Making art for the ’09 May Day Mobilization
Huaxtec invited us to be part of their banner and art making party and BBQ in preparation for May 1st (the art not the BBQ). We were able to support the production of bandanas using classic images like that of Yolanda Lopez's "Who's the Illegal Alien Pilgram?" and...
Presente.org
Presente.org is a website that Tumis.com helped build along with ChangeOfColor.org. Tumis provided the design and htm/css coding which I helped create. Check it out here. About Presente.org Presente.org seeks to strengthen the political voice of Latino communities....
Da Town Graphics- Youth on the Move
"We strongly believe that our future is in the hands of the young folks."-Mutulu Shakur Last week Jesus and I worked at Oakland's Spanish Speaking Citizen's Foundation with several Raza youth ages 12 to 17 to conduct five workshops on how to develop political posters....
Presente! Close the School of the Americas!
Recently Jesus and I connected with the folks at the ¡Presente!, the newspaper of the movement to close the School of the Americas (formerly known as the SOA Watch Update). Check out the use of our artwork for the cover of the Summer issue which would put the civil...
2009 Indigenous People’s Night of Resistance
UC Berkeley will be hosting it's third annual Indigenous People’s Night of Resistance this Thursday, April 2nd from 5:30 to 10:30 pm. For the the third year Jesus Barraza and I will be participating in the event. This year we will be tabling and continuing our support...
Art of Protest Exhibit in Berkeley
Join us for the opening reception of our two-person show in Berkeley this Friday! Friday, April 3rd at the Pueblo Nuevo Gallery in Berkeley, CA. This exhibit will feature some of the most recent work Melanie and Jesus have created in partnership with grassroots...
Stencilada
This coming weekend is the unveiling of eight new panels that have been created by local and national artist, this includes a panel by the two of us. Melanie worked to cut the 2 stencils and spray them, I think they turned out pretty cool. Stencil Archive and...
Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?
This is a review from poormagazine.org of the Hobos to Street People exhibit. Poor Magazine is a project of the Poor People's News Network. Artwork by Art Hazelwood. A Review of From Hobos to Street People: Artists Responses to Homelessness from the New Deal to the...
The 40th Anniversary of twLF at UCB
Forty years ago students at the University of California at Berkeley came together to organize the third world Liberation Front that led the longest protest on campus which led to the founding of the Ethnic Studies Department. In 1999 students once again got together...
Soul’d Roots
Sisters of Color United for Education & Annie E. Casey Foundation Presents SOUL'D ROOTS Food & Media Justice Institute Promoting Solidarity and Sustainability in Our Communities March 12 - 15, 2009 Denver, CO Jesus and I will be participating in this Institute...
Third World Liberation Front
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the third world Liberation Front Hunger Strike, where seven college students camped outside of California Hall and fasted for what they believed in. I was at a Chicana/o Studies conference in Texas when the strike started. I was...
Artists in the Struggle – Presentation by Melanie Cervantes & Jesus Barraza at UC Berkeley
Jesus and I have been invited to speak at UC Berkeley working as movement artists, working in collaboration with other community and artist activists as well as working in collaboration with grassroots organizing groups. We are both very excited about having the...
8th Annual Ethnic Studies Conference
I was recently asked by the planning committee of Youth Together's Ethnic Studies Conference to design the t-shirt for the upcoming gather. Youth Together was the first organization whose social justice work I became familiar with when I moved to the Bay Area from Los...
New Digital Prints
I've been spending a lot of time in the studio working on some new prints. At night I've had the time to work on some new digital prints. Here are a couple of prints, one of Marcos from the Festival de Digna Rabia (Festival of Dignified Rage) and one of Che from a old...
Anti-Police Brutality Show
Join Jesus and Melanie at Mama Buzz Cafe in Oakland for the closing reception of the Anti-Police Brutality Show. The reception will take place on Friday, February 27th from 6pm-9pm at 2318 Telegraph Ave in Oakland. The show consists of works on paper from us, our...
JustSeeds/Visual Resistance Artists’ Cooperative
While traveling to Mexico to participate in a cultural arts festival we had time to talk with and spend some time with Josh MacPhee - street artist, designer, curator, author and activist. Josh is also the founder of Justseeds. Recently Jesus and I were asked to join...
Intertribal Friendship House Emergency Community Forum Against Police Brutality
An Emergency Community Forum that will be held Wednesday, February 4th, 6:30 PM at Intertribal Friendship House, 523 International Blvd Oakland, CA 94606. This forum is being organized in preparation for the Police Citizens Review Meeting which will take place the...
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Xicana/o struggle for land
On February 2, 1848, a Mexican delegation ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, with Mexico accepting the Rio Grande as the Texas border and ceding almost half its territory (which incorporated the present day-states of California, New Mexico, Nevada, and parts of...