Argueza, Leigh Anne (Abstracts for Amy Díaz-Infante)

Blackwell, Erin. “Art Instructor Questions Her Pink Slip.” The Guardsman, 24 March 2021, http://theguardsman.com/5_news_artcuts_blackwell/. 

In this article, Erin Blackwell from the San Fransisco Guardsman News interviewed Amy Díaz-Infante about the City College of San Fransisco’s Chancellor Rajen Vurdien’s decision to reduce full-time equivalent faculty members. Chancellor Vurdien’s layoffs were aimed predominantly on impacted departments, which included Díaz-Infante’s position as the succeeding Ocean Campus printmaker faculty member. As a member of the Academic Senate Executive Council, Díaz-Infante is one of twenty-nine elected educators, who was distraught over the City College of San Fransisco’s administration’s failure to communicate proposed faculty cuts on impacted departments. She challenged Vuriden’s decision by questioning his integrity as an administrator before discussing how impactful the departmental layoffs will be in relation to the diversity and equity of City College of San Fransisco's 2018 new hires. Díaz-Infante concludes with comments of her difficulties as a first-generation college student, her mother’s decade earned degree, and advocates further for the accessibility of a public education. 

Ryce, Walter. “Angelica Muro talks equity, ethnicity, career and culture.” California State University Monterey Bay News, 13 April 2021, https://csumb.edu/news/news-listing/angelica-muro-talks-equity-ethnicity-career-and-culture/. 

In this article, Walter Ryce, the news and information manager/public information officer of California State University Monterey Bay News conducts a virtual interview with Amy Díaz-Infante and Angela Muro about their creative processes in the studio, within museums, and outside their educational roles as professors. The interview was hosted by the Monterey Museum of Art and corresponded to the exhibit The Ancestral Journey/El Viaje Ancestral that both the artists’ shared in collaboration with other members belonging to the Central Coast Chicanx artist scene. Amy Díaz-Infante explains the growth in her identity, her perspective on the elitism of the art world, and the democratic accessibility of printmaking in disseminating messages through her pieces.