America Today: Voices in Contemporary Print
The Print Center
1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103
EXHIBITION ON VIEw
April 24 – July 25, 2026
Works by six Self Help Graphics artists are featured in America Today: Voices in Contemporary Print, a groundbreaking Print Center exhibition that brings together contemporary artworks from six of the country’s leading print workshops, reflecting on the state of American democracy. Organized at the nation’s 250th anniversary, this Pew Center for Arts & Heritage supported exhibition illuminates the connections between printmaking and issues of civic life.
The Self Help Graphics artists included in this show are Consuelo G. Flores, Luis-Genaro García, Melissa Govea, Priscilla Hernandez, José Lozano, and Álvaro D. Márquez. All of their works invite urgent conversations about agency, equity, and power, with many of them confronting state violence, ongoing ICE raids and detention centers, whose violence continues to impact our communities. All of these works were also printed at Self Help Graphic’s Professional Printmaking Studio.
Self Help Graphics & Art’s 2026 Día de Los Muertos Commemorative Print is Monarchs and Migration: Children at the BoArder of Freedom, by Consuelo G. Flores. This serigraph is dedicated to children who came to the U.S. seeking freedom but ultimately died in detention in U.S. Border Patrol centers.
Regarding the print, Flores says, “The focus of this print is on the children featured and the potential that was lost when they died in the hands of Border Patrol custody. This is a call back and reminder to our immigrant past, of the many transplants from other countries, of my own siblings who entered this country as children.”
The children depicted, left to right, are Juan de Leon Gutierrez, Wilmer Josue Ramirez Vasquez, Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez, Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez, Marlee Juarez, Felipe Gómez Alonzo, and Jakelin Caal. All of the children depicted came to the United States from Central America seeking asylum, and from 2018 to 2023 died under Border Patrol custody from both preventable and completely treatable illnesses like the flu, respiratory, sinus, and bacterial infections, and pneumonia.
Read more about this print’s story here.
*** Self Help Graphics recognizes that the "A" in boarder is capitalized on certain web pages - this is a web coding technicality due to an inability to feature strikethrough letters on certain platforms, not a misspelling.
Jose Lozano
Chinga La Migra, 2025
Screenprint
30” x 20” sheet
Priscilla Hernandez
Hecho en Los Angeles (Made in Los Angeles), 2024
Serigraph, ed. of 50
30 x 22 in.
An homage to El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula, Hecho En Los Ángeles (Made in Los Angeles) is a Chicanx, surrealist view of our city. The artist Priscilla Hernandez calls upon modern and nostalgic elements of rebellion, pachucas and punks, collaging protest, resistance, and an emerging feminine light.
Melissa Govea (Tochtlita)
Migration is Natural, 2022
Serigraph, Ed. of 60
30 x 22 in.
Migration is natural. Detention centers are not. The dehumanization of many migrants is rooted in colonial practices like borders and ICE. Indigenous people have migrated for thousands of years and are now made to feel like foreigners in their own continent. Our culture, history, and presence predate borders.
Alvaro D. Marquez
Your Presence Counts - Tu Presencia Cuenta, 2020
Serigraph, Ed. of 60
21.5”x34”
Marquez’s map-based print of Southern Los Angeles County, possibly the south bay where the artist lived. The Spanish ships, scattered tent encampments, and police cars reference colonialism, homelessness, and policing. Your Presence Counts is a message of empowerment specifically to the communities of color in the fight against the social, economic, and political oppression. These are the same oppressions that augment the number of homeless victims and decrease all sense of stability.
Luis Genaro Garcia
Coatlicue’s Legacy, 2018
Ed. of 68
22 x 30" - paper size
Coatlicue’s Legacy commemorates the 50-year anniversary of the 1968 student walkouts in Los Angeles. The image shows a graduation procession of significant cultural icons of historically marginalized communities of color. Drawing on the original “Chicano Power” poster of the walkouts and archives from the demonstrations, he modified a newspaper collage to reflect the political realities for people of color in 1968.