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PERMANENT ROOTS, SECURING a HOME for SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART Barrio Mobile Art Studio Workshops Ca PERMANENT ROOTS, SECURING A HOME FOR SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART Barrio Mobile Art Studio workshops ca. 1970 2 MISSION Founded in 1970 in the heart of East Los Angeles, Self Help Graphics & Art is dedicated to the production, interpretation and distribution of prints and other art media by Chicana/o and Latinx artists. Our multi-disciplinary, intergenerational programs promote artistic excellence and empower our community by providing access to space, tools, training and capital. Self Help Graphics Artists and Staff, 1970s (Founder Sister Karen Boccalero, far right) 3 We are at the center of art and social justice. We advance community arts practice into the fields of social practice, museum and curatorial studies, creative entrepreneurship, fine art production, and we develop an artistic workforce. We serve the creative and artistic needs of the Eastside and Los Angeles, providing space and tools for visual and musical artists... to gather, to grow together, to learn from each other. 4 Gabriela Claro and Trenely “Clover” Garcia working on the Migrant Mamas Mural in collaboration with Las Fotos Project. 5 our story The seeds of what would become Self Help Graphics & Art were planted in 1970, during the height of the Chicano Civil Rights Movement; when two young queer Mexican artists, Carlos Bueno and Antonio Ibáñez, Frank Hernandez and several chicana/o artists, met Sister Karen Boccalero, a Franciscan nun who mastered printmaking at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art. Reflective of the social and political climate of the time, and frustrated by the inaccessibility and lack of facilities available to young Chicana/os wishing to develop their Barrio Mobile Art Studio Workshops, 1970s talents as artists, they set out to remedy this need. This plan would not only serve the needs of aspiring Chicana/o and Latinx artists, but also the greater East Los Angeles community. Today, Self Help Graphics & Art continues to be at the intersection of arts and community, providing a forum for local and international artists to thrive. Self Help Graphics & Art has had four homes in over four decades. The organization’s first home was Sister Karen Boccalero’s garage in Boyle Heights, to SHG’s iconic mosaic-tiled home in unincorporated East Los Angeles. Our current home is located in a repurposed fish-packing refrigeration facility in the community of Boyle Heights where we were founded. The current building has undergone a transformation that includes redesigned print studios, a mixed-use event space and a 1,500 sq. foot exhibition area. Artist Humberto Saenz gives printmaking demonstration 6 SHG has its first exhibition at El Mercadito. Chicano Expressions SHG moves to a 9,000 exhibition was funded square-foot third-floor SHG moves to 3802 and toured by United space at 2111 Brooklyn Cesar Chavez Blvd to States Information Avenue in Boyle Heights the former Catholic Agency. The exhibition SHG moves into the and Self Help Graphics Youth Organization included works Ocean Queen at 1300 officially opens. The building which would produced at Self Help E. 1st Street in Boyle first Día de los Muertos become its iconic Graphics and traveled Heights, a former fish- takes place as a small mosaic-tiled home to South Africa, Spain, Passing of Sister packing plant owned and intimate celebration (courtesy of artist France, Germany, and Karen Boccalero by the Community amongst the artists. Eduardo Oropeza) Mexico. at age 64. Redevelopment Agency 1972 1979 1994/95 1997 2011 1970/71 1973 1986 1996 2008 2018 Sister Karen, Carlos Self Help Graphics The California Ethnic Sister Karen sends Archdiocese sells After four years of Bueno and Antonio & Art, Inc. is and Multicultural artists Ofelia Esparza, SHG building, new negotiation, SHG Ibañez begin printing incorporated Archives at UC Santa Yolanda Gonzalez landlords increase acquires building out of her garage in as a nonprofit Barbara acquire the and Margaret Sosa to rent and decrease for $3.625M in one East LA. organization. SHG collection in produce Día de los SHG footprint in of the hottest real perpetuity allowing Muertos in Glasgow, building. estate markets in the for a long term Scotland. country, effectively stewardship of SHG’s giving SHG agency print publications over its future. and files for research. 