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Barbara Carrasco:

Carrasco is an artist and a muralist who is very involved in the community. Her artwork reveals the real history against indigenous people in the US and how they were treated. She has been a part of The Getty Museum, Self-Help Graphics and the Center for Political Graphics. https://search.proquest.com/pqrl/docview/1492529921/363917E5955949FCPQ/14?accountid=25324

She is a key figure in the Chicano Art Movement since she is an activist working closely with Cesar Chavez to help bring justice into communities that had been constantly ignored because of their ethnicity. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23014533?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=Barbara+Carrasco&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DBarbara%2BCarrasco%26acc%3Don%26wc%3Don%26fc%3Doff%26group%3Dnone%26refreqid%3Dsearch%253Adf0f37774b47b66b107f150644651b0f%26efqs%3DeyJjdHkiOlsiYW05MWNtNWhiQT09IiwiY21WelpXRnlZMmhmY21Wd2IzSjAiXSwiZGlzYyI6W119&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3Acbec3f2fd2b9cf6030cfee8cb7372be0&seq=4#metadata_info_tab_contents

One of Carrasco's greatest works is a mural she was commissioned by the community of Redevelopment Agency in 1981 began drafting. The mural was called, "L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective" and she wanted the public to view the perspective from a minority. The city approved of the sketches of the mural, but, when she began the process of painting it, the agency told her to remove 14 images from the work in progress. The images they wanted Carrasco to remove showed incidents of discrimination by communities of color. The mural displayed slavery, America interment camps during World War II, and the zoot suit riots that had attacked Mexican American youth. When they requested her to remove these images, Carrasco refused to do so. But because she had refused them, the project of the mural was canceled. The mural was then put in a storage room for nearly a decade without showing the truth of the discrimination of minorities to the public. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-barbara-carrasco-mural-20170930-htmlstory.html

After a decade, Carrasco mural stored away in a storage room has finally been able to be presented to the public once again. The Natural History Museum had announced they were able to obtain Barbara Carrasco mural, "L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective," that is exhibited from March 2018 to August 2019. Now, this mural has a place to stay in the museum so that visitors can experience Los Angeles history through the Carrasco mural. https://explore-proquest-com.proxyserver.otis.edu/elibrary/document/2385115037?searchid=1614060716&accountid=25324

When Carrasco was involved with the Chicano Arts Movement, she was very dedicated and involved. Carrasco artwork had helped make communities come together but also helped educate people about the history of racism and sexism towards people of color. By protesting within her artwork, she created a social change for the UFW Union and the Dolores Huerta Foundation. One of her famous works, Dolores, which is a portrait of Cesar Chavez's daughter was to honor her as the co-founder of the UFW Union which she worked alongside for 15 years. In 1970, Carrasco at the time was a student at UCLA and created her artwork, Pregnant woman in a ball of yarn. She was inspired to create this piece after hearing her brother telling his pregnant wife she was unable to go to school because she was pregnant. People interpret this artwork in many ways, and the most that was talked about was how this spoke about sterilization. Which many women were sterilized in Puerto Rico and Latino women without their consent. Chavez would see the process of her artwork come to life. He had attended one of Carrasco’s press conferences that viewed her artwork, Pesticides, in New York in 1989 which her work was shown in Times Square. Carrasco’s work has been shown in many exhibits such as in the US, Europe, and in Latin America. Some of her original mural sketches and drawings are now housed in the Permanent Collection at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, and have been archived at Stanford University Special Collections Mexican American Manuscript Collections. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7X1tJjVPg