Josefina Quezada (circa 1925 - May 2012) [1] was a Mexican-born Chicana muralist, photographer and supporter of the arts in Los Angeles. There are twelve murals in Los Angeles created by Quezada.
Quezada was born in Mexico City. [2] She grew up in the Mexicaltzingo neighborhood of Guadalajara. [3] In the 1940s, she studied at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). [3] She first came to Los Angeles in 1971, when she was hired to restore David Alfaro Siqueiros' América Tropical mural. [4] [5] She and Jaime Mejía opted to preserve the mural at the time. [6] Quezada worked with Shifra Goldman and Jesús Salvador Treviño to document the mural and the work done to preserve it. [2] Quezada spent around thirty years living in the United States. [3]
In 2005, Quezada was honored by the Jalisco Secretary of Culture for her decades of work as an artist. [7]
Quezada died in Mexico in 2012. [2]
Quezada made two murals in Mexico and twelve in Los Angeles. [7] She was also a noted photographer. [7] The Los Angeles Times wrote in 1975 that her "laborious bordertown genre scenes need to break out of a stiff, confining style." [8] Quezada's work connected "women's labor in Latin America to Chicana labor in the United States." [9] Oscar Castillo who has documented the work of Chicano artists, said that she gained inspiration from family in friends when choosing what to paint. [2]
In 1978, a mural she designed, Tree of Knowledge, or the "Read" mural, was completed by artists from the Chicana Action Service Center (CASC). [10] Tree of Knowledge uses symbols to emphasize understanding one's own "historical roots," and is also a celebration of "the community of readers." [11] The mural was restored by the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) in 2012. [12]
Quezada created a mural with Michael Schnorr for Chula Vista High School in 1982. [13] In 1983, she was part of a show of mural art at El Centro Cultural de la Raza at Balboa Park. [14]
Her work was featured and honored in the Second Women's Biennial of photographers in 2005 in Guadalajara. [3]
josefina quezada mural.
Josefina Quezada (circa 1925 - May 2012) [1] was a Mexican-born Chicana muralist, photographer and supporter of the arts in Los Angeles. There are twelve murals in Los Angeles created by Quezada.
Quezada was born in Mexico City. [2] She grew up in the Mexicaltzingo neighborhood of Guadalajara. [3] In the 1940s, she studied at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). [3] She first came to Los Angeles in 1971, when she was hired to restore David Alfaro Siqueiros' América Tropical mural. [4] [5] She and Jaime Mejía opted to preserve the mural at the time. [6] Quezada worked with Shifra Goldman and Jesús Salvador Treviño to document the mural and the work done to preserve it. [2] Quezada spent around thirty years living in the United States. [3]
In 2005, Quezada was honored by the Jalisco Secretary of Culture for her decades of work as an artist. [7]
Quezada died in Mexico in 2012. [2]
Quezada made two murals in Mexico and twelve in Los Angeles. [7] She was also a noted photographer. [7] The Los Angeles Times wrote in 1975 that her "laborious bordertown genre scenes need to break out of a stiff, confining style." [8] Quezada's work connected "women's labor in Latin America to Chicana labor in the United States." [9] Oscar Castillo who has documented the work of Chicano artists, said that she gained inspiration from family in friends when choosing what to paint. [2]
In 1978, a mural she designed, Tree of Knowledge, or the "Read" mural, was completed by artists from the Chicana Action Service Center (CASC). [10] Tree of Knowledge uses symbols to emphasize understanding one's own "historical roots," and is also a celebration of "the community of readers." [11] The mural was restored by the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) in 2012. [12]
Quezada created a mural with Michael Schnorr for Chula Vista High School in 1982. [13] In 1983, she was part of a show of mural art at El Centro Cultural de la Raza at Balboa Park. [14]
Her work was featured and honored in the Second Women's Biennial of photographers in 2005 in Guadalajara. [3]
josefina quezada mural.