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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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Genocide is Not Justice
Jesus Barraza 20 x 26 2-Color, Handprinted, Screenprint,Archival Acid Free New Leaf Heavyweight Matte paper , Printed in Oakland, CA 2009 This poster was created to protest the Israeli war against Palestinians in Gaza. It was my intent to use this poster to show my solidarity with the Palestinian people calling attention to Israel's genocidal practic...
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 2009
melanie cervantes and Jesus Barraza 20 x 26 4-Color, Handprinted, Mohawk Archival Paper, Printed in San Le- andro CA 2009 On February 2, 1848, a Mexican delegation ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, with Mexico accepting the Rio Grande as the Texas border and ceding almost half its territory (which incorpo- rated the present day-states o...
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Madre Tierra
melanie cervantes and Jesus Barraza 20 x 26 2-Color, Handprinted, Screenprint,Archival Acid Free New Leaf Heavyweight Matte paper, Printed in Oakland, CA 2008 A collaboration between Jesus Barraza and Melanie Cervantes this print features an illustration of a blissful pregnant woman caressing her belly and the life growing inside. The woman is juxtapo...
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A Slingshot to Defend Your Life?
melanie cervantes 20x26 6-Color, Handprinted, Screenprint,Archival Acid Free New Leaf Heavyweight Matte paper , Printed in Oakland, CA 2009 A solidarity piece with the young Palestinian children who must use slingshots to defend their lives and their from the Israeli tanks, "Apache" helicopters and machine gun toting soliders who continue to invade, "sett...
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Indigenous Women Defending Land and Life Since the Beginning of Time
melanie cervantes 20 x 26 10- Color, Handprinted, Archival Lenox Paper, Printed in Oakland CA 2009 As individuals, as organizations, as communities or as a people, indigenous women continually prove their strength in the face of threat and adversity. Our responses show that we are not passive victims of oppression but fierce actors in the indigenous pe...
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Atenco Aguanta
melanie cervantes 20 x 26 4-Color, Handprinted, Archival Lenox Paper, Printed in Oakland, CA 2008 This piece is in solidarity with the indigenous people of San Salvador Atenco, in Mexico who are farmers by tradition and have resisted efforts by the State and corporations to build a WalMart, to build a major airport and to seize land. Their resista...
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La Resistencia
melanie cervantes 20 x 26 5-Color, Handprinted, Screenprint, Archival Fabriano Accademia, Printed in Oakland, CA 2008 As a Xicana I understand how settler colonialism plays out in the lives of Indigenous peoples all over the work. So my political solidarity is built on a common experience of displacement and is accompanied by a true committment to stan...
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La Abuelita y nieta
melanie cervantes 17 x 22 Giclee, Matte Heavyweight Paper, Printed in San Leandro, CA 2008 This piece honors our grandmothers role in our lived as young women. The sacred and the meaningful happen in moments with our grandmothers. This piece was created for Mother's Day 2008. $40
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Los Muertos de Las Guerras Injustas
melanie cervantes 20 x 27 4-Color, Handprinted, Screenprint, Archival Lenox paper, Printed in Oakland, CA 2008 Días de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a holiday that focuses on gatherings of family and friends to remember friends, relatives and others who have died. The celebration occurs on the 1st and 2nd of November.Scholars trace the origins of th...
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Mother's Milk
melanie cervantes 22 x 30 6-Color, Handprinted, Screenprint, Archival Lenox paper, Printed in Oakland, CA This print features a Zapastisa woman who is breastfeeding for the well-being of her child, as an exercise of her rights and a demonstration of her rights. $65
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