The catalog is the companion to the exhibition that chronicles two hundred years of uprisings in Central California with critical essays by esteemed scholars Jonathan Cordero, Ella Maria Diaz, and Charlene Villaseñor Black. Cordero challenges the historical accounts of the 1824 Chumash Revolt to recover the Indigenous voice. Diaz places Rodriguez in a genealogy of testimoniadoras, artists who are communicators and mediators of intercultural dialogue, and storytellers of communities....
More DescriptionThe catalog is the companion to the exhibition that chronicles two hundred years of uprisings in Central California with critical essays by esteemed scholars Jonathan Cordero, Ella Maria Diaz, and Charlene Villaseñor Black. Cordero challenges the historical accounts of the 1824 Chumash Revolt to recover the Indigenous voice. Diaz places Rodriguez in a genealogy of testimoniadoras, artists who are communicators and mediators of intercultural dialogue, and storytellers of communities. Villaseñor Black examines how Rodriguez's art decolonizes the past and offers hope for a more equitable future. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Sandy Rodriguez - Unfolding Histories: 200 Years of Resistance, organized and presented by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, February 25, 2023 - March 3, 2024.