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Title
When Your Mother Asks You Who You Are
Creator
Villa, Esteban, Artist
Contributor
Villa, Esteban, Artist
Favela, Ricardo, Artist
González, Louie "The Foot", Artist
Date Created and/or Issued
ca. 1975-1976
1975-01-01
1976-12-31
Publication Information
California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives, Dept of Special Collections, Donald Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, cema@library.ucsb.edu, (805) 893-8563, URL: http://cemaweb.library.ucsb.edu/cema_index.html
Contributing Institution
UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Collection
Royal Chicano Air Force archives
Rights Information
Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
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California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives, Dept of Special Collections, Donald Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010; cema@library.ucsb.edu (805) 893-8563
Description
Acrylic and commercial latex paint on sheetrock wall board of Sacramento Concilio Farmworker Program Dining Hall, 1911 F Street, Sacramento. Mural in progress featuring Louie the Foot's poem "When Your Mother Asks You Who You Are". Text reads, "Cry on your pyramids memories/ Tu corazón no se recuerda/ tu corazón no se recuerda/ the sun is still your father/ planting maiz for Moctezuma./ The land is still your mother/ eso nunca olvidarás/ eso nunca olvidarás/ giving birth to magic children/ eso nunca olvidarás c/s".
Cat.8 043(1)
The artist of any work retains all rights to that work. Copyright has not been assigned to the Regents of the University of California. The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement. No further reproduction is permitted without prior written permission by the artist or copyright holder. Any requests for permission to reproduce this piece must be directed to: Royal Chicano Air Force c/o California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives Library – CEMA University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Phone: (805) 893-8563 E-mail: cema@library.ucsb.edu Web: http://www.rcaf.info/
Sacramento-based chicano artist and counding member of the Royal Chicano Air Force.
Type
image
Form/Genre
35mm slide
Murals
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb9199p4hz
CEMA 8
Language
English
Spanish
Subject
Chicano art
Chicanos
Mexican American art
Mexican Americans
Mural Art
Poetry
Montezuma I, Emperor of Mexico, 1398-1469
Place
Sacramento (Calif.)

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