Week 9: Chicana Printmakers

            Barnet Sanchez’s essay on Where Are the Chicana Printmakers discusses the issues on Chicana print makers and why they are not many Chicana artists that are being represented. Most of the Chicana art throughout the 1970s and 1980s focused on the women power specifically for women of color. Chicana Artist specifically printmakers made a huge contribution to the political movement but most of their work were more viewed as posters than works of art like in the work labeled Who is the Illegal Alien Pilgrim. Chicana women where not being  acknowledged in exhibitions because of the fact that women artist are not taken as seriously as men. In class I heard that female artists are not being paid at the same rate as men. The reason why I am discussing gender inequality is because in the Diane Gamboa's work female and male physical appearances are being morphed into one gender. I believe that not specifying the genders allows both males and females to be equal. In many of Gamboa's work the idea of gender is almost nonexistent because it appears that most of the people are of the same gender. Works like The Little Gold Man and Altered States blur the idea of gender and I feel that is the right way to show gender equality and women empowerment.