Thanksgiving Sunrise Ceremony
This year marked the 40th anniversary of AIM (the American Indian Movement) and to commemorate this event I put together a poster to share with the community at the Alcatraz Sunrise Ceremony. AIM has been a important part of our history and in 1972 were part of a...
Consejo Grafico de Talleres in Austin
This past weekend was the 7th annual Consejo Grafico meeting, I first participated in the conference in 2006 representing the Taller Tupac Amaru. This year the conference was hosted by the Serie Project / Coronado Studio in Austin, Texas which was celebrating their...
WHY YOUTH SHUT DOWN THE ICE BUILDING FOR ONE DAY
On Halloween hundreds of youth marched to the Homaland Security Building to protest the recent ICE Raids targeting undocumented immigrants. This is a Press Release written by Sagnicthe Salazar addressing why the youth felt they had to do this action. WHY YOUTH...
Tumis works on No on 8 Website
Tumis worked with the Paths to Change Institute on colorofequality.org, a website for the No on 8 campaign, targeting people of color. I am glad to have something like this out there, it sucked to hear the Robo-Calls this weekend aimed at Latino voters. I hope things...
Dia de Los Muertos 2008
This year I decided to make an ofrenda to all the people who have been killed in the recent wars. It is important to me that people realize that women and children are being killed but that the soldiers of war are also dying all for the benefit of a few war...
Berkeley Has a Censorship Issue!
A few months ago my friend, Doug Minkler, asked me if I would be interested in exhibiting him and another artist in Berkeley's Addison Street Windows. I was excited about having an opportunity to show my work in Berkeley since I had lived there and had never exhibited...
Trick or Treat…
This is a poster I designed for a cool band, Los Nadies from the Bay Area. I was psyched about their music, and thought it would be nice to make poster for their Halloween show. I used an image from Leopoldo Mendez from Mexico's Taller de Grafico Popular,...
YOUTH-LED RESISTANCE AGAINST THE IMMIGRATION RAIDS AND DEPORTATIONS
Please read the following call from youth who are organizing against immigration raids and deportations... ORGANIZE THE YOUTH-LED RESISTANCE AGAINST THE IMMIGRATION RAIDS AND DEPORTATIONS! This 2008 year marks the 40th anniversary of the mass mobilizations that were...
CR10 and Justseeds prison portfolio project
To celebrate 10 years of Critical Resistance, many will converge, September 26-28, 2008, in Oakland, California, for CR10, a 10th Anniversary Celebration and Strategy Session. In alignment with this conference our good friends at Justseeds Radical Artists Cooperative...
Art of Democracy
I just wanted to let everyone know about the Art of Democracy exhibitions that are happening around the country. This exhibit has been organized by many people and is a way for artist to voice their opinions as we near the presidential elections. check out the list of...
Our Commitment to…
...each other, to our families, to our community and to all our relations was formalized this August 9, 2008. Thank you to everyone who made the day special for us.
New Posters For Festival de Nuevos Vientos
For our trip to Mexico we created a series of new posters to take with us to put up in the streets and to share with people we meet. We wanted the posters to be accessible to the people in Mexico so all the posters were printed in Spanish. The posters were also be...
Innercity Struggle Poster
This week Innercity Struggle is Celebrating their 5th Annual Awards Dinner as well as commemorating the 40th anniversary of the youth movement in East Los Angeles. I was excited to create a poster for their celebration to help them fund raise as well as to celebrate...
Xicana Moratorium Day Poster
It's August again, you know what that means, time for the Xicana Moratorium! This year the theme was PALANTE: The People United, Celebrating Life. You can check out the design for the flyer this year, sadly because everything that was going on with the wedding there...
Poster for Peace and Dignity
This is a poster I created to fundraise for the Peace and Dignity Journeys that are happening this summer and fall. The run has been happening every 4 years since 1992, and was the outcome of a gathering of indigenous elders from the North and South who had prophesied...
Tides’ Momentum Conference 2008
Tides hosted its third Momentum Conference – an invitational forum where some of the most creative minds in the progressive movement come together to challenge, inspire and energize each other. Momentum 2008 is designed for leaders and will be a dynamic and diverse...
Youth Screen-Printing Workshop
About a month ago I began teaching a screen-printing workshop for youth from PODER’s Common Roots, SOMCAM and Chinese Progressive Association. The San Francisco Print Collective and Asian Neighborhood Design conceived the workshop with the idea was to bring youth...
San Diego-Papel y Tinta: The Artwork of Jesus Barraza & Melanie Cervantes
We would like to invite all of our folks that will be in Southern California on August 15th to join us for an artists talk at The Front in San Ysidro. This show is our first two person show together and we are very excited about having a show in Jesus' home turf. It...