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Mujeres Muralistas: Chicano Park Female Artists 36 YEARS of Publication 1976-2012 1976 2010 Vol. XXXVI No. 26 La Prensa Muñoz, Inc. Publications JUNE 29, 2012 Mujeres Muralistas: Chicano Park Female artists By Rita Sanchez back home from the store. I brought them some food and spent the day Editor’s Note: In this article Rita there. I went every day after that.” Sanchez proudly recognizes the When workers tried to use their bull- women who have contributed to the dozers, she recalls proudly, “We just Parque and its murals. She features stood there and let them roll over us women who have designed, super- if they wanted.” Laura Rodriguez, vised and painted murals since now deceased, has since had a school 1973, as well as women who par- named after her and her image has ticipated in the creation of the been painted in the park as a monu- Parque. With media attention de- ment to her. voted mainly to the men working During those early days Yolanda on the repainting, her article is a Lopez, now an internationally known needed reminder of the significant artist, worked with high school girls role of Chicano Park women. to paint a mural despite the discour- agement they got from male mural- Previous La Prensa articles on the ists. A strong community advocate restoration of the murals in Chicano and professionally trained artist, Lopez Park show the amazing result of a became an adviser to the girls; now historical moment in San Diego, the young women: they were Julietta A. survival of a people’s park since 1970 García-Torres, Cecilia de la Torre, and the mural masterworks that re- Rosa de la Torre, and Eva Craig who sulted. If some observers do not un- designed and painted the mural “Pre- derstand the unique story of the park, serve Our Heritage,” calling them- the La Prensa articles serve to edu- selves Mujeres Muralistas. Their ad- cate the public on this ‘historical pres- vocate, Yolanda Lopez was born in ervation [to] improve the quality of San Diego’s Logan Heights neighbor- life of a city.” In the National Regis- hood where the park is located. She ter of Historic Places, Chicano Park, graduated from SDSU with a draw- one writer says, it is “a landmark rec- ing and painting BA, and earned a ognized for it’s . value representa- Masters in Fine Arts at UCSD. Her tive of the U.S. Civil Rights Move- art has appeared in national exhibi- ment in California.” Other writers tions since 1970. She is nationally refer to the park as a sacred space. known for portraits of her elderly For many the park is sacred space grandmother skinning a rattlesnake, because it is filled with personal her mother sewing an American flag, memories. My son, Pablo Acevedo, and herself in running shoes. All three was born on Chicano Park Day, the paintings include the aura, garments exact date April 22, 1980 of the park’s and cherub associated with La Vir- tenth anniversary. Driving home from gin, but honor real women instead. the hospital, we stopped by the park Artist, singer, and composer, Char- and took photos with the murals as lotte Hernandez Terry, a single backdrop. And so the art in the Park mother of six, was the first woman welcomed my son into the world and to paint a mural in Chicano Park in the photos are now part of a histori- 1973. She was commissioned to paint Women’s Mural: “Female Inteligencia” or “Women Hold Up Half the Sky,” 1975, painted by the women cal archive. the Chicano Park Logo on one of the of the RCAF: .Celia Rodriguez, Irma Lerma Barbosa, Antonia Mendoza, Rosalina Balaciosos, Barbara The Park is also about women. pillars, an image conceived by Rico Desmangles and community volunteers Two years before, in 1978 I had Bueno, who had left San Diego. Char- announced the coming birth of my lotte gained the technical skills she woman to paint a mural in the park, a contingent of women who painted Rodríguez, Tina Lerma Barbosa, daughter, Lucia Acevedo. Her father, needed in a largely male drafting signifying tangible evidence of in the park; they came to San Diego Antonia Mendoza and Barbara Des- Mario Torero, a Chicano Park artist, class, one of two women in a class women’s contributions to Chicano from Sacramento and left behind beau- mangles, along with community vol- photographed me with child holding of twenty men. Then she painted it Park. tiful examples of their work and a unteers. Together they painted “Mujer a rose. As a result, I became a model, herself on the pillar. From a small There were many other women. In strong message about women under Inteligencia” (Women’s Intelligence). of sorts, for the Virgin of Guadalupe design on paper, it now stands seven 1975, Sacramento artists collective, the the Coronado Bridge. Besides Rosa- image that he painted