News
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.
LMU, the magazine of Loyola Marymount University, profiled Natalie Sánchez, who is a practicing artist and educator. Sánchez was the CSRC Getty Intern in 2007.
Visiting scholars report on their research, Ernesto Chávez to speak at UCLA about Ramón Novarro, Chon Noriega on Mexican American movie moments, a tribute to Concepcíon Valadez, and more! (Image: "Ramón Novarro, The New Orpheus." Photo by George Hurrell, 1929)
As part of What It Means to Be American, a national conversation hosted by the Smithsonian and Zócalo Public Square, CSRC director Chon A. Noriega was among a group of four art and film scholars who discussed the most prominent and memorable cinematic depictions of the experiences of Mexican Americans and Mexicans living in the United States.
The Daily Bruin previewed the symposium “Contesting Global Police Violence,” held May 27 at the CSRC and organized by the editorial board of Regeneración Tlacuilolli: UCLA Raza Studies Journal. The journal is sponsored by the CSRC.
In this roundup of arts news, Los Angeles Times reporter Carolina Miranda notes The Getty Iris story about the CSRC’s La Raza Newspaper and Magazine Records.
UCLA Today previewed the CSRC event “Artists’ Talk: Maricón Collective” on May 21.
CSRC associate director Alex Ortega was interviewed concerning the “Hispanic Paradox,” which argues that Latinos live longer than whites in the United States despite having less access to healthy food.