Consejo Grafico de Talleres
This weekend was the fourth annual meeting of the Consejo Grafico in New York, the meeting coincided with the Latino Now! art conference. The Consejo Grafico is made up of printmaking Talleres from across the country, there are 14 tallers in the consejo including Self...
International Women’s Day 2008
This year, 2008, will mark the 97th annual International Women’s Day (March 8). The first International Women's Day was launched on March 8, 1911 in Copenhagen by Clara Zetkin, Leader of the 'Women's Office' for the Social Democratic Party in Germany. This followed...
El Violin
We just went to check out El Violin, this film was recommended by a couple friends who had seen it and were spreading the word about it. It’s a film about rebellion in rural communities in Mexico and the story of three generations of street musicians, led by the...
YO! What Happened to Peace
The latest stop for the YO! What Happened to Peace exhibit is San Francisco, for three nights the show was up at the Jack Hanley gallery in the San Francisco Mision. The exhibit, curated by John Carr, has been running since 2002 and was organized to bring together...
Black and Brown Visions at Galeria de la Raza
I was asked to create a large "installation" painting for an event that Mica Valdez is curating at the Galeria de la Raza in San Francisco. I am currently working on a large banner which I feel will help move the conversation of "black and brown visions" to a broader...
Tumis Featured on Built From Scratch
Me and Tony did this interview a while back for this project called Built from Scratch from Myx.tv, well they finally launched it. Check it out, Episode 1 Segment 3. http://www.builtfromskratch.com/ -Jesus
Mission Grafica
I leared how to screen print at Mission Grafica, the printmaking studio at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, I worked with Calixto Robles, Juan Fuentes and Michael Roman. I worked at MCCLA for 2 years as the graphic designer and while learning print making...
Looking back this year – Websites at Tumis
I wanted to share some of the sites that I’ve been working on this year with the folks at Tumis. Apart from being one of the co-owners I am part of the engineering team and am one of the css/xhtml coders. What that means is that I take the web mock ups that the design...
Internal Exile, from Palestine to the USA to Mexico
I was invited to be part of this show at Somarts, the exhibit dealt with the idea of being a exile in your own land. This is something that Palestinians, Mexicans, Xicanos and indigenous people have in common. Having to deal with the loss of their land base and not...
Dunny Azteca
While hanging out with our friend Nikol, melanie and I were introduced to Kid Robot's Dunny Aztecas. We fell in love with these toys right away! We went on ebay that night to see what we could find...we found so many cool toys. After more investigation we found that...
Galeria de la Raza Pachanga 2007
This is the third year i have been part of the Galeria's Pachanga, both Melanie and me donated pieces this year. We gave Galeria 5 pieces including the Mujer Zapatista print, Melanie's Day of the Dead print, Rage Against the Machine poster, Punk Rocker stencil and...
Indigenous People’s Night of Resistance II
Last year some campus and community organizer friends invited me to help organize an event for Indigenous People's Day. The event was a combination of consciouness raising and celebration. The annual NIght of Cultural Resistance that students of color on campus...
Homey Mural Controversy
About a month ago HOMEY started working on a design for a mural to replace the mural behind the Mc Donalds on 24th & Mission. Homey students began working on a sketch by looking through art books to study and finding pictures to use as insparation. A call was...
Dia de los Muertos
This year for Day of the Dead melanie and me decided to make posters that we could sell at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Art's (MCCLA) yearly celebration. I had made three Day of the Daed posters in the past when i worked at the Center, this was a big...
Sidewalk art for Day of the Dead at OMCA
Huaxtec was invited this year to be part of the Day of the Dead Exhibit opening celebration at the Oakland Museum of art to do chalk pieces on the sidewalk in front of the museum. About 50 of us showed up Sunday morning, including youth from Huaxtec, Visual Element,...
Down with Columbus!!!
For people from Turtle Island, October 12th is a day that to celebrate the resistance of indigenous people from the genocide that has happened on these lands. This year in Venezuela people took their celebration to the streets, they went went to the town square and...
EZLN Women Law’s Poster
This was the first collaboration on a screen printed poster with melanie, we had talked about doing something for months and finally at the end of the summer we found some time to put something together. The drawing came from a series of illustrations that melanie has...
Stencil Workshop at Youth Together
This was the second stencil workshop that jesus and I co-facilitated. This time it was a training for trainers. We worked with all the Site Organizers and some staff on their stencil skills. Some folks had extensive skills are were ready for advanced help others had...