CARA Exhibition

After reading Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s Out of the House, the Halo, and the Whore’s Mask: The Mirror of Malinchismo, made me realize that the Chicanx community and arts need a lot more recognition. The lack of female artists’ in Chicanx art and in the Chicanx art movement comes to show that they are not being represented. In the chapter, Gaspar de Alba mentions the CARA exhibition, which was created in order to exhibit the various amount of Chicanx artists, but the exhibition seemed to fail in giving female Chicana artists the attention they deserved. Chicano artists were way more represented compared to Chicana artists, causing a huge and unfair inequality in the CARA exhibition. The CARA organizers chose to only exhibit mostly Chicano artists, even though Chicana artists like, Las Mujeres Muralistas, existed during the Chicanx art movement. The omission of such an important group like Las Mujeres Muralistas, comes to show the gender politics of the Chicanx art movement. The organizers in the CARA exhibition made a huge mistake by excluding them, but also by having such a huge inequality between Chicana and Chicano art. In my opinion, Chicana artists should be as equally represented as Chicano artists are, especially during the Chicanx art movement. They are also a part of Chicanx art and should be represented as such. The Chicanx art movement displayed the lack of female artists’ representation and the CARA exhibition only helped make it clear. The CARA exhibition displayed the inequalities in Chicanx art.