TAKE THIS HAMMER Art + Media Activism from the Bay Area
If you haven't been to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to check out their latest exhibit you need to get down there sometime this summer! The exhibit has a seriously awesome group of artists: 3.9 Art Collective, Indira Allegra, Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, Bay...
FTP: For the People
Melanie painted this mural at the Galeria de la Raza for the "F.T.P For the People" exhibit up through June 4, '16. Visit the exhibit and see this painted larger than life on a wall. This piece is called "En Comunion Con Lo Sagrado," it is a reflection on the ways we...
Public Square: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Throughout time, a public square has served as an open place where people of all kinds have gathered to share new information, surface big questions, and enact change. On April 16, our work will be featured at YBCA's Public Square, called Investigations of Labor &...
Hablamos Juntos: Online Exhibit
"Hablamos Juntos: Together we Speak" is a collaboration between Pajaro Valley Arts and the Young Writers Program. The exhibition highlights artwork by contemporary Latin@ artists. What adds a unique dimension is that high school students enrolled in a continuation...
Melanie Cervantes, el arte de la rebeldía social
“Estamos continuando una tradición que fue pasada a nosotros por medio del movimiento chicano. Usamos las mismas herramientas y centrados en la comunidad para abrir las conversaciones que nos permitan solucionar los problemas comunes que tenemos”. Thank you Ricardo...
The Power to Heal Our Hearts
March 21st is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Akonadi Foundation's commissioned me to create a poster they will distribute in recognition of the ongoing struggle against White Supremacy through their Racial Justice Poster Project....
Opening Night Party: Take this Hammer
Join us for a party to celebrate the opening of "Take this Hammer: Art + Media Activism from the Bay Area" at YBCA this Friday! We are super excited to be part of this exhibit that features recent work by artists, activists, and technologists addressing the most...
Abolition and the Radical Imagination
Profiles of Abolition: Abolition and the Radical Imagination Featuring Angela Y. Davis, Fred Moten, and Melanie Cervantes, moderated by Robin D.G. Kelley 5pm, Saturday, February 20, 2016 Agape International Spiritual Center 5700 Buckingham Parkway, Culver City, CA...
WOMAN CRUSH(ING THE PATRIARCHY) WEDNESDAY
This week's Latina.com's Woman Crush(ing the Patriarchy) Wednesday is Dignidad Rebelde's co-founder, Xicana artist and activist Melanie Cervantes. "Given the problem of Imperialist White Supremacist Cis Hetero Capitalist Patriarchy, I have found it incumbent to center...
OOPS prints
Since folks inquired and we had a stack left over from our sale here in Oakland we have listed some "Oops!" /Test prints on our website. Only one set of each is available of each and they are first come first serve. Prints from each set are not interchangeable and...
My favorite book
I was recently invited to share a couple of thoughts on my favorite book.Jayna Swartzman-Brosky created a second installment of her as a continuation of last year’s series of revolutionary books influencing Bay Area artists and art professionals titled “Reading by the...
End of year closure
The Dignidad Rebelde webstore will continue to accept orders however we will be taking a short break to renew and visit with loved ones for a few days. Order fufillment will resume on December 31st. Thank you for understanding and happy Winter!
La Cultura Cura Holiday Sale
Just like the holidays, Dignidad Rebelde and La Cultura Cura Arts Cafe have a way of bringing family and friends together. Please join us for this special holiday celebration at: 2289 International Blvd. Oakland, CA Sunday, December 13, 2015 from 12:00pm-5:00pm. There...
Giving Thanks for Indigenous Resistance
In 2011 I felt so tired of the Thanksgiving narrative and normalization of a day that celebrates invasion and genocide that I started an intentional practice of celebrating Indigenous resistance and resilience. So every year whereever I am at I take time to remember...
Decolonizing Street Art
This summer I had the opportunity to participate in the Decolonizing Street Artconvergence in Tio:tiake (occupied Montreal) and I am grateful to have had the opportunity to visit Mohawk Territory. The model for this piece and I talked about yearning for the languages...
Dignidad Rebelde at Oakland Museum’s Dia de los Muertos
We created a new installation for this years Dia de los Muertos exhibit please join us for the opening Friday October 16th. Celebrating the theme of memorial across cultures, the 21st annual Días de los Muertos (Days of the Dead) exhibition, Rituals + Remembrance,...
Restore Harmony Con La Madre Tierra
Human beings are facing a moment of global crisis whose outcome will decide the future of our planet. The power to make decisions that affect multiple generations of people, animals and the natural environment throughout the world has long been concentrated in the...
Armed By Design/El Diseño a las Armas
We wish we were in New York for this awesome exhibit of posters and publications by Cuba’s Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America (OSPAAAL) being presented by the Interference Archive. We had the opportunity to see some of the...