BREATH: Suspiro para Vivir
In late August and early September we teamed up with Leslie Lopez to publish three new prints for her upcoming solo exhibit at EastSide Arts Alliance in East Oakland. Leslie has been a graffiti writer and a teacher with Visual Element and in several Oakland high...
A Call to Action from our Allies, Middle East Children’s Alliance
"Dear Friends, On Thursday, September 8, 2011, MECA received the disturbing news that the Museum of Children's Art (MOCHA) in Oakland decided to cancel "A Child's View From Gaza," an exhibit of Palestinian children's art. After months of planning and establishing a...
Certain Days: The 2012 Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar
I am super happy to have my Alcatraz Poster on the cover of the Certain Days calendar, this is a great project that will raise funds for the New York State Task Force on Political Prisoners, the Palestinian NGO Addameer, and the Freedom Archives. It also has some...
Caring Across Generations
"We are building a movement so we can be a nation that takes care of one another across generations” "This year is the first year of the "age wave;" every eight seconds, an American will turn 65. In the coming years, more and more members of our communities will need...
Coatlicue en las Estrellas
Order this print by clicking here. I have used the stone image of Coatlicue in my artwork, sometimes juxtaposing it with other powerful women, I even used it in our wedding invitations. Coatlicue, the mother of creation, of gods, of the stars and the moon, she is the...
DRAWING INSPIRATION 40 YEARS & COUNTING: Living the Legacy of Attica and George Jackson
Friday, September 16th, 7:00pm EastSide Cultural Center 2277 International Blvd, Oakland CA $15 admission* *admission includes receiving a poster created by Dignidad Rebelde! Honoring the living legacy of the 40th anniversaries of George Jackson's assassination and...
After the Gold Rush
Order this print by clicking here. This is a new screen printed poster for “After The Gold Rush: Reflections and Postscripts on the National Chicano Moratorium of August 29th, 1970” an exhibit at the Vincent Price Art Museum in Los Angeles. This print is a...
Xicana Moratorium Day Photos
Aqui Estamos, Y No Nos Vamos: Luchando por Gente, Tierra y Libertad! "The message for this year's Xicana Moratorium Day is to remind people that Raza youth and families are here to stay, not just in Oakland and through out the southwest, but on this land. Raza have...
Zapatistas Prints
Order these three prints by clicking here. This triptych of small prints is called Zapatistas and features portraits of Emiliano Zapata and two modern Zapatistas. I wanted to juxtapose the Zapata with the warriors that carry on his struggle for land and liberty today....
Counting Coup Exhibit
This is a great exhibit I am part of, I was really happy to have them include the "Indian Land" poster. The museum also produced 1,000 offset copies to place by my piece for visitors to take with them. Counting Coup is a form of prestige, pride and power. “Counting...
The Revolution is Now
We had the opportunity to work with a group of Indigenous artists who were visiting the Bay Area, participating in the Emerging Indigenous Voices program. We were introduced to the group by our friend Dylan Miner who told us about the program and invited us to see...
Multicultural Community Center
This is a poster we printed a couple weeks ago for the Multicultural Community Center (MCC) at UC Berkeley. This is part of a project we have been working with the MCC since last year, first we created the Logo on the poster with Nancy Ledezma and then we designed a...
¡Cesen Deportación!
In July Dignidad Rebelde teamed up with Rupert Garcia to produce a print to use as a fundraiser for the Ethnic Studies College at San Francisco State University. We were really happy to have Rupert Garcia pick the 1973 ¡Cesen Deportación! print to reproduce for this...
Tercer Mundistas Triptych Release
Order these three prints by clicking here. This triptych of small prints is called Tercer Mundistas and features portraits of women from Palestine, the Sudan and Guatemala. I wanted to capture then juxtapose their strength and resilience in light of their struggles...
Xicana Moratorium Day
This year marks the 41st Anniversary of the first Chicano Moratorium Against the Vietnam War. The first Chicano Moratorium was a march that took place on August 29, 1970 where people gathered to protest the disproportionate number of Raza deaths during the Vietnam...
PRINTS FOR THE PEOPLE
August 1st Through September 28th, 2011 Cultural Heritage Center at the SJSU Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library PRINTS FOR THE PEOPLE is an exhibition featuring work by Dignidad Rebelde, a graphic arts collaboration between artists Melanie Cervantes & Jesús...
If you are want to see some of the hottest artwork by artists from around the country who are dealing with the subjects of immigration, xenophobia, borders, and pro-migrant activism - then DON'T MISS the 1-day only show in Los Angeles, California - this Friday, July...
Cantando Al Pueblo
Melanie Cervantes 20” x 26” 4-color, Handmade Screen Print* Signed and numbered edition Bright White Heavyweight Archival Art Paper Printed in Oakland 2011 *Background blend varies slightly from print to print. Each print is therefor unique.Chavela Vargas is a...