Robert Hernandez traces the history and assesses the impact of VIVA! Lesbian and Gay Latino Artists, a nonprofit artists' coalition founded in 1987 in the Silverlake community of Los Angeles. Their aim was to increase the representation of lesbian Latina and gay Latino artists in the LA art scene. VIVA! sponsored exhibitions, theatrical performances, and educational outreach. It worked closely with other gay and lesbian organizations in Los Angeles, using arts-based projects to address cultural and sociopolitcal issues that were of concern to their community and the AIDS crisis in particuar. The first organization of its kind in Los Angeles, VIVA! offered a stage and a voice for artists who had been routinely marginalized.
The VIVA! collection of papers is housed at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. It includes administrative papers, photographs, artwork, VIVA! publications, and documents related to the organization's exhibitions, performances, educational projects, and other events.
| ISBN: | 9780895511492 |
| Publication date: | 1st August 2013 |
| Author: | Robb Hernandez |
| Publisher: | UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press an imprint of University of Washington Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 120 pages |
| Series: | The Chicano Archives |
| Genres: |
Individual photographers The arts: general topics |
Robert Hernandez traces the history and assesses the impact of VIVA! Lesbian and Gay Latino Artists, a nonprofit artists' coalition founded in 1987 in the Silverlake community of Los Angeles. Their aim was to increase the representation of lesbian Latina and gay Latino artists in the LA art scene. VIVA! sponsored exhibitions, theatrical performances, and educational outreach. It worked closely with other gay and lesbian organizations in Los Angeles, using arts-based projects to address cultural and sociopolitcal issues that were of concern to their community and the AIDS crisis in particuar. The first organization of its kind in Los Angeles, VIVA! offered a stage and a voice for artists who had been routinely marginalized.
The VIVA! collection of papers is housed at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. It includes administrative papers, photographs, artwork, VIVA! publications, and documents related to the organization's exhibitions, performances, educational projects, and other events.
VIVA Records, 1970-2000 features in the following genres: Individual photographers, The arts: general topics
VIVA Records, 1970-2000 is available in Paperback
VIVA Records, 1970-2000 was written by Robb Hernandez and published by UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press an imprint of University of Washington Press
VIVA Records, 1970-2000 has 120 pages
Yes it is part of The Chicano Archives series
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