Jesus Barraza 1400 Carpentier St. #212 San Leandro, CA 94577 510.395.4702 [email protected] EDUCATION California College of the Arts, MFA Social Practice/MA Visual & Critical Studies – Class of 2016 San Francisco State UniversitY, BA Raza Studies TEACHING Lecturer in Chicano Studies Program, Department of Ethnic Studies. UniversitY of California, BerkeleY. 2017-Current Adjunct Professor in Race & Resistance Studies, College of Ethnic Studies. San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA. 2017-2018 Teaching Specialization: Intro to the Chicana/o Movement; Chicana/o Art History, Theory, and Culture; Decolonial TheorY, Art and Social Practice; Printmaking. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Co-Founder Dignidad Rebelde - 2007-Current Co-Founder Taller Tupac Amaru - 2003-2016 Services Director and Partner, Tumis Inc. - 2003-2010 Lead Designer, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA - 2001-2003 PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Justseeds/Visual Resistance Artists’ Cooperative - November 2008-Present Consejo Grafico de Talleres - November 2005-Present AWARDS • Oakland Leaf Artivist Award - 2017 • State of California Assembly Recognition, Dignidad Rebelde - 2016 • Piri Thomas & Suzie Dodd Cultural Activist Award from CURYJ – 2016 • Creative Work Fund Grant – 2016 • Barclay Simpson Award - April 2015 • NACCS Community Recognition Award- April 2015 • Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Award - September 2014 1 OF 23 • NALAC Fund for the Arts Grant - March 2012 • Culture Strike Artist Fund - October 2011 • State of Calif. Senate Recognition - Dignidad Rebelde - Graphic Art Collective. - October 2010 • Exemplary Leadership Award - SFSU College of Ethnic Studies - October 2010 • Best Political Art Collective - Taller Tupac Amaru Best of the BaY, East BaY Express - July 2010 • Artists of the Month - Award from Inkworks Press - MaY 2009 • Organizers Pick - Award from the Art of Politics exhibit - July 2008 • Art is a Hammer - Award from the Center for StudY of Political Graphics - October 2005 PANELS, LECTURES AND CONFERENCES Melanie Cervantes and Jesus Barraza: Dignidad Rebelde – March 2020 BerkeleY Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, BerkeleY Art as Research – November 2019 Latinx Research Center, UC Berkeley Mission Grafica: Off the Wall - September 2019 Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco The Role of the Artist is to Make the Revolution - September 2019 Global Nurses SolidaritY AssemblY, San Francisco Teaching Artists in Chicana/o/x Studies – March 2019 The 50th AnniversarY Conference El Plan de Santa Barbara, UC Santa Barbara Scholar/Activism and Art Practice – April, 2019 Seeds of Resistance, Flowers of Liberation, UC BerkeleY The Future of Chicana/o Art, June 2018 The Mexican Museum, San Francisco twLF: Decolonizing Ethnic Studies– FebruarY 2017 MultiCultural Center, UC BerkeleY Dignidad Rebelde: Prints for the People – April 2015 National Association of Chicana Chicano Studies, San Francisco 21st Century Problems and Solutions – March 2017 Ethnic Studies Conference: Social Change in the Central ValleY, CSU Stanislaus Local Power: Activist Groups in the Bay Area – April 2016 At Open Engagement – POWER, Oakland 2 OF 23 Platica at the Howards Zinn Book Fair – November 2014 What should a 21st centurY communitY based art practice that values social justice and sYstems change look like? This panel addressed this keY question in their discussion about the historY of communitY based art models in the Xicana/o movement. Embedded in CommunitY – What is Social Practice – October 2013 At Revolve 2013 – Hosted bY LeewaY Foundation in Philadelphia. Culture as a Weapon – October 2012 School of UnitY and Liberation – Political Poster HistorY Lecture and screen printing demonstration. Art and Social Activism - October 2012 National Association of Latino Art & Culture Conference – Participated in panel about the connection of art, social movements, and community organizing. Indigenous Arts & Activism – April 2012 San Francisco Art Institute – Invited bY SFAI Urban Studies and the Indigenous Arts Coalition. Current Preoccupations (Palestine, Oakland, and Arizona) - April 2012 Lecture for Stanford’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts (IDA) Occupy Art series. The HistorY and Future Xican@ Political Graphics - November 2011 Artist talk at the Museum of ContemporarY Native Arts, programming for the “Counting Coup“ exhibit. Social SerigraphY and CommunitY Organizing - September 2011 Lecture about the art of Dignidad Rebelde and screen-printing demonstration for participants of the Culture Strike. REBELATE! Radical Poster Making for Our Liberation – April 2011 Lecture about Dignidad Rebelde’s artwork and taught a screen-printing workshop at the MultiCultural Community Center at UC Berkeley. Generating Protest Art Panel - FebruarY 2011 Slideshow and artist talk for students in the Center for New Media and the Art Practice, UC BerkeleY. RCAH Artist in Conversation - November 2010 A visitor with the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University, presented various lectures and workshops with students. The Art and Activism of Dignidad Rebelde - November 2010 Presentation at the Latino Art Now! The New Wave/La Nueva Ola Third Biennial Conference. Visual Framing for Racial Justice - September 2010 Presented at the Applied Research Center’s Facing Race Conference about visual messaging in alignment with movement building for racial justice. 