Arte Américas

Applications close January 10th, 2025 Apply here Arte Américas is now accepting submissions from individual artists, art collectives, and art organizations to be featured as Art Hop artists for the spring of 2025. The selected work will be inaugurated during Art Hop and will remain on display for the rest of the month in question. […]

Arte Américas participates in Art Hop every first Thursday of the month. As always, admission is pay what you can. We collaborate with a variety of vendors, if you are interested in participating in a vendor please fill out this interest form.

Featuring Vilma y Su Sonora (Original Members of Sonora Dinamita) & Las Cafeteras (Folk/Electronica/Cumbia) Tickets Available NOW: https://buytickets.at/arteamericas 4:00 PM Doors Open 5:00 PM Show Starts

On view from October 3rd to November 17th 2024 Día de Muertos ofrendas is inspired by the current installation, Librería Donceles, and is dedicated to a variety of dead authors, as an opportunity to celebrate and acknowledge the contributions of many literary heroes. Our 2024 Día de Muertos Ofrenda Exhibition include ofrendas to: OFRENDA TO […]

Chicano/a/x: Native of or descends from Mexico and who lives in the United States. Chicano, Chicana, or Chicanx is a chosen political identity of some Mexican Americans in the United States rooted in the Chicano Movement.  The term Chicano/a/x is a political ideology, used as an assertion of self and identity, to define an experience separate from […]

The Bracero Program was a “guest worker” system run by the U.S from 1942-1964, during which time more than four million Mexican Workers were contracted to work the agricultural fields of the U.S. The agricultural industry made its choice in favor of governmentally administered migration of Mexicans. During this time artists captured the inhumane treatment […]

The word Pachuco comes from the slang name for El Paso, (El Chuco) Texas which for a time, was the main point of entry for Mexicans into the U.S. In Spanish slang, if you were heading to El Paso you were heading “Pa’l Chuco”. When Mexican Americans took trains along the Southern Pacific railroad, through […]

Montoya fused English and Spanish languages into his prose and poetry. His encounters growing up with Mexican farmworkers and Navy servicemen informed not only his bilingual wordplay but also his worldview as he became more and more exposed to the lack of opportunity, political discrimination, and poverty that Chicana/o’s and minority groups throughout the U.S […]

Rasquachismo is a concept in Chicana/o art defined by Tomas Ybarra-Frausto as making art out of whatever materials are available. Emerging as a “visceral response to lived reality among poor and working-class Mexicans and Mexican Americans, the ingenuity of rasquache derives from basic necessity; it reflects a sort of good taste of bad taste.” (Frausto, […]