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A gallery room displays various framed artworks on white walls. A large poster features a stylized face in red and blue with text: Printing the Revolution. The room is lit by ceiling spotlights, with a bench visible in the background.

隆Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now

A stylized poster of a man in a wide-brimmed hat with a mustache, depicted in bold red and pink hues. Below him is text reading Rifa Calendario 77 in a decorative font. The background transitions from pink to purple. Underneath the image are two logos: Left logo text reads "SAAM Smithsonian American Art Museum". Right logo text reads "hp" in a blue circle.

January 18 - April 6, 2025

In the 1960s, activist Chicano artists forged a remarkable history of printmaking that remains vital today. Many artists came of age during the civil rights, labor, anti-war, feminist and LGBTQ+ movements and channeled the period鈥檚 social activism into assertive aesthetic statements that announced a new political and cultural consciousness among people of Mexican descent in the United States. 隆Printing the Revolution! explores the rise of Chicano graphics within these early social movements and the ways in which Chicanx artists since then have advanced innovative printmaking practices attuned to social justice.

More than reflecting the need for social change, the works in this exhibition project and revise notions of Chicanx identity, spur political activism and school viewers in new understandings of U.S. and international history. By employing diverse visual and artistic modes from satire, to portraiture, appropriation, conceptualism, and politicized pop, the artists in this exhibition build an enduring and inventive graphic tradition that has yet to be fully integrated into the history of U.S. printmaking.

This exhibition is organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum with generous support from The Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center, Michael Abrams and Sandra Stewart, The Honorable Aida Alvarez, Joanne and Richard Brodie Exhibitions Endowment, James F. Dicke Family Endowment, Sheila Duignan and Mike Wilkins, Ford Foundation, Dorothy Tapper Goldman, HP, William R. Kenan Jr. Endowment Fund, Robert and Arlene Kogod Family Foundation, Lannan Foundation, and Henry R. Mu帽oz, III and Kyle Ferari-Mu帽oz.

Partial funding for the exhibition is provided by the Martin Andersen-Gracia Andersen Foundation.

Arte Y Caf茅 Con La Curadora

| February 18, 2025 | 6pm

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Exhibition Tour

February 21, 2025 | 11am

Led by Dr. Gisela Carbonell, Interim Director and Curator

Image: Leonard Castellanos,聽RIFA, from M茅chicano 1977 Calendario, 1976, Screenprint on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2012.53.1, 漏 1976, Leonard Castellanos

person wearing a tie and glasses on a black background

Road to 隆Printing the Revolution!

February 25, 2025 | 6pm

Join Dr. Claudia Zapata, Associate Curator of Latino Art, Blanton Museum of Art to explore The SAAM exhibition 隆Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now, a landmark research and acquisition effort to champion Chicano artists' contributions to graphic history. Dr. Zapata will delve into the process of navigating activist collectors, artist networks, the new digital art chapter, and the shifting notions of the term "Chicano."