Chicana Artists’ Work On Display

Five Chicana artists will be part of an exhibit, “ChicaChic: The New Wave Of Chicana Art” for the next few weeks. The show runs at the California Institue of Integral Studies in San Francisco until March 18.

Too bad I’m not in California, because I really wish I could go to see this. It was Carlos Guerra who used to always tell me of how important it was for Latinos to not only focus on law, medicine, engineering, technology, business and other main industries — but also on art. If we don’t have people to tell our story, it won’t get told, he would say.

The five women — Ana Teresa Fernandez, Angelica Muro, Mitsy Ávila Ovalles, Favianna Rodriguez, and Shizu Saldamando — features the work of these visual artists. For more information, check out CIIS or the video below:

ChicaChic: The New Wave of Chicana Art // Interview with Curator Raquel De Anda from New America Media on Vimeo.

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