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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.

100 objects6 collections1970 — 1981Los Angeles · Sacramento · Montevideo · Santiago · Ciudad de México
Arte de la Chicana, by Méchicano Art Center, 1975.Boycott Grapes — Support the United Farm Workers Union, 1970s.M.E.Ch.A. — La Unión Hace La Fuerza, 1970s.Baile — Sociedad Guadalupana, by Royal Chicano Air Force, 1970s.La Calavera — Odias del Mundo Chicano, by Royal Chicano Air Force, 1970s.RAZA / ChismeArte, by Concilio de Arte Popular, 1970s.Guillermo Deisler — 'le monde comme il va', by Guillermo Deisler, 1976.La Rivoluzione Siamo Noi, 1970s.Acuda a su médico y siga sus instrucciones — EXPRES, 1970s.Public Art Center / Centro de Arte Público sign, 1977.Carlos Almaraz, 1970s.Barbara Carrasco, 1970s.

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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