Preserving and Utilizing the Mexic-Arte Museum Collection II – A More Perfect Union: Exploring the Chicano/Latinx Story in America

FAIN: ZDH-284056-22

Mexic Arte Museum (Austin, TX 78701-3542)
George Vargas (Project Director: May 2021 to December 2021)
Isabel Servantez (Project Director: December 2021 to present)

The retention of five staff members to produce humanities programs and online exhibitions making use of the Mexic-Arte Museum’s unique collection of artworks.

Mexic-Arte Museum requests $200,000 for partial salary support for a project that will digitize approximately 1500 Latinx artworks, utilizing materials to produce online exhibitions and humanities programs based on the ongoing struggles, experiences and aspirations of cross-generational Latinx/Chicanx communities. This project will educate and engage the public by informing and amplifying the Chicano Movimiento and Civil Rights Movement in Central Texas in preparation for the 250th Anniversary of America, A More Perfect Union: Exploring America’s Story.

Media Coverage

Unearthing Austin’s Overlooked Chicano Art History (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Lauren Moya Ford
Publication: Hyperallergic
Date: 5/8/2022
Abstract: A new exhibition at the Mexic-Arte Museum reveals the crucial but under-recognized role that the Chicano art movement played in Austin’s history and culture.
URL: https://hyperallergic.com/725683/unearthing-austins-overlooked-chicano-art-history/

Mexic-Arte Museum’s “Chicano/a Art, Movimiento y Más en Austen, Tejas 1960s to 1980s” offers an important history lesson (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Erin Keever
Publication: Sightlines
Date: 5/6/2022
Abstract: The exhibition charts a politically charged period, one in which artmaking and activism went hand in hand.
URL: https://sightlinesmag.org/mexic-artes-chicano-a-art-movimiento-y-mas-en-austen-tejas-1960s-to-1980s-offers-an-important-history-lesson

CHICANO/A ART IN AUSTIN, TEXAS: A MEXIC-ARTE EXHIBITION (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Dr. Ricardo Romo
Publication: La Prensa Texas
Date: 4/15/2022
Abstract: In their opening on April 8th, Mexic-Arte demonstrated in its latest exhibition why it is esteemed by art lovers from all ethnic groups. The exhibition, “Chicano/a Art: Movimiento y Más en Austen Tejas 1960s to 1980s,” is an art feast worthy of national conversation.
URL: https://laprensatexas.com/chicano-a-art-in-austin-texas-a-mexic-arte-exhibition/

At Mexic-Arte, Activists and Artists Pay Tribute To Chicano Movement, Culture (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Pamela Hall Vance
Publication: Reporting Texas
Date: 4/12/2022
URL: https://www.reportingtexas.com/at-mexic-arte-activists-and-artists-pay-tribute-to-chicano-movement-culture/

At Mexic-Arte Museum, 500 years of resistance, reaffirmation and resilience (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Jeanne Claire van Ryzin
Publication: Sightlines
Date: 12/11/2021
Abstract: The multi-generational swirl of creative expression on view in "MX 21" makes for a lively, surprising, and immensely engaging exhibition
URL: https://sightlinesmag.org/at-mexic-arte-museum-500-years-of-resistance-reaffirmation-and-resilience

Hispanic political art in Austin: 3 excellent shows staged at two museums (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Michael Barnes
Publication: Austin American-Statesman
Date: 11/15/2021
Abstract: Does political art work? Meaning, does it change minds? And if not, does it at least embolden the true believers? Those questions passed through my mind recently at three excellent art shows now staged at two Austin museums. All three deal, to some extent, with Latino artists who dig deep into cultural and political patterns of thought.