paintings by Eduardo Carrillo, on view at the Pasadena Museum of California Art.
Charlene Villaseñor Black, CSRC associate director and professor of art history and Chicana/o studies, was quoted in a piece discussing Mattel’s release of a Barbie designed to resemble late Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.
The Daily Bruin covered a CSRC-hosted event whose themes were the 1993 hunger strike undertaken to support the creation of a UCLA Chicano studies department and the future role of indigeneity in Chicano studies.
Charlene Villaseñor Black, CSRC associate director and professor of art history and Chicana/o studies, previewed the new peer-reviewed journal Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, for which she serves as editor-in-chief. The journal will publish its first issue in January 2019.