Just Another Poster Exhibition Collection, 1992-2003

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Summary

Title:
Just Another Poster Exhibition collection
Dates:
1992-2003
Creators:
Güereña, Salvador
Abstract:
Materials compiled and produced in the planning of the Just Another Poster? Chicano Graphic Arts in California traveling exhibition.
Extent:
3 Linear Feet (3 document boxes, 2 slide binder boxes, and 1 flat box)
Language:
English Spanish; Castilian
Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], Just Another Poster Exhibition Collection, CEMA 133. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection contains files that document the process of curating the Just Another Poster? Chicano Graphic Arts in California traveling exhibition. It centers on significant Chicano/a graphic art and posters from California since the 1960's.

Materials include project plans, incoming and outgoing correspondence, loan paperwork, announcement posters, and other formal documents. Also included in this collection are three large photographs that document the process of making silkscreens.

Biographical / historical:

Just Another Poster? Chicano Graphic Arts in California was a major interpretive interdisciplinary traveling exhibition on Chicano graphic art in California that was developed between 1992-1999, launched in 2000 and toured nationally through 2003. The exhibition was a comprehensive exploration of the critical role posters and other graphic materials played in the Chicano struggle for self-determination in California.

The exhibition was organized by the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), in collaboration with the UCSB Library's Special Research Collections' California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA), and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics in Los Angeles. The interdisciplinary curatorial team included Holly J. Barnet, Marla C. Berns, C. Ondine Chavoya, Salvador Güereña, George Lipsitz, Chon Noriega, Rafael Perez-Torres, Tere Romo, and Carol Wells. The project was overseen by Marla C. Berns.

The exhibition was funded in part by grants from: The Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the U.S.-Mexico Fund for Culture, the Intercampus Arts Program of the University of California, California Council for the Humanities, UC MEXUS of the University of California, California Arts Council, the Humanities Research Institute of the University of California in Irvine, and the UC Santa Barbara Library.

Just Another Poster? Chicano Graphic Arts in California is one of the many projects that focus on what has been called the Chicano poster movement that explore the inextricable ties between the history of Chicano cultural production and the Chicano civil rights movement.

Custodial history:

The bulk of the collection is composed of aggregated CEMA administrative files collected by exhibition co-curator Salvador Güereña and includes his own curatorial meeting notes on the project dating from its inception in 1993 through execution in 2000.

Arrangement:

The collection has been arranged by topic and format into five series:

  • Series 1: Curatorial Team Planning
  • Series 2: Production
  • Series 3: Publicity and Publications
  • Series 4: Slides
  • Series 5: Photographs

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Collection processed and finding aid created by Sal Guerena, July 2011. Finding aid updated by Rebecca Vasquez, April 2026.
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2026-04-07 16:37:44 -0700 .

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open for research.

Terms of 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 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:

[Identification of Item], Just Another Poster Exhibition Collection, CEMA 133. 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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