<div dir="ltr">FYI<br><br><br><div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Cascade Gallery Director</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cascade.gallery@pcc.edu">cascade.gallery@pcc.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 10:06 AM<br>Subject: [cascade] Cascade Art Gallery opens - Oscar R. Castillo: Documenting Chicano Life and Activism<br>To: <a href="mailto:cascade-group@pcc.edu">cascade-group@pcc.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:all-campus-group@pcc.edu">all-campus-group@pcc.edu</a><br><br><br><div dir="ltr">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span style="font-family:Arial">Good morning colleagues,</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span style="font-family:Arial"></span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:Arial">Please visit and spread the word about our latest exhibition in the Cascade Art Gallery. <i>Oscar R. Castillo: Documenting Chicano Life and Activism</i> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">features twenty of Castillo’s documentary photographs with
a focus on Chicano social justice movements of the 1970s for worker and
for student rights. The Gallery reception will be held later in October in conjunction with the annual Western History Association conference. See below for details.<br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Best regards,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Elizabeth<br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4"><b><i><span style="font-family:Arial">Oscar R. Castillo: Documenting Chicano
Life and Activism</span></i></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:Arial"><br></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><img src="cid:ii_if8h1efl0_150245c404e4c104" height="279" width="397"><br></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial">Image: Oscar
R. Castillo. <i>José Angel Gutiérrez, Reies
López Tijerina, and Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzalez at the National
Convention of the Raza Unida Party</i>, photographed in 1972, inkjet print, 14
½” x 20”. Image archived in the Oscar R. Castillo Photograph Collection,
Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) Digital Collections of the UCLA Digital
Library Program.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial"></span> <br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Cascade Gallery, Cascade Campus,
Portland Community College</span></b></p>
<ul><li><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol"><span><span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Dates:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">
Thursday, October 1 - Friday, November 6, 2015</span></li><li><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Reception in the Gallery:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> Thursday, October 22, 2015, 2 – 4 pm, </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Terrell
Hall 102, PCC Cascade Campus; the reception welcomes the Western History
Association conference attendees, and, as always, welcomes students and the
public.</span></li><li><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Gallery Hours and Location:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> 9 am to
5 pm, Monday through Friday, Terrell Hall 102, PCC Cascade Campus, <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">705 N. Killingsworth, Portland, OR 97217</span></span></li><li><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Gallery Website</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> </span><a href="http://www.pcc.edu/about/galleries/cascade" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext">http://www.pcc.edu/about/galleries/cascade</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Cascade
Gallery presents documentary photographs by Oscar R. Castillo showing
significant moments in the recent history of Chicano life, culture, and
political movements. The exhibition features twenty of Castillo’s photographs with
a focus on major Chicano social justice movements of the 1970s for worker and
student rights. Photographs reflect historical moments like the Chicano
Moratorium March on Los Angeles in 1970; La Raza Unida Party National
Convention in El Paso, Texas in 1972; United Farm Workers demonstrations; and Los
Angeles student demonstrations for culturally relevant curriculum in the public
schools.</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Oscar R.
Castillo studied art at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) and film
production at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the late 1960s
and early 1970s. Castillo was particularly inspired by ideas in the then new
Chicano Studies program at CSUN, learning about César Chávez and the struggles
of farmworkers to organize. During the Chicano Civil Rights Movement that
continued in the 1970s, Castillo worked as a staff photographer for <i>Con Safos</i>, a Chicano literary magazine,
and in a Los Angeles Public Broadcasting Station producing television coverage
of Chicano events and personalities of the times. Since the 1970s, Castillo has
worked as a commercial and documentary photographer and art instructor. His
work has been published in news publications such as the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, and he has exhibited his photographs in the
United States, Mexico, Cuba, and France, including a solo exhibition at the
Fowler Museum at UCLA in 2012. Castillo’s work is in the collection of the
Smithsonian Institution, and his archive is housed at the Chicano Studies
Research Center (CSRC) at UCLA.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0.5in 0.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Oscar Castillo’s extensive
photographic work documenting the Chicano community over the past forty years
offers a distinctive visual challenge to the stereotypical representation of
East Los Angeles as violent or exotic. . . . The result is one of the richest
photographic collections available of the Chicano civil rights movement.</span></i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> – Dr. Chon A. Noriega, Director,
Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Special thanks to Miguel
Juárez, doctoral student in History at the University of Texas at El Paso, for
working with the Cascade Gallery to coordinate the exhibition in conjunction
with the 55th Annual Conference of the Western History
Association, October 21-24, 2015 (<a