Torres, Jacqueline - Research Abstract on Graciela Carrillo

Cordova, Cary. "Hombres Y Mujeres Muralistas on a Mission: Painting Latino Identities in 1970s San Francisco." Latino Studies, vol. 4, no. 4, 2006, pp. 356-380. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/hombres-y-mujeres-muralistas-on-mission-painting/docview/222609151/se-2?accountid=14512, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.lst.8600223.

The purpose of this article is to highlight the significance of mural making through a political and social lens. This is emphasized through two groups of mural makers that are carefully examined, one of those being La Mujeres Muralistas, a group of Chicana/Latina artists who create art as a tribute for feminism and their Chicana blood. According to Cordova, the two groups were different in terms of how they represented, but both groups were aiming to highlight depictions of their Latin America.

“Graciela Carrillo.” SAAM, ​​https://americanart.si.edu/artist/graciela-carrillo-31885.

In this website page, the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is displaying biographical information on the mural artist named Graciela Carrillo. On their artist and art tab, the SAAM additionally displays information about the artist’s work from one of La Galeria de la Raza’s archives. The information regarding Graciela Carrillo’s work has the work’s title, date, location, dimensions, credit line, mediums description, classification, and the object’s number.

“Mujeres Muralistas.” Imagine: International Chicano Poetry Journal, vol. 3, no.1-2, 1986, pp. 147-148. International Center for the Arts of the Americas, https://icaa.mfah.org/s/en/item/809311#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-69%2C2292%2C1323%2C767.

This book section in a larger manifesto on a Chicano Poetry Journal has a collection of works written by Chicano/as. These few pages on Las Mujeres Muralistas are written through a first person perspective of the group. They reveal their goal and thus the importance of having a collective through Chicana muralists in an art field that does not have much representation for Chicana artists. Patricia Rodriquez, Irene Perez, Graciela Carrillo, and Consuelo Mendez emphasize that their aim as mural artists is to bring art to the community as Chicana artists who were heavily underrepresented.

Nieto, Adrian. “Galería de la Raza: A Legacy in Cultural Activism.” Weedee Peepo, San Francisco, 2005, http://www.galeriadelaraza.org/eng/exhibits/archive/reviews/WEEDEE%20PEEPO-catalogue.pdf.

In this exhibition catalog, there are a few essays that introduce the artists who are portrayed in the catalog. This essay includes a reference to Graciella Carrillo who helped found la Galería de la Raza in San Francisco along with many other artists. This short essay examines the emergence of La Galeria de la Raza during the Chicano Movement in 1970. The author emphasizes how the Chicano movement aimed to enhance the community’s everyday lives, and thus how La Galeria de la Raza served as a way to do this.