Exhibition, SAC Main Campus Gallery
Building C
1530 W. 17th Street

September 23 - November 2, 2020

Self Help Graphics
from the Laguna Art Museum Collection

Self-Help Graphics is an East Los Angeles printmaking workshop and arts center that emerged from the Chicano movement of the 1960s. It was founded by Sister Karen Boccalero, who was inspired by the committed social and political commentary she saw in the silkscreen prints made by another nun, the celebrated Sister Corita Kent. In 1982 Boccalero launched the Screenprint Atelier program, which provided Chicano and Latino artists of the Los Angeles region with studio facilities, materials, and the technical guidance of a master printer. The result was an extraordinary and exuberant flowering of the silkscreen print.

The selection of 45 prints is from the large Self-Help Graphics collection purchased by the museum in 1992 with the help of Charlie Miller, René and Norma Molina, and funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal Agency.

A few images from the exhibition

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Leo Limón, Dando Gracias, 1983, Silkscreen, six colors, Collection Laguna Art Museum Gift of Charlie Miller and Museum Purchase with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal Agency

Leo Limón, Dando Gracias, 1983, Silkscreen, six colors, Collection Laguna Art Museum Gift of Charlie Miller and Museum Purchase with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal Agency

Alfredo de Batuc, Seven Views of City Hall, Ten-color serigraph, 1987 Laguna Art Museum Collection, Gift of Rene and Norma Molina and Museum Purchase with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal Agency

Alfredo de Batuc, Seven Views of City Hall, Ten-color serigraph, 1987 Laguna Art Museum Collection, Gift of Rene and Norma Molina and Museum Purchase with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal Agency

Alex Donis, Rio, Por No Llorar, Twelve-color serigraph, 1988, Laguna Art Museum Collection, Gift of Rene and Norma Molina and Museum Purchase with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal Agency

Alex Donis, Rio, Por No Llorar, Twelve-color serigraph, 1988, Laguna Art Museum Collection, Gift of Rene and Norma Molina and Museum Purchase with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal Agency

Ricardo Gonsalves, Don Juan’s Got the Blues, Silkscreen (18 colors), 1988, Laguna Art Museum Collection, Gift of Rene and Norma Molina and Museum Purchase with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal Agency

Ricardo Gonsalves, Don Juan’s Got the Blues, Silkscreen (18 colors), 1988, Laguna Art Museum Collection, Gift of Rene and Norma Molina and Museum Purchase with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal Agency

Jose Lozano, Hero (Heroe), Silkscreen (11 colors), 1991, Laguna Art Museum Collection, Gift of Charlie Miller and Museum Purchase with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal Agency

Jose Lozano, Hero (Heroe), Silkscreen (11 colors), 1991, Laguna Art Museum Collection, Gift of Charlie Miller and Museum Purchase with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal Agency

Patssi Valdez, The Dressing Table, Twelve-color serigraph, 1988, Laguna Art Museum Collection, Promised gift to Laguna Art Museum, Gift of Charlie Miller and Museum Purchase with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal Agency

Patssi Valdez, The Dressing Table, Twelve-color serigraph, 1988, Laguna Art Museum Collection, Promised gift to Laguna Art Museum, Gift of Charlie Miller and Museum Purchase with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal Agency