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In Your Face: Arte chicana dopo C.A.R.A
Radio Colonna Tv
Published on September 29, 2022

Symbolism and Surrealism with Linda Vallejo
LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes
Linda Vallejo creates work that visualizes what it means to be a person of color in the United States. She states that her new works reflect what she calls her “brown intellectual property”—the experiences, knowledge, and feelings gathered over more than four decades of study of Latino, Chicano, and American Indigenous culture and communities. In conjunction with “L.A. Memo: Chicana/o Art from 1972-1980,” organized by AltaMed and LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, and guest curated by Rafael Barrientos Martínez, AltaMed Curatorial Assistant, Collections.
Recorded live on May 18, 2022

Maestra Monday w/ Linda Vallejo
Mujeres de Maiz
Join us as we chat & learn from our veteran maestras/mentors. Today we chat with artist, femntor, grant writer and Xicana Indigena leader Linda Vallejo.
Published on May 9, 2022

Brown Belongings: A Dialogue about the Politics of Color and Class
First Amendment Museum
Artist Linda Vallejo describes her exhibit “Brown Belongings”, which represents ten years of concentrated work on visualizing what it means to be a person of color in the United States.
April 19, 2022

WCA 50th Anniversary Interviews: Linda Vallejo
Women’s Caucus for the Arts: Art Insights
by Marianne McGrath
Linda Vallejo’s interview is part of a series of interviews organized by the Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA) Art Writers Group to highlight leaders of WCA in celebration of our 50th Anniversary. Artist Linda Vallejo creates work that investigates contemporary cultural and political issues, visualizing what it means to be a person of color in the United States. Linda is one of the recipients of the 2022 WCA Lifetime Achievement Award.
January 26, 2022

Telling Tales / Why Artists Tell Stories About Land and Lives
Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art
Panel discussion accompanying the Southern California Women’s Caucus exhibition “Stories of the Land” at Santa Ana College Main Gallery in Fine Arts Building, Santa Ana, CA
October 19, 2021

Women in Arts: Donna Brookman, Maria de Los Angeles, Linda Vallejo
Museum of Sonoma County
In honor of Women’s History Month, this panel discussion features Donna Brookman, Maria de Los Angeles, and Linda Vallejo, three artists from the “35: Thirty-Five Artists for Thirty-Five Years” exhibition. Moderated by Estelle Rogers, the Museum of Sonoma County’s Art Committee Chair and Board Secretary, this discussion focuses on the lives, work, and experience of each panelist.
March 30, 2021

HERLAND: Women Artists in the MOLAA Collection – Panel Discussion
Museum of Latin American Art MOLAA
Moderated by art critic and writer, Shana Nys Dambrot
Featuring artists: Amalia Caputo, Leyla Cárdenas, Sandra Ramos, Verónica Riedel, and Linda Vallejo
In this panel discussion, we bring together 5 accomplished Latina and Latin American artists featured in the HERland exhibition, with distinct styles and approaches to their art-making processes, but united in making powerful work connected to a surrealist imaginary and defined a new powerful land with new meanings.
March 14th, 2021

MOLAA Zoom Project Chapter 6: In Conversation with Linda Vallejo
Museum of Latin American Art MOLAA
In each chapter, MOLAA Chief Curator Gabriela Urtiaga talks with the most remarkable artists from Latin-America and Latinxs in the US. Their conversation places the focus on a series or specific artwork which requires a close inspection and deliberate process of contemplation and exploration; delving into the ideas surrounding the creation of the works, their sources of research and inspiration, in an effort to immerse ourselves in the world of the artists.
January 22, 2021

Members’ Opening Reception for 35: Thirty-Five Artists for Thirty-Five Years and Artistry in Wood
Museum of Sonoma County
In this virtual opening reception, we celebrate the Museum of Sonoma County’s two newest exhibitions, “35: Thirty-Five Artists for Thirty-Five Years” and “Artistry in Wood.” Members of the Museum and of the Sonoma County Woodworkers Association were invited to an exclusive preview of the exhibitions to learn more about the artworks from the exhibition organizers and participate in a live Q&A session.
December 15, 2020

Linda Vallejo – Datos Sagrados
Santa Monica Cultural Affairs
Curator Jill Moniz discusses “Datos Sagrados: 43.3% of US Farming Forestry & Fishery Workers are Latino”, a 2017 work of ink on handmade paper by local Chicanx artist Linda Vallejo. Part of her “Datos Sagrados” series, the work represents labor statistics in a beautiful pattern. This artwork is a part of the City of Santa Monica’s municipal Art Bank collection and is featured in the new semi-permanent exhibit “Lives that Bind: a restorative justice installation” at Santa Monica’s new City Hall East facility.
December 10, 2020

