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Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (MCCLA) presents exhibition
 “The Question is Known: (W)here is Latin American/Latino Art?”
Curated by Anthony Torres

April 18 - May 24, 2008
MissionCulturalCenter.org

WHAT:
   Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (MCCLA) presents the exhibition
  “The Question is Known: (W)here is Latin American/Latino Art?”
WHO:
 The exhibition, curated by Anthony Torres, features works by Vicente Antonorsi • Adrián Arias • José Bedia • Claudia Bernardi • Luis Camnitzer • Victor Cartagena • Rolando Castellón •
Enrique Chagoya • Ana de la Cueva • Lewis deSoto • Miguel Farias • Juan Fuentes • Rupert Garcia • Manuel A. Gomez • Matt Gonzalez • Luis Gutierrez • Sylvia Ji • Rob Keller • Geraldine Lozano • Manuel Lucero • James Luna • Manuel Neri • Bernardo Roman Palau • Liliana Porter • Gustavo Ramos Rivera • Clare Rojas • Claudio Roncoli • Raymond Saunders • Robin Savinar • Nahum Zenil
WHERE:
 Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts,
2868 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA  94110   (MCCLA is ½ block from the 24th Street BART Station, and is wheelchair accessible.)
WHEN:
 April 18 - May 24, 2008; Gallery hours Tues.-Sat. 10am - 5pm
Reception – Friday April 18, 7-10 pm (Reception – $5)
HOW MUCH:
 Gallery admission – $2
INFO:
 (415) 821-1155, MissionCulturalCenter.org
MORE:
 A related symposium on “The Question is Known: (W)here is Latin American/Latino Art?” takes place on Saturday, April 19, 10am-3:30pm, at San Francisco Art Institute (800 Chestnut St., San Francisco), co-presented by MCCLA and the SFAI Graduate Studies Division. Symposium participants are art historian Gerardo Mosquera, Adjunct Curator, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Alma Ruiz, Curator, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Judith Bettelheim, Professor of Art History, San Francisco State University; artist and human rights activist Claudia Bernardi; and Hou Hanru, Director, Museum Studies Program, San Francisco Art Institute. Organized and moderated by Anthony Torres, Independent curator and art critic. For information visit www.sfai.edu/questionisknown or www.MissionCulturalCenter.org

                  Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (MCCLA) was established in 1977 by artists and community activists with a shared vision to promote, preserve and develop the Latino cultural arts that reflect the living tradition and experiences of the Chicano, South American, and Caribbean people.

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A Non-Profit Community Organization
2868 Mission Street ~ San Francisco, CA  94110

Tel. (415) 821-1155 ~ Fax (415) 648-0933 ~ MissionCulturalCenter.org