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Macla Movimiento De Arte Y Cultura Latino Americ

Art museum, community art programme, performing arts in San Jose, California

Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana
MACLA in SoFA.jpg
Established 1989
Location 510 South First Street, San Jose, California
Coordinates Coordinates: 37°19′41″N 121°53′02″Due west  /  37.328°North 121.884°Due west  / 37.328; -121.884
Type Art museum, community fine art program, performing arts
Executive director Anjee Helstrup-Alvarez
Website https://maclaarte.org/

Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA) is a gimmicky arts space focused on the Chicano and Latino experience and history, located in the SoFA commune at 510 Due south Commencement Street in San Jose, California.[i] The museum was founded in 1989, in lodge to encourage civic dialog and social disinterestedness.[two] The current programming includes visual art, performing and literary arts, youth arts education, and a community art program.[1] The space has two performing arts spaces, a gallery and the MACLA Castellano Playhouse and they frequently host poetry readings and moving-picture show screenings.[3] [iv]

History [edit]

The Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana was founded in 1989[2] by Maribel Alvarez, Mary Jane Solis, Rick Sajor and Eva Terrazas.[5] They envisioned arts programming equally a vehicle for civic dialogue and social equity every bit San José's urban core underwent redevelopment. Alvarez, former executive director for MACLA (1996–2003), begins her historic essay of early on MACLA in terms of revival of a Latino cultural heart plus public debates nigh the identity and future of San José and Latino arts advocacy in the 1980s.[vi] For decades there was a disagreement with MACLA and the urban center of San Jose, the city wanted the museum to be based in the Mexican Heritage Plaza just MACLA wanted to be part of the contemporary fine art dialog happening in the city in the downtown surface area.[2]

Between 2009 until 2013, MACLA started the process of securing grants and funds to buy their building.[two] The edifice airtight escrow in May 2013, which secured a future of Latinx engagement and physical space in the downtown San Jose customs during gentrification.[two] [7] Anjee Helstrup-Alvarez has served every bit the executive managing director of MACLA since 2011 until nowadays.[8] A 2016 mural by creative person Aaron De La Cruz is on the exterior of the museum building[9] [10]

Exhibitions [edit]

This is a list of select visual art exhibitions at MACLA, to give instance of programming.

Date(s) Exhibition name Creative person(s) Notes
September 1997 – October 1997 Lowrider Bicycles: Art and Identity Amongst Mexican American Youth Dennis Gaxiola, Marcos Gaita, Willie Galván, Angel Salvatore. [xi] [12]
Jan 2001 – March 2001 Gender, Genealogy and Counter-Memory: Remembering Latino/a Cultural Histories Curated by Richard T. Rodriguez and Eugene Rodriguez.
September 2002 – November 2002 Ties that Bind: Exploring the Office of Intermarriage Between Latinos and Asians in Silicon Valley Lissa Jones and Jennifer Ahn. [xiii]
November 2005 – December 2005 Intersections: Reflections of Home and Migration Hector Dio Mendoza and some works washed in collaboration with Binh Danh, and Angelica Muro.
November 2013 – February 2014 Maize y Mas: From Female parent to Monster Yvonne Escalante, Yolanda Guerra, Fernando Mastrangelo, Viva Paredes, Jorge Rojas. "interpretations of nutrient and corn through themes of colonial history, personal identity, ethnicity, family, community, and even divinity".[14]
June 2019 – August 2019 Unicorns, Aliens & Futuristic Cities: Speculative Latinidades Javier Martinez, Jorge Gonzalez, Veronica Rojas, Michael Menchaca, Claudia Blanco, Jesus Helguera. Curated past Joey Reyes and Maryela Perez.[15] [16]
Dec 2019 – March 2020 Our Connectedness To The Country Abiam Alvarez, Arleene Correa Valencia, Karen Miranda Rivadeniera, Narciso Martinez, Suzy Gonzalez. [17]

See also [edit]

  • The Tech Museum of Innovation
  • Children'southward Discovery Museum of San Jose
  • San Jose Museum of Fine art

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b "Visit A Participating Museum For Free on 4/iv/twenty - MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana". Smithsonian Magazine . Retrieved March 2, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d east Courage, Cara; McKeown, Anita (2018). Creative Placemaking: Research, Theory and Practice. Routledge Studies in Man Geography. Routledge. ISBN9781351598590.
  3. ^ "MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana - Bay Area Performing Arts Spaces". bayareaspaces.org . Retrieved March ii, 2020.
  4. ^ "Hispanic Heritage Month in San Jose". San Jose Convention & Visitors Bureau . Retrieved March ii, 2020.
  5. ^ Rindfleisch, January; Alvarez, Maribel (2017). "Doing that Latino Fine art Affair: The Story of MACLA and the San José Center for Latino Arts". Roots and Offshoots: Silicon Valley'southward Arts Community. Santa Clara, CA: Ginger Press. p. 152. ISBN9780998308401.
  6. ^ Rindfleisch, Jan (2017). Roots and Offshoots: Silicon Valley's Arts Customs. Santa Clara, CA: Ginger Press. pp. 152–163. ISBN9780998308401.
  7. ^ "New grant allows MACLA to purchase its building". The Mercury News. June 3, 2013. Retrieved March 2, 2020.
  8. ^ "Leading MACLA". Content Magazine. Feb 11, 2019. Retrieved March ii, 2020.
  9. ^ "Meet Featured Artist Aaron De La Cruz". SF Station. 2016. Retrieved March 2, 2020.
  10. ^ "Aaron De La Cruz". Content Mag. October 22, 2017. Retrieved March two, 2020.
  11. ^ "El Aviso, Volume 9 No. 1". Issuu. p. 2. Retrieved March 2, 2020.
  12. ^ Sherman, Ann Elliott (1997). "Lowrider Bicycles". Metroactive Arts . Retrieved March 2, 2020.
  13. ^ Stern, Lynn E. (2005). "Preface: Public Faces, Private Lives: Making Visible Silicon Valley's Hybrid Heritage, Case Study: MACLA". Animating Republic (PDF). Americans for the Arts. pp. ane–15.
  14. ^ "A gimmicky art exhibition explores the unique heritage of corn in the Americas". MutualArt.com . Retrieved March two, 2020.
  15. ^ Edalatpour, Jeffrey (July 24, 2019). "Strange Visions at MACLA, Speculative Latinidades' imagines identity in an uncertain future". Metroactive . Retrieved March 2, 2020.
  16. ^ Myrow, Rachael. "Dystopian Dreams and Goofy Sci Fi Humor at San Jose's MACLA". KQED . Retrieved March 2, 2020.
  17. ^ "Our Connection To The Country". MutualArt.com . Retrieved March 2, 2020.

External links [edit]

  • Official website

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movimiento_de_Arte_y_Cultura_Latino_Americana