"Flipping" Self Help Graphics? (tags)
LA Eastside writer Victoria Delgadillo is following what's happening with the recent sale of SHG to a real estate speculator and "flipper" who is on a house flipping show. Will SHG be flipped away? Click link for full story
THE FARCE OF JULY AT SELF-HELP GRAPHICS (tags)
The 2008 Farce of July celebration at Self Help Graphics was a great event in spite of various set-backs. First of all, the event was forced to move at the last minute from its originally scheduled location at 1221 Hope St., when the owner of the venue informed the organizers that he had received word that there would be a police raid.
A Native American on How Non-Indigenous People Can Stop Colonialization (tags)
The first event in the campaign to save the sacred San Francisco Peaks occurred at Self-Help Graphics on December 8.
Remembering Self Help Graphics & Art! (tags)
June 7th is the Day of the Dead of Self Help Graphics & Art.
Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) 2005 (tags)
OPEN CALL FOR ART To Celebrate SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART on Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) 2005
Outreach THIS Saturday for El Centro Cultural De Mexico!! (tags)
With the recent hardships and potential loss of Self-Help Graphics, now more than ever we need to show that we are willing to WORK as COMMUNITY for the centers that make a home for such valuable events as indigenous learning environments, music classes, and ranging to punk shows and organizing meetings. OUTREACH EVENT this Saturday for Santa Ana's El Centro Cultural De Mexico!
Local Activists Meet to Discuss Zapatista Red Alert (tags)
When Comandante Marcos sent out a general red-alert last week from the Zapatista community in Chiapas, Mexico, ripples of concern could be felt worldwide.
Self-Help Graphics Update (tags)
Update on the Self-Help Graphic story. 200 attend mass meeting in Highland Park to find a way to open the doors of Self-Help again. following materials and photo come from Chicano artist Harry Gamboa. See art for change web log for more details on story: www.art-for-a-change.com/blog
Update on Self-Help Graphics protests & mass meetings (tags)
the following was pulled from Mark Vallen's weblog, an artist who has been covering that story and more....... www.art-for-a-change.com/blog
Protest to Save Self Help Graphics (tags)
Without culture the people have nothing. Stand up to defend Self Help Graphics!
MARK VALLEN - Self Help Graphics Finished? (tags)
Los Angeles artist, Mark Vallen, wrote and posted the following article on his weblog concerning the closing of LA's Self Help Graphics. You can read more of his posts, at: www.art-for-a-change.com/blog
EZLN images of a movement. An exhibit retrospective of the ZAPATISTA struggle (tags)
A visual exploration of the Zapatista movement, the daily life of the indigenous peoples of Chiapas, and the various manifestations of support that the Mexican and international civil society has given to the social, political and cultural movement provoked by the EZLN.
"CHE Y QUE" Art Exhibit (tags)
MARK VALLEN, SERGIO HERNANDEZ, JOE BRAVO, MARIO TORERO, and dozens of other Chicano visual Artists will be showing new artworks at the upcoming CHE Y QUE show, an exhibition that focuses on images of Che Guevara in popular culture. The showing opens on Saturday, August 9th. and runs until August, 31st., 2003. (Artwork on this page by Mark Vallen)
Ché Y Qué! Images of Ernesto Ché Guevara (tags)
Information about upcoming exhibit!
Se Buscan Artistas-Activistas! // Artists-Activists Wanted! (tags)
Para Crear Cartel Politicos Contra Gentrificacion en Los Angeles.//To Creat Political Posters Against Gentrification in Los Angeles.
CALL FOR ARTISTS:The We Shall Not Be Moved Project (tags)
Nowhere are gentrification issues more sharply drawn and contested than in the Figueroa Corridor of Los Angeles, where some of the richest investors in the world are planning to develop a "Sports and Entertainment Corridor" through the City s poorest neighborhoods. Three Los Angeles community organizations -- Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE), the Centerfor the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG), and Self-Help Graphics and Art (SHG) -- are joining forces to challenge gentrification in this community through the We Shall Not Be Moved Project.
Co-fournder of Self-Help Graphics Dies (tags)
Only three years after the death of Self-Help Graphics' founder, Sister Karen Boccalero, Mazatlan artist Carlos Bueno died Saturday of heart failure at the age of 60. Born in Cuernavaca, Mexico, Carlos Bueno moved to Los Angeles in the late 1960's with a vision for Mexican-American culture. In the 1 970's, Carlos organized Self-Help Graphics' Barrio Mobile Arts Studio, bringing a van loaded with art supplies to parks, community centers and the housing projects of East L.A.