Jimenez, Jessica

Hello, my name is Jessica Jimenez and my pronouns are she/her/hers. I am a senior and my major is Sociology with a minor in Chicano Studies. In addition, I do not have any interest in research (at least I have not found anything that interests me enough to want to research). However, if I had to brainstorm one possible research interest might be on divorced parents and how it affects the child involved. One reason why I am interested in this course is to learn more about Chicana art and artists. I identify as Chicana, so I think it would be good to learn about others like me and learning about other art/artists could open up my own creativity (especially since I want to work in entertainment post grad). Some of the images shown in Carmen Ramos reading I enjoyed a lot because of how unique and powerful they were. As stated in the reading, most of the time these kinds of pieces are overlooked by "mainstream media." Which makes me wonder if a lot of the overlooking has to do with the discrimination our people have faced for many years. The reading also does a good job explaining the meanings of chicano/a/x. Not only are artists creating art that is appealing to the eye, but they have a goal to engage audiences. In the Linda Nochlin reading, a quote that stood out to me was "there are no great women artists because women are incapable of greatness." This quote saddens me because there are people out there who think like this. Which further validates to me why it is important to learn about these artists so maybe as a society we can figure out why Chicanx individuals are overlooked and why there has to be a difference in women's greatness and men's.