Moving a National Latino Art Agenda Froward
Moving a National Latino Art Agenda Froward
By Eduardo Diaz, Dierctor, Smithsonian Latino Center After the presidential election, much has been made of the impact of the Latino vote, shifting some of the national focus to issues […]
Smithsonian And The Evolution of Mexican Food in America
PRESS RELEASE Programs Examine Origins of Mexican Food and Latino Contributions to Food Production The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and the Smithsonian Latino Center will present two programs […]
Pocho Ocho ‘Hispanic Heritage’ Items We Want in the Smithsonian
By Especial Correspondents, Pocho Ñews Service Are you buying a new dress, ladies, perhaps a chingon chapeau? Inviting the family over for a Sonoran hot dog party? After all, National Hispanic Heritage […]
Vote To Get Celia Cruz’s Portrait In the Smithsonian
By Renée Saldaña, NewsTaco The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has teamed up with photographic artist Robert Weingarten to have one noteworthy historical figure’s portrait uniquely immortalized in the museum. […]
Quinceañera Dress To Be Part Of Smithsonian Exhibit
Who would have thought it? This is the lead paragraph of an Associated Press story that ran in the Chicago Sun-Times: She was just a regular kid. Now, the dress […]
National Smithsonian Museum of the American Latino Proposed for Washington, D.C.
I haven’t read a truer statement in a long time: “The Mall, more than any other public space in our country does indeed tell the story of America, and yet […]
