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Title: Laura Molina papers
Identifier/Call Number: CEMA 199
Language of Material:
English .
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Physical Description:
2.2 Linear Feet
Creator:
Molina, Laura
Date (inclusive): 1982-2004
Abstract: This collection contains materials
related mostly to Laura Molina's band Tiger Lily including photographic prints and
negatives, flyers, promotional items, slides, handwritten notes, and audio recordings in
various formats. Also included is Molina's original production artwork, comic book sketches,
and prints.
Physical Location: Special Research Collections, UC Santa
Barbara Library.
Physical Location: shelf
coordinates
The collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in
writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication is given on
behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items
and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must
be obtained.
[Identification of Item], Laura Molina papers, CEMA 199. Department of Special Research
Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Library purchase, 2019.
Laura Molina, a Chicana artist and musician, was born in 1957 in Los Angeles, California.
She graduated in 1976 from Arroyo High School in El Monte, California. Molina studied acting
at the Inner-City Cultural Center in Los Angeles before she studied character animation at
the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, from 1979-1981. She later
worked as an Imagineer at the Walt Disney Company for several years.
Early in her career, Molina supported herself as a painter, writer, artist, and a musician.
She was the founding member of the 80s new-wave rock band Tiger Lily. "Die Laughing" (1984)
and "Black Cats" (1987) are two of the band's greatest hits.
Laura Molina is also the creator of the comic book characters Naked Dave and
Cihualyaomiquiz the Jaguar, both published under Molina's own Insurgent Comix imprint. She
was once an artist-in-residence with Self Help Graphics & Art from 1993-1996. In 2006,
Molina founded Chicano Art Magazine and was editor-in-chief.
The Laura Molina papers were established in 2019.
This collection contains published and unpublished illustrations and storyboards, a poster,
photographic prints and negatives, personal letters, newspaper clippings, handwritten notes,
and performance flyers and ephemera. There are VHS tapes, audiocassettes, open reel tapes,
and CDs containing radio broadcasts, live band performances, and studio album recordings.
There are photographic prints, negatives, and slides of Molina's professional head shots,
band performances, and other promotional activities. Records span from the late 1970s to
early 2000s.
The collection is arranged into 3 series:
Series 1: Personal - arranged chronologically by subject matter then format; Series 2:
Oversize - arranged by format size; Series 3: Audiovisual - arranged by A or V number
Self Help Graphics and Art archives, CEMA 3, Department of Special Research Collections, UC
Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Chicano Graphic Novels collection, CEMA 164, Department of Special Research Collections, UC
Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Galería De La Raza archives, CEMA 4, Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa
Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Mexican American artists
Mexican American musicians
Women rock musicians
Audiocassettes
Clippings (information artifacts)
Compact discs
Ephemera (general object genre)
Fliers (printed matter)
Negative prints
Notes (documents)
Open reel
audiotapes
Personal correspondence
Photographic prints
Posters
Sketches
Slides (photographs)
Storyboards
VHS
Works of art
Molina, Laura -- Archives
Tiger Lily (Musical group) -- Archives