Ricco Diamonte has a lifelong passion and talent for creating art. Originally from northwest OH, he went on to graduate from the University of St. Francis with a Bachelor of Art degree. He was inspired to begin a career in tattooing while living in San Diego, California. Ricco traveled the west coast tattooing in numerous […]
Ramiro Rodriguez CV
I am a Chicano artist. I come from the West Side of South Bend, Indiana (Little Mexico). I channel the methods used by important Chicano artists and other political artists by disseminating my messages into the community.The prints that I create are a satirical commentary on our contemporary society. My work addresses contemporary ideas using […]
Maria Tomasula CV
I am an artist.I have been painting for over twenty years. I graduated from Universidad Iberoamericana with a BA in Art and Illustration. I became a local artist in 2006 when I picked up my brushes seeking to let out what could not be contained any longer. Art has saved my life. Art has changed […]
Zamorano was born in Los Angeles, California. He began his path as an artist when his Kindergarten teacher read A Very Hungry Caterpillar to the whole class; that was when he decided that art is what he wanted to do. Zamorano raised his first Pit Bull dog, discovered graffiti art, and Hip Hop in California. He […]
“Om Tat Sat” -Dougie Padilla Dr. Swami Lucky Dougie Padilla is a self-taught visionary artist of Norwegian/ Mexican/cowboy roots living in the wilds of Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, and Pepin, Wisconsin, USA. In his 68 years, he has lived in a tent through a sub-zero winter; farmed soybeans; survived the psychedelic travails of Haight-Ashbury; created and lost a […]
“Aspects of salvage, collection and repetition run through all my works. I recover local materials deemed unwanted or useless, including trash, recyclables and surplus items, and then transform them into playful, approachable and thought-provoking objects. I want my creations to act as artifacts and evidence of the early 21st century, an era of limited resources […]
“Art has always been my passion. Ever since I can remember, I have been trying to create myself through art.”-Aaron OlivoMy grandma would buy me coloring and drawing books where she worked. While I waited for her to get off work, I drew. Over the years, I continued, mostly drawing superheroes and monsters. As a […]
The Chicago Latino ArTchive is an online resource documenting Latino artists active in the city since the early 1920s. It offers biographical information, photographs of artworks, artists’ statements, and related web links. Developed by the Inter-University Program for Latino Research, in collaboration with artists, this resource expands our knowledge and understanding of Chicago modern and […]
After moving from Mexico City to the United States, Xavier Tavera learned what it felt like to be part of a subculture—the immigrant community. Subjection to alienation has transformed the focus of his photographs, and he aims to share the lives of those who are marginalized. Images have offered insight into the diversity of numerous […]
Natalia Sanchez was born in Bayamon, Puerto Rico in 1992. After graduating high school, she made the impulsive decision to leave behind everything she’d ever known and moved to Columbus, Ohio to study arts. She graduated from the Columbus College of Art and Design in May of 2015, earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts with […]
“Stylistically, my work spans the spectrum from realism through abstraction and from richly textured compositions to clean graphic design. I am equally comfortable with representing subjects such as the human form, non-representational compositions and open-ended processes. The body of my work most often hinges on the tension between chaos and order, formidable complexity and quiet, […]
“I have always gravitated to people that help me really think through the multiplicity of self, that we should complicate notions of identity rather than generalizing them.” – Maria Gaspar With an interdisciplinary social art practice, Maria Gaspar’s artistic interventions range from installations, sculpture, sound, performance and participatory actions that consider contemporary issues of visibility, isolation, belonging, […]