Upcoming exhibitions
Gráfica del Campo: Cultivando una Nación
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 21st, 2024
4pm-6pm
Truax Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin
Mark of Empowerment
Exhibition
Exhibition curated by Roberto Torres Mata
2022 Mid America Print Council Biennial Conference Opening Reception: Thursday October 13, 2022; 5pm @Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron, OH
Artists
Marco Sánchez, Faisal Abdu'Allah, Barbara Justice, Adriana Barrios, Juana Estrada Hernández, Enrique Chagoya, Ernestro Yerena Montejano, John Hitchcock, Guerrilla Girls, Christie Tirado, Israel Campos, Kathryn Polk, Kill Joy, Monty Little, Dakota Mace, Ash Armenta, Derick Wycherly, Jennifer Mack, Elizabeth Jean Younce, Chema Skandal, Carlos Barberena, Emily Arthur
exhibition & Printing Workshop
In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, we are partnering with Dry Dock Brewing’s North Dock location to host “Arte de Lupulo/Hop Art” featuring the beer-minded art of Christie Tirado, a Mexican American artist and elementary school art teacher in the Yakima Valley region of Washington. Her block prints celebrate an essential and astoundingly unsung group of people in the beer industry: Mexican migrant workers and Mexican Americans who work in the hop fields of Yakima Valley.
On Sept. 9 at 5 p.m. at the North Dock location, Join us on opening night for Art de Lupulo. Tirado (at 7 p.m.) will discuss her art and her mission.
To celebrate Dry Dock will produce a special hoppy lager, Arte de Lupulo, for opening night made with Yakima Valley hops from hop supplier Yakima Chief. They will also produce a special fundraising T-shirt for Tirado that will feature her art.
Farmworkers: Photographs, prints and paintings
The University Art Gallery at Sonoma State University is pleased to present the exhibition Farmworkers: Photographs, Prints, Paintings, which is on view Thursday, September 8 to Sunday, October 16, 2022, which an opening reception scheduled for Thursday, September 8, 4-6pm. The exhibition features work by four artists: Morrie Camhi, Erik Castro, Jay Mercado, and Christie Tirado. Their work ranges from documentation of the United Farmworkers fight for unionization in the 1970s to large-scale photographs, prints, and paintings that feature today's essential workers in the fields. The artworks displayed in the exhibition center and honor the people who work in the fields, their lived experiences, and both the challenges and the skills of their labor. They bring our attention to that which we already know, yet we often too easily forget: farmworkers are the linchpin of our food system.
*courtesy of Sonoma State University Gallery
Lo Sagrado, Nuestros Cuentos
Lo Sagrado, Nuestros Cuentos is a tribute to the themes of labor and immigration and the selflessness the artists’ ancestors provide every day. Artists Nico Inzarella, Christie Tirado, and Scott Méxcal, present a range of paintings, prints, and multimedia works that representationally and metaphorically illustrate intersectional identities that have traditionally been omitted from art historical narratives and excluded from art institutions.
Printmaking and the Political: The Mexican Graphic Tradition
Sun Valley Museum of Art- April 1, 2022- June 11, 2022
Since the late 19th century, artists in Mexico have used printmaking as a tool for disseminating news, sharing political views and celebrating Mexico’s national culture. Throughout the 20th century, Mexico’s printmakers synthesized text and images in prints that documented the events of the Mexican Revolution, promoted socialist ideals (including anti-imperialism), and, during World War II, warned Mexico’s citizens of the dangers of fascism. In other prints, artists honored Mexico’s cultural traditions, from Day of the Dead to folk dances. Inexpensive to make, reproduce and distribute, prints in Mexico have been a popular means for trying to shape public opinion.
The exhibition features prints from the collection of José Calle, including late 19th-century works by José Guadalupe Posada and prints by many of the artists affiliated with the Taller de Gráfica Popular in the mid-20th century, alongside work by contemporary Mexican and Mexican-American printmakers. SVMoA has invited printmaker Christie Tirado, based in Yakima, Washington, to create portraits of people who have served as essential workers in the Wood River Valley throughout the pandemic. Other participating artists include Sergio Sánchez Santamaria, Artemio Rodríguez and Dignidad Rebelde (Melanie Cervantes and Jesus Barraza).*
*Courtesy of Sun Valley Museum of Art
Spokane Falls Community College Fine Arts Gallery
April 4, 2022- May 4, 2022
