THE LEGEND OF SIQUEIROS: LOS ANGELES & MEXICO 1920-1930

Barnsdall Gallery Theatre

Sunday, October 9, 2005
1pm - 5pm
4800 Hollywood Boulevard (between Edgement & Vermont)

 Limited seating
Reservations recommended at 213-972-0884 or melissa@causeconnect.net
$5 donation per person at the door. Free parking. Reception to follow.

Along with Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros is recognized as one of the great Mexican muralists of the 20th century.  What is less known about Siqueiros is that he created only three murals in the United States -- all in Los Angeles during a six-month stay in 1932.  Join us for this engaging discussion on the political, social and artistic environments of Los Angeles and Mexico that preceded his landmark visit.  Speakers are:

• Francisco Balderrama, Ph.D., co-author of Decades of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s and Professor of Chicano Studies and History at California State University, Los Angeles
• William F. Deverell, Ph.D., author of The Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past and Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West
• Catha Paquette, Ph.D., author of Critical Consequences: Mexican Art at New York's Museum of Modern Art during WWII and Assistant Professor of Latin American Art at California State University, Long Beach
• H. Mark Wild, Ph.D., author of Street Meeting: Multiethnic Neighborhoods in Early 20th Century Los Angeles and Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Los Angeles
• Moderator: Jonathan Yorba, Ph.D., author of Arte Latino and Executive Director of La Plaza de Cultura y Artes Foundation

Supporters include: State Farm Insurance, Univision 34 Los Angeles, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, The Walt Disney Company, La Opinion, and Cristella Roybal-Siqueiros and Robert Siqueiros

This public program is presented as the first in a yearlong series of educational events for the exhibition, Legacy & Legend: Siqueiros & America Tropical - Censorship Defied, on view at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Sept. 16-Nov. 19, 2006.  The exhibition is organized and presented by Legacy & Legend Productions in association with the partners listed above.  To learn more about Legacy & Legend, visit www.legacyandlegend.net or call Luis C. Garza at (323) 664-3073 or Melissa Richardson Banks at (213) 972-0884.