LOS ANGELES — They met as teens, formed as young adults, and called their group “asco” — “nausea” or “disgust” in Spanish — after one of their early DIY exhibits. Their conceptual work and performance ...

COLORADO (KDVR) — Using a brush to bring a vision to life is as natural as breathing to Emanuel Martinez. Performing his passion hasn’t always come easy. As a 13-year-old Chicano in the 1950s living ...

Paintings by Chicano artists, from a personal collection, on display in a museum. That sounds familiar. But this isn’t The Cheech in Riverside. Rather, it’s the Claremont Lewis Museum of Art. “Home in ...

A young San Diego artist is combining activism with art to get his peers interested in democracy. KPBS arts reporter Julia Dixon Evans shows us how Alliance San Diego’s youth program is working to get ...

César A. Martínez says he does not have a natural ability as an artist. “I was never a prodigy or anything. I liked to paint and draw when I was a kid, but was I good at it? No,” said Martínez, 80.

The Old Orange County Courthouse is the site of the Orange County History Center and government offices, as well as, for a limited time, a Chicano art exhibit. The Chicano Collection/La Colección ...

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Discover the fascinating history of the Occoquan Workhouse in Lorton, Virginia. Initially built in 1910 as a progressive era work camp to rehabilitate inmates through hard labor and agriculture, it ...