Perez, Amy (Amy)

Hi class,

My name is Amy, I am a third-year Biology major, and Chican@ Studies minor. My preferred pronouns are she/her/hers. I hope to pursue a career in the medical field as a pediatrician in the future. I am super excited to be in this class and get to know a new spectrum of Chicana art to better understand and appreciate art. I don’t really have experience with art so this should be a learning experience for me and as for research interest, I currently work for three wonderful ladies who work with kids who have epileptic seizures and kids with TSC, there are many topics that spark an interest for me in regards to research. I commute from Palmdale, CA and I am super family oriented, I have learned to appreciate what I have and who I have in my life. I look forward to making new friends in this class!!

For this week’s readings, I was able to see how the activity we did in class related to Chicana art and how the lack of exposure to Chicana artists prevailed as time progressed until the 1970’s. In the article by Sybil Venegas, she discusses the merge between Chicanas and art. Chicana women were getting involved with art because they had their own jobs so they used their own economic empowerment to have and get supplies. Due to the feminist movement, they were moving away from traditional roles which is empowering and encouraging for women in general. In the article by Alma López, she explains how her introduction to art began with La Virgen de Guadalupe and how this image stood for a culture and as a symbol of unity within different communities. She explains how an image can signify or in her case, evoke an image of a revolutionary cultural icon. I completely agree with this concept of how one image can represent different emotions or images for different people.