Linda Vallejo – Datos Sagrados
Curator jill moniz discusses “Datos Sagrados: 43.3% of US Farming Forestry & Fishery Workers are Latino”, a 2017 work of ink on handmade paper by local Chicanx artist Linda Vallejo. Part of her “Datos Sagrados” series, the work represents labor statistics in a beautiful pattern. This artwork is a part of the City of Santa Monica’s municipal Art Bank collection and is featured in the new semi-permanent exhibit “Lives that Bind: a restorative justice installation” at Santa Monica’s new City Hall East facility.
December 8, 2020

Art/World: Mexico
bG Gallery
A virtual travel adventure exploring art around the world presented by bG Gallery and the Venice Institute of Contemporary Art
November 11, 2020

Why Artists Make Socio-Political Images
Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art
Why Artists Make Socio-Political Images from the Common Ground Exhibition Moderated by Linda Vallejo. Artists Mariona Barkus, Pilar Castillo, Naida Osline and Pamela J. Peters discuss the inspiration, meaning, and impact for making works that focus on the politics of color, class, culture or gender.
October 14, 2020

Common Ground Opening
Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art
The Earth is the ground upon which we all stand, together in our differences. This Opening Conversation features discussions with curators Suvan Geer and Sandra Mueller, the co-founders of 11:11 Erin Stone and Addy Gonzalez, and the participating artists of Common Ground. The artists connect their artworks to the reality of a shared planet that is humanity’s most divided and damaged common ground.
October 13, 2020

No Privilege: No Path, No Power
Live stream dialogue between Linda Vallejo, Kalpana Vadnagara, and Snezana Saraswati Petrovic. SOS-Siren in collaboration with the Hammer Museum.
September 19, 2020

Ceremonia virtual de suscripción del Convenio de colaboración del Circuito Arte y Migración / Virtual signing ceremony of the Art and Migration Circuit collaboration agreement
Signing of an agreement between the Ministry of Culture and the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature with the governments of the states of Aguascalientes, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Michoacán, Jalisco, Baja California, Coahuila, Guanajuato, Nuevo León and Zacatecas, to join the Circuit Art and Migration, which through their respective institutes or secretariats of Culture, will have the opportunity to enrich various regional and national circuits from the production of their own artistic communities in the disciplines of literature, theater, dance, music and visual arts. Likewise, the virtual exhibition “Building bridges in the time of walls. Chicano / Mexican art from Los Angeles to Mexico” is inaugurated, in its last stage of circulation in Mexico, in conjunction with the Tijuana Cultural Center.
July 9, 2020

Linda Vallejo: Brown Belongings 2019-2020
A walk-through of one of two floors of Linda Vallejo’s solo Exhibition at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes
January 16, 2020

Plática: Decoding Linda Vallejo’s Brown Belongings
La Plaza de Cultura y Artes
In this plática, the writers of the exhibition’s companion catalog share their insights on Linda Vallejo’s art. Panelists are, from left, William Moreno, art advisor, dealer, curator, and writer; Michelle L. Lopez, lecturer in the Department of Chicana(o) and Latina(o) Studies at California State University, Los Angeles; and Karen Mary Davalos, Professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. The moderator is Pilar Tompkins Rivas, Director of the Vincent Price Art Museum.
Published on August 15, 2019

Con una Mona Lisa morena, artista invita a debate racial en EEUU
AFP News
La primera vez que Linda Vallejo pensó en el color de su piel tenía 13 años. Ahora la artista chicana interviene elementos y personajes de una cultura popular, donde lo caucásico predomina, para volverlos morenos y llamar a un debate y conciencia racial.
Published on July 15, 2019

Et si Mickey et Mona Lisa étaient Mexicains?
AFP News
In Los Angeles, an American-Hispanic artist colors the skin of prestigious figures of painting and pop culture: “I make the Latino world, like me, to feel part of it,” says Linda Vallejo, whose 125 works are visible in California until January 2020.
Published on July 18, 2019

Brown Belongings Exhibit
L.A. This Week
Chicana artist Linda Vallejo has created an exhibit dedicated to an oft-excluded minority group, those with brown skin.
Published on June 6, 2019

See Something, Say Something
Museum of Sonoma County
Explore the thought-provoking works of David Huffman, Evri Kwong, and Linda Vallejo.
Published on April 10, 2019

