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Wooh boy, for those that haven’t heard…

Lorenzo Garcia, the head of the Young Conservatives of Texas, was planning a game called “Catch an Illegal Immigrant” at the University of Texas, where students could receive a 25-dollar gift card by asking identifications of participants wearing “illegal” badges.

Yo, nothing else to say, man.

Art by Ray Hernandez

Ray Hernandez: Dreamer

" I used barbed wires to represent the Mexican and U.S. border. There is a lot of pain in that border created by the U.S. Showing the wires in itself is a representation of pain and death. A lot of Latinos that have tried to cross the border to find that American Dream find death instead. This is the second time I include the barbed wires in one of my images. I consider it a very strong symbol that represents those painful events. We have to bring more awareness about those deaths that we hardly hear about. Those deaths are literally in the shadows. Nobody pays attention to that." -Ray Hernandez

Through his art, Hernandez creates awareness of social justice issues and empowers communities, creating progressive methodologies to express solidarity with other international movements. Ray Hernandez was born in Mexico City (D.F.) and raised in Amecameca, Mexico. In the early 1990’s, both of his parents decided to migrate to the U.S. in search of a better life and new opportunities. The journey into the United States and the requirement of assimilation into a new life, language, and culture was an experience Hernandez describes as horrific and traumatic. Art became Hernandez’s method to express himself and let out his frustrations, which became a form of rehabilitation.

Hernandez’s image is a representation of the economic, mental, academic, physical, and other struggles that undocumented students have experienced in order to reach their dreams. Since 2001, undocumented students, also known as DREAMers, have been organizing, advocating, fighting, coming out of the shadows, and sharing their testimonies in order to legalize their status in the U.S. The texture applied in this image is a representation of the many DREAMers who are aging out of their twenties, which can prohibit them from legalizing their status through possible immigration reform that will likely include an age limit. The American flag represents the fact that DREAMers have embraced this country as their own and continue to pursue higher education to become future leaders in the United States.

Visual communication is a method of knowledge, consciousness, and conception of humanity. – Raymundo M. Hernández López

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Mexicali BC, Mexico: “Dia de muertos” protest art in solidarity with migrant workers at the border with Calexico, California, November 1, 2009.

Photo: Revolutionary Autonomous Communities - LA

Favianna Rodriguez

Art by Favianna Rodriguez

Favianna Rodriguez: I am an artist and agitator working for social change.

Favianna Rodriguez is a celebrated artist and new media organizer based in Oakland, California. Using high-contrast colors and vivid figures, her composites reflect literal and imaginative migration, global community, and interdependence. Whether her subjects are immigrant day laborers in the U.S., mothers of disappeared women in Juárez, Mexico, or her own abstract self portraits, Rodriguez brings new audiences into the art world by refocusing the cultural lens. Through her work we witness the changing U.S. metropolis and a new diaspora in the arts.

Hailed as “visionary” and “ubiquitous,” Rodriguez is renown for her vibrant posters dealing with issues such as war, immigration, globalization, and social movements. By creating lasting popular symbols — where each work is the multiplicand and its location the multiplier — her work interposes private and public space, as the art viewer becomes the participant carrying art beyond the borders of the museum.

Rodriguez has lectured widely on the use of art and technology in civic engagement and the work of artists who, like herself, are bridging the community and museum, the local and international. Rodriguez’s has worked closely with artists in Mexico, Europe, and Japan, and her works appear in collections at Bellas Artes (Mexico City), The Glasgow Print Studio (Glasgow, Scotland), and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles).

Rodriguez has exhibited at Museo del Barrio (New York); de Young Museum (San Francisco); Mexican Fine Arts Center (Chicago); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco); Sol Gallery (Providence, RI); Huntington Museum and Galería Sin Fronteras (Austin, TX); and internationally at the House of Love & Dissent (Rome), Parco Museum (Tokyo), as well as in England, Belgium, and Mexico. She was a 2005 artist-in-residence at San Francisco’s prestigious de Young Museum, a 2007-2009 artist-in-residence at Kala Art Institute (Berkeley, CA), and received a 2006 Sea Change Residency from the Gaea Foundation (Provincetown, MA). Rodriguez is recipient of a 2005 award from the Center for the Study of Political Graphics.

As a teacher, Rodriguez has conducted workshops and presentations at colleges and universities throughout the United States. In 2003, she co-founded the Taller Tupac Amaru printing studio to foster resurgence in the screenprinting medium. She is co-founder of the EastSide Arts Alliance (ESAA) and Visual Element, both programs dedicated to training young artists in the tradition of muralism. She is additionally co-founder and president of Tumis Inc., a bilingual design studio helping to integrate art with emerging technologies.

Rodriguez is co-editor of Reproduce and Revolt! with internationally renowned stencil artist and art critic Josh MacPhee (Soft Skull Press, 2008). An unprecedented contribution to the Creative Commons, the 200-page book contains more than 600 bold, high-quality black and white illustrations for royalty-free creative use. Her artwork also appears in The Design of Dissent (Rockport Publishers, 2006), Peace Signs: The Anti-War Movement Illustrated (Edition Olms, 2004), and The Triumph of Our Communities: Four Decades of Mexican Art (Bilingual Review Press, 2005).

