In the reading, Holly Barnett-Sanchez, an important Chicana/Latina art historian, discusses how printmaking was significant medium within El Movimiento. She mentions that for Chicanas, printmaking was a means for connecting beyond the local, moving “regionally and globally” (118) As such, this medium that created fine art pieces and posters and postcards was utilized to advance a movement, and in doing so, they were also carving out their space within the art historical cannon.  

One of the Chicana printmakers that I loved was Favianna Rodríguez, a young artist and activist from the Bay Area. Rodríguez’s Pussy Power series really amazes me. Looking at her images is such a pleasure because she uses her anger and energy. She is unapologetic when she says the word “pussy”, and urgently demands social change and social justice. She combines her practice of printmaking to put together powerful messages of liberation and decolonization for women and others. From an aesthetic perspective, her works are so pleasing to look at. They are bright and unusual; they are juicy and ripe, full of life and life’s messages. Her round figures, color contrasts and warm colors contrast beautifully with her hot and sharp messages that denounce hate, war, hunger and greed.