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Josefina Quezada

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wrote in 1975 that her "laborious bordertown genre scenes need to break out of a stiff, confining style." Quezada's work connected "women's labor in Latin America to Chicana labor in the United States." Oscar Castillo who has documented the work of Chicano artists, said that she gained inspiration
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uses symbols to emphasize understanding one's own "historical roots," and is also a celebration of "the community of readers." The mural was restored by the
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to document the mural and the work done to preserve it. Quezada spent around thirty years living in the United States.
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Her work was featured and honored in the Second Women's Biennial of photographers in 2005 in Guadalajara.
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Quezada made two murals in Mexico and twelve in Los Angeles. She was also a noted photographer. The
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Barnet-Sanchez, Holly; Drescher, Tim; Ybarra-Frausto, Tomás (2016).
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Secretary of Culture for her decades of work as an artist.
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in 1982. In 1983, she was part of a show of mural art at
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Give Me Life: Iconography and Identity in East LA Murals
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Eyewitness: A Filmmaker's Memoir of the Chicano Movement
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from family in friends when choosing what to paint.
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muralist, photographer and supporter of the arts in
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In the 1940s, she studied at the 13: 509:"Spartans of Legend CV High Mural" 405:Davalos, Karen Mary (2017-07-25). 258:"Spartans of Legend CV High Mural" 14: 633: 597:Artists from Guadalajara, Jalisco 556: 341: 226:Carillo, Eduardo (13 June 2005). 212: 174: 65:at the time. Quezada worked with 312:Treviño, Jesús Salvador (2001). 287:Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles 83:Quezada died in Mexico in 2012. 526: 500: 476: 449: 425: 353:Mesinas, Samuel (7 June 2005). 188:Borden, Tessie (16 June 2012). 101:In 1978, a mural she designed, 507:Davidson, Terry (1982-11-07). 433:"Tree of Knowledge (aka Read)" 398: 379:Wilson, William (1975-06-23). 372: 305: 275: 256:Davidson, Terry (1982-11-07). 249: 148:Fuentes, Ed (30 August 2012). 141: 1: 533:Branscomb, Max (1983-05-12). 134: 122:El Centro Cultural de la Raza 30: 7: 607:Mexican women photographers 548:– via Newspapers.com. 522:– via Newspapers.com. 394:– via Newspapers.com. 271:– via Newspapers.com. 10: 638: 47:(UNAM). 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Chicana
Los Angeles
Mexico City
Guadalajara
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Los Angeles
David Alfaro Siqueiros
América Tropical
mural
Shifra Goldman
Jesús Salvador Treviño
Jalisco
Los Angeles Times
Social and Public Art Resource Center
Chula Vista High School
El Centro Cultural de la Raza
Balboa Park
"Monthly Mural Wrap: A Dozen Tags for August, 2012"
KCET
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