Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Holly Barnet-Sanchez papers
- Dates:
- circa 1970-2018
- Creators:
- Barnet-Sánchez, Holly and Sánchez-Tranquilino, Marcos
- Abstract:
- Papers of Holly Barnet-Sanchez, an art historian, curator, and Associate Professor Emerita of Latin American and Chicano/a, Latino/a Art History at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
- Extent:
- 30.5 Linear Feet (26 cartons, 1 document box, 1 flat box, 1 flat file, and 1 shoebox)
- Language:
- English , Spanish; Castilian .
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], Holly Barnet-Sanchez papers, CEMA 215. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection contains materials produced and compiled throughout over 40 years of Holly Barnet-Sanchez's education and professional work in the field of Latin American and Chicano/a/x/Latino art history. It contains documentation from her graduate studies (masters and doctoral), curatorial activities, conference and fellowship attendance, and scholarly work. Also included is a group of materials created and collected by Barnet-Sanchez's former husband, Marcos Sánchez-Tranquilino.
Materials may include correspondence, notes, transcripts, drafts, articles, essays, photographic materials, audiovisual materials, subject files, clippings, flyers, and other publications.
- Biographical / historical:
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Holly Barnet-Sanchez (1947- ) is Associate Professor Emerita of Latin American and Chicano/a art history at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque in the Department of Art and Art History. Barnet-Sanchez received her BA at Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa in 1969 with a major in history, her Master's in Library Science at Syracuse University in 1972, specializing in art librarianship, and her MA in Art History at the University of Colorado with a focus on Modern European, Indian and Southeast Asian, and Northern Baroque art in 1981. She received her PhD in Pre-Columbian Art History at UCLA in 1993, under the mentorship of Dr. Cecelia Klein. Her dissertation, "The Necessity of Pre-Columbian Art: U.S. Museums and the Role of Foreign Policy in the Appropriation and Transformation of Mexican Heritage, 1933-1944," was among the first studies to examine the specific twentieth century historical/political contexts and diplomatic/strategic, hemispherically-focused uses of Pre-Columbian objects in the United States.
During her years of graduate study, she developed an abiding interest in the arts created alongside and in support of social protest movements and revolution, the relationships between the visual, literary, and performing arts, with an emphasis on the study of institutional practices in museums of art history, archeology, and anthropology, accompanied by a further exploration into smaller, alternative art spaces, and arts collectives. These varied areas of study, scholarship and teaching informed her research, teaching, and curatorial practice in the fields of Chicano/a art and activism that began during her graduate student years.
In 2010-11, she worked with Rutgers University and University of New Mexico faculty, staff, and students, along with Albuquerque arts organizations to create a multi-dimensional scholarly, literary, and visual series of symposia, exhibitions, and poetry performances entitled "The Latino Literary Imagination" and "The Latino Visual Imaginary" in New Brunswick and Albuquerque celebrating the founders of the Nuyorican Poets Café and the writer, Rudolfo Anaya, best known for his early novel, Bless Me Ultima.
She is the co-author of Give Me Life: Iconography and Identity in East LA Murals, co-editor of Signs from the Heart: California Chicano Murals, and contributor to Mexican Muralism: A Critical History. She participated in creating the exhibition, Chicano Art Resistance, and Affirmation, 1965-1985 (CARA), for The Wight Art Gallery, UCLA. She also served as curator at the Mexican Museum in San Francisco in the early 1990s. Barnet-Sanchez worked on the documentation project for the Mural Resource Center at the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) and subsequently co-edited, with Eva Cockcroft, Signs from the Heart; California Chicano Murals, based on that slide collection. As one of the curators for ¿Just Another Poster? Chicano Graphic Arts in California, she contributed the essay 'Where are the Chicana Printmakers? Presence and Absence in the Work of Chicana Artists of the Movimiento'.
- Acquisition information:
- Gifts of Holly Barnet-Sanchez, 2024-2025.
- Arrangement:
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The collection has been organized by topic and creator into five series:
- Series 1: Graduate work
- Series 2: Chicano Art materials
- Series 3: Teaching materials
- Series 4: Marcos Sánchez-Tranquilino materials
- Series 5: Graphic art
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-06-17 11:00:10 -0700 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Some files in this collection may contain restricted materials and may not be digitized or reproduced. Please contact the Department of Special Research Collections in advance to request access.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the collection and physical objects belong to the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at the UCSB Library. All applicable literary rights, including copyright to the collection and physical objects, are protected under Chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code and may be retained by the creator and the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns.
All requests to reproduce, quote from, or otherwise reuse collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB at special@library.ucsb.edu. Consent is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or their assignees for permission to publish where the UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], Holly Barnet-Sanchez papers, CEMA 215. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Location of this collection:
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UC Santa Barbara LibrarySanta Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
- Contact:
- (805) 893-3062