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Salute to Seniors Features Resources and Big Fun!
By Eileen Doherty - Posted on 14 April 2014
As part of the 25th Anniversary Celebration, Colorado Leaders including Mayor Wellington Webb, City Auditor Dennis Gallagher, “Senior Citizen of the Air Waves” Justina ‘Mama Kat’ Curlee, Artist Stevon Lucero, and former football great Marv Montgomery will be honored and take time for a meet and greet opportunity with attendees. These leaders, along with Eugene Dawson, retired and first president of the Colorado Gerontological Society will receive the Eugene Dawson Presidential Leadership Award.
The Legacy Project brings the Museo de las Americas full circle to honor local legends
By Susan Froyd Thu., Feb. 7 2013
It all began with a photograph, taken more than thirty years ago on an auspicious occasion. It pictures a smiling who's who of a generation of Chicano artists working in Denver in the late 1970s, and at their center, seated on a couch, the great Mexican artist Francisco Zuñiga. He'd been brought to Denver by local art patrons Luis and Martha Abarca, who'd made their fortune in the food business. Luis died last year; his wife preceded him in death.
The Legacy Project: A Latino Legacy at Museo de las Americas
Felipe Diaz
February 8, 2013
The Chicano movement has deep roots and a rich history in the Southwest, especially here in Colorado. The Crusade for Justice of the 60s and 70s didn’t just inspire a new wave of political activism; it also gave birth to a new generation of Chicano artists.
These artists claimed a unique style that was closely bound to the sociopolitical movement of the time and often used land rights as a central point of focus. Art and revolution were inherently reciprocal.
Painting Wyoming’s Chicano culture
By PETER BAUMANN / lbedit9@laramieboomerang.com • Sunday, May 02, 2010
For artist Stevon Lucero, unveiling the three-panel mural — Parades Hablanda — at the Alice Hardie Stevens Center was like coming full circle.
Before being commissioned by La Radio Montanesa: Voz de La Gente KOCA 93.5 to paint the mural, the last similar work he had done was nearly 10 years ago.