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August 21, 2010, 8:00 PM to August 21, 2010, 10:00 PM
Place: Levis WorkshopLocation: San Francisco, CA
This exhibition opening culminates a furious week of printmaking at the Workshop by local artists Jesus Barraza, Melanie Cervantes, Juan Fuentes, Txutxo Perez, Ivan Lopez, Rachel A...
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Migration: prints, posters and photography
August 13, 2010, 6:00 PM to September 11, 2010, 2:00 PM
Place: MIssion Grafica, Galeria ZapatistaLocation: San Francisco, CA
A collection of prints, posters and photography visually illustrating the human face of migration. Experience the movement which these works convey made artists from different wal...
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Signs of the Times & La Grafica Politica An Exhibition of Politi
August 1, 2010, 12:00 AM to August 31, 2010, 8:00 PM
Place: Tia Chucha's Centro CulturalLocation: Sylmar, CA
Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural presents a two-part exhibit of political graphics, in commemoration of the Mexico's Bicentennial, and the one-hundredth anniversary of the 1910 Revolut...
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Out of the Closet and Into the Street: Posters of LGBTQ Struggle
July 3, 2010, 5:00 PM to September 26, 2010, 5:00 PM
Place: ONE Archives Gallery & MuseumLocation: West Hollywood, CA 90069, CA
Opening Reception: July 3, 5-8 pm Gallery Hours: Friday: 4:30-8:30 Saturday & Sunday: 1-5 Despite decades of...
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Following the leadership of our friend, Ernesto Yerena, who is working with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network and their ˇAlto Arizona! art campaign. Alto Arizona put a call out to all artists who opposed Arizona's Senate Bill 1070. You can read our analysis of the bill but it basically one of the most anti-immigrant legislation the country has se...
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GRACIAS A LA VIDA
This Friday Melanie and I are going to be part of an exhibit at Pueblo Nuevo Gallery with the XochitlCeive collective who we have been mentoring and working with since last Fall. We are really looking forward to this exhibit, we will have a few prints being exhibited as well as a series of prints by XochitlCeive that Dignidad Rebelde is co-publishing wi...
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GRACIAS A LA VIDA
FAMILIA Join us for the opening of GRACIAS A LA VIDA at Pueblo Nuevo Gallery this April 23rd cohosted by XOCHITLCEIVE: FLOWER OF SELF DETERMINATION and LOS RAKAS. In solidarity with youth movements from the Bay to Panama and across Nuestra America Libre we come together as young people using the arts as expression to empower our communities. We c...
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Migration is a Human Right!
This is a poster I created for the campaign against SB 1070. This Senate Bill will make it a violation to be in the US without documentation as well as allow police officers to stop anyone they suspect of not having having proper documentation to be in this country. We believe this will lead to racial profiling and the continuation of terrorizing Raza commun...
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Canciones de la Tierra
Melanie Cervantes 20" x 26" 9 - Color, Hand printed, Screen print, Coventry Rag, Printed in Oakland, 2010 Songstress, Lila Downs, has inspired my art making, through her lyrical storytelling and enchanting vocals since I first heard her album Sandunga in 1999. That year I started to create collective artwork with my friends, including 8-foot long banner...
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La Lucha Sigue Sigue (Dayglo Red Jacket)
Melanie Cervantes 20x26 6 - Color, Handprinted, Screenprint, Heavy Art Paper, Printed in Oakland, 2010 In 1810 Mexico breaks from Spain declaring its Independence. In 1910 Indigenas play major roles in Revolution against the established order in Mexico. In 2010 ˇZapata vive, vive, la lucha sigue, sigue! Emiliano Za...
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La Lucha Sigue Sigue
Melanie Cervantes 20x26 6 - Color, Handprinted, Screenprint, Heavy Art Paper, Printed in Oakland, 2010 In 1810 Mexico breaks from Spain declaring its Independence. In 1910 Indigenas play major roles in Revolution against the established order in Mexico. In 2010 ˇZapata vive, vive, la lucha sigue, sigue! Emiliano Zapata...
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The printing of Mis Mamas
This is one of the most ambitious pieces we have printed, nine color runs and a size of 26"x34" makes this print a very special piece. This image is part of a offset poster Melanie designed for her immigration poster that was one of five for the TIGRA conference on migration rights in Mexico City in 2008. The poster deals with the issue the queer families a...
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Free Hawaii Printing
We wanted to share the printing process for one of our latest prints, Free Hawai'i designed by Melanie as solidarity statement with the Indigenous people from Hawai'i, and the first in a series that deal with occupied islands. This is a five color screen print on heavy archival paper, check out the pictures below to see the printing process in action as eac...
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But this isn't El Salvador - New John Trudell Print
I wanted to share this new print I am working on, I started it in 2006 and recently I found the drawing and decided to finish it. I am making this part of a series of portraits I've been working on of artists that have influenced the work I do, this one is of John Trudell. For many of those who do not know about him or his work, Trudell started as an activis...
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