Welcome to America’s Finest Tourist Plantation

Visual Connections for ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now

How does knowing this work was originally shown on the back of a city bus as part of a public art project change your view of the image?

Media - 2015.37 - SAAM-2015.37_1 - 120553

Elizabeth Sisco, Louis Hock, David Avalos, Welcome to America's Finest Tourist Plantation, 1988, screenprint on vinyl mounted on foam board, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. Alfred S. Pagano and Susan A. Tyler, 2015.37, © 1988, Elizabeth Sisco & Louis Hock & David Avalos

A photograph of the back of a sun in the street.

Centro Cultural de la Raza Archives, CEMA 12, Department of Special Collections, University Libraries, University of California, Santa Barbara