Chicana Printmakers

Chicana printmakers utilized printed visual art posters to combat issues of race, class and gender that were prominent during the Chicano Civil Right Movement. Sanchez writes about the duality between presence and absence. Presence meant the presence of women as printmakers, but the absence of women printmakers work being shown in exhibitions or workshops. Artist personal responsibilities, access to equipment, race/sex discrimination could be considered factors that aid in the absence of Chicana print work in public spaces. Artists such as Patssi Valdez, Linda Lucero, Yolanda M. Lopez, and Diane Gamboa to name a few illustrate within their print works Chicana symbolism such as cultural/ historical figures and an emphasis on self identity. I personally live the print work by Yolanda M. Lopez called, Who’s the Illegal Alien, Pilgrim? I liked this work because it combats the created knowledge about the America’s historicism.