SYMPOSIUM: The Legend of Siqueiros: Los Angeles & Mexico 1920-1930 (Part 2)

THE LEGEND OF SIQUEIROS: LOS ANGELES & MEXICO 1920-1930
Barnsdall Gallery Theatre • Sunday, October 9, 2005 • 1 PM to 5 PM
4800 Hollywood Blvd (between Edgemont & Vermont)
Along with Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros is recognized as one of the great Mexican muralists of the 20th century. What is less known about Siqueiros is that he created only three murals in the United States-all in Los Angeles during a six-month stay in 1932. Join us for an engaging discussion on the political, social and artistic environments of Los Angeles and Mexico that preceded his landmark visit. Speakers included:
• Luis C. Garza, curator, photojournalist, and organizer of "Siqueiros in L.A."
• Francisco Balderrama, Ph.D., co-author of "Decades of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s" and Professor of Chicano Studies and History at California State University, Los Angeles
• William F. Deverell, Ph.D., author of "The Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past" and Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West
• Catha Paquette, Ph.D., author of "Critical Consequences: Mexican Art at New York's Museum of Modern Art during WWII" and Assistant Professor of Latin American Art at California State University, Long Beach
• H. Mark Wild, Ph.D., author of "Street Meeting: Multiethnic Neighborhoods in Early 20th Century Los Angeles" and Assistant Professor of History, California State University, Los Angeles
Moderator: Jonathan Yorba, Ph.D., author of "Arte Latino" and Executive Director of La Plaza de Cultura y Artes Foundation
SPONSORED BY
Univision 34
The Walt Disney Company
State Farm
Cristella Roybal-Siqueiros & Robert M. Siqueiros
City of Los Angeles Dept. of Cultural Affairs
This public program is presented as the first in a yearlong series of educational events for the exhibition "Legacy & Legend: Siqueiros and América Tropical-Censorship Defied" (originally slated to be on view at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery from September 16 to November 19, 2006, but ultimately was on view at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage renamed as "Siqueiros in Los Angeles: Censorship Defied" from September 24, 2010 through January 9, 2011). The exhibition and public program series were produced by Melissa Richardson Banks of CauseConnect and organized by Luis C. Garza of Legacy & Legend Productions. It was supported by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with Univision 34, State Farm Insurance, La Opinión, The Walt Disney Company, and countless individuals, cultural and educational institutions, small businesses, and community groups in Southern California, including USC-Huntington Institute on California and the West, Plaza de la Raza Cultural Center for the Arts & Education, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, Chouinard Foundation, and Kolor Graphics Bureau.
Barnsdall Gallery Theatre is a facility of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.