Pride

© 2024 Hector Viveros Lee

 Happy Pride

Malaquías Montoya: Por el Pueblo.

 

While my folks were visiting, I took them to see an exhibition in the Oakland Museum of California by Malaquías Montoya, a Chicano artist whose legacy in the social justice and political empowerment movements beginning in the 1960s provided teh graphic prints for the activism and hope of a people. While born in New Mexico, he moved to Fowler when he was very young and had the influence of his artistic mother who improvised with available materials to make art in her home. He attended Reedley College and later moved to the Bay Area. He has a collaborative artistic process, focused on community and engages across generations, as his elders were mentors to him.

 

 "We never question the plan. We never punish the plant for not growing. We always change the conditions in which it is growing. if we want to address violence in our community we have to look to the social conditions that our young people are growing in and change them."

 

Other artists in the exhibit.

"Water Sports" by Israel Campos

Julio Salgado

Julio Salgado

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Julio Salgado

"RIP--In loving Memory" by Manuel Paul

Happy Birthday

© 2024 Hector Viveros Lee

 Happee Bee-day Melissa!

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Thanks for the memories and the friendships.

After 38 years in education, 34 of those years in SFUSD (one of those was in NYC) I hand off my keys to Kath Cuellar Burns, the new principal at Longfellow.