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Tomas Benitez has decades of experience in the Los Angeles Chicano cultural community. He has served as director of development at Plaza de la Raza and executive director of Self-Help Graphics. He is also a founding member of the Latino Arts Network. This collection of magazines, posters, gallery cards and show/gallery invitations comprises his personal collection of ephemera, memorabilia and realia relating to his experience and participation in the world of Los Angeles arts.

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Antonio Bernal (born Forrest Hopping Jr. in 1937) is an activist, actor, artist, teacher, and writer. His collection includes correspondence, personal writings, photographs, and audiovisual materials documenting his travels, artwork, and the Kaweah Colony of which his great-grandfather help found. Materials date from the mid-1880s to 2019, with the bulk of the collection dating from 1970-2000.

Abstract The Dan Guerrero Papers include ephemera, press kits, clippings, photographs, and audiovisual materials documenting Mr. Guerrero's successful career as a Chicano activist, producer, and performance artist. Also included are materials reflecting the life and career of his father Lalo Guerrero and his dear friend, artist Carlos Almaraz. This collection complements the existing archival collection housed at the University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Special Collections California...

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The Maricón Collective is an art and DJ collective established in 2014 that hosts parties and organizes participatory art projects in Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Valley. It was founded by Rudy Bleu, Carlos Morales, Manuel Paul, and Michael Rodriguez. The collective has collaborated with artists such as Joey Terrill, Shizu Saldamando and Alice Bag and has created murals in San Francisco and Los Angeles. This collection includes samples of their artwork and apparel.

Abstract This collection represents a broad selection of the internal papers of the Mexican Museum of San Francisco. Subjects covered include curatorial papers, exhibition materials, administrative papers, educational projects as well as future plans for the museum.**Please note that accents have been eliminated inorder to accomodate and facilitate the use of all types of web browsers. Researchers who would like to indicate errors of fact or omissions in this finding aid can...

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This collection consists of the dramatist and dramaturge Paulina Sahagun's collection of Latin American and Chicano theater papers, specifically the papers of TENAZ (Teatros Nacionales de Aztlan) and CARA (Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation).

Scope and Contents

The collection consists largely of material relating to exhibitions put on by the organization, as well as a small number of administrative files. There are also audio-visual materials apparently related to a variety of community initiatives, though these will require further processing to be viewed. Perhaps the centerpiece of the collection are the "Atelier prints," approximately 180 large-format silkscreen prints by different artists.

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This collection contains material related to James Tartan's short films about Chicano artists.