3 OF 23 ICON6 Illustration Conference- July 2010 Presentation about the illustrations used in mY prints and their connection to social justice organizing. Rebelate! Lecture and Printmaking Workshop - July 2010 Lecture about Dignidad Rebelde’s artwork and taught a screen-printing workshop at the Movimiento de Arte Y Cultura Latino Americana in San Jose. Communication for Our Liberation - June 2010 Participated in a panel at the US Social Forum, presented on communitY based art methodologies for grassroots communications strategies. Turning the Tide Summit - MaY 2010 Designed art workshop for the Turning the Tide Summit brought together over 180 communitY members and organizers to learn from each other and develop plans for fighting against the continued criminalization of the immigrant community. Shouts from the Wall - March 2010 Artist talk and exhibit during PhiliaGrafika at the LeewaY Foundation in Philadelphia. Decolonizing the UniversitY: Fulfilling the Dream of the Third World College - FebruarY 2010 Lecture about the role of and strategy of using political graphics as a part of campus and community campaigns and social movements. Shaping San Francisco: Art and Politics - FebruarY 2010 Lecture about Dignidad Rebelde and the intersection of art & politics in the San Francisco Bay Area. Creating Radical Graphics for Our Liberation: An anti-imperialist forum - November 2009 One-day mini-conference for Bay Area political printmakers to reflect on recent campaigns, define shared goals and plan a strategy for the future. The State of Latino Studies Conference, UniversitY of Chicago - September 2009 Presented on the historic and contemporary use of posters in student movements for public education. Artist in Conversation with Dignidad Rebelde and Juan R. Fuentes - August 2009 Artist talk with Jesus Barraza, Melanie Cervantes and Juan R. Fuentes to talk about the topic of social justice and community organizing and art making. Abolition Now! Artists and Activists Against the Prison Industrial Complex - JulY- August 2009 Lecture on the role of culture and media that aims to build towards a world without prisons. Protest, BrutalitY & Ink - March 2009 Panel on racial profiling, police brutalitY and the murder of Oscar Grant, plus the role of arts, culture & propaganda in the social justice movement. Alternative Spring Break, Spanish Speaking Citizens Foundation, Oakland - April 2009 Co-taught a poster-making workshop for high school Youth in preparation for MaY DaY immigrant mobilizations. 4 OF 23 Artists in the Struggle: Creating Radical Graphics as part of the Global Movement for Social Justice - March 2009 Presentation at UniversitY of California, BerkeleY Music, Movement and Political Posters, San Francisco State UniversitY - March 2009 Presentation at San Francisco State UniversitY. Political Poster Making Workshops, Social Justice AcademY, San Leandro High - FebruarY 2009 Co-taught a poster-making workshop for high school Youth, which culminated in a communitY exhibit. Rebelate! Using Radical Graphics & Designing for Racial Justice - November 2008 Lecture at the Applied Research Center’s National Facing Race Conference Radical Graphics, Posters and Movement Building San Francisco, CA - July 2008 Hosted Open Space discussion at the Tides Momentum Conference Encuentro Xicana/o, UC BerkeleY - May 2008 Featured speaker in Xicana/o Artist PlenarY moderated bY Laura Perez. Youth Together Stencil Making Workshop - October 2007 Taught a stencil-making workshop with Youth from their program where students learned the basics of cutting and painting stencils to make prints. Galería de La Raza’s Youth and Media Project - June 2007 Taught a stencil-making workshop for Youth of program. Ancient Roots/Urban JourneYs: Expressions for Dia de los Muertos, Oakland Museum - Oct. 2007 Designed sidewalk chalk mural with Youth from EastSide Arts Alliance and Huaxtec. Artist in Conversation with Jesus Barraza and Juan R. Fuentes - November 2006 An artist talk with Juan R. Fuentes as part of out two person exhibit at the Galeria de la Raza. Designs on DemocracY - March 2004 Co-organizer of the conference