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= Dolores Guerrero-Cruz = Dolores Guerrero-Cruz is a Mexican American who is well known for her contemporary art through paintings, murals, and graphic art. Her art reflects her advocacy towards the feminist movement and empowerment movement for the Chicano and Latin community.

Biography
Dolores Guerrero-Cruz is a Mexican American artist who was born in Rocky Ford, Colorado in the year 1948. As a result of her mother’s passing, her grandmother became the guardian of her siblings and her. Her family later moved to California, and Guerrero-Cruz now resides in East Los Angeles. Ever since, Guerrero-Cruz has been an advocate for Chicano social justice and feminism. After completing her education, the artist began her profession at Public Art Center of Highland Park and Self Help Graphics and Art, an arts facility located in East Los Angeles that helps artists flourish while contributing empowerment to the Latin community. Aside from community work through creation of city murals with art students, she was a screen printing professor at Pasadena Community College. Guerrero contributed her skills towards local foundations including ARTSTEACH UCLA and the East Los Angeles Rape Hotline and Child Abuse Center. Guerrero-Cruz became active in Rebel Chicano Art Front in order to spread awareness on the United Farm Workers. In January 1999, Guerrero-Cruz and co-founder Juan Gómez established Screen Print School and Canela Studio.

Education
Dolores Guerrero-Cruz studied art at California State University, Los Angeles, continued at University of California, Davis, and later transferred to University of California, Los Angeles. She had additional education at Otis Parsons School Design.

The Golden Age…I Send You A Kiss (2012)
This artwork is an acrylic painting on canvas of a blue haired women wearing a green blouse, long, vibrant-yellow shawl, and blue flowing trousers. She is standing in a field of flowers pouring water into a river that is painted to look like the earth as she blows kisses toward a nearby blue bird flying in the clouds. Guerrero's painting was inspired by the concept of the Age of Aquarius. The women's motion of blowing kisses to signify her radiance of love towards all. The pouring of water into the body of water from her vase signifies her contribution of peace, harmony, and affection to the planet earth and the world.

Mujeres Y Perros (1987)
A nude women is depicted laying on a blue bed in a gray room with her eyes closed,her arms across her forehead, and her legs crossed. Beside her, the window is wide open showing the landscape of a desert with cacti, a purple sky, an orange sun, and two howling, red dogs. There are traces of Chicanx culture and landscape evident is Guerrero's work of art. Women and sexual empowerment is apparent as Guerrero's subject is sprawled out in bed nude.

History of the Americas (1997)
Guerrero created a 10-paneled mural at Eagle Rock High School in Los Angeles that was sponspored by Richard Alatorre, a councilman of the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department. Guerrero's mural was influenced by the Mesoamerican civilization of Olmecs and further historical events and influences that led to how the Americas emerged. In each panel, Guerrero included various icons of Native American culture, Chinese culture depicted by a parade being led by a dragon, and modern symbols of what the United States came to be like the American Flag, soldiers, modern day education, and the bald eagle to signify the roots of where the Americas came from and to celebrate how far the Americas have developed.

Red Rider in the Hood (1994)
This lithograph depicts a yellow painted man wearing jeans, plaid shirt, and hat with his hands in his pockets. He is outside walking while looking up at a full, yellow moon covered in a ray of red-tinted clouds. One half of the man is covered in a red, furry mantle. This specific wardrobe symbolizes that he is a sheep disguised as a furry wolf in the night. Chicano and American culture influenced Guerrero-Cruz and elements in her lithograph.  

Exhibitions
In 1986, Guerrero was included in exhibitions “'Dia de los Muertos” at The Photo Center in New Jersey. The same year in Atelier, she was featured in a collective Self-Help Graphics exhibition at Atelier. In 1985, Guerrero-Cruz was featured in a collective exhibition called 'Women by Women' at the Galeria de la Raza. At California State University, Los Angeles, Guerrero was featured in a collective exhibition called “Entre Tinta y Lucha: 45 Years of Self-Help Graphics & Art” from August 25 to September 28 of 2017. At Loyola Marymount University, Guerrero-Cruz’s work was featured in the Laband Art Gallery in 2017. Works from Guerrero was also featured at the Sesnon Gallery in Santa Cruz, California among the collective exhibition : Spoken/Unspoken: Forms of Resistance from February 8 to March 17 of 2018.

Collections
The Los Angles County Museum of Art holds art pieces from Guerrero-Cruz including Mujeres y perros and Jugo de naranja. At the University of California, Santa Barbara, Guerreros work, Mujeres y Perros, was featured in the collection called Self-Help Graphics and Art archives. Guerrero was also included in the Ricardo and Harriett Romo Collection of Mexican American Art Prints with her works including Angels Nights, From Busz Words, and Raices Folkloricas.