2 pm to 4 pm

Join author Holly Barnet-Sanchez for a presentation and book signing as she offers detailed analyses of individual East LA murals, sets them in social context, and explains how they were produced. Leading experts on mural art, Barnet-Sanchez and her co-author Tim Drescher use a distinctive methodology, analyzing the art from aesthetic, political, and cultural perspectives to show how murals and graffiti reflected and influenced the Chicano civil rights movement. This free event, generously sponsored by The Bank of Albuquerque, will take place at 2pm on January 28th, 2017 in the Library within the National Hispanic Cultural Center’s History and Literary Arts Building.

Chicanismo, the idea of what it means to be Chicano, was born in the 1970s, when grassroots activists, academics, and artists joined forces in the civil rights movimiento that spread new ideas about Mexican American history and identity. The community murals those artists painted in the barrios of East Los Angeles were a powerful part of that cultural vitality, and these artworks have been an important feature of LA culture ever since. Give Me Life: Iconography and Identity in East LA Murals offers detailed analyses of individual East LA murals, sets them in social context, and explains how they were produced. Leading experts on mural art, the authors use a distinctive methodology, analyzing the art from aesthetic, political, and cultural perspectives to show how murals and graffiti reflected and influenced the Chicano civil rights movement.

This event, made possible by the National Hispanic Cultural Center and by the generous support of the Bank of Albuquerque, will take place at 2 p.m. on Jan. 28, 2017, in the History and Literary Arts Building.
Free public event