on one of the feet tall today, a homage to the first Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF), had lina Balaciosos, there was Celia (see Mujeres, page 3) pillars. So for nearly forty years, a female icon, La Virgin de Las Ameri- cas has watched over the park. Per- haps all these years she has been SB 1070 Ruling Has Both Sides Claiming Victory acting as a protectress for women’s voice and actions. By Valeria Fernández vision making it a felony to be in the old undocumented immigrant. “I’m growing movement of undocumented Whether as artists or contributors NEW AMERICA MEDIA state without documentation. It up- afraid that because of the color of my immigrants participating in the civic to the spirit of the movement, women held, however, one portion granting skin and being Mexican they’ll try to process. Other organizations active have given much to Chicano Park and PHOENIX, Ariz. – Lawmakers on police the right to inquire about the stop me.” in immigration politics include the Bar- its history. One La Prensa article both sides of the political divide in immigration status of anyone they sus- Rodriguez came to the country rio Defense Committees, which are (July 8 2011) by Gail Perez identified Arizona are claiming victory follow- pect of being undocumented. when she was 18 years old, meaning working across the state to empower some of these women. One was ing Monday’s Supreme Court ruling Governor Jan Brewer, who signed she is not entitled to the deferred immigrant communities. Norma Montoya who painted with on the state’s immigration law known SB 1070 into law more than two action granted by President Obama Promesa Arizona is one of several Charles “Gato” Felix; the others as SB 1070. years ago, called Monday’s ruling a earlier this month for undocu- organizations behind a campaign were the women of the RCAF. The “This morning, the U.S. Supreme “victory.” mented immigrants under 30. seeking to oust Maricopa County story goes, after one of the women, Court sent a loud message to the gov- Groups like the American Civil Lib- “Everything they announced today Sheriff Joe Arpaio – known for his Rosalina Balaciosos attended the In- ernor and the members of the State erties Union and the Mexican Ameri- in the court, we are already living harsh anti-immigrant crackdowns – ternational Women’s Conference in Legislature: ‘You have overstepped can Legal Defense and Educational through,” she said. in the state’s upcoming elections. Mexico City, she passed on her en- your bounds, you have gone too far Fund say the decision will lead to in- For some, the news has helped to The “Adios Arpaio” campaign is thusiasm; the women felt empowered when it comes to dealing with immi- creased racial profiling of communi- strengthen activists’ resolve to pro- looking to register more than 30,000 and began painting on their own with- gration in Arizona,’” said Democratic ties of color. Both are planning legal tect immigrants’ rights. new Latino voters and grow a young out waiting for the men. “Tantamount Senator Steve Gallardo. “Immigration challenges to SB 1070. Patricia Rosas is an undocumented team of more than 600 volunteers, to treason,” one of the men, Jose is a federal issue and has to be dealt There are also concerns about re- immigrant working with Promesa said Petra Falcón, Promesa Arizona Montoya, recalled. Hundreds of with on a federal level.” percussions from the court’s decision Arizona, which helps inform and en- director. women had worked for change dur- In a 5-3 ruling, the court struck in states with similar legislation. gage voters on the issue of immigra- Arpaio, who is a facing a civil suit ing the Chicano Movement, express- down several parts of what has come “It’s sad to know that I’ll be on tion. brought by the Department of Jus- ing their actions in various ways. to be known as the “Papers, Please” the street and I’ll be afraid of the po- “Now we’re really going to boy- Women participated in the takeover law, including the controversial pro- lice,” said Iveth Rodríguez, a 27-year- cott Arizona,” said Rosa, part of a (see SB 1070, page 5) of the park or their efforts also found expression in various other ways. Today their voices resonate in the park as a result of their actions. One Programa brinda oportunidades de superación a mujeres latinas woman has given her life to maintain- ing the murals, Tomasa “Tommie” Por Pablo Jaime Sáinz todo, a mejorar su autoestima. Camarillo, who chairs the Chicano Tal es el caso de Patricia Cedeño, Park Steering Committee and who Atención mujer latina: si te gustaría una graduada del programa que es participated in the 1970 park take- obtener una segunda oportunidad al madre soltera de siete hijos y quien over.
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