Molina (Laura) papers, 1982-2004

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Summary

Title:
Laura Molina papers
Dates:
1982-2004
Creators:
Molina, Laura
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.
Extent:
2.2 Linear Feet
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], Laura Molina papers, CEMA 199. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains published and unpublished illustrations and storyboards, a poster, photographic prints and negatives, personal letters, newspaper clippings, handwritten notes, and performance flyers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.

Biographical / historical:

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.

Acquisition information:
Library purchase, 2019.
Arrangement:

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

Physical location:

Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library.

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Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Calli Force, 2021
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2022-02-01 09:00:10 -0800 .

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

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.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], Laura Molina papers, CEMA 199. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:
UC Santa Barbara Library
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
Contact:
(805) 893-3062
special@library.ucsb.edu
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