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Voces de la Frontera: historical portfolio.
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Title:
Voces de la Frontera: historical portfolioCreator/Contributor:
Voces de los artistas (Artists' collective), creator, artist.Creator/Contributor:
Brusky, Joe, photographer.Creator/Contributor:
Booklyn Artists Alliance, publisher.Creator/Contributor:
Voces de la Frontera, publisher.Abstract:
Includes 8 picket signs screenprinted on muslin fabric; 32 prints (some showing evidence of use as signs in demonstrations);
1 pennant; 3 photographs by Joe Brusky; various pieces of printed ephemera; and a catalog documenting the history of Voces
de la Frontera and Voces de los Artistas and describing the contents of the box set. Folder contains hand-written sign: "The
rainbow is not complete when our family is being threatened."
Date:
2014 (issued)Subject:
n-us--- -- n-us-wiArt -- Political aspects -- United States
Foreign workers, Mexican -- United States
Immigration advocates -- Wisconsin
Art and social action
Art -- Aspect politique -- États-Unis
Travailleurs étrangers mexicains -- États-Unis
Défenseurs de l'immigration -- Wisconsin
Art et action sociale
Art and social action
Art -- Political aspects
Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
Foreign workers, Mexican
Immigration advocates
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
United States
Wisconsin
Note:
Title from bookseller's invoice.
Various artists, some identified in accompanying catalog.
"Voces de los Artistas (VDLA) [sic] is an art affinity group based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that is part of Voces de la Frontera,
Wisconsin's leading immigrant rights organization for over two decades ..."--Accompanying catalog
"Voces de la Frontera is a membership-based community organization led by low-wage workers, immigrants and youth whose mission
is to protect and expand civil rights and workers' rights through leadership development, community organizing and empowerment"--Organization's
website.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Type:
graphicscreen prints.
Screen prints.
Screen prints.
Sérigraphies.
Physical Description:
print
approximately 50 items in 1 box and 1 folder : chiefly prints of various processes ; sheets various sizes
Language:
mul
Origin:
New York (State)Copyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.