Calli: The Art of Xicanx Peoples

Opens June 14 | Great Hall

Through photography, sculpture, painting, installation, poetry, and more, Calli: The Art of Xicanx Peoples navigates the interwoven threads of intergenerational, feminist, queer, and Xicanx-Indigenous stories that offer ancestral forms of liberation, healing, and being. 

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 using a variety of mediums, from which we can imagine new possibilities for the future.

This exhibition opens June 14, 2024. Though Calli will be open to the public starting Friday, June 14, 2024, the exhibition will be closed to the general public from 3 pm–5 pm for a private viewing for contributing artists and their guests. The exhibition will be reopened to the public for OMCA’s Friday late-night gallery access starting at 5 pm until 9 pm.

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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
August 29, 1970 Carlos F. Jackson, August 29, 1970, 2016. © Carlos F. Jackson
Image of art: A narrow triangular American flag, with flowers embroidered
Border Flowers Flag Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Border Flowers Flag, 2008. Courtesy of Ruiz-Healy Art, New York, San Antonio. © Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
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
Dando Gracias Leo Limón, Dando Gracias, 1983. Collection of the Oakland Museum of California. Gift of the Terrazas Martin Family on behalf of Margaret Terrazas Santos. © Self Help Graphics & Art/ Leo Limón
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
Expresion Chicana Linda Lucero, Expresion Chicana, 1976. Collection of the Oakland Museum of California. Gift of the Terrazas Martin Family on behalf of Margaret Terrazas Santos. © La Raza Silkscreen Center, Inc./ Linda Lucero
Art image: colorful eagle print
Unidentified Artist Untitled (Eagle Glyph) Serigraph on paper 28.625” x 22.625” Ca. 1960s-70s Collection of the Oakland Museum of California. Gift of the Terrazas Martin Family on behalf of Margaret Terrazas Santos
Image of photograph of a person, head and limbs obscured, lying on the a ground
Grounded #103 Laura Aguilar, Grounded #103, 2006-2007 (printed 2018). Collection of the Oakland Museum of California. © Laura Aguilar Trust of 2016
Photograph of a bright yellow cart, holding small potted plants, with the text "Botanica del Barrio" in bold red and green letters
La Botanica del Barrio Felicia ‘Fe’ Montes, La Botanica del Barrio in collaboration with Gabriel Guerrero and Jessica Moreno, 2016.
Image: Serigraph on paper art
Unidentified Artist Untitled (Teotihuacan) Serigraph on paper 21.75 x 29.875” ca. 1960s-70s Collection of the Oakland Museum of California. Gift of the Terrazas Martin Family on behalf of Margaret Terrazas Santos
Image of a print of a woman in braids set against a dark background
Victoria Ocelotl Yreina D. Cervántez, Victoria Ocelotl, 1983. Collection of the Oakland Museum of California. Gift of the Terrazas Martin Family on behalf of Margaret Terrazas Santos. © Yreina D. Cervántez

Sponsors

Major support for Calli: The Art of Xicanx Peoples is provided by The Oakland Museum Women’s Board.