Hosted by the Humanities Center and graduate fellow, Janina López. Respondents include Maya Brown-Boateng from the Department of Music and Tatiana Reinoza, Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Notre Dame. This event will be hybrid, so you can attend it either in person in 602 CL or via Zoom as you prefer.

This paper addresses the history of screenprinting as a primary medium of the Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF), an activist collective of artists formed in 1969 at California State University, Sacramento. Screenprinting, a process of pushing ink through a stencil onto a surface, was prioritized by artists of the Chicano Movement given the medium’s relative accessibility and persuasive aesthetics combining image and text. This colloquium will argue that screenprint, both the method and the product, informed the RCAF’s Barrio Art Program and the collective’s critical pedagogy.

Precirculated material for this colloquium will be available here about two weeks prior and up to the event.