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Calli: The Art of Xicanx Peoples
“Visual arts sizzle with epic installations…” at Calli: The Art of Xicanx Peoples.
Experience “this Summer’s Not-To-Miss Visual Art”
–KQED
On view now | Great Hall
Experience intergenerational, feminist, queer, and Xicanx-Indigenous artworks offering ancestral forms of liberation, healing, and being at Calli: The Art of Xicanx Peoples, only at OMCA.
“Calli,” derived from Nahuatl, signifies the essence of home, family, and lineage. Immerse yourself in thought-provoking original artworks, installations, sculpture, painting, photography, poetry, and more, that showcase and honor the stories of Xicanx peoples across California in this temporary “Xicanx home.”
Calli layers multiple artistic perspectives, featuring posters from late queer Chicana activist and professor Margaret “Margie” Terrazas Santos’ collection in conversation with contemporary works by Xicanx artists who expand the horizons of possibility, inspiring reflection and fostering dialogue about a world in which we can all belong.
Discover exhibition highlights by featured artists including:
- rafa esparza’s adobe Mesoamerican stylized temple installation
- Consuelo Jimenez Underwood’s site-specific Borderline installation conveying U.S.-Mexico border issues such as land commodification, militarization, dehumanization, and its ecological effects
- Gina Aparicio’s ceramic and earth-based installation with audio composed by musician Joe Galarza, a member of Aztlan Underground
- Melanie Cervantes’ soft sculpture installation of the Aztec moon goddess, Coyolxauhqui
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Highlights
![Image of serigraph on paper art with Los Angeles County sheriff car, officers on either side, in front of The Silver Dollar](https://museumca.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/August-29-1970_Carlos-Jackson--1024x656.jpg)
![Image of art: A narrow triangular American flag, with flowers embroidered](https://museumca.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image.jpeg)
![Image of serigraph on paper art, deep blue background with a full moon at the top and a figure, holding a bright green cactus, face up towards the moon](https://museumca.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Dando-Gracias_Leo-Limon.jpg)
![Image of serigraph on paper, with a two-sided figure, and the words Expresion Chicana above, and below the details for an exhibit of Chicana art at Mills College](https://museumca.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Expresion-Chicana_Linda-Lucero.jpg)
![Art image: colorful eagle print](https://museumca.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2022.1.2823_24CA_C2-e1711409135116-839x1024.jpg)
![Image of photograph of a person, head and limbs obscured, lying on the a ground](https://museumca.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Grounded_Laura-Aguilar.jpg)
![Photograph of a bright yellow cart, holding small potted plants, with the text "Botanica del Barrio" in bold red and green letters](https://museumca.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/La-Botanica-del-Barrio_Felicia-Montes.jpg)
![Image: Serigraph on paper art](https://museumca.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2022.1.2198_24CA_C2-e1711408859499-1024x750.jpg)
![Image of a print of a woman in braids set against a dark background](https://museumca.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Victoria-Ocelotl_Yreina-D.-Cervantez.jpg)
ARTISTS
Laura Aguilar, Margaret Alarcón, Juana Alicia, Gina Aparicio, Jesus Barraza, Irene Carranza, René Castro, Melanie Cervantes, Yreina D. Cervántez, Enrique Chagoya, rafa esparza, Juan R. Fuentes, Peter Gallegos, Rupert García, Sal Garcia, Louie González, Judithe Hernández, Nancy Hom, Carlos Jackson, Consuelo Jiménez-Underwood, Lèo Limón, Alma López, Yolanda López, S. Lowe, Linda Lucero, Ralph Maradiaga, Dalila Paola Méndez, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Felicia ‘Fe’ Montes, Tomás Morales, Cherríe Moraga, Raymundo “Zala” Nevel, Juanishi Orozco, Viviana Paredes, Manuel Paul, Irene Pérez, Calixto Robles, Celia H. Rodríguez, Eugene Rodriguez, Patricia Rodriguez, Rachael Romero, Jos Sances, Herbert Sigüenza, Gino Squadrito, Dewey Tafoya, Reynaldo Terrazas-Santos, Joey Terrill, José Francisco Treviño, John Jairo Valencia, Xavier Viramontes, Andrew Zermeño, Kalli Arte, Tierra y Libertad Press
Sponsors
Major support for Calli: The Art of Xicanx Peoples is provided by The Oakland Museum Women’s Board.
Additional thanks to State Senator Nancy Skinner for support of the Calli Americas Political Poster Digitization Project.
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