Viva La Lucha: Art and Work of the Royal Chicano Air Force
January – end of December 2023
900 N Street, 2nd Floor Gallery
Stop by Mondays–Fridays, 8:00am – 5:00pm, to see our exhibit featuring artwork by RCAF founding members José Montoya, Esteban Villa, Louie “the Foot” González, Rudy Cuellar, Juan Carrillo, Juanishi Orosco, Ricardo Favela, and Juan Cervantes, as well as prints by Chicana artists – most of them members of RCAF – including Irma C. Lerma-Barbosa, Patricia Rodriguez, Irene Perez, Kathryn García, Lorenza Campusano de Camplis, Carmen Lomas Garza, María Pinedo, and Kate Connell. The exhibit also includes a handful of materials documenting some of the many organizations affiliated with the RCAF, including the Centro de Artistas Chicanos and La Raza Bookstore/Galería Posada.
Spotlight on Fiction and Reading
October through December 2023
900 N Street, 2nd Floor, California History Reading Room
For our Fall/Winter 2023 displays, we’re highlighting fiction, reading, and related topics. Materials featured include new acquisitions of books by California authors or on California-focused topics, including Displacement (pictured), a graphic novel by Kiku Hughes that blends historical and science fiction as it follows a young adult displaced from contemporary California to the incarceration camp that her Japanese American grandmother was removed to in the 1940s during World War II. The display also features samples from our California History and Special Collections holdings — along with books, you can also see bookplates, buttons, and bookmarks; materials on the subject of printing; and photographs depicting various aspects of life with books. They’re on view through the end of December, so stop by during our Reading Room hours, Tuesday–Thursday, 9:30–4:00. We hope to see you there!
