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(above: Eduardo Carrillo, Los Tropicanas, 1972-3, Oil on canvas from Eduardo Carrillo: Within a Cultural Context)

Alejandro Diaz: Blame it on Mexico, an exhibit held February 21 to June 7, 2009 at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. Accessed August, 2015.

Are You With Me? Sonya Fe is a 2021 exhibit at the Riverside Art Museumwhich says: "The use of bold brush strokes and vibrant colors by Fe creates beautiful dynamic paintings that depict visual stories of women's place in society and childhood innocence in a rough world." Also see website of artist. Accessed 2/22

Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum from Smithsonian American Art Museum. Includes extended labels for 73 artworks in the exhibit. Accessed August, 2015

Cheech Marin's Chicano Art Collection is a 2017 exhibit at the Philbrook Museum of Art which says: "his exhibition presents the work of 26 artists from the renowned Chicano art collection of Cheech Marin. While the pieces are linked by the common theme "community," the works illuminate the diversity of the Chicano experience through unique artistic practices and viewpoints." Also seepress release Accessed 8/17

Chicano Mural Movement from the Texas State Historical Association. Accessed August, 2015.

Consejo Fronterizo de Arte y Cultura. Accessed December, 2015.

Emilio Sanchez: Cityscapes, an exhibit held May 30 - August 12, 2012 at The Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia. Texts include exhibit labels. Accessed May, 2014

Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco. Accessed December, 2015.

Hispanic Traditional Arts of New Mexico was an exhibit held 2011-12 at the Albuquerque Museum which says: "The exhibition will include masterworks from the traditions of religious image making, weaving, colcha embroidery, and filigree jewelry and will also include examples of tinwork and straw appliqué." Accessed 10/16

La Raza Comica: A celebration of the Latino-American experience in the Comic Arts, an exhibit held May 5 - September 30, 2012 at the Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco. Accessed December, 2015.

Latino Art Museum, Pomona. Accessed December, 2015.

Luis Tapia: Cada mente es un mundo is a 2017 exhibit at the Museum of Latin American Art which says: "For forty-five years, Tapia has taken the art of polychrome wood sculpture to new levels of craftsmanship while utilizing it as a medium for social and political commentary." Also see biography at Smithsonian American Art Museum Accessed 8/17

Mapping Another L.A.: The Chicano Art Movement, an exhibit held October 16, 2011 - February 26, 2012 at the Fowler Museum / UCLA. Includes press release. Accessed December, 2015.

Martín Ramírez, an exhibit held October 6, 2007-January 13, 2008 at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Includes 7-minute CBS Sunday Morning segmant. Accessed February, 2015.

Mexican American Exterior Murals by Daniel D. Arreola, Geographical Review. Vol. 74, No. 4 (Oct., 1984), pp. 409-424, from Jstor. Accessed August, 2015.

MEX/L.A.: "Mexican" Modernism(s) in Los Angeles, 1930-1985, an exhibit held September 18, 2011 - February 5, 2012 at the Museum of Latin American Art. Accessed December, 2015.

Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. Accessed December, 2015.

Mi Tierra: Contemporary Artists Explore Place is a 2017 exhibit at the Denver Art Museum which says: "Mi Tierra: Contemporary Artists Explore Place features site-specific installations by 13 Latino artists that express experiences of contemporary life in the American West." Also see press release. Accessed 3/17

Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana. Accessed December, 2015.

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: Casta Paintings is a 2020 exhibit at the Columbus Museum which says: "The powerful large-scale paintings and drawings of Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez allude to minimalism and the pattern and decoration movement while using the aesthetics of Spanish Moorish tiles found on buildings in her native Colombia. The artist also often incorporates lace patterns from colonial portraits, as well as colonial botanical drawings, to explore notions of identity, memory, hybridity, and appropriation." Also see the websiteof the artist. Accessed 2/21