In 2009, Rodriguez co-founded Presente.org, a national online organizing network dedicated to the political empowerment of Latino communities.

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A message from the Republican Party and the Ministry of Homeland Security #socialjustice #calendar #csulbeop #immigrationart

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.”

- Bertolt Brecht

eL Seed wrote on his website: "The wall on which we painted had actually been used to voice dissent and commentary throughout the protests. Folks painted freely on this wall and would discuss current opinions and the changing state of Tunisia.

"This wall, however, was painted over not long after the ousting of Ben Ali: Those revolutionary words no longer able to conjure the memories of defiance and dignity. In this sense, the mural creation became a public memorial commemorating these words and their meaning."

For his recent projects, eL Seed worked with a community organization Al Khaldounia, which obtained authorization for his murals. He was sponsored to do the minaret mural by Barjeel Art Foundation in the United Arab Emirates.

In his earlier works, he simply asked people if he could paint on their walls.

eL Seed chose his nickname as a tag for his grafitti at the age of 16 while studying a French novel "Le Cid."

"My teacher said 'le cid' comes from the Arabic word 'el sayed' which means 'the master, the man'. So I was 16 years old and I said to myself ' I am the master, the man' so I called myself 'eL Seed.'"

JR, From France with Paper & Glue

It's not everywhere you can walk down a street and understand the story it tells by simply looking at its painted walls. Most spaces in NYC are built, from the ground up with dark grey colors that climb the heights of the sky and reach for the moon in their own reflections.

The city is a place that is home and yet not native to any New Yorker. The city is a place, a space made up of other smaller spaces that came from elsewhere. As much as they are walking and rushing through the streets, a single face can never stand still enough to tell more than 60 second stories before a car, bus or train removes them from your sights just about indefinitely.

Just a few months back I encountered the artist, JR from France in Times Square. Inside Out is the name of the project that was taking place then. Inside out is a global art project inspired by his large scale street pastings and the concept is to change the world and turn the world INSIDE OUT.

Times Square Arts and JR invited New Yorkers and visitors to take self-portraits in a specially designed photo booth stationed in Times Square, the site of the world’s first ever photo booth almost 100 years ago. The black-and-white self-portraits will be overlaid on a backdrop designed by JR and printed on the spot as a 3’X4’ poster.

INSIDE OUT NEW YORK CITY coincided with the world premiere of the HBO Documentary Film, INSIDE OUT: THE PEOPLE’S ART PROJECT, at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 20th, 2013. The film chronicles French artist JR, known for his public billboard size photographs of everyday citizens, and his large scale participatory global art project. “Inside Out” is a glowing testament to the power of the image and the role that art can play in transforming lives. An official Documentary Feature Spotlight selection at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, the film premiered at the SVA Theatre on West 23rd Street, on Saturday, April 20th and debut exclusively on HBO on Monday, May 20th at 9pm ET/PT.

JR's work has expanded and grown into a worldwide movement that is telling the stories of ordinary citizens of the world as art themselves. This process transforms peoples’ identities into pieces of artistic work.

VIsit JR's website for more info and his amazing art!

eL Seed: The Art of Calligraffiti

eL Seed is a French artist who creates large-scale works of art combining the vernacular of street art with Arabic calligraphy. What he calls “Calligraffiti” is his response to both his role as an Arabic artist in a Western-dominated art world as well as his role as an artist of the “streets.”

Here we get a glimpse of how his life growing up in Paris and how his socialization or lack there of, doesn’t not allow him to fully identify himself as French.

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eL Seed, French-born of Tunisian parents

In 2011 a revolution was going on in Tunisia, this revolution opened the doors for many new forms of expression and alternative art. As freedom came, creativity started to pour into the streets from those, no longer afraid of the counties strict political consequences. Born in 1981 in Le Chesnay, France to a Tunisian family, eL Seed only learned to read and write standard Arabic in his teens as his interest in his roots began to take hold. His first mural was a calligraphic representation of a passage from a Tunisian poem dedicated to those who were struggling against the tyranny and injustice of their then oppressive government.

eL Seed insists that his art is a tool that is used to fight intolerance. Fine Arabic calligraphy and street art may seem worlds apart but for eL Seed, it brings forth a hope to inspire fearlessness and bring people together much like what his own family had to experience as immigrants fleeing their homeland looking towards a brighter future.

"Before the revolution art in Tunisia was quite bourgeois, but if you put big pieces of art on walls it is for everyone," said eL Seed, now living in Montreal, Canada.

"The revolution pushed people to be more creative because before they were scared -- and now they have more freedom."

Exactly a year after the start of the protests against President Ben Ali which sparked uprisings across the Arab world, eL Seed took on his first large-scale mural to celebrate Tunisia's revolution.

In the city of Kairouani, he painted a giant mural with a passage from a Tunisian poem he intended as a message of hope to all those engaged in struggles against tyranny, corruption, and injustice.

The wall he used had been used during the revolution to voice dissent during the revolution, he said, adding that six others spontaneously joined him to help with the mural.

JR Turns Times Square "Inside Out" (by animalnewyork)

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