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Melanie Cervantes
11" x 17"
3-Color, Handprinted, Screenprint, Strathmore 300 Series Bristol, Printed in Oakland, CA 2005
This is my very first screen print! After years and years of admiring Chicana/o screen printers like Rupert Garcia and Ester Hernandez I decided I wanted to learn how to screen print. A very good friend of mine and I enrolled in a seven hours long screen printing class at Laney College in Oakland.
I knew i wanted to design a piece that would honor the life of Chicana-Tejana-Lesbian-Dyke extraordinate Gloria Anzaldua for my first piece. She helped make visible the literature and writing of women of color and the US. She was the co-editor of the book This Bridge Called my Back and is best known for her book Borderlands/La Frontera. She made major contributions to Chicana feminist and queer theory and was a huge inspiration to me. She died in the summer 2004 at her home in Santa Cruz and I wanted to do something to honor all she contributed to the world during her life.
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