{"id":11902,"date":"2025-07-16T14:43:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T14:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/?p=11902"},"modified":"2025-07-16T14:43:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T14:43:36","slug":"la-raza-art-media-collective-is-coming-to-a-close-at-the-university-of-michigan-ann-arbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/la-raza-art-media-collective-is-coming-to-a-close-at-the-university-of-michigan-ann-arbor\/","title":{"rendered":"La Raza Art & Media Collective is Coming to a Close at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>By Dr. Linda Alvarado-Arce<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the 1970s, according to Kalloli Bhatt & Mercedes Mejia, \u201ca group of Latino and Latina students formed a collective of makers and artists at the University of Michigan. This community-minded group, La Raza, was about everything, from art to history and movement\u201d (https:\/\/www.michiganpublic.org\/podcast\/stateside\/2025-01-10\/stateside-podcast-um-art-exhibit-highlights-legacy-of-la-raza-on-campus-and-beyond<\/a>).<\/p>\n

From December 7, 2024, through July 20, 2025, the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery has been displaying La Raza\u2019s \u201cpoems, artwork, gallery proofs and journal editions that discuss Chicano representation in the media and contain experimental visual art\u201d (Bhatt & Mejia, 2025). According to Dave Choberka, Mellon Foundation curator for university learning at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, \u201cthese editions marked the evolution and history of the organization\u201d and “they started out as very much a U of M student organization” (Bhatt & Mejia, 2025). Raquel Bravo was recently there and said she attended because \u201cI identified with those students which reflected my own experiences around that time in Toledo\u201d (Ohio). One of the artists featured in the collection, according to Bhatt & Mejia (2025), is George Vargas, founder of the RAM collective, a former member of La Raza, and a non-traditional student who went from working in farms and factories to studying at the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n

El Colectivo de Arte y Medios de La Raza llega a su fin en la Universidad de Michigan (Ann Arbor)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Por la Dra. Linda Alvarado-Arce<\/strong><\/p>\n

En la d\u00e9cada de 1970s, seg\u00fan Kalloli Bhatt y Mercedes Mej\u00eda, \u201cun grupo de estudiantes latinos y latinas form\u00f3 un colectivo de creadores y artistas en la Universidad de Michigan. Este grupo comunitario, La Raza, ere todo de el arte hasta la historia y el movimiento\u201d (https:\/\/www.michiganpublic.org\/podcast\/stateside\/2025-01-10\/stateside-podcast-um-art-exhibit-highlights-legacy-of-la-raza-on-campus-and-beyond).<\/p>\n

Del 7 de diciembre de 2024 al 20 de julio de 2025, la Galer\u00eda Familiar Irving Stenn, Jr. exhibi\u00f3 \u201cpoemas, obras de arte, pruebas de galer\u00eda y ediciones de revistas de La Raza que abordan la representaci\u00f3n chicana en los medios y contienen arte visual experimental\u201d (Bhatt y Mej\u00eda, 2025). Seg\u00fan Dave Choberka, curador de la Fundaci\u00f3n Mellon para el aprendizaje universitario en el Museo de Artes de la Universidad de Michigan, estas ediciones marcaron la evoluci\u00f3n y la historia de la organizaci\u00f3n y comenzaron como una organizaci\u00f3n estudiantil de la U de M (Bhatt y Mej\u00eda, 2025). Raquel Bravo estuvo all\u00ed recientemente y coment\u00f3 que asisti\u00f3 porque \u201cme identifiqu\u00e9 con esos estudiantes, lo cual reflejaba mis propias experiencias en esa \u00e9poca en Toledo\u201d (Ohio). Uno de los artistas que figuran en la colecci\u00f3n, seg\u00fan Bhatt & Mejia (2025), es George Vargas, fundador del colectivo RAM, ex miembro de La Raza, y estudiante no tradicional que pas\u00f3 de trabajar en granjas y f\u00e1bricas a estudiar en la Universidad de Michigan.<\/p>\n

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