PROYECTO CARIDAD
Chicano Art Resources Information Development and Dissemination

Proyecto CARIDAD is a project which was founded in 1990 to preserve the visual arts resources created by the nation's leading Chicano art collectives in California. The project has a two-part focus. Its first mission is to comprehensively record the contributions of Chicano artists which are documented in the slide collections of four major Chicano/Latino cultural arts centers. As part of this mission the project preserved the original visual arts slides contributed by these centers, and produced duplicates of these for research and study and for access and use by libraries, community groups and schools.

The comprehensive collection created by the project is an invaluable resource of an important art movement that began in the mid-1960s. This historic archive of slides that record the past and present history of the centers of Chicano art production and exhibition in California, provides an unprecedented visual record of that important art and cultural history for the broader public of California. The centers represented in the project include the Centro Cultural de la Raza (San Diego), Galeria de la Raza (San Francisco), the Royal Chicano Air Force (Sacramento), and Self-Help Graphics & Art (Los Angeles).

An important part of this project is the production of Chicano visual arts kits made up of selected slides and printed material that have been placed in various sites throughout the state. Such sites include selected public libraries and museums. These kits include printed resource guides which are also available separately for use in schools, libraries, and by community groups.

Chicano art historian Ramon Favela states "what is important to keep in mind, is that Chicano art was created for all people of all of all ethnicities and classes to appreciate." To learn more about this subject please request a free copy of the resource guide "An Introduction to Chicano Art in California" which includes an essay and an annotated list of readings.

Proyecto CARIDAD is a component of the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA), located in the Library of the University of California, Santa Barbara. CEMA is a program which collects historical materials that document the cultural and political experiences of the Asian American, African American, Chicano/Latino, and Native American ethnic groups in California.

Where You Can Access the Chicano Visual Arts Slide Kits:

Chicano Visual Arts Digital Image Collection

San Francisco Bay Area

Galeria de la Raza
2857 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
(415)  826-8009

The Mexican Museum
Fort Mason Bldg. D
Laguna and Marina Blvd.
San Francisco, CA 94123
(415)  441-0445


Sacramento Area

California State Library
Special Collections Department 
1001 Sixth Street
Sacramento, CA 95809
(916)  653-0101


Fresno Area

Centro Bellas Artes
1048 "E" Street
Fresno, CA 93706
(209)  237-2783


Central Coast Area
 
California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives
Davidson Library
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106 
805 893-8563 


Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Chicano Resource Center
East Los Angeles Public Library
4801 E. 3rd street
Los Angeles, CA 90022
(213)  264-0155

Self-Help Graphics & Art, Inc.
3802 Avenida Cesar Chaves 
Los Angeles, CA 90063
(213)  264-1259


San Diego Area

Centro Cultural de la Raza
2130-1 Pan American Plaza #1
San Diego, CA 92101
(619)  235-6135
Other Projects