Abstract

This collection of original artwork from the touring show America en la Mira represents about seventy-five percent of the original works in the show. The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center came to "own" these images by default. The show came to UCLA in 1980 and was left here, and we have been the caretaker since.

Abstract CARA was a traveling exhibition of Chicano art curated by the Wight Gallery at UCLA. Opening in 1990, it was a showcase of some 180 works of art (including projected images of murals) produced between 1964-1985 by about 140 Chicano and 40 Chicana artists. Over the course of the next three years, the exhibition traveled to ten U.S. cities. This collection includes correspondence with the various artists or their representatives, information about the artists as well as photographs of their...

Abstract CARA was a traveling exhibition of Chicano art curated by the Wight Gallery at UCLA. Opening in 1990, it was a showcase of some 180 works of art (including projected images of murals) produced between 1964-1985 by about 140 Chicano and 40 Chicana artists. Over the course of the next three years, the exhibition traveled to ten U.S. cities. This collection includes correspondence with the various artists or their representatives, information about the artists as well as photographs of their...