A narrow passage off 24th Street, between Treat and Harrison, with a dense cluster of Central American solidarity murals.
Painting here began in 1972 with Mia Galaviz de Gonzalez.
In 1974 Patricia Rodriguez and Graciela Carillo had an apartment exiting the alley and used a blank wall as a giant canvas. They enjoyed it so much they started a painting group, Las Mujeres Muralistas. Rodriguez said: “We weren’t doing soldiers with guns, weren’t doing revolutionary figures. We were painting women. Women in the marketplace, women breastfeeding, women doing art. People got really angry that we were doing that. ‘How could you do this when there’s so much going on?’ but we were saying that being a woman is a revolution in society.”
The next wave of art came in 1984, when Ray Patlán and collaborators organized PLACA1Placa is Spanish for "badge" or "name plate", but also hearkens back to "placazo" or “graffiti tag”, a collective project that filled the block with works celebrating Central American cultures and protesting U.S. intervention.
Go all the way through to see the murals of Garfield Square.
1Placa is Spanish for "badge" or "name plate", but also hearkens back to "placazo" or “graffiti tag”Placa is Spanish for "badge" or "name plate", but also hearkens back to "placazo" or “graffiti tag”
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