Guide to Just Another Poster Exhibition Collection CEMA 133
Sal Guerena
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara 93106-9010
Phone Number: (805) 893-3062
special@library.ucsb.edu
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Title: Just Another Poster Exhibition collection
Creator:
Güereña, Salvador
Identifier/Call Number: CEMA 133
Physical Description:
3 Linear Feet
(3 document boxes, 2 slide binder boxes, and 1 oversize box)
Date (inclusive): 1992-2003
Abstract:
Just Another Poster? Chicano Graphic Arts in California explores the critical role posters and other graphic arts have played in the Chicano struggle for self-determination in California.
This 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.
Language of Material:
English
.
Condition Governing Access note
This collection is open for research.
Biographical/Historical note
¿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.
The exhibition was organized by the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, in collaboration with
CEMA, Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, UCSB, 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.
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.
Preferred Citation
Just Another Poster Exhibition Collection, CEMA 133, Department of Special Collections, University Library, University of
California, Santa Barbara.
Processing Information note
Processed by Salvador Güereña, July 2011.
Series Description
Series I Curatorial Team Planning contains agendas, notes minutes, general correspondence including e-mails and some on letterhead, project plan, and grant
proposals.
Series II Production consists of production files, checklists with various drafts, including preliminary catalogs. Also included are exhibit loans
and exhibition texts, including wall panels in English and Spanish, and educational materials.
Series III Publicity and Publications holds news releases, sample promotional materials from the venues, and a copy of the exhibition catalog and poster.
Series IV Slides is housed in two binder boxes with slides marked as part of the preliminary selections for the exhibition selection process.
Series V Photographs contains photographs depicting the silkscreen process.
Scope and Contents note
This collection consists of files that document the process of curating the Just Another Poster Exhibition. It centers on
significant Chicano/a graphic art and posters from California since the 1960's. Included are 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. This collection dates from 1992-2003 and consists of five
series: Curatorial Team Planning, Production, Publicity and Publications, Slides, and Photographs.
Conditions Governing Use note
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Posters
Chicano movement -- California
Art -- Exhibitions
Screen printing
Chicano art
Mexican American artists -- California
Series I Curatorial Team Planning
box 1, folder 1-29
Correspondence and Meeting Notes
1992-2001
box 2, folder 1
Correspondence and Meeting Notes, Mexico
1999
box 2, folder 3
Permission to Reproduce
2001
box 2, folder 5
Project Plan and Summary
undated
box 2, folder 7
UCSB Library Fundraising
1997
box 2, folder 8
Artist Lists and Mechicano Art Center Inventory
1999
box 2, folder 9
Bibliography on Chicano Graphic Art
undated
box 2, folder 10
Checklists Drafts, Catalog of Preliminary Selections
1995
box 2, folder 11
Checklists Drafts, Catalog of Revised Selection
1998
box 2, folder 12-17
Checklists Drafts
1999, undated
box 2, folder 18
Checklists Drafts, Mechicano Art Prints
1996
box 3, folder 5
Spreadsheets of CEMA Posters
undated
box 3, folder 10-12
Texts and Labels
ca. 1999
Series III Publicity and Publications
box 6, folder 1
Announcement Poster for UCSB Venue
2001
box 3, folder 14-15
Sample Promotional Materials
2000-2003
box 6, folder 2
Sample Publicity Articles
2001
box 3, folder 17
University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara
2001
box 3, folder 18, 19
Preliminary Selection Slides
undated
box 4-5
Preliminary Selection Slides
undated
box 6, folder 3
Silkscreen Process Photograph Documentation
undated