7 Securing a Cultural Anchor for the Eastside SHG plays a role in keeping and reflecting the identity of the immigrant, Chicana/o and Latinx community that finds itself under pressures of displacement. Boyle Heights is one of East Los Angeles 29% of Families Fluid History that includes the nation’s largest located immediately the Tongva nation, are living under the (the original inhabitants,) concentration of east of Boyle Heights federal poverty line. has a population of Native Americans (via the Indian Relocation Act), Latinos 126,496 with a Jewish, Japanese, Black 100,000 residents density of 6,973.5 and Latino populations. in 6 square miles. people per square mile Over 75% and is 97% Latino. are renters. Formerly a redlined neighborhood, Boyle Heights experienced blight and disinvestment for decades before today’s market made it one of the hottest real estate territories in the country. We understand and acknowledge the accelerated process of gentrification in the Eastside and across Los Angeles and our building acquisition allows SHG to establish permanent roots before being displaced. 8 SHG’S proximity to the heart of downtown Los Angeles and the convenience of mass transportation, Self Help Graphics & Art is a Metro Station off the Gold Line, an anchor institution make it part of one of the most desirable for neighborhoods such as real estate markets in the U.S. Boyle Heights & East Los Angeles. On annual basis, SHG serves approximately: 30,142 Community members 6,793 youth served (ages 5 - 24) 131 Individual WorksHOPS 3 Marketplaces provide economic support to artists and local economy 6 City Council Districts 4 County Districts 4 Statewide art activations shg Helps residents thrive, allows artists to grow and be nurtured, and stabilizes the mental and emotional health of communities of color. Self Help has developed into a social center, and we are a catalyst for economic and entrepreneurial development. 9 PACIFIC STANDARD TIME: LA/LA Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA had an estimated 2.7 million SHG AFFILIATED ARTISTS IN PST visitors, with over 70 partner institutions across Southern California contributing exhibitions, film, music, performances, William Acedo Kathy Gallegos Ricardo Reyes and public programming of all kinds. Drawing visitors from Laura Aguilar Luis-Genero Garcia Pedro Rios Martinez around the region and from all corners of the world. Alex Alferov Margaret Garcia Artemio Rodriguez Jose Alpuche Yolanda Gonzales Reyes Rodriguez Michael Amescua Daniel Gonzalez Sonia Romero Estimated Participant Spending (millions) $53.1 Miguel Angel Reyes Cici Gonzalez Frank Romero Estimated Visitor Spending (millions) $192.6 Jose Antonio Aguirre Dolores Guerrero Cruz Shizu Saldamando Judith Baca Wayne Healy Teddy Sandoval TOTAL ECONOMIC IMPACT: Alice Bag Judithe Hernandez Ana Serrano • Output (millions) $430.3 Ricky Beltran Willie Herron Joey Terrill • Employment (jobs) 4,080 Chaz Bojorquez Salomon Huerta Peter Tovar • Labor income (millions) $187.9 David Botello Leo Limon John Valadez • Total State and Local Taxes (millions) $24.3 Rafael Cardenas Rosalie Lopez Patssi Valdez Barbara Carrasco Alma Lopez Linda Vallejo A conservative estimate of 5,000 participants visited Self Yreina Cervantes Gilbert “Magu” Lujan George Yepes Help Graphics’ exhibition Día de los Muertos: A Cultural Mita Cuaron Poli Marichal Jaime Zacarias Legacy, Past, Present and Future. Alfredo de Batuc Gronk Nicandro Ibanez y Bueno Ofelia Esparza Wayne Perry Votan Institute for Applied Economics, Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation Rosanna Esparza Omar Ramirez 10 Cheech Marin, Leo Limon and Sonia Romero, PST:LA/ Papier-mâché sculptures by Edgar, Norma & Leila Coronado, LA exhibition @ Self Help Graphics & Art. PTS:LA/LA exhibition, Self Help Graphics & Art. Self Help Graphics’ PST:LA/LA exhibition Día de los Self Help Graphics’ PST:LA/LA exhibition Muertos, A Cultural Legacy. Día de los Muertos, A Cultural Legacy. 11 Securing a permanent home is monumental for the Eastside community, the national arts field and for community- serving organizations. Mujeres de Maiz: WOMXN WARRIORS Honoring the 50th Anniversary of the Walkouts & Intergenerational Organizing, March 17, 2018. Opening reception. 12 • A PERMANENT HOME creates stability and place where the community can convene for art-making. The nation currently faces similar political and economic turmoil, particularly in communities of color, which • SHG has cultivated and developed long term cross-sector places stress on underserved communities that SHG has partnerships with The Getty, Cal State LA, the Natural History traditionally served for over four decades. As urban centers Museum, UC Santa Barbara and Cal Arts. across the country experience rapid development, it is a crucial moment in SHG’s trajectory to secure a permanent • SHG incubates individual artists across mediums and creates home and remain an integral artistic anchor in Los Angeles. economic opportunities for artists and creative craft folk arts vendors through pop-up marketplaces, resume building, field experience, and paid work opportunities. • Is a cultural asset on a local and national level by fostering an artistic workforce in the creative capital of the world. Artists like Gronk (opera set
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