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By Walpa D'Mark Sarah Rafael Garcia has been advocating for the Santa Ana BIPOC community for 13 years. She’s the founder of Barrio Writers (2009), LibroMobile (2016), and Crear Studio (2017).  I had an opportunity to meet her during Crear Studio’s Meet and Greet opening held this summer. The opening was a celebration of the new Crear Studio space and its supporters. It was also an invitation for the rest of us to learn about the history and hard work that made it possible. Sarah Rafael...

17 September, 2021 /

By Liz Goldner Gilbert “Magu” Luján was a visionary artist who helped define and promote Chicano art. The founder of the art collective, “Los Four”—which first exhibited Chicano artwork in 1973 at UC Irvine—wrote in 1969, “I believe there is a Chicano Art form and that it has been around for many years without formalization and recognition…Most Chicanos are aware of our current new breed renaissance which has flowered many investigations, probes and introspection in most areas of our life patterns…As we affirm broad-based awareness of...

06 September, 2021 /

      When I first started taking art seriously and began to learn how to paint, I heretically thought of photography simply as source material for paintings. I tried making figurative paintings based off the work of Herb Ritts, Imogen Cunningham, and others. All those years ago I could not have appreciated the depth and complexity of the relationship between photography and painting that Jacques Garnier has presented in his latest exhibition Hymns to The Silence.            On display at Laguna Art Museum since this past Spring, I’ve walked through it many times....

13 August, 2021 /

Chris Hoff started the OC Art Blog in 2004 as a way to build community and promote the marginalized but dynamic Orange County art scene. Chris has made and shown art work here and abroad, curated shows, most recently the Hidden Treasures exhibition at the John Wayne Airport, and is also responsible for the Hoff Foundation, a private arts foundation formed in 2008 with a commitment to and passion for the arts. As of January 2012 the Hoff Foundation has distributed over 30k in grants...

06 February, 2012 /