ARTH 276 - Chicana/o Art and Muralism: From the Street to the (Staniar) Gallery

FDR: HA
Credits: 4

Open to all students. This course fulfills the Arts and Humanities requirement for the LACS minor. This class examines the process by which Chicana/o artists have garnered public attention and respect, taking their artworks from the peripheries of the art world to museum and gallery spaces. Using the Great Wall of Los Angeles as a connecting thread, this class considers the broad theme of identity creation and transformation as expressed by Chicana/o artists from the 1970s to the present. Lepage.