“Chican@s (re)Imagining Zapata” is an exhibition inspired by my senior art history thesis titled, “The Art of the United Farm Workers and the Visual Language of Revolution in the U.S. and Mexico.” The thesis was completed in the winter 2013 under the…
El Malcriado, “The Voice of the Farmworker," was a newspaper for the farmworker community in California’s Central Valley, an essential medium to communicate activities, concerns, and union updates for the United Farm Workers. It was provided to the…
This poster juxtaposes three heroic figures that embody the UFW cause: Cesar E. Chavez, co-founder of the UFW; Emiliano Zapata, agrarian leader of the Mexican Revolution; and, Martin Luther King Jr., nonviolent leader of the Civil Rights Movement.…
It is unknown who made this poster and for what purpose. However, the same image of Zapata is utilized that was used in the UFW poster. The generic poster becomes a symbol for the man himself, without necessarily representing a specific cause.
Much like the UFW, MECha, a student Chicano organization, utilized the image of Zapata to better relate to the Mexican-American community. This poster plays on the typical image of Uncle Sam with the slogan, "I want you! For the U.S. Army." However,…
This poster centralizes the image of Zapata, surrounded by leading and representative figures of the Chicano movement. Some images that surround the central Zapata figure include images of Pancho Villa, Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, La Virgen de…
El Malcriado, “The Voice of the Farmworker," was a newspaper for the farmworker community in California’s Central Valley, an essential medium to communicate activities, concerns, and union updates for the United Farm Workers. It was provided to the…
El Malcriado, “The Voice of the Farmworker," was a newspaper for the farmworker community in California’s Central Valley, an essential medium to communicate activities, concerns, and union updates for the United Farm Workers. It was provided to the…