Centro de Arte Público
{{Short description|Arts organization in Los Angeles, California, U.S.}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = Centro de Arte Público
| formation = {{start date|1977}}
| founder = Carlos Almaraz, Guillermo Bejarano, Richard Duardo, Leo Limón
| dissolved = 1980s
| headquarters = 5605–5607 N. Figueroa St.,
Los Angeles, California
| location_country = United States
| footnotes = {{Designation list|embed=yes|designation1=Los Angeles|designation1_date=August 24, 2021|designation1_number=1233}}
}}
{{Chicano and Mexican American topics sidebar|state=collapsed}}
Centro de Arte Público was an American arts organization and collective founded in 1977 and closed in 1979 in Highland Park neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, U.S..
The former building was declared a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (#1233) on August 24, 2021.{{Cite web |date=June 3, 2022 |title=Historic-Cultural Monument (HCM) List City Declared Monuments |url=https://planning.lacity.org/odocument/24f6fce7-f73d-4bca-87bc-c77ed3fc5d4f/Historical_Cultural_Monuments_List.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230627045134/https://planning.lacity.org/odocument/24f6fce7-f73d-4bca-87bc-c77ed3fc5d4f/Historical_Cultural_Monuments_List.pdf |archive-date=June 27, 2023 |website=City of Los Angeles, Department of City Planning}}
History
It was founded by Carlos Almaraz of Los Four, Guillermo Bejarano, and Richard Duardo.{{Cite web |date=2011-11-07 |title=Centro De Arte Publico, Where a Chicana Creative Agenda Thrived |url=https://www.kcet.org/shows/departures/centro-de-arte-publico |access-date=2023-06-27 |website=KCET |language=en}} Almaraz and Bejarano were painters, and Duardo had worked as a printmaker at Self Help Graphics; all three had a connect to the neighborhood.{{Cite book |last=Skrubbe |first=Jessica Sjöholm |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Ab5DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA14 |title=Curating Differently: Feminisms, Exhibitions and Curatorial Spaces |date=2016-01-14 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=978-1-4438-8738-0 |pages=14 |language=en}} Some sources also named Leo Limón as a forth founder.{{Cite book |last=Goldman |first=Shifra M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kOvD9spwwDQC&pg=PA480 |title=Dimensions of the Americas: Art and Social Change in Latin America and the United States |date=1994 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-30124-2 |pages=174–175 |language=en}} The organization focused on the creation of artwork centered on the theme of Los Angeles street scenes and work by Chicano/Chicana youth. They fused Chicano consciousness, communist teachings, and a silkscreen printing business. In the 1970s, Dolores Guerrero-Cruz, Barbara Carrasco, and Judithe Hernández actively had been part of Centro de Arte Público.{{Cite book |title=Chicano Art in the City of Dreams A History in Nine Movements |publisher=UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press |others=Terezita Romo (editor), Pilar Tompkins Rivas (editor) |year=2011 |editor-last=Noriega |editor-first=Chon A. |pages=81}}
The Centro de Arte Público is one of three local arts organizations that made up the Chicano Arts Collective, including the Mechicano Art Center and Corazon Productions.{{Cite web |date=October 1, 2020 |title=Case No.:CHC-2020-5209-HCM ENV-2020-5210-CE |url=https://planning.lacity.org/odocument/0aeafa0d-84de-4765-9dde-9fb599b7ff26/CHC-2020-5209.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230627053858/https://planning.lacity.org/odocument/0aeafa0d-84de-4765-9dde-9fb599b7ff26/CHC-2020-5209.pdf |archive-date=June 27, 2023 |website=Los Angeles Department Of City Planning, Recommendation Report}} After the organization moved in 1978/1979, the space was transformed into Aztlán Multiples, a printshop; and The Vex, a Chicano punk club.
See also
References
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Category:Mexican-American culture in Los Angeles
Category:American artist groups and collectives
Category:Arts organizations established in 1977