LA Made Presents: Self Help Graphics at 50 - A Cornerstone of Latinx Art and Collaborative Artmaking

Join artists and scholars as they explore the 50-year history of Los Angeles’ oldest Chicano/Latino non-profit art incubator, Self Help Graphics and Art. Known for its numerous fine art print ateliers and for initiating Los Angeles’ version of Day of the Dead, this conversation focuses on Self Help’s community-based aesthetic philosophies and how artists have adapted and implemented those ethics in practice.
Focused on the last fifty years and the next fifty years, Dr. J.V. Decemvirale and Dr. Claudia Zapata will hold conversation with Yreina Cervantez, Miyo Stevens-Gandara and Natalie Godinez, all socially-engaged artists who worked and trained at Self Help Graphics. This panel accompanies the publication of the most recent anthology of this important Los Angeles art history: Self Help Graphics at Fifty: A Cornerstone of Latinx Art and Collaborative Artmaking (eds. Tatiana Reinoza and Karen Mary Davalos UC Press, 2023).
This LA Made program was made possible with the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities.