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<\/p>\nThe exhibition is curated by curator Claudia Zapata for the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Zapata works on Latin American and Latinx art within SAAM and arranges the prints around themes of civil rights, labor struggles, indigenous heritage and neighborhood cultural centers and workplaces. In the exhibition, see how artists use printmaking techniques to support strikes, demonstrations and political campaigns, as well as to preserve stories from their own communities.<\/p>\n
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Hanging in the museum galleries are prints with accompanying wall texts that interpret Chicano and Chicanx history and activism. You walk past images in which struggles for fair wages recur, portraits of community leaders and references to Mexican and indigenous iconography. The combination of text and image makes clear how graphics function as tools for both action and documentation.<\/p>\n
In the museum galleries hang the prints with accompanying wall texts that interpret Chicano and Chicanx history and activism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The exhibition travels internationally and was previously on view at institutions such as The Huntington in California. The presentation at H'ART Museum brings this American print tradition to a Dutch and European audience. In doing so, the museum taps into broader conversations in the city about diaspora, identity politics and resistance. Those who visit in the coming months will get an overview of decades of Chicano printmaking and the many ways in which image, text and printmaking combine to become a political tool.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Radical Histories: Chicano Prints from the Smithsonian American Art Museum is a traveling exhibition now descending on H'ART Museum. In the galleries you will see about sixty prints by Chicano and Chicanx artists, drawn from the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The works span several decades and show how printmaking is used ... <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":79834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[10923],"district":[9],"class_list":["post-79798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultuur","tag-tentoonstellingen-amsterdam","district-amsterdam-centrum"],"acf":{"slider":[79825],"fotograaf":"","editor":"","video":"","google_360":"","instagram_code":"","subregel":"Nieuwe tentoonstelling met circa zestig Chicano en Chicanx prenten uit Smithsonian-collectie opent op 25 maart","new_in_town":false,"featured_item":false,"beste_van_amsterdam":false,"homepage_carousel":false,"cord_A":"","cord_B":"","introductie_tekst":"Op woensdag 25 maart opent H\u2019ART Museum de tentoonstelling Radical Histories: Chicano Prints from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In de zalen hangen zo\u2019n zestig Chicano en Chicanx prenten, geselecteerd uit de collectie van het Smithsonian American Art Museum. De tentoonstelling laat zien hoe prentkunst sinds de jaren zestig wordt ingezet voor activisme, gemeenschapsvorming en culturele trots.","rubriek":"Evenement","locatie_event":68525,"naam_locatie":"Radical Histories: Chicano Prints from the Smithsonian American Art Museum","adres":"Amstel 51","stad":"Amsterdam","website":"https:\/\/www.hartmuseum.nl","telefoon_nummer":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79798"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79829,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79798\/revisions\/79829"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68525"}],"acf:attachment":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79798"},{"taxonomy":"district","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/district?post=79798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}