La Prensa San Diego

By Maria Curry Two weeks ago, Mari Jones, a fourth grade teacher at Explorer Elementary Charter School in Point Loma, asked me to conduct a tour of Chicano Park and to get in touch with a muralist who could speak to her class. Mario Torero, an internationally recognized artist of several Chicano Park murals, generously [...]

By Pablo J. Sáinz Chicano Park’s murals are the history textbooks of la raza, the informal means of communication among Mexicans, the monument to the past struggles of Chicanos in San Diego. The almost 70 murals in the park are a testimony to events in the history of the United States, of Mexico and of [...]

Women muralists return to the scene of their early development as activists/artists Editors Note: This article is a follow-up to Rita Sanchez’s La Prensa article, “Mujeres Muralistas: Chicano Park Female Artists”(June 29, 2012). It contributes to the on-going, larger story of important female contributions to Chicano Park. By Gail Pérez “Being the disobedient woman was [...]

Historic Restoration Project’s Second Phase Now In Progress Photo and text: David Avalos     On July and August weekends this summer Norma Montoya traveled from Los Angeles to San Diego’s Chicano Park painstakingly repainting Niños del Mundo. The hardworking artist first came south in 1975 with Charles “Gato” Félix, invited by local muralists to paint [...]