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Title: Ana M. Montano-Herrera papers
Identifier/Call Number: CEMA 210
Language of Material:
English.
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Physical Description:
10.47 Linear Feet
(3 document boxes, 7 flat file folders, 12 videotapes, 2 audiocassettes, 8 moving image reels)
Creator:
Montano, Ana M. (1952-)
Date (inclusive): 1970-2000
Abstract: Materials generated by Ana M. Montano-Herrera, a California-based art curator, photographer, and visual artist who has exhibited
locally in the Bay Area of California and internationally in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico from 1970 to the year 2000.
Physical Location: Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
The collection is open for research. Audiovisual materials must be reformatted for access. Please contact the Department of
Special Research Collections in advance to request access.
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 are 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@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 assigns for permission to publish where the UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
[Identification of Item], Ana M. Montano-Herrera papers, CEMA 210. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara
Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Gift of Ana M. Montano-Herrera, September 2022
Ana M. Montano-Herrera was born in 1952 in San Salvador, El Salvador. In 1958, she emigrated to San Francisco, California
with her mother where they lived on 24th Street in the Mission District. She attended City College of San Francisco (CCSF),
San Francisco State University and later the San Francisco Art Institute. Her postgraduate includes an M.A. in Museum Management
from Golden Gate University, and a Juris Doctor from University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Having come of
age within the creative, dynamic, social, cultural, and political environment of San Francisco's Mission District, Ana Montano
developed a deeply rooted commitment to social justice and advocated for the rights of the underrepresented throughout her
legal career. She also acquired a passion for the visual arts based on her multi-racial, immigrant, feminist, Latina identity.
Ana served on the California Public Broadcast Commission and was a founding member and director of Mission Film Workshop,
Inc., who filmed the Mujeres Muralistas while they painted in the 24th St. Mini Park. In 1973, she was instrumental in developing
the nascent mural project in Balmy Alley in collaboration with Mia Galaviz, Director of 24th Street Place, Roberto Vargas
of the San Francisco Neighborhood Arts Program, and René Yañez and Ralph Maradiaga of Galería de la Raza. Ana Montano, in
collaboration with Salvadoran artist Sara Ortiz, designed a mural in Balmy Alley titled: "Brazilian Jungle Boy". (Now extinct;
see Alan W. Barnett, 'Community Murals The People's Art'). Ana Montano's arts administration and curatorial work includes
working with Galería de la Raza/Studio 24, as the founding gallery director and curator at Laney College in Oakland, California.
She worked with the ArtBeat Gallery, in San Francisco, California and on various independent curatorial projects in San Francisco
and El Salvador. Ana Montano later attended law school to study law and mainstream media as a tool for social and economic
justice.
This collection is composed of four series: Professional papers, Mission Film Workshop motion picture films, Video Recordings
and Graphic arts. The Ana M. Montano-Herrera papers include art catalogues, photographs, slides, administrative files, personal
and professional correspondence, videos, film media, and other materials. It also contains artwork by and interviews of Chicano,
Salvadoran, Cuban, and Afro-American artists. These materials were created throughout Ana's career in the Bay Area of California
during her involvement with the Mission Film Workshop, ArtBeat Gallery, June Steingart Gallery, Galería de la Raza/Studio
24 and the creation of Balmy Alley from 1970 to the year 2000.
The collection is arranged into four series: Series 1 - Professional papers, Series 2 - Mission Film Workshop motion picture
films, Series 3 - Video recordings, Series 4 - Graphic arts.
Labels and loose materials found with audiovisual materials can be found in Series 1, Box 3, Folder 6. Each item is labeled
with a number corresponding to the appropriate film reel, VHS or 8MM tape.
Just Like Me: Stories and Self-Portraits by Fourteen Artists, Edited by Harriet Rohmer was separated from the collection.
It was catalogued and can be accessed through the UCSB library catalog.
Ralph Maradiaga collection, CEMA 35. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library.
Galería de la Raza Archives, CEMA 4. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Hispanic American artists
Hispanic American art
Art galleries, Commercial -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Archives
Community arts projects -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Archives
Prints
Posters
Interviews
Personal correspondence
Documentary films
Montano, Ana M. (1952-) -- Archives