Topics: Art Center (Pasadena); artistic process; Art of the Other Mexico; childhood in Boyle Heights; Central American Resource Center; Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation; Chicana/o identity; Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge; Citywide Mural Project; college education; commercial market for Chicano art; Con Safos; CSUN art department; Day of the Dead; documentation of work; drawing technique; family background; grants; high school education; Los Angelenos/Chicano Painters of LA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Los Angeles galleries; Los Angeles Photography Center; Los Four; Metro station commission; developing and executing murals; painting technique; Pintores de Aztlán; printmaking technique; Self Help Graphics & Art; teaching at-risk youth; teaching in prisons; travel in Mexico; USC art department; work as restorer