In 2000, the Petersen Automotive Museum mounted an exhibit, “Arte y Estilo: The Lowriding Tradition” from February 5 to May 28 of 2000, guest curated by Denise Sandoval, then a doctoral student at Claremont College.
”Arte y Estilo: The Lowriding Tradition,” surveys the history of these highly complex, low-slung machines and even includes some of the art’s offshoots, like lowrider bicycles, model cars and pedal cars.
Visit Calisphere, a free website, that offers educators, students and the public access to images documents and other primary resource materials from the libraries and museums of the UC campus and cultural heritage organizations across California.
This new Chicano/Latino arts resource is the result of a multi-year project of the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives. CEMA is recognized as a major repository for Chicano/Latino visual arts collections, representing the archives of prominent Chicano/Latino art cultural centers and the collections of individual artists based in California.
Above, Guillermo Bejerano recounts the beginnings of Chisme Arte
Chisme Arte was a publication of the Concilio de Arte Popular, a statewide arts advocacy group founded to interconnect and stabilize the network of Chicano arts organizations throughout California. Organizational members of the Concilio included The Galeria de la Raza and The Mexican Museum in San Francisco, The Teatro Campesino in San Juan Bautista, The Royal (Rebel) Chicano Air Force in Sacramento, Mechicano Art Center in Los Angeles and The Centro Cultural de la Raza in San Diego.
Sybil Venegas is an art historian, writer, educator, and independent curator. She is a renowned scholar in the field of Chicana/o art history and is recognized as a seminal scholar in the field of Chicana feminist art history. Her articles and curatorial essays have been published in numerous catalogs and also appear on her website: www.chicanoart.org. Professor Venegas’ extensive experience as a professor of Mexican and Chicana/o art history grounds her scholarly work in the community. She is currently the chair of the Chicana/o Studies Department at East Los Angeles College.
Gary D. Keller is Regents’ Professor, and Director of the Hispanic Research Center at Arizona State University. He is the author of numerous books and articles of scholarship and creative literature that treat Mexican-American and Latino art, film, literature, linguistics, and language policy. Some of his publications include:
Keller, Gary D, Phillips, Amy. Triumph of Our Communities: Four Decades of Mexican American Art. Bilingual Press(2005).
Book chapter: Keller, Gary D (Author) . Treasured Communities and Community Treasures. Triumph of Our Communities: Four Decades of Mexican American Art. Bilingual Press(2005).
Keller, Gary D, Erickson, Mary, Villeneuve, Pat. Chicano Art for Our Millennium: Collected Works from the Arizona State University Community. Bilingual Press(2004).
Book chapter: Keller, Gary D (Author) . The Project. Chicano Art for Our Millenium: Collected works from the Arizona State University Community. Bilingual Press(2004).
Keller, Gary D, Johnson, Kaytie, Erickson, Mary, Alvarado, JoaquÃn. Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art: Artist, Works, Culture, and Education. Bilingual Review Press(2002).
Sybil Venegas is an art historian, writer, educator, and independent curator. She is a renowned scholar in the field of Chicana/o art history and is recognized as a seminal scholar in the field of Chicana feminist art history. Her articles and curatorial essays have been published in numerous catalogs and also appear on her website: 
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