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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Signal-A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture
August 28, 2010

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August 19, 2010

New print for El Tecolotes 40th Anniversary
August 13, 2010

Ester Hernandez Interviewed by Maria Hinojosa about her new poster
July 24, 2010

No to SB 1070 - We Will Not Comply
July 23, 2010

12 Hour Print-A-Thon at Self Help Graphics, East Los Angeles
July 22, 2010

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 ¡Zapata vive, vive, la lucha sigue, sigue!

Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary and guerilla leader, has inspired many Xicana/os for taking a stand for land rights and to show how the people could defend themselves from the tyranny corrupt governments. This portrait commemorates the role Zapata and his liberation army played in the revolution and the amazing Plan de Ayala which stated that the goal of the revolution was for land to be redistributed among the poor.
 

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