100 Women 100 Miles
I was recently commissioned by We Belong Together (an initiative of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the National Asian Pacific American Womens Forum, with the participation of women’s organizations, immigrant rights groups, children, and families across the...
Meet the Artists: Decolonizing Street Art
Unceded Voices is the second annual anti-colonial convergence of Indigenous and women of color, in Tiotia: ke (so called Montréal), unceded Kanien’kéhá:ka (Mohawk) and Algonquin territories, who reclaimed public space to share their art-works. Check out the first...
Support Unceded Voices:Anti-Colonial Street Art Convergence
In less than two weeks I will be travelling to Tiotia:ke (“Montreal”) to partcipate in Unceded Voices and anti-colonial street art convergence. It will be my first time in the territory and I am excited to meet the other participating artists. This convergence is...
Sitting on Sacred Land
Materials: Birch wood and Sage ashes Dimensions: 36” X 48” Location: Nevada City, Occupied Nisenan Land Date: October 2014 Four portraits of local Nisenan ancestors were created and placed on the mountain side at the For-Site Foundation in Nevada City. The portraits...
Looking Back Seeing Forward – Jesus Barraza – MFA Thesis Exhibit
Over the past two years I have been in the Master of Fine Arts program at California College of the Arts and this past week I presented my thesis exhibit at the Galeria de la Raza with some of the work I made during this time. I had a lot of fun during this time and...
Looking Back Seeing Forward
Jesus Barraza MFA Thesis Exhibit Galeria de la Raza, 2857 24th St., San Francisco, CA Opening Reception: Friday., May 15, 6-9 p.m. Open Saturday, May 16 12pm-6pm and Sunday, May 17 12pm-5pm Free and open to the public
La Cultura Cura
Mark you calendars for Cinco de Mayo in Oakland. Join us at the 2015 Reclaiming Cinco de Mayo event to celebrate the community victory of Stopping the Gang Injunctions in Oakland, the soft opening of La Cultura Cura Cultural Arts Cafe as well as the art exhibit...
Protect Mauna Kea
Native Hawaiians and people of conscience are protecting the sacred site the mountain of Mauna Kea. Please stand with them. Sign the petition: https://chn.ge/1CpiERl Sending love, prayers and solidarity to the relatives fighting to protect Mauna Kea in Hawai'i. The...
Dignidad Rebelde at Stanford Raza Day
MECHa de Standford is hosting their 25th Annual Raza Day, where they host students, parents, and educators from all over the Bay area for an all day conference meant to inspire high school students, especially those who have been marginalized, to pursue higher...
Invest in Communities, Divest from Prisons
I am really happy to share my newest project. I have worked with Enlace on the first phase of their Prison Divestment Campaign and I am happy to share a poster for the next phase of work connecting movements. Enlace is a strategic alliance of low-wage worker centers,...
Josefina Fierro De Bright
Chicana/o studies was borne of the efforts of the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) Student Strike at Berkeley in January-March, 1969, which resulted in the establishment of the first Ethnic Studies departments in the U.S. In my first year at community college, in...
When the Streets Gives you White Walls
The white walls of the gallery are always being talked about, but when I saw a white wall are on the street it just made me think about the possibilities. The wall is at the intersection of East 14th and Fruitvale, part of a construction site repairing a building that...
Heart of Deer (the life force of our pueblos)
We were invited to participate in this years MACLA's Chicana/o Biennal. MACLA invited to Celi Herrera Rodriguez to participate and selected us as artists to collaborate with. We were really honored to work with Celia and particiapate with We were invited to...
Rest In Power Reies Lopez Tijerina
I think the greatest thing that I learned from Reies Lopez Tijerina is that the struggle to take back our lands must always continue in which ever way possible. To work towards a world where indigenous people can have autonomy on their ancestral lands. RIP Que Viva La...
Eviction Zone
This street sign was installed at the corner of 24th and Folsom in the SF Mission District last May 2014. It stayed up for about two weeks before they were taken down. SIGN READS: Eviction Zone<- 1 Square Mile -> In 1 square mile from this point there have been...
Solidarity with Gaza Posters
Exposition Des affiches pour Gaza à la Fête de l'Humanité 2014 from Humaginaire on Vimeo. Recently one of our posters in solidarity with Palestine was included in a collection of posters printed in l'Humanité, a newspaper in France, and included in a exhibition at...
Ayotzinapa a Juarez
Download poster here: Ayotzinapa A Juarez Poster They were taken alive we want them returned alive." This message has resonated with me deeply as the story of 43 disappeared male identified students from Ayotzinapa hit the media. They were disappeared after protesting...
Solidarity with Ferguson
Download poster here: https://bit.ly/1vUqtRQ Solidarity with Ferguson and all Black communities who continue in their struggle for self-determination and to assert their right to life and dignity! "Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny...