UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections

The José Montoya Papers cover his life from his return from the Korean War around 1954 through the late 2000s. They contain biographical information such as correspondence, events and sketchbooks. Montoya is an important cultural luminary of the Chicano Movement in which he had been long involved as a poet, activist, educator and artist. His artwork in this collection is represented in sketches, posters, slides and in digital format on Calisphere.

Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections

Art files, exhibition files, ephemera, posters and prints and other printed matter, photographs and slides, correspondence files, and recordings of the Chicano painter/muralist long considered to be one of the pioneers of San Diego's Chicano art movement and co-founder of the Centro Cultural de la Raza in Balboa Park, a multidisciplinary community-based arts center devoted to producing and preserving Indian, Mexican, and Chicano art and culture.

Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections

The James Prigoff slide collection is an important visual resource that helps document the Chicano visual arts movement in California, and in particular, the San Diego and Tijuana area. The collection complements that of other CEMA collections that make up a visual record about San Diego’s Chicano Park and artists whose work appear there, especially that of Chicano artists Victor Ochoa, Guillermo Aranda, Nuke, Victor Ochoa, Jesse Ortiz, Sake, Michael Schnorr, Mario Torero and others. The slides in this collection are overwhelmingly of mural art and of spray can art.

Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections

Extensive collection of slides and silkscreen prints, along with administrative records, news clippings, correspondence, exhibition descriptions and flyers, photographs, creative writings, and miscellaneous publications of the Sacramento-based artists collective. Founding members of the RCAF include José Montoya, Esteban Villa, Juanishi V. Orosco, Ricardo Favela, and Rudy Cuellar.

Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections

Extensive collection of silk screen prints and slides, as well as organizational records, photographs, and ephemera of the Los Angeles cultural arts center and studio. Founded in the early 1970s, during the height of the Chicano Civil Rights movement, by Mexican artists, Carlos Bueno and Antonio Ibaez, and several Chicano artists, including Frank Hernandez and Sister Karen Boccalero.

Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections

Salvador Roberto Torres is a Chicano artist who is a cultural activist, educator, and an influential figure in the Chicano art movement in California. Some of Torres' notable artistic contributions in the San Diego area include leadership in the creation of Chicano Park and the use of the Coronado Bridge for murals. His collection includes personal correspondences, photographs, slides, news clippings, reports, sketches, video and audio materials, and silkscreen prints. Materials are contained in 21 boxes and span from 1934-2002.

Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections

Photographs, slides, posters, correspondence, publications and ephemera of the Chicana painter, sculptor, printmaker, and founder of Galeria Las Americas.

Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections

Original sketches, correspondence, exhibition announcements, collected writings, and research files of the Sacramento Chicano artist and muralist, and one of the founding members of the Royal Chicano Air Force, an artists' cultural collective.

Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections