COME TOGETHER:
Interethnic Collaborations for Equity and Social Change in the 1970s
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The California Ethnic And Multicultural Archives

The posters in this exhibition have been drawn from various permanent collections housed in the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA). These include the Rupert and Sammi Madison Garcia Collection, the Galeria de la Raza Archives, the Nancy Hom Papers, the Juan Fuentes Papers, and the Kearny Street Workshop Archives.

CEMA, since 1988, has preserved and made accessible these silkscreen posters and other graphic art work. It is committed to archiving and making accessible the primary sources that originated in our ethnic communities, that are part of our shared cultural memory and that broaden our understanding of these communities and their leaders. These posters illuminate the rich history and important contributions of the artists and the cultural arts collectives and centers through which many of them worked.

It was an aim of the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives to someday help tell the story that was so evident in its collections. This exhibition is part of that visual narrative that talks to us of the synergy involving the networks and the alliances of activist artists who committed themselves towards social equity and social change, as well as international human rights. Their goal was to make this world a better place for us all.

Bruce Kaiper Ideological Coverup 1974 Silkscreen Working Peoples’ Artists Rupert Garcia and Sammi Madison Garcia Collection	Malaquias Montoya Vietnam Aztlan 1973 Silkscreen Rupert Garcia and Sammi Madison Garcia Collection	Consuelo Mendez A Brief History of Latin America 1976 Serigraph Rupert Garcia and Sammi Madison Garcia Collection