The College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University invites you to join us in tribute to activist artist
Rupert Garcia on Friday · July 15, 2011.
Rupert Garcia on Friday · July 15, 2011.
Join us at the de Young Museum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park @ 6:30 PM in Koret Auditorium for the lecture. Followed by a Private Reception in the Piazzoni Murals Room.
Rupert Garcia was a leader of the powerful socio-political Chicano Art Movement almost since its inception in the sixties, and he continues to use art to address social and political concerns and inequities. He was also a student at SF State during the '68 student-led Strike, where he designed many of the Strike posters. While a graduate student studying painting at SF State in 1969, Garcia was invited by Raza Studies to design and teach the first La Raza Art Workshop class. In 1970, he was a co-founder of the Galería de la Raza, a non-profit community-based arts organization which still exists and whose mission is to foster public
awareness and appreciation of Chicano/Latino art.
RUPERT GARCIA'S WORK IS CURRENTLY ON EXHBIT AT THE de YOUNG UNTIL JULY 17
Net proceeds from the July 15 tribute reception honoring Rupert Garcia will support the College of Ethnic Studies Community University Empowerment (CUE) Fund, which supports collaborative research and creative projects engaging faculty, students and communities of color served by the College.
For more information: http://www.sfsu.edu/~ethnicst/garcia_spec.html