Narsiso Martinez: Rethinking Essential is a 2022 exhibit at the Museum of Latin American Art which says: "Narsiso Martinez's paintings and mixed media installations include individual portraits and multi-figure compositions of farm laborers set against the agricultural landscapes and brand designs of grocery store produce boxes. Drawn from his own experience as a farm worker, Martinez's work focuses on the people performing the labor necessary to fill produce sections and restaurant kitchens around the country." Accessed 12/22

Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art is an ongoing online exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum which says: "This exhibition features art created since the 1950s, when long-standing Latino communities increasingly demanded equal rights, the island of Puerto Rico became a commonwealth of the United States, and newer arrivals reached the American mainland. As more and more Latino artists entered art schools, they created works stimulated by their collective group histories and U.S. artistic context." Accessed 8/17

Read Between the Lines Enrique Chagoya's Codex Prints an exhibit held January 16 - May 19, 2013 at the Haggerty Museum of Art. Accessed August, 2015.

Santa Ana Condition: John Valadez, an exhibit held Jun 10, 2012 - Sep 2, 2012 at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Includes audio clips. Accessed December, 2015.

Santos General Reading List from the Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education. Accessed August, 2015.

Testament of the Spirit: Paintings by Eduardo Carrillo is a 2020 exhibit at the American University Museum which says: "Eduardo Carrillo's artwork has been described as mystical, realistic, surreal, and visionary. His imagery, whether grounded in the everyday world or infused with magical realism, reflects his relationship to his native California and to his Mexican heritage, as well as to his early religious upbringing and respect for European traditions in art." Accessed 10/20

Transcultural Pilgrim: Three Decades of Work by José Bedia, an exhibit held September 18, 2011 - January 8, 2012 at the Fowler Museum / UCLA. Includes press release and video of an installation by José Bedia at the museum. Accessed December, 2015.

View from the Pier contains in Compass Rose section On the Santos Trail in Puerto Rico, published in four parts April and May, 2011. Accessed August, 2015.

Vincent Valdez: The Strangest Fruit is a 2013 exhibit at the David Winton Bell Gallery which says: "His most recent body of work, The Strangest Fruit, places realistic depictions of people known by the artist within an historical subject -- the lynching of Latinos in Texas and the United States more broadly -- metaphorically illustrating the persecution and oppression felt by contemporary Latinos in the United States." Also see artist's website. Accessed 12/18

Arizona Public Media offers a November 29, 2007 video (03:05) on Cristina Cardenas. Originally from Guadalajara, Mexico, painter Cristina Cardenas explores the disruption of stereotypes of gender, religion and culture through her art work. Accessed May, 2015

KCET,the Los Angeles PBS affiliate, presented in its CA video archive / arts and performance section Cheech Marin's Chicano Art: Cheech Marin aims to make Chicano art part of the American mainstream. _Life & Times,_2005, length: 7:54

Koehnline Museum of Art's Oakton Art Video Archives offers videos produced in connection with exhibitions. One of the archived videos is "Agustin Portillo: America" [10:08] Accessed May, 2015

KLRNin San Antonio produced San Antonio American Family Portraits. Actor and art collector Cheech Marin speaks on aspects of Chicano Art in a 4-minute video. Accessed May, 2015

Learner.org, a service of Annenberg/CPB, provides life long learning programs on the Web. Several videos in the Teacher Resources section focus on American art in the A World of Art: Work in Progress series. A World of Art is a video instructional series on art appreciation for college and high school classrooms and adult learners. Each program in this art appreciation series is devoted to a contemporary artist who takes one or more works of art from start to finish. Each show is 30 minutes in length.Judy Baca: Judy Baca, painter and activist known for her mile-long mural in Los Angeles depicting Chicano history, works on two public art projects in Southern California.

From the Museum of International Folk Art, the online exhibition_Sin Nombre: Hispana and Hispano Artists of the New Deal Era_ includes the curator's video introduction of the exhibition. Accessed May, 2015.

San Antonio American Family Portraits is produced by produced by television station KLRN9 in San Antonio. Actor and art collector Cheech Marin speaks on aspects of Chicano Art in a 4-minute video. Accessed May, 2015.

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