Annie Buckley, associate professor of art at Cal State San Bernardino, will present “Chicano Art: At the Intersection of Art and Activism” at the next Chican@ History Lecture on Monday, May 16.
Buckley’s talk, free and open to the public, will begin at 2 p.m. at the university’s John M. Pfau Library, room PL-4005. Parking at CSUSB is $6.
Chicano art is best known for its vibrant iconography though its powerful ties to community activism are under recognized. Buckley’s talk will cover contemporary approaches to and understandings of Chicano art from the 1970s to the present with an emphasis on community, collectives, collaboration, and social change.
Buckley is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, curator and editor with an emphasis on art and social justice. She is an associate professor of visual studies and director of CSUSB’s Community-based Art program, an initiative that facilitates art at sites that don’t otherwise have access to it — including three prisons, youth shelters and low-income housing communities.
She is the author of hundreds of articles, reviews and essays on contemporary art and several non-fiction books for youth on topics that include racism, homelessness and the arts. Her visual and participatory art is regularly included in museum, gallery and public exhibitions.
Buckley is the curator of the exhibition “Bridging Homeboy Industries,” and the editor and co-founder of the new online publication, “Radical Actions: From Teaching Artists to Social Practice.”
The Chican@ History Lecture Series was conceived and organized by the students of the CSUSB History Club and Phi Alpha Theta history honors society, led by Rocio Gomez, Maria Figueroa, Brian Ayala and Jasmyn Murrell.
The series began in fall 2015 and included programs featuring National Humanities Medal recipient and UC Irvine history professor Vicki Ruiz, historian Tomás Summers Sandoval of Pomona College and political scientist Armando Navarro of UC Riverside. It is made possible with help from the CSUSB Department of History, the University Diversity Committee, the Teaching Resource Center and the CSUSB John M. Pfau Library.
For more information, contact Jasmyn Murrell at murrellj@coyote.csusb.edu.
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