Self Help Graphics at Fifty

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.

"The contributors frame Self Help Graphics as an arts organization with the potential to inspire a vision of a more just and inclusive art world, providing new perspectives on the organization and its significant contributions to the Chicano art movement and making Los Angeles a major center for global art."

• ContentsIntroductionIntangible Registers: Self Help Graphics and the Creation of Sustainable Art EcologiesKaren Mary Davalos and Tatiana ReinozaPART ONE: THE ETHOS OF SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART1. Dibujando el Camino: Ibañez y Bueno and the Chicano-Mexican Public Art TraditionJV Decemvirale2. The Barrio Mobile Art Studio: The History of an Art Education Program for Chicanas/os and Mexican Immigrants in Los AngelesAdriana Katzew3. Generative Networks and Local Circuits: Self Help Graphics and the Visual Politics of SolidarityMary ThomasPART TWO: THE ATELIER4. The Future Is Feminist: How the Maestras Atelier Transformed Self Help GraphicsClaudia Zapata5. Unfinished: The Death Worlds of Homombre LARobb Hernández6. Self Help Graphics & Art’s Contributions to Chicana/o/x Art Histories Karen Mary DavalosPART THREE: FROM EAST LOS ANGELES TO THE WORLD7. Central America at Self Help Graphics: Camaraderie and Artmaking in the City of AngelsKency Cornejo8. Self Help Graphics and Global Circuits of Art in the 1990sOlga U. Herrera9. Creating Infrastructures of Value: Self Help Graphics and the Art Market—a Conversationwith Arlene DávilaArlene Dávila, Karen Mary Davalos, and Tatiana ReinozaAtelier HistorySelf Help Graphics & Art TimelineFurther ReadingList of ContributorsIndex