Chicano Art for Our Millennium


Cristina Cardenas,
La nina de los espejos
Exhibit

A collaboration between the Hispanic Research Center at Arizona State University and the Mesa Southwest Museum, the Chicano Art for Our Millennium exhibition runs May 1 through September 19, 2004, at the Mesa Southwest Museum in Mesa, Arizona, and is planned for an extended tour both nationally and interna-tionally. An opening reception will be held on April 30, 2004 at the museum.
“Chicano art is powerful indeed. It has the ability to reach across ethnic groups and class lines, to captivate greatly diverse viewers, and to compel a large variety of intellectual and emotional responses. Chicano Art for Our Millennium, a collabo-rative project between the Mesa Southwest Museum and the Hispanic Research Center of Arizona State University, emphatically demonstrates this artistic power. No previ-ous exhibition establishes the artistic range and thematic sweep of Chicano art more forcefully than Chicano Art for Our Millennium. . . .

“Chicano art is a distinctly American art. The time has come to place Chicano art within the context of American art history. Chicano Art for Our Millennium is a major step toward making Chicano art better understood and appreciated by the main-stream art world and general public. As that occurs, the world will be much richer.”

—Thomas H. Wilson,
Mesa Southwest Museum