I found the introduction to be off putting. The introduced a historical foundation in which the Smithsonian Museum exists was obviously well intended; Yet, the Native people of the land which the museum stands were referred to as "the native people" never their actual names(from some additional research it seems of of which tribes is the Piscataway). This and the information that the Smithsonian was built using slave labor was all said by a white woman as she grinned ear to ear.
Then E. Carmen Ramos introduced the exhibition she discussed the reclaiming of the word "chicano," forms of urgent images: screen-print, lithography installation, interactive, public interventions and how the collective effort of chicano artists to show the value of everyday chicano culture and identity has lasted 5 decades.
E. Carmen Ramos then introduces Claudia Zapata (Curator) who introduces Juan Fuentes, Esther Hernandez, and Zeke Péna. Fuentes discusses raising his social conscious commitment to teaching and community. Hernandez, a critical Chicana feminist figure, was lead to focus on queer communities and women's lives in her artwork for lots of reasons. She highlights the united farm workers historic march to Sacramento in the 60's. Zeke multi media narrative approaches to interpreting the US borderlands of the Southwest (specifically El Paseo Juarez borderlands). He blends traditional drawing and digital technology (which plays a role in the production, distribution and viewing of his works with augmented reality).
These are some of the subversive ways Chincanx artists inserted their work into the public sphere.
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