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Royal Chicano Air Force Archives
CEMA 8
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Description
Extensive collection of slides and silkscreen prints, along with administrative records, news clippings, correspondence, exhibition
descriptions and flyers, photographs, creative writings, and miscellaneous publications of the Sacramento-based artists collective.
Founding members of the
RCAF include José Montoya, Esteban Villa, Juanishi V. Orosco, Ricardo Favela, and Rudy Cuellar (CEMA 8).
Background
The Royal Chicano Air Force (
RCAF) is an artistic collective based in Sacramento. Initially named the Rebel Chicano Art Front, the
RCAF was founded in 1969 to express the goals of the Chicano civil rights and labor organizing movement of the United Farm Workers.
Its mission was to make available to the Chicano community a bilingual/bicultural arts center where artists could come together,
exchange ideas, provide mutual support, and make available to the public artistic, cultural, and educational programs and
events.
Extent
15 linear feet (34 document boxes and 2 oversize boxes).
550 prints, 4200 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
None
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