Looking at the Archive
Looking at the Archive
Mechicano Art Center and Goez Art Studios and Gallery
This chapter traces the origins of the first Chicano arts organizations and explores how they combine art and commerce, two areas previously considered distinct and contradictory. Focusing on the period 1969–1978, the chapter illustrates how the earliest ventures operated with complex and nuanced views about commerce, politics, community, and the arts. It challenges notions in Chicana/o studies that dismiss commerce as antithetical to Chicano movement or community politics, and it finds that Mechicano Art Center and Goez Art Studios and Gallery exceed notions of civic and cultural engagement, inaugurated pedagogies now central in Chicana/o studies and arts institutions, and mapped a decolonial imaginary for Los Angeles.
Keywords: arts organizations, decolonial imaginary, community politics, Chicano studies, Chicana studies, commercial art, political art, Goez Art Studios and Gallery, Mechicano Art Center, remix
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