Linda Vallejo at Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA)
Artist Linda Vallejo’s “The Brown Dot Project” is an elegant solution to questions about Latino population data in Southern California. To break it down:
-Within the area of each image are 48,400 squares.
-48.3% of Los Angeles’ population is Latino.
-48.3% of 48,400 squares is 23,377.
**This piece contains 23,377 Brown Dots to represent the Latino population in Los Angeles.
-She counts the dots in increments of 50. 23,377 dots equaling 467 sets of fifty dots plus 27.
Here is Linda explaining her work currently displayed in MOLAA’s exhibition, El Exploratorio.
Published on June 14, 2018

MOLAA | El Exploratorio: Zona I
Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach
In MOLAA’s newest exhibition, El Exploratorio: Zona I, artists examine the influence of science and technology in the processes of creation. This groundbreaking exhibition features 19 Latin American and Latino artists from Cuba, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and the United States. This dazzling and thought-provoking collection of technology-driven work will be on view until July 29th, 2018.
Published on April 24, 2018

2018 WOMEN’S CAUCUS FOR ART EXHIBITION
Santa Monica Art Studios, CA
Film by Eric Minh Swenson
The Women’s Caucus for Art is pleased to present ART SPEAKS! Lend Your Voice as their 2018 national conference exhibition. Curator Jill Moniz selected abstract and representational
artworks by 62 artists from across the country.
Published on Mar 15, 2018

Javier Poza entrevista a Linda Vallejo
Javier Poza en Formula
Publish on March 2, 2018

Art Speaks
The Women’s Caucus for Art presents ART SPEAKS! Lend Your Voice
Published on February 28, 2018

TFAP@CAA 2018 Special Panel Event — How will Feminist Culture Engage the Future?
Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities
This TFAP@CAA Special Panel Event took place on February 20, 2018, at Mudd Hall, University of Southern California. This event was presented by The Feminist Art Project at Rutgers University in partnership with the University of Southern California.
Published in 2018

Pacific Standard Time LA/LA—vol 8
Film by Peter Rashkin
Charles W. White Elementary School – A UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF INFAMY: Those of This America, with artists talk: Linda Vallejo, my old friend, and Isabel Avila, brilliant photographer. I also talked to artist Raul Baltazar and Curator Vincent Ramos. While other PST exhibitions are winding down, this one is just getting going. It will be open to the public Saturdays through next year. This is part of the show that just closed at LACMA. Ramos had a beautiful installation there as well.
Published on February 27, 2018

Los “Oscares morenos” de Linda Vallejo abren el diálogo al rol latino en Hollywood
AGENCIA EFE
(Imágenes: Iván Mejía) Entristecida por la “exclusión” latina en Hollywood, la pintora Linda Vallejo decidió mostrar en la exhibición “The Brown Oscars” (Los Oscares morenos) a grandes estrellas del cine con un tono de piel característico de los actores hispanos que echa en falta en la gran pantalla.
Published on Feb 26, 2018

Walkthrough: Mujeres de Maiz: Twenty Years of Artivism & Herstory en L.A.
Curator Felicia Montes and co-curator Michelle Lopez conduct a walk through of the art and artists that were part of the exhibition at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, March 4-May 29, 2017
Published on Feb 20, 2018

Metropolis—Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (I)
Produced by the Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española (RTVE)
Published on November 22, 2017
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IMAGEN ANGELENO: PST LA/LA
Film by Eric Minh Swenson
Published on November 18, 2017

DECONSTRUCTING LIBERTY: A DESTINY MANIFESTED : PST LALA
Film by Eric Minh Swenson
Deconstructing Liberty: A Destiny Manifested is part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, a far-reaching and ambitious exploration of Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles. Through performance, installation, video, and photography, these artists question ideas traditionally associated with American liberty as they resonate in forms of collective identity across the globe.
Published on October 30, 2017

PBS Craft in America: BORDERS episode
BORDERS explores the relationships and influences that Mexican and American craft artists have on each other. Artists, organizations and events featured include the Day of the Dead celebration, master altar builder Ofelia Esparza and Self Help Graphics & Art in Los Angeles; weaver J. Isaac Vásquez García and family of Teotitlán del Valle, Mexico; American weaver Jim Bassler and potter Veralee Bassler; the colorful Guelaguetza parade in Los Angeles; and Chicago artist Kiff Slemmons who works with maestro Francisco Toledo at the Art Paper Workshop in Mexico. This episode confirms that art is without borders. It is a pathway for creativity and the connections that make us all human.
PBS premiere September 29, 2017

