Carlos Borrayo Week 2 CARA

My artist name is Paloma Sanchez, she is a legendary Chicana artist.


This week was very interesting and it was very exciting to meet one of the founders of the Chicana/o studies department. Professor Alicia Garcia de Alba talks about the Chicano Art Resistance and Affirmations, or better know as the CARA exhibit. This exhibition was and is still something that represented what many young Chicanos were going through and overall the struggle of the Chicano movement because it was one of the first exhibits of its kind to be shown all over the country and it was a success. However, all though it had all that exposure it was missing a very important thing. women.
Female artist was no represented fairly on the CARA exhibition. This comes to no surprise to me because in the first week of school we were told to name Chicana and Chicano artists and I could not think of any female artist. Most of the art was of men and when there were women involved they were not represented as equal. For example, the females that were on some of the exhibits were in fact painted as if they were less than the men. It almost seemed as men the men were the important ones who were going to solve all the problems. Due to the fact that many women were not painted as the heroes like the men were portrayed. The women were seen as the typical holy Virgen who is there to serve christ but in this case the men who were the men involved in the Chicana/o movement.