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Ochoa (Victor) papers
CEMA 66
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Description
Ochoa [Victor] Collection. Art files, exhibition files, ephemera, posters and prints and other printed matter, photographs
and slides, correspondence files, and recordings of the Chicano painter/muralist long considered to be one of the pioneers
of San Diego's Chicano art movement and co-founder of the Centro Cultural de la Raza in Balboa Park, a multidisciplinary community-based
arts center devoted to producing and preserving Indian, Mexican, and Chicano art and culture. (CEMA 66).
Background
Victor Ochoa is a widely recognized Chicano painter/muralist long considered to be one of the pioneers of San Diego's Chicano
art movement. He is a co-founder of the Centro Cultural de la Raza in Balboa Park, a multidisciplinary community-based arts
center devoted to producing and preserving Indian, Mexican, and Chicano art and culture. He served as its director from 1970-73,
and from 1988-90. Until recently, Ochoa had been a long time artist-in-residence there. Ochoa was a co-initiator of the Chicano
Park community murals, an internationally acclaimed public art project. He was also co-founder of the "Border Art Workshop/Taller
de Arte Fronterizo arts collective (1984-93).
Extent
32 Linear Feet
(76 document boxes, 1 Paige box, and 4 oversize boxes, 352 slides)
Restrictions
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special 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.
Availability
The collection is open for research.