Extra Credit : (Barbara Carrasco)

 Barbara is an artist and feminist and has a BFA from UCLA  and did a lithograph of her brother not waiting for his wife to go to college and is pregnant. This features a who we can see is women trapped by yarn of just staying that women feel trapped. And this print really resonated with me because as a woman myself, I felt that I was always told by extended family members to settle down and get married and this was from my Tias and my Abuela and Unfortunately they didn’t support me in my career goals. And so I relate to this piece because as women it feels that we aren’t allowed to be in education or focus our careers and seen as only to bear children or be in a family. Which to me that is something I eventually want to do, I also want to focus on my career and achieve what i want to achieve.

This art piece also has to do with serialization with people having to go through this. And they also had it and a radical show Radical women and I do agree that this is a strong feminist piece. And it was really amazing that it was drawn in one day and interesting that it was Japanese paper. It’s frustrating to hear that Barbara had to endure this when she was in the art department. My sister is currently at UCLA as an art major in the art department as well and she’s grateful when she can learn from women artists. However, she says it’s still not as diverse as she hoped, and often when she communicates about her artwork in relation to social justice and activism she does feel a disconnect with her peers that aren’t Chicanx or Latinx. She understands however since why would people do artwork on social justice if they never had to endure those hardships since most of her peers are economically and racially privileged. Hopefully in the years to come more diversity arises but also maybe Barbara can teach a course. I admire how she persists in her career.

Barbara Carrasco