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Chicano Park. Chicano Park logo, originally by Rico Bueno. La Tierra Mía means "My Land". Chicano Park is a 32,000 square meter (7.9 acre) park located beneath the San Diego–Coronado Bridge in Barrio Logan, a predominantly Chicano or Mexican American and Mexican -migrant community in central San Diego, California.
Barrio Logan is the home of Chicano Park, a Chicano-themed public park created in large part by the local residents. It is located at the site of a 1970s demonstration, land takeover, and cultural renaissance for the Mexican-American community.
Barrio Logan station is a station on the Blue Line of the San Diego Trolley located in the Logan Heights neighborhood of San Diego. The station's name is the Spanish translation of "Logan neighborhood" and the station primarily serves the corresponding Hispanic neighborhood. The stop is located near Chicano Park, famous for its artwork and ...
Josephine Talamantez. Josephine S. "Josie" Talamantez is a historian from San Diego, California. She co-founded Chicano Park in 1970 and helped develop it into a cultural National Historic Landmark containing the largest collection of artistic murals in the United States. Talamantez was also the Chief of Programs for the California Arts Council ...
Victor Ochoa (born August 2, 1948) is an activist, painter, graphic designer and master muralist. [1] He has painted over 100 murals, many of them in San Diego, California. [2] He is considered one of the pioneers of San Diego's Chicano art movement. [3][4] Ochoa was one of the original activists at Chicano Park [4] and a co-founder of Centro ...
A Chicano mural is an artistic expression done, most commonly, on walls or ceilings by Chicanos or Mexican-American artists. Chicano murals rose during the Chicano art movement, that began in the 1960, with the influence of Mexican muralism and the Mexican Revolution. [1] The murals are an illustration of Chicano’s ethnic pride or a form of ...
Movement. Chicano art. Salvador Roberto Torres (born July 3, 1936) is a Chicano artist and muralist and an early exponent of the Chicano art movement. He was one of the creators of Chicano Park, and led the movement to create its freeway-pillar murals. [1] He was also a founder of the Centro Cultural de la Raza in San Diego, California.
Estrada Courts is well known for its murals, which reflect the barrio culture and traditions of the area. “Chicano murals look the way they do, because the authors concentrate not only on individual murals but on mural clusters and establish a dialogic interplay of form, content, and location among them".