Día de los Muertos: A Cultural Legacy, Past, Present & Future: Curator Linda Vallejo
Self Help Graphics & Art
Self Help Graphics Legacy Artist and curator of the exhibition, Linda Vallejo, speaks to her experience with the celebration.
Published on August 30, 2017

ART TRAFFIC Interview: Ep. 4 Linda Vallejo
Produced by Thomas Adams
Published on August 22, 2017

Linda Vallejo ‘Keepin it Brown’
bG Gallery
bG Gallery is pleased to present the LA debut of a beautifully brown body of work by artist Linda Vallejo from her Make ‘em All Mexican, Brown Oscars, and Brown Dot Project. Vallejo paints historical figures and contemporary pop personalities brown; revisions white iconic Oscar stars as brown-Mexican; and transforms Latino populations and workforce data into engaging visual representations using brown dots.
Published on August 9, 2017

LINDA VALLEJO – Modern Art Blitz episode #80
Produced by Coagula Curatorial Mat Gleason
Published on July 31, 2017

Los Four Meets Los 40
Gregorio Escalante Gallery & La Bodega Gallery in collaboration, is pleased to announce Los Four Meets Los 40
Published on March 31, 2017

Portraits of an Immigrant-Filled Nation | KQED Arts
KQED Arts
By Sarah Hotchkiss and Kelly Whalen
Published on February 8, 2017

LBGTQ Historic Places in L.A.: The Woman’s Building
Produced by the Los Angeles Conservancy
LGBTQ Historic Places in L.A. is a film project that aims to bring together a diversity of stories, perspectives, and experiences that reveal the layered historic and cultural importance of LGBTQ places throughout L.A. County. The films are the Conservancy’s latest addition to our Curating the City: LGBTQ Historic Places in L.A. microsite, launched in 2015. Released in partnership with KCET, each of the three short films showcase a different location and features on-site interviews with community members, as well as archival footage and ephemera. Each film tells part of a broad story about LGBTQ places, as well as their enduring value and increasing relevance today. The films were made possible through funding provided by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and produced by local media studio, FORM follows FUNCTION.
Published on Friday, January 6, 2017

My Hero! Contemporary Art & Superhero Action
Bedford Gallery
Beford Gallery Curator of Exhibitions and Programs Carrie Lederer discusses the My Hero! exhibition.
Published in 2016

The Art of Memory Book Trailer
Lectura Books
Ten remarkable artists are gathered in this bilingual children’s book to tell their most unforgettable childhood memory.
Published on Aug 18, 2016

Opening Reception: Doin’ it in Public: Art & Feminism at The Woman’s Building
Set to the original song written by Phranc for her concert “This Is Your Life: The Woman’s Building,” here are highlights of the Opening at the Otis College exhibit “Doin’ It In Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building” on October 1, 2011. The exhibit is part of “Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945 — 1980,” an initiative of the Getty with arts institutions across Southern California.
Published on December 8, 2016

Exhibition Reception and Artist’s Talk: “Make ‘Em All Mexican: Works by Linda Vallejo”
Produced by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC)
Published on January 21, 2015

Exposición del Taller Fronterizo/Border Workshop
Activity at the II International Cultural Festival El gran México 2014.
Published on Oct 3, 2014

LINDA VALLEJO: Make ’em All Mexican
By Edwin Vasquez
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, MOAH is pleased to present the art of Los Angeles Based artist Linda Vallejo’s Make ‘Em All Mexican.
Published on September 19, 2014

Aesthetic V Blog with Linda Vallejo
Hosted by Vicky Hamilton
Published on May 11, 2014

Momentum – WCA 40th Anniversary Conference
Highlights from the Women’s Caucus for Art 40th Anniversary Kick-off Celebration ‘Momentum’ in Los Angeles, CA
Published on Jun 20, 2012

LATINOPIA ART LINDA VALLEJO
Linda Vallejo is an accomplished artist whose works include paintings and installation pieces. In 2007 she had a show at the Metro Gallery in Los Angeles showcasing her move from portraits of nudes to landscapes. She explained to Latinopia about her shift in subject matter. This video was produced, is owned and copyrighted by Barrio Dog Productions Inc. and is posted on vimeo and Latinopia.com by permission.
Published on May 27, 2012

An Evening with Linda Vallejo
Linda Vallejo opening at The Museum of the Southwest, Midland TX
Published on Jan 28, 2012

Linda Vallejo Leads Prayer
For the Opening Reception Of “Doin’ It In Public, Feminism And Art At The Women’s Building. This ceremony pays homage to the elements of earth, water, fire, and air, the four cardinal directions, mother earth, father sky, and the great spirit. An altar was built with special items donated by members of the audience that recall the relationships, memories and accomplishments of the Woman’s Building community. This event took place at the Otis College of Art & Design.
Published on Jan 12, 2012

Otis College: Doin It In Public: Tour of the Exhibition
Part of the unprecedented collaboration initiated by the Getty, “Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945-1980;” Otis College of Art and Design mounted the Exhibition “Doin’ It In Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building.” Curators Meg Linton and Sue Maberry lead us on a tour through the Gallery. Along with historical ephemera and documentation, the show surveys the work of groundbreaking feminist artists/designers and artist collectives who gathered together at the Los Angeles Woman’s Building from 1973 through 1991.
Published on Dec 12, 2011

Topanga Canyon (USC Dornsife College Documentary Project)
Published on May 11, 2011

Voces Vivas series featuring Linda Vallejo
Published on August 30, 2010
Barefoot Productions

Woman’s Building History: Linda Vallejo (Otis College)
Linda Vallejo was involved in the Woman’s Building for many years in many capacities, including artist, teacher, curator, and board member.
Published on June 14, 2010

Linda Vallejo discusses “The Electrics”
Studio for Southern California History
“The Electrics” are paintings by artist Linda Vallejo who has been working in Southern California since the late 1960s.
Published on May 26, 2010
The Electrics

Linda Vallejo on Dia De Los Muertos
Studio for Southern California History
Linda Vallejo describes the Day of the Dead procession as the “Macy’s Parade in New York meets East LA.” This interview was conducted by Dr. Sharon Sekhon as part of a series of Oral Histories for the “Self-Help Graphics & Sister Karen Boccalero History Project” by the Studio for Southern California.
Published on May 21, 2010

Linda Vallejo on Galeria Otra Vez
Studio for Southern California History
Linda Vallejo talks about Galeria Otra Vez and the value of having one’s art on display. This interview was conducted by Dr. Sharon Sekhon as part of a series of Oral Histories for the “Self-Help Graphics & Sister Karen Boccalero History Project” by the Studio for Southern California History in collaboration with Cal State LA Professor Dr. Angela Vergara.
Published on May 21, 2010

Linda Vallejo on Her Beginnings at Self-Help Graphics
Studio for Southern California History
Linda Vallejo tells of when she first began working at Self-Help Graphics in 1975. This interview was conducted by Dr. Sharon Sekhon as part of a series of Oral Histories for the “Self-Help Graphics & Sister Karen Boccalero History Project” by the Studio for Southern California History in collaboration with Cal State LA Professor Dr. Angela Vergara.
Published on May 21, 2010

Linda Vallejo on the Barrio Mobile Arts Studio
Studio for Southern California History
Linda Vallejo describes the Barrio Mobile Arts Studio and its various programming. This interview was conducted by Dr. Sharon Sekhon as part of a series of Oral Histories for the “Self-Help Graphics & Sister Karen Boccalero History Project” by the Studio for Southern California History in collaboration with Cal State LA Professor Dr. Angela Vergara.
Published on May 21, 2010

Linda Vallejo on the Process of Silk Screen Printing
Studio for Southern California History
Linda Vallejo explains the process of silk screen printing. This interview was conducted by Dr. Sharon Sekhon as part of a series of Oral Histories for the “Self-Help Graphics & Sister Karen Boccalero History Project” by the Studio for Southern California History in collaboration with Cal State LA Professor Dr. Angela Vergara.
Published on May 21, 2010

Linda Vallejo on Sister Karen Boccalero
Studio for Southern California History
Linda Vallejo talks about Sister Karen Boccalero’s dedication as Founder and Director of Self-Help Graphics. This interview was conducted by Dr. Sharon Sekhon as part of a series of Oral Histories for the “Self-Help Graphics & Sister Karen Boccalero History Project” by the Studio for Southern California History in collaboration with Cal State LA Professor Dr. Angela Vergara.
Published on May 21, 2010

Linda Vallejo at Metro Gallery
Produced by Metro Gallery and Jesus Trevino
Published in 2007

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ECONEWS with Nancy Pearlman – Tree of Life exhibit 2005
Produced by ECONEWS and Nancy Pearlman
Published in 2005

UCSB California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA) 1983—Linda Vallejo Interview #3
Produced by Philip Brookman
Published on August 11, 1983

UCSB California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA) 1983—Linda Vallejo Interview #2
Produced by Philip Brookman
Published on August 11, 1983

UCSB California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA) 1983—Linda Vallejo Interview #1
Produced by Philip Brookman
Published on August 11, 1983