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Mission Icons in a Time of Change

August 21, 2010, 8:00 PM to August 21, 2010, 10:00 PM

Place: Levis Workshop
Location: 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 Zapatista
Location: 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 Cultural
Location: 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 & Museum
Location: 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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Jesus Barraza's Biography | Melanie Cervantes' Biography

Dignidad Rebelde is a graphic arts collaboration between Oakland-based artist-activists Jesus Barraza and Melanie Cervantes. We believe that art can be an empowering reflection of community struggles, dreams and visions. Following principles of Xicanisma and Zapatismo, we create work that translates people’s stories into art that can be put back into the hands of the communities who inspire it.

We recognize that the history of the majority of people worldwide is a history of colonialism, genocide, and exploitation. Our art is grounded in Third World and indigenous movements that build people's power to transform the conditions of fragmentation, displacement and loss of culture that result from this history. Representing these movements through visual art means connecting struggles through our work and seeking to inspire solidarity among communities of struggle worldwide.

Dignidad Rebelde's graphic art is of the highest quality and versatility – our art is for museums, collectors' exhibitions, community and cultural centers, individual homes, political rallies and more. We are committed to advancing the acceptance of people's art as quality art, and to nurturing a model of art-making grounded in collaboration with community organizations and other networks of artists.

In this spirit of collaboration among artists, we are also members of the Taller Tupac Amaru, Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, and the Consejo Gráfico.

The many community organizations we collaborate with include: