Topic: Chicanx Art

A man kneels in front of a fire conducting a performance piece while spectators on either side look on.

Against Ruination: Building Sacred Futurities
rafa esparza’s building: a simulacrum of power (2014)

Abeyami Ortega Dominguez

Sacred Migrations: Gestating the Border

Erika Hirugami

The Border as Sacred Entity in the Work of Celia Álvarez Muñoz

Itayecxi Álvarez

A film still in black and white shows two feet in a pair of low-heeled white shoes against a desert landscape.

With All Her Belongings: The Diasporic Middle Ground in Maria Cristina (Tina) Tavera’s Zozobra

Jamie L. Ratliff

Rosemary Meza-DesPlas and Resistance

Kimberly Sandoval

A large metal sculpture resembling a tree stands within a park. From the top of the tree hang seven hundred small sculptures representing the stories of community members.

Árbol de la Vida: Memorias y Voces de la Tierra

Liz Kim

Seven black baseball caps covered in shattered polarized glass are stacked on each other and hung vertically on a steel rod.

Presence in Absence: Verónica Gaona’s Spanning Worlds

Javier Arellano Vences

A person with brown skin pushes a cleaning cart in front of a colorful painting by Henri Matisse.

Redefining Maintenance Art through Migrant Imaginaries: Jay Lynn Gomez’s Aesthetics of Labor

María Eugenia López-García

The Border Is Non-Binary: Leslie Martinez and the Fluidity of Form

Evan Garza

Postcommodity and the Latinx-Indigenous Continuum: Epistemic Resistance through Material, Form, and Sound

Jeanette Degollado