http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf5n39p0wd No online items Guide to the Chicano Visual Arts Kit Essay: Ramón Favela and translated by R. González; editing, design, and bibliography: Salvador Güereña; editorial consultant: Yves-Charles Grandjeat; production assistant: Rosemarie Leon Morales; machine-readable finding aid created by Brooke Dykman Dockter Department of Special Collections Davidson Library University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Phone: (805) 893-3062 Fax: (805) 893-5749 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/speccoll.html © 1997 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Guide to the Chicano Visual Arts 1 Kit Guide to the Chicano Visual Arts Kit California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives Donald C. Davidson Library Department of Special Collections University of California, Santa Barbara Contact Information: Department of Special Collections Davidson Library University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Phone: (805) 893-3062 Fax: (805) 893-5749 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/speccoll.html Essay: Ramón Favela and translated by R. González Editing, design, and bibliography: Salvador Güereña. Bibliography annotated by Romelia Salinas and translated by R. González. Editorial consultant: Yves-Charles Grandjeat Production Assistant: Rosemarie Leon Morales Encoded by: Brooke Dykman Dockter © 1997 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Descriptive Summary Title: Chicano Visual Arts Kit Repository: University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Shelf location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog. Language: English. Restrictions None. Publication Rights Copyright resides with donor Comments Production of these materials was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Department of Education under the provisions of the Library Services and Construction Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Chicano Visual Arts Kit, Special Collections, University of California, Santa Barbara. Introduction This kit is made up of an assortment of slides and various published materials on the Chicano visual arts. It was assembled with the aim of making Chicano art more accessible to the general public. It is part of a much larger project that preserves the visual images of the Chicano Art Movement for research and study through the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA). CEMA is based in the Davidson Library at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Guide to the Chicano Visual Arts 2 Kit The materials in this kit may be used in any number of ways; the slides and books can be consulted individually, school teachers can assemble selected slides for classroom presentations or workshops, student groups may wish to use them for projects and librarians may wish to use them in cultural programs for the community. People with varying levels of awareness and knowledge about Chicano art will find this collection useful. For those with no prior experience with Chicano art, these materials will be enlightening; for those already familiar with the field, such as students of art history, the slides will affirm, reinforce, and enrich what they may already know. For the purpose of this project the concept of "Chicano art" is defined in Chicano Art: A Resource Guide that is included in this visual arts kit; as such, the definition is inclusive and it applies to the cultural arts that were produced by Chicanos as well as works created by certain non-Chicano artists who were affiliated with one or more of the Chicano cultural centers represented in this collection; these are artists who have been a part of the exhibitions and because the artists have demonstrated a strong identification with the Chicano Movement and a commitment to the ideals inherent in Chicano art. The slide duplicates which form a part of this kit number 500, and they were selected as representative images drawn from a much larger collection of 14,000 slides. The original slides were supplied by four of California's most important Chicano cultural centers/galleries. These four centers are San Diego's Centro Cultural de la Raza, Los Angeles' Self-Help Graphics and Art, San Francisco's Galeria de la Raza, and Sacramento's Royal Chicano Air Force. The archives of these four centers are deposited with CEMA as permanent collections. More information about the centers is found in Chicano Art: a Resource Guide enclosed in this kit. To a certain extent the present catalog is a "work in progress." The entries are as complete as possible; some of the information about the images is listed as "unknown" and, it is hoped that with the passage of time, the cataloging will be updated. Accent marks are used throughout the catalog unless the artist of a work chose not to use these either for his or her name or for the title of the work. The individual slides in the kit are organized first according to major category of art medium, such as "Drawings," "Graphic Arts," or "Murals." Within these broader categories the individual slides are arranged in alphabetical order by name of the artist. All the slides are sequentially numbered from 001 to 500 so that it will be easy to re-file them in their proper location in the kit. Please note that in Appendix B there is a glossary of the thirteen art medium classifications that were used to group the slide images, along with their accompanying definitions. Further duplication of these slides is expressly prohibited. Any questions concerning the contents of this kit should be directed to the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives. A complete listing showing the location in California of other comparable kits is included with this packet in Appendix C. Production of these materials was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Department of Education under the provisions of the Library Services and Construction Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. 1. Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985. Edited by Ricahard Griswold de Castillo, Teresa McKenna, Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano. Los Angeles: Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, c1991. 2. Chicano Expressions: A New View in American Art: April 14-July 31, 1986. Director: Lockpez, Inverna et al. New York, NY: INTAR Latin American Gallery, c1986. 48p. 3. Chicano Monograph Series (Includes 8 different issues) Galería de la Raza. Profiles of individual Chicano Artists 4. Made in Aztlan. 1 ed. Brookman, Philip and Guillermo Gómez-Peña, eds. San Diego, CA: Centro Cultural de la Raza, c1986. 116p. 5. Chicano Art History: A Book of Selected Readings. Quirarte, Jacinto, ed. San Antonio, TX: Research Center for the Arts and Humanities, University of Texas at San Antonio, c1984. 137p. 6. Signs From the Heart: Chicano Murals. Cockcroft, Eva Sperling and Holly Barnet-Sanchez, eds. Venice, CA. Social and Public Art Resource Center, c1990. 105p. (incl. slide/educational text supplement) 7. High Performance Magazine -Special Issue #35 v.9, no.3, 1986. Interviews with selected Chicano artists. 8. Imagine: International Chicano Poetry Journal -Special Issue v.3, nos. 1-2 Summer-Winter 1986. Profiles 54 Chicano artists, including portfolios and artist's statements. 9. The Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo. (BAW/TAF) 1984-1989: A documentation of 5 years of interdisciplinary art projects dealing with U.S.-Mexico border issues (a binational perspective). (BAW/TAF). San Diego, California: Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo, c1988. 10. Chicano Visual Arts Kit. 2 slide albums and printed guide. Appendix A About Proyecto CARIDAD Proyecto CARIDAD (Chicano Art Resources Information Development and Dissemination) is a project which was founded in 1990 to preserve the visual arts resources created by the nation's leading Chicano art collectives in California. The project has a two-part focus. Its first mission is to comprehensively record the contributions of Chicano artists which are Guide to the Chicano Visual Arts 3 Kit documented in the slide collections of four major Chicano/Latino cultural arts centers. As part of this mission the project aims to preserve the original visual arts slides contributed by these centers, and to produce duplicates of these for research and study and for access and use by libraries, community groups and schools. The comprehensive collection created by the project is an invaluable resource of an important art movement that began in the mid-1960s. This historic archive of slides that record the past and present history of the centers of Chicano art production and exhibition in California, provides an unprecedented visual record of that important art and cultural history for the broader public of California. The centers represented in the project include the Centro Cultural de la Raza (San Diego), Galería de la Raza (San Francisco), the Royal Chicano Air Force (Sacramento), and Self-Help Graphics and Art (Los Angeles). An important part of this project is the production of Chicano visual arts kits made up of selected slides and printed material to be placed in various sites throughout the state. Such sites include selected public libraries and museums. These kits include printed resource guides which are also available separately for use in schools, libraries, and by community groups. Chicano art historian Ramón Favela states "what is important to keep in mind, is that Chicano art was created for all people of all of all ethnicities and classes to appreciate." To learn more about this subject please request a free copy of the resource guide "An Introduction to Chicano Art in California" which includes an essay and an annotated list of readings. Proyecto CARIDAD is a component of the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA), located in the Donald C.