March, 2018

Don't Miss Los Angeles-Based Legendary Chicana Artist Margaret Garcia

Please join us for our March Art Wall Opening Reception on Sunday, March 4, from noon to 1:30 pm. You won’t want to miss the chance check out the highly celebrated works of Chicana artist Margaret Garcia. Garcia brings her artistic sensibilities gained from a lifetime of living in Los Angeles. The show will run until March 25.

Garcia relates of her childhood and artistic viewpoint: “I grew up in Boyle Heights / East L.A. … the refuge of many displaced residents of Chavez Ravine. Considered a haven for some of the lefties, Jews, Russians, Japanese, African-Americans, and Mexicans, I learned tolerance, which was reinforced by a diversity of teachers as well as my father and grandmother; I flourished and appreciated the differences…Yet with all of that it wasn’t until 1969 that I learned and embraced the term Chicano. The term allows me to embrace all facets of my culture and became like a rebirth of my identity. It doesn’t mean that every work of art I do must be culturally identifiable, political, representational, or even colorful. Though I don’t avoid those things, I define Chicano Art by producing it.”

Margaret Garcia is a practicing and regularly exhibiting artist and teacher in Los Angeles. Her work is represented in museums and collections such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, National Museum of Mexican Art, and the Cheech Marin Collection. She received the William Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, the Feitelson/Lundberg Award, and, California Community Foundation Grant, among others. As a mentor, she nurtures and teaches and has taught a good number of artists in her community.

Contact our Art Director, Beverly Alison, for further information about this show or about exhibiting on our Art Wall.