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Sara Martinez, Rosanna Perez |
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Flyer announcing the La Ofrenda mural dedication hosted by the Neighborhood Pride Program, sponsered by Social And Public Arts Resource Center (S.P.A.R.K) and the city of Los Angeles. It shares that the dedication will be held Sunday, August 27th, 1989 at First & Toluca Streets. Dolores Huerta from the United Farm Workers (U.F.W.U) is announced to be a special guest. Cervántez along with Claudia Escobedo, Sonia Ramos, Erick D. Montenegro, Vladimir Morales are listed to attend the mural dedicatio |
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Mural La Ofrenda is a dedication to immigrants, political exiles, and all immigrants. Cervántez attempts to put into context the struggles in Latin America in the 70s with the Chicano/Chicana struggle in the US. Common struggle is the theme. Cervántez depicts the positive and transformative role that women play in creating change by having Dolores Huerta be the central figure of the piece. There are references to indigenous spirituality such as the burning the copal and the sage. Rosanna Martin |
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Photocopy of a bumper sticker promoting the boycott of stores that carry Economy Furniture items. |
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A newspaper article titled "Federal Court Lawsuit Filed Against Taos School Chief" in the Albuquerque Journal on May 8, 1970. The article covers Enriqueta Vasquez's filing of a federal lawsuit against Taos Junior High School, her daughter Ramona's school. Ramona wore an armband and a Mao Zedong pin to school, but both were confiscated by school authorities and a memorandum was issued banning "these trouble-making devices." |
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A colorful mural of three women of different ages holding their noses and looking away from the viewer. By Enriqueta Vasquez. |
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Photograph of Enriqueta Vasquez [far right] and several people in traditional indigenous clothing, including tall feather headdresses, as part of Corky Gonzales' memorial in Curtis Park, Denver on April 12, 2005. |
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Color, group photo of Enriqueta shaking hand of Reina Sophia, queen of Spain, in 1992. Indigenous woman in foreground in profile. As "part of an intertribal indigenous delegation," Enriqueta traveled to Spain in 1992 for the 500-year anniversary of Christopher Columbus' voyage to the Americas. The delegation "provided through speeches and ceremony a counter-balance to the nation's festivities marking the anniversary" (Enriqueta Vasquez and the Chicano Movement, xliii). |
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Correspondence from Betita Martinez to Enriqueta and Bill Vasquez in May 1969 on the subject of "longhairs," or hippies and other counterculture people who moved to New Mexico en masse during the 1960s and 1970s. The letter includes what could be Betita's own typographical corrections in pencil. |
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Black and white portrait of Enriqueta Vasquez standing outside. The back reads: "Figure 6 Enriqueta Vasquez." Photo taken in 1969 at El Grito headquarters by Betita Martinez. |
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Black and white photograph of Enriqueta Vasquez reading El Grito del Norte newspaper, firewood in the background and a smile on her face. El Grito del Norte was a foundational Chicana/o movement and third world internationalist newspaper which she produced with Betita Martinez, Bevelry Axelrod, and others in Española, New Mexico from 1968 to 1973. Photo taken by David Gilroy in 2003 |
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A small notebook of handwritten notes about teaching by Enriqueta Vasquez on her 1969 trip to Cuba. The notebook includes shorthand. Enriqueta traveled to Cuba in 1969 as part of a delegation of activists and journalists invited to Cuba to report on the revolution's ten-year anniversary. Enriqueta traveled on behalf of El Grito del Norte and traveled with Rafael Duran, a long-time land grant movement activist. |
