Chicana/o Art: Tradition and Transformation

By juxtaposing the dual impulses of tradition and transformation, Charlene Villaseñor Black brings to light key moments in the history of Chicana/o art from the 1970s through the 1990s.

How were the political ideals of the Chicano Movimiento of the 60s and 70s transformed by succeeding artists in the 80s and 90s? How did Chicana/o art change as it moved from the streets to the galleries? How were artists energized by the emergence of feminism, postmodernism and transnationalism?

Villaseñor Black considers these issues as she attempts to demonstrate the rich diversity of Chicana/o cultural production.

Villaseñor Black, who earned her doctorate from University of Michigan, is an associate professor of art history at UCLA, where she teaches a range of courses on Mexico, Spain and Chicana/o art. Her research and publications span both 17th century and contemporary art in the Hispanic world.

Her first book, Creating the Cult of St. Joseph: Art and Gender in the Spanish Empire (Princeton, 2006), won the College Art Association Millard Meiss Award. She is at work on her second book titled Transforming Saints: Women, Art, and Conversion in Spain and Mexico, 1521-1800.

Admission is free. This event is made possible with funding from the President's Diversity Council. Limited parking is available in the Roth Nelson Room parking lot. Additional parking is available in the lots on Mountclef Boulevard north and south of Olsen Road. Street parking is by permit only Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Mural: "Chicano Time Trip" by David Botello, 1977