Ricardo Favela

Favela was born in Kingsburg, California. He attended Sacramento State University where he received his B.A. in 1971 and M.A. in 1989. Favela began teaching art classes at Sacramento State University in the 1980s and eventually became a full-time professor in the Art Department in 1997.{{Cite web|title=Art community mourns death of Sacramento State professor|website=Sacramento State News|date=2007-07-20|url=https://www.csus.edu/news/072007favela.stm}}

Favela worked in screen printing and ceramic sculptures. His artworks are in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the University Galleries of Sacramento State University.

Favela died of a heart attack on July 15, 2007, in Visalia, California.{{Cite web|date=2007-07-26|last=Rourke|first=Mary|title=Ricardo Favela, 62; helped create Chicano art group, was longtime professor|website=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-26-me-favela26-story.html}}

Ricardo Favela Park in the McKinley Village neighborhood of Sacramento, California.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Richard Favela Park|url=https://arts.cityofsacramento.org/Programs/Public-Art/McKinley-Village-Art/McKinley-Village-Parks-Streets/Ricardo-Favela-Park|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-12-11|website=Arts+Culture, City of Sacramento}}

[https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c870820j/entire_text/ Guide to the Ricardo Favela papers CEMA 72], UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections.

[https://americanart.si.edu/artist/ricardo-favela-7227 Ricardo Favela at the Smithsonian American Art Museum]

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Category:American artists of Mexican descent

Category:California State University, Sacramento alumni

Category:California State University, Sacramento faculty

Category:1944 births

Category:2007 deaths

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