Traveling Exhibitions
Cultura Cura: 50 Years of Self Help Graphics in East LA
Special Research Collections, UCSB Library
October 25, 2023 - June 21, 2024
UCSB Library is pleased to present an exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of Los Angeles cultural arts center and studio Self Help Graphics (SHG). Exhibition materials will be drawn from the Library's California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives, which includes an extensive collection of SHG studio silk screen prints and slides, as well as organizational records, photographs, and ephemera. SHG was founded in the early 1970s, during the height of the Chicano Civil Rights movement, by artists Carlos Bueno, Antonio Ibanez, Frank Hernandez, and Sister Karen Boccalero.
Marking an Era: Celebrating Self Help Graphics & Art at 50
Laguna Art Museum
August 19, 2023 - January 15, 2024
In celebration of the Self Help Graphics & Art momentous 50th anniversary, Laguna Art Museum presents the largest selection of works by SHG artists from the museum’s collection to date. Curated by Curatorial Fellow and Guest Curator Rochelle Steiner, Marking an Era: Celebrating Self Help Graphics & Art at 50 offers a contemporary look at the earliest works and themes that have initiated countless discussions and collaborations at the heart of Chicana/o/x art making in the region and beyond.
Día de Los Muertos at Self Help Graphics:
A Cultural Legacy, Past, Present, and Future
Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art (RAFFMA) on the campus of California State University, San Bernardino
August 26 - December 16, 2023
Originally organized as part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA Latin America and Latino Art in LA a 2018 Getty initiative this exhibition centers around Self Help Graphics, the internationally regarded silk screen atelier located in East Los Angeles. Since 1972 Self Help Graphics has celebrated Dia de Los Muertos as a form of creative celebration, community building, and advocacy. Centered around the history of the celebration at Self Help Graphics the exhibition featuring prints, photographic documentation, and ephemera from five decades of the celebration at Self Help Graphics.
The Shell in the Clouds / El Caparazón en las Nubes
Solo exhibition by Pavel Ecevedo
Springfield Technical Community College’s (STCC) Amy H. Carberry Fine Arts Gallery
September 5 through October 6, 2023
The exhibition’s title, “The Shell in the Clouds / El Caparazón en las Nubes,” draws from the Zapotec belief that their rulers descended from the clouds and returned there upon their passing. This cultural heritage identifies the Oaxacan people as the “People of the Clouds.” These ancient narratives have profoundly influenced Acevedo’s work and are interwoven throughout his art.