2021CarreonValeria

 My name is Valeria Carreon, I'm a third year, double majoring in Sociology and Communications, with a minor in Chicana/o and Central American Studies. My pronouns are she/her/s and I really enjoy being outdoors. Some of my hobbies include hiking and going on walks. This has been harder to do, due to covid, but I still enjoy going on walks later at night when people aren't out and about as much.  I enrolled into this course because I'm interested in Art. My first year, I took a class that professor Lopez Gaspar De Alba was a part of, and she touched upon some of her ideas on certain pieces of art. Most prominently, her ideas on La Virgencita intrigued me, specifically when it came to her theories on her backstory. I never really thought about this piece of work in this way despite it being in my life for as long as I could remember.  This week, I found the reading on women artists to be really intriguing. I never really thought about the fact that we don't really have any prominent or very famous artists throughout history who are women. I know this because I've take a couple art history courses and it's definitely very normalized. Not only that, but once I got to the reading by Carmen Ramos, I was also made to think about how art and revolution go hand in hand. This has made me reflect on the art history classes I've already taken and how none of them have really touched upon art in this way. There's always mention of the Chicano movement but I don't think I've ever really thought critically about it because not only does it not go in depth, but it also doesn't tie in the importance of the culture as influence to the art itself.