Archive
Art as public voice
Posters, mail art, magazines, photographs and documents kept from the Los Angeles Chicano art movement. Every object has a permanent identifier so it can be cited.
Centro de Arte Público
Los Angeles · 1977–1979
Photographs, press clippings, ChismeArte issues and the sign from 5605½ N. Figueroa Street. The collective’s building was declared a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 2021.
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Posters
California & beyond · 1970s–1981
Screenprints from Méchicano, Self-Help Graphics, the Royal Chicano Air Force and the solidarity movements — Boycott Grapes, Zapata, Neruda, Nicaragua, Chile.
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Mail Art
International · 1976–1977
Photocopied sheets that travelled by post between Los Angeles, Montevideo, Santiago and Europe — including the Nixon Interviews series and Guillermo Deisler’s le monde comme il va.
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Chicano Art
Personal collection
Work by other artists that Bejarano collected or was given: Carlos Almaraz, Frank Romero, Richard Duardo, Carmen Lomas Garza, Ester Hernández, Linda Vallejo, Claes Oldenburg and others.
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Mexican Art
Mexico City
Prints from the Taller de Gráfica Popular, and a group photograph of the workshop with Bejarano kneeling in the front row.
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Méchicano Art Center
East Los Angeles · 1970–1975
Material from the East Los Angeles art centre where Bejarano worked before Centro de Arte Público, and which won him the Doctors Hospital mural commission.
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Unidentified
The old site’s captions did not line up with 5 portraits from the Centro de Arte Público years. We would rather leave them unnamed than name them wrongly. If you recognise anyone, write to us.