MOLINA FOURTH ANNUAL HOLIDAY ARTIST SHOWCASE

“Peace on Earth” Exhibit by Ofelia Esparza and Tribute to Self Help Graphics and Art

EAST LOS ANGELES (December 12, 2008) – This Holiday Season, Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina showcases two East L.A. icons at her Fourth Annual Holiday Artist Showcase. As part of her commitment to the arts, Molina promotes local artists at the annual event, and this year features the work of East L.A. artist Ofelia Esparza. In addition, the Showcase pays tribute to Self Help Graphics and Art (SHGA) with a special auction from their collection benefiting the renowned Chicano art organization.

WHAT: Supervisor Gloria Molina’s Fourth Annual Holiday Artist Showcase Benefiting
Self Help Graphics and Art – Features East L.A. artist Ofelia Esparza

WHEN: Tuesday, Dec 16, 5pm to 7pm

WHERE: East Los Angeles Civic Center Library, 4801 E. Third Street, L.A. 90022

WHO: Molina, Artist Ofelia Esparza, Self Help Graphics Board of Directors and artists

“I am proud that our featured artist Ofelia Esparza is a product of our community, and it is especially pleasing that like many, many talented Chicano artists, she was a student of Self Help Graphics, said Molina. “The Holidays are a time of giving and preserving traditions, a time of reflection and renewed hope, and when we remember the goodwill of others. This Holiday, my Artist Reception pays tribute to Self Help Graphics for nurturing and developing local artists during the past 35 years, and for making Chicano art known all over the world.”
Ofelia Esparza, whose art exhibit includes "Peace on Earth", is notably known for her work as an “Altarista”—which began at SHGA in 1980, where she continues to serve as a resident artist. Ofelia’s alters or “ofrendas” are works from a three-generation family tradition, which she proudly preserves. Her art is comprised of several mediums, including acrylics, printmaking, and water colors which have been featured in museums and galleries locally and internationally. Ofelia also teaches fine art and folk art at local schools, colleges, and community venues.
Contributions to help Self Help Graphics remain in East L.A., can be sent to
3802 Cesar E. Chavez Ave, L.A. CA 90063, or through PayPal at the http://www.selfhelpgraphics.com/.

LAPS 20th National Exhibtion

The 20th National is a big event! Since 1973, LAPS has organized national biennial exhibitions that showcase the current state of the art of printmaking to educate and interest a new audience for the printed image. Prints represent a media that is always changing and the National is an overview of the latest work from both the celebrated professional presses of Los Angeles and artists working across the continent. It is one of the largest, longest running print biennials in the nation. This National will have no size restriction for submitted work and challenging, experimental work is encouraged. LAPS will mark 35 years in Los Angeles with a celebration of our past, looking forward to our future.

February 1st, 2009 Deadline for submission of CDs, entry fee and jury notification card: PROSPECTUS for the 20th National Exhibition.

OPEN CALL- Request for Qualifications - City of Glendale

The City of Glendale announces a public art opportunity for a qualified artist or artist team to design, fabricate and install artwork for the new Courthouse, which will open in downtown Glendale in 2010. The City Court and the Glendale Arts Commission support this public art project cooperatively.

Request for Qualifications - West Branch Library

The City of Glendale announces a public art opportunity for a qualified artist or artist team to design, fabricate and install artwork for the new West Branch Library. The Glendale Arts Commission and the Library and Arts Department support this public art project cooperatively.

For details on both requests see
http://www.glendaleaz.com/arts/ArtistOpportunities.cfm

Latino Art Leaders Fellowships at Claremont Graduate University

The M.A in Arts Management at Claremont
Graduate University in Los Angeles has sizable fellowship
opportunities for outstanding Latino applicants for the spring and fall
semesters of 2009. The Arts Management degree prepares you for a career
in the non-profit arts by combining theory with real world
practical experience.

For more information Please visit: www.cgu.edu/am

Below is the link with detailed information about the
fellowship:

http://www.cgu.edu/pages/5881.asp

Self Help Graphics gets ready for Day of the Dead

Self Help Graphics gets ready for Day of the Dead, Los Angeles Times article, by Augustin Gurza

Los Angeles artist have quite a past

Self Help Graphics and Art recognized in Los Angeles Times article

SHG teams up with Farmlab

Just Announced!! Collaboration between Self-Help Graphics, Casa Del Tunel, and Chora....

Political prints project -- East Los Angeles, downtown L.A., and Tijuana, Mexico...

Chora Prints 2008
New Political Posters From TJ2LA
Nuevos Posters Politicos de TJ a LA

Receptions:
Saturday, October 18, 2008, 6-9pm @ Casa Del Túnel (CDT)
Saturday, October 24, 2008 7-10pm @ Under Spring

On the occasion of the run-up to the November 4, 2008 U.S. Presidential election, Chora, Self-Help Graphics (SHG), and Casa Del Tunel:Art Center (CDT) are teaming up with two-dozen artists to produce posters about what the consider to be the key North American political issues of the day. Each of the three studios will select eight artists to create the works.

Printing will take place at the venerable Self-Help Graphics in East Los Angeles, at Casa Del Tunel, a new arts and culture center in Tijuana, Mexico. The concept for the project, as well as the support, comes from Chora, an initiative of the Annenberg Foundation.

Posters for this non-partisan project will be exhibited in the weeks prior to the election at least at two locations: Underspring and Casa Del Tunel:Art Center.
Underspring is a mutable urban landscape by Lauren Bon, located beneath Los Angeles’ North Spring Street Bridge. Regularly transformed, of late the spot has served as workshop, public square, ceremonial ground, rehearsal space and stage, dining room, gallery, office, dog park, musical instrument, rave site and the setting for a hoe down. With each new iteration, not only the function of the space has changed, but, as much as the bridge’s arches will allow, also its form.

Casa Del Tunel: Art Center is located in the Colonia Federal neighborhood, just meters from the Mexico-U.S. border, in a building that once served as the starting point for a cross-frontier smuggling route.

Self-Help Graphics is a nationally recognized center for Latino arts that develops and nurtures artists in printmaking. SHG seeks to advance Latino art broadly through programming, exhibitions and outreach to diverse audiences in East Los Angeles and beyond. SHG seeks to identify and engage young and emerging artists from the community in all aspects of its activities.

Chora aims to support the intangibles that precede creativity.

Artistas Participantes
Participating Artists

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John Carr
Ofelia Esparaza
Ruben Esparza
Brandy Flower
Amitis Motevalli
Miguel Angel Reyes
Jose Ramirez
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Maria del Carmen Arroyo
Mely Barragan
Alvaro Blancarte
Luis Garzon
Alfredo Gutierrez
Noni Olabisi
Roberto Rosique
Daniel Ruanova
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Sandow Birk
Lauren Bon
Mark Bradford
George Herms
Hannah Krut-Powell
Qingyun Ma
Rich Neilson
Felicity Powell

Casa Del Tunel: Art Center
Chapo Marquez 133, in Colonia Federal, Tijuana, B.C., Mexico, CP 22310
http://www.cofac101.org/

Self-Help Graphics
3802 Cesar E. Chavez Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90063
http://www.selfhelpgraphics.com/

Under Spring
c/o Farmlab, 1745 N. Spring Street #4, Los Angeles, CA 90012
www.farmlab.org

Chora
c/o Farmlab, 1745 N. Spring Street #4, Los Angeles, CA 90012
www.farmlab.org