Hi everyone! My name is Janette Madrigal-Garcia and my preferred pronouns are she/her/hers. I am a 4th year Chicana/o/x Studies major with a minor in Labor Studies. I am not involved in any research currently, but my areas of interest include artivism and its importance in social movements, access to the arts and arts programming in rural communities like California's Central Valley, and the impact that the arts have on marginalized communities. I have a particular interest in the Central Valley because not only is it where I am from, but since we are located in Los Angeles, discussions around art tend to surround Los Angeles. This makes sense, but I would love to see how the arts (their prevalence, impact, access, audiences) look in rural, poverty-stricken areas in the Central Valley. This opens up an opportunity to discuss how we define art and what values we place on certain artistic or cultural productions over others, while also taking into consideration under what conditions the art was created and by whom. This draws from Sybil Venegas' article "Conditions For Producing Chicana Art" and Linda Nochlin's article "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" Venegas brings to light the economic, social, and cultural obstacles that Chicana artists had to overcome as women of color in American society and within their own communities. Nochlin challenges the value we place on male-produced art versus women-produced art. The art world has constantly been dominated by white, middle- to upper-class men's narratives. While Chicano artists have made strides in recognition and validation within art spaces, they still replicate the patriarchal structure of society. What inspires me from these readings is that Chicana and other women of color artists continue to disrupt and challenge these notions of who can produce art and the value we place on art.
I am really looking forward to dissecting this further throughout the quarter and challenge dominant modes of thinking surrounding art production!
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