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Open Studios

July 11, 2009, 10:00 PM to July 12, 2009, 6:00 PM

Place: Taller Tupac Amau
Location: Oakland, CA
Come to our bi-annual, summer edition, Open Studio in Oakland. We will exhibit all the latest work of TALLER TUPAC AMARU members Jesus Barraza, Melanie Cervantes and Favianna Rodr...
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Dignidad Rebelde-Art in Action

June 20, 2009, 1:00 PM to August 15, 2009, 6:00 PM

Place: Galeria de la Raza
Location: San Francisco, CA
Part 1 of Galeria de La Raza Raza's Contrabando Series Exhibition Contrabando (Smuggled Goods) is a fresh new three-part exhibition series that invites individual artists or arti...
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Prints & Posters by the Taller Tupac Amaru

June 1, 2009, 9:00 AM to July 31, 2009, 5:00 PM

Place: Asian Resource Gallery
Location: Oakland Chinatown, CA
Reception & Print sale: Thursday, June 25th, 6pm Refreshments & Music Prints, Posters & tShirts for Sale For more info contact Greg Morozumi at 510.532.9692
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DIGNIDAD REBELDE-The Art of Protest

April 1, 2009, 6:00 PM to April 26, 2009, 12:00 AM

Place: Pueblo Nuevo
Location: Berkeley, CA
Dignidad Rebelde is a project created by activist-artists Jesus Barraza and Melanie Cervantes. It acts as a space for collaboration and artistic skill-sharing that is grounded in ...
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Stencilada

March 28, 2009, 1:00 PM to March 28, 2009, 5:00 PM

Place: CELLSpace
Location: San Francisco, CA
Stencil Archive and CELLspace present Stencilada Join CELLspace in an unveiling of eight panels of stencil and multi-media works by local and national artists. The Metal Shop a...
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Melanie talks about Post-Chicano Art
July 1, 2009

Screen printing workshop at Galeria de la Raza
June 28, 2009

Youth in DF
June 28, 2009

Representando Raices de Resistencia-Tonight
June 26, 2009

L.A. to the Bay- Screen Printers Unite!
June 25, 2009

Solidarity With the Iranian People
June 24, 2009

Art Reception for TALLER TUPAC AMARU
June 24, 2009

Dyke Rights = Human Rights
June 23, 2009

Billboard at Galeria de la Raza
June 22, 2009

Dignidad Rebelde at Galeria de la Raza
June 12, 2009


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Just Seeds

Favianna

Juan R. Fuentes

Malaquias Montoya

the Firehouse

Tim Simons

Liberation ink

Mark Vallen

Inkworks

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A joint project of artist-activist’s Jesus Barraza and Melanie Cervantes Dignidad Rebelde is a space for collaboration and artistic skill-sharing that is grounded in a Xicana worldview and fueled by their collective desire to support grassroots organizing for social justice. Members of the Taller Tupac Amaru, a print studio based in Oakland, Barraza and Cervantes are committed to the Taller’s mission of producing and distributing screen-printed political posters and fostering resurgence in the screen-printing medium for social change. 

 

Jesus Barraza is an activist printmaker and digital artist based in the San Leandro, California. Using bold colors and high contrast images his prints reflect both his local and global community and their resistance in a struggle to create a new world. Barraza’s work continues the tradition of graphic art in the spirit of Jose Gaudalupe Posada, OSSPAL and Juan R. Fuentes.
In 1998 Barraza was a co-founder of ten12, a collective of digital artists. He has also worked as Graphic Designer for the Mission Cultural Center/Mission Grafica, where Calixto Robles, Juan R. Fuentes and Michael Roman mentored Barraza in various screen printing methods. In 2003, he co-founded the Taller Tupac Amaru printing studio to foster resurgence in the screen printing medium, where he has complete over 100 prints. Additionally he is a partner at Tumis Inc., a bilingual design studio helping to integrate art with emerging technologies.

Click here for Jesus Barraza's Resume

Melanie Cervantes creates a powerful visual language to declare that a peaceful, sustainable and just world is possible. She is an artist trained by library books, family, peers and experimentation. Producing her work in various mediums including pen and ink, acrylic, screenprinting, embroidery, fiber arts, and spraypainted stencils Melanie infuses her indigenous internationalist worldview, spirituality and politic into all her art.  She views her art practice as an important component of a growing social movement for global social justice. Her art moves those viewed as marginal to the center and features empowered youth, elders, women, queers, indigenous peoples and communities of color. As a member of the artist-activist collective Taller Tupac Amaru she produces political posters in collaboration with grassroots organizing efforts that are working to build collective power. Following the tradition of such artists as Juana Alicia, Malaquias Montoya, Judy Baca, Emory Douglas, La Mujeres Muralistas and Diego Rivera- Melanie has made a life long commitment to being an artist for the people.

Click here for Melanie Cervantes' Resume

 

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