Chicanx Queer Visions: Fighting for Change and Exploring Identity
Artists in ¡Printing the Revolution! explore pressing issues of the LGBTQ+ community
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Blog Category: New Acquisitions
SAAM's collection, which includes artworks in all media—from painting and sculpture to time-based media, photographs, self-taught art, and contemporary craft—reveals key aspects of America’s rich artistic and cultural history from the colonial period to today. In recent years, the museum’s acquisition efforts have focused on strengthening its modern and contemporary collections, as well as acquiring major works by Latinx artists. Browse highlights of artworks recently added to the collection in New Acquisitions.
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Chicanx Graphic Arts in Focus: José MartíChicanx artists elevate national and global historic figures to inspire activismCategories -
Protest and Remembrance: Chicanx Artists Confront Police Brutality
Artists honor victims of social injustice and create a space for communal grievingCategories -
Chicanx Graphic Arts in Focus: Alice BagShizu Saldamando explores identity and representation through portraitureCategories -
Chicano Artists Challenging History and Reclaiming Cultural Memory
Chicano artists use graphics to reframe history with new perspectivesCategories -
Chicanx Graphic Arts in Focus: Mujer de Mucha Enagua, PA' TI XICANAYreina D. Cervántez uses text, imagery, and symbolism to pay tribute to bold female leaders of different erasCategories -
Chicanx Graphic Arts in Focus: Bee PileSonia Romero pushes the boundaries of graphic arts beyond paper and seeks to bring art out of the museum and into the communityCategories -
The Graphic Appeal of Amish Quilts
Celebrating National Quilting Day with a gift of Amish quiltsCategories -
Chicanx Graphic Arts in Focus: DoloresBarbara Carrasco's vivid portrait of Dolores Huerta honors the iconic labor activistCategories -
Chicanx Graphic Arts in Focus: I Stand with EmmaLalo Alcaraz’s digital poster of Emma González echoes a long tradition of activist posters dating back to political rebellions of the 1960sCategories -
Dawoud Bey Photographs in Focus: Underground Railroad Sites
Dawoud Bey’s metaphorical photographs of Underground Railroad sites in Ohio turn scenes of darkness into symbols of hopeCategories -
Chicanx Graphic Arts in Focus: Quiero Mis QueerceArtist and activist Julio Salgado challenges a traditional rite of passageCategories -
Chicanx Graphic Arts in Focus: From Sun Mad to Sun RaidA closer look at two iconic artworks featured in “¡Printing the Revolution!”Categories -
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The Lost Kusamas
Discovering four watercolors by Yayoi Kusama in SAAM's Joseph Cornell Study CenterCategories -
How Arthur Jafa Created a Contemporary Guernica
The curator of time-based media examines the importance of a powerful work that speaks to our times...and times past.Categories