Week 5: Chicana Printmakers

After reading this week's reading titled "Where are the Chicana Printmakers?". This piece of work was written by Holly Barnet-Sanchez and covers. This article covers the importance and the impact of Chicana printmakers had from the mid-1970s to the end of the millennium. Although Chicana art has been overlooked throughout history, Chicana printmakers created what is known as a visual vocabulary that essentially formed a Chicano/Chicana identity that people could resonate with during the time period of the Chicano Civil Rights Movement. This article gave me insight into what Chicana printmaking actually was and what type of pieces they created during the Chicano Civil Rights Movement. There was one piece of work in this article that really caught my eye and I thought conveyed a very powerful message within it. This piece of work is titled Women's Work Is Never Done: Homenaje a Dolores Huerta. This piece of art is a laser print piece stemmed from digital imaging. This piece of work was created by Yolanda M. Lopez. This piece of art displays anonymous women laborers fully clothes from head to toe fighting for fair labor practices, pay, and treatment. This piece of art fights for equality for women in the workforce which to this day they are still fighting for. This poster is just as impactful today and speaks volumes to gender inequality in the workforce as it did when it was originally created by Lopez. It is a battle that women but more specifically Chicana women are still battling. This article was very insightful and displayed various pieces of art that showed the effectiveness of printmaking in terms of the Chicano Civil Rights Movement.