Nolazco, Nallely(Nallely)

   Hello, My name is Nallely Nolazco and I go by she/her pronouns! I’m a transfer and my major is Anthropology though I’ve yet to figure out what area of anthropology I’d like to focus on. What made me interested in taking this course was a few quarters ago, I took a Chicano theater class and learned how El Teatro Campesino helped boost morale but also encouraged a lot of farmer workers organize and form union due to worker exploitation. As the years went by, more issues were brought up such as war and the policing of young Chicano men and woman. In that class, we only briefly spoke about artists, but it wasn’t enough for me to understand how it contributed to the cause. I’m hoping with this class, I not only learn more about how art pieces contributed to the Chicano civil rights movement, but also hoping to learn how artists used images in a creative way to spread a message.

   For the readings, I enjoyed how they all tied together with the idea of woman in the art scene. I never really thought about why there’ wasn’t any great female artists but then again, I don’t really think about art and artists in general. Nochlin’s article pretty much summed it up with higher class society focusing more on the apprenticeship of young men because either, their father was an artist and so the son must continue the legacy or being discovered while doing ordinary tasks. There was also the idea of being devoted to the craft that education itself became less important. Now going into Venegas’ article, this idea of accessibility of art is pushed even further because Venegas states that art isn’t necessarily free or cheap. However, with times changing, art is becoming more accessible to woman and is able to produce Chicana artists. What amazing about Chicana artists is their ability to cover topics that the Chicano movement barely talks about and how they’re able to strip that stereotype of a submissive woman by creating pieces of ordinary Chicana woman participating or being in the front lines of a strike/fight.