Karen Mary Davalos & Tatiana Reinoza 
Self Help Graphics at Fifty [PDF ebook] 
A Cornerstone of Latinx Art and Collaborative Artmaking

The definitive history of a cherished East Los Angeles institution over five decades of art making and community building.

 

Self Help Graphics at Fifty celebrates the ongoing legacy of an institution that has had profound aesthetic, economic, and political impact on the formation of Chicanx and Latinx art in the United States.

 

Officially launched in 1973 during the Chicano Movement, Self Help Graphics & Art continues to serve on the cultural front. The institution’s commitment to art, dignity for all, and empowerment of Chicanx and Latinx artists appears in every aspect of programming, including the Día de los Muertos festival; the Barrio Mobile Art Studio, which brings art education to underserved schools; and the printmaking program, which offers an accessible medium infused with activist aims. Looking at the multiple genealogies of art that intersect in East Los Angeles,
Self Help Graphics at Fifty bears witness to the organization’s influential role in US and global art histories.

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Contents


Introduction

Intangible Registers: Self Help Graphics and the Creation of Sustainable Art Ecologies

Karen Mary Davalos and Tatiana Reinoza


PART ONE: THE ETHOS OF SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART


1. Dibujando el Camino: Ibañez y Bueno and the Chicano-Mexican Public Art Tradition

    JV Decemvirale

2. The Barrio Mobile Art Studio: The History of an Art Education Program for Chicanas/os 

    and Mexican Immigrants in Los Angeles

    Adriana Katzew

3. Generative Networks and Local Circuits: Self Help Graphics and the Visual Politics of 

    Solidarity

    Mary Thomas


PART TWO: THE ATELIER


4. The Future Is Feminist: How the Maestras Atelier Transformed Self Help Graphics

    Claudia Zapata

5. Unfinished: The Death Worlds of Homombre LA

    Robb Hernández

6. Self Help Graphics & Art’s Contributions to Chicana/o/x Art Histories 

    Karen Mary Davalos


PART THREE: FROM EAST LOS ANGELES TO THE WORLD


7. Central America at Self Help Graphics: Camaraderie and Artmaking in the City of Angels

    Kency Cornejo

8. Self Help Graphics and Global Circuits of Art in the 1990s

    Olga U. Herrera

9. Creating Infrastructures of Value: Self Help Graphics and the Art Market—a Conversation

    with Arlene Dávila

    Arlene Dávila, Karen Mary Davalos, and Tatiana Reinoza


Atelier History

Self Help Graphics & Art Timeline

Further Reading

List of Contributors

Index

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Tatiana Reinoza is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Reclaiming the Americas: Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory.  Karen Mary Davalos is Professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is the author of Chicana/o Remix: Art and Errata Since the Sixties.