Self-Help Graphics and Art Research Collection

Series 1. Exhibition materials and administrative files 1973-2004

Scope and Contents

Most of this series consists of post cards, flyers, and other promotional material for various exhibits; much of the material is illustrated by artists such as Patssi Valdez, Leo Limon, Jose Ramirez, Eliana Dominguez, Artemio Rodriguez, Arturo Urista, Andy Ledesma, Carlos Gonzales Castro, and Omar Rodriguez. There are also some administrative records for the organization.

Arrangement

The files are in the order determined by the previous archivists.

Box 1, Folder 1

Day of the Dead 1981-2003

Scope and Contents

Includes: programs, flyers, exhibition materials, press releases; material on Glasgow Print Studio, Pocho Magazine #3.

Box 1, folder 2

Day of the Dead 1986-2003

Scope and Contents

Includes invitation cards.

Box 1, folder 3

Day of the Dead 1989-1995

Scope and Contents

Includes research materials; coloring book by Peter Tovar.

Box 1, folder 4

Publicity 1988-2000

Scope and Contents

Includes press releases for various exhibits; material on America Tropical by David Alfaro Siqueiros.

Box 1, folder 5

Chicano Expressions / Expresiones Chicanas 1993-1996

Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, flyers, brochures, and clippings on a traveling exhibition.

Box 1, folder 6

Grants - correspondence 1996-1999

Box 2, folder 1

Postcard invitations 1988-1995

Scope and Contents

Also includes Pocho Magazine, no. 2; comic book Cihualyaomiquiz, the Jaguar by Laura Molina.

Box 2, folder 2

Postcard invitations 1996-2004

Box 2, folder 3

Sales, auctions, and workshops - flyers and cards 1988-2004

Box 2, folder 4

Flyers 1982-2004

Scope and Contents

Includes material on Finding Family Stories, an arts partnership program of the Japanese American National Museum.

Box 2, folder 5

Cards and invitations 1999-2003

Box 2, folder 6

Cards and invitations 1990-1999

Box 2, folder 7

Cards, invitations, and flyers 1987-2003

Box 3, folder 1

Clippings and organizational records 1990-2003

Scope and Contents

Includes: Impacto! Autumn 2002; statements on the history and mission of SHG; financial reports.

Box 3, folder 2

Catalogs 1986-1997

Scope and Contents

Includes: Chicano/Latino Art: Images in the Age of AIDS; Monoprint Images of the Border; VI Gathering of Contemporary Latin American Writers and Visual Artists in Rhode Island.

Box 3, folder 3

Publications and brochures 1996-2003

Scope and Contents

Includes: Traffic Report, June 1996, April 1998.

Box 3, folder 4

Publications and brochures 1996-2004

Scope and Contents

Includes Contemporaries: Five Years of Grantmaking in the Visual Arts.

Box 4, folder 1

Cards and invitations 1983-1989

Box 4, folder 2

Brochures 1986-1989

Box 4, folder 3

Photographic slides 1973-1989

Scope and Contents

Includes slides of works by Margaret Garcia, Eloy Torrez, Sergio Zenteno, Yreina D. Cervantez, Leo Limon. Michael M. Amescua; biographical information on Amescua; flyers for Zenteno.

Box 4, folder 4

Atelier Program brochures 1986-1989

Box 4, folder 5

Artists' publicity material 1987-1989

Scope and Contents

Includes: press release about, resume for, and slides of works by Robert Delgado; resume and clippings for Barbara Carrasco; letter of recommendation and clippings for Margaret Garcia; cv and clippings for Jose Antonio Aguirre.

Box 4, folder 6

Limon, Leo 1988

Scope and Contents

Contains resume; cards.

Box 4, folder 7

Artists' publicity materials 1983-1989

Scope and Contents

Includes letters of recommendation and press releases for Yreina D. Cervantez; cards for Eloy Torrez; photographs of works by Curtis Guttierrez.

Box 4, folder 8

L.A. Walls [book of mural postcards] 1994

Box 7

Periodicals 1994-2003

Scope and Contents

Includes: Vida Nueva, 1994 December 2, 1995 December 8, 1996 November 1-14, 1997 March 27; Mexican American Sun, 1996 July 25; BOCA, 1:6 1999 April-May, 3:4 2000 October; Latino Weekly Review, 1:1, 2003 March.

Series 2. Audiovisual and photographic materials