[photo credit: The Huntington]
The event, scheduled for 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Rothenberg Hall on February 7, is presented alongside The Huntington’s exhibition “Radical Histories: Chicano Prints from the Smithsonian American Art Museum,” which runs through March 2.
Barraza and Cervantes create work that “amplifies people’s stories.” Their graphic arts collaboration, Dignidad Rebelde, has “supported grassroots organizing and produced many of the political graphics that continue to shape the visual identity of social movements in the San Francisco Bay Area and globally.”
The traveling Smithsonian exhibition features 60 works by approximately 40 artists and collectives spanning more than six decades of Chicano printmaking from the late nineteen sixties to the present. The works explore printmaking as a vehicle for resistance, community building, and cultural reclamation.
The artist talk will be followed by a conversation with Angélica Becerra, the Bradford and Christine Mishler Associate Curator of American Art at The Huntington. Free reservations are required and do not include general admission to The Huntington. Attendees should bring registration confirmation and check in at Rothenberg Hall beginning at 2:30 p.m.
Artist Talk: Jesus Barraza and Melanie Cervantes of Dignidad Rebelde, 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, February 7. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino. For more call (626) 405-2100 or visit https://www.huntington.org/artist-talk-dignidad-rebelde. Admission: Free with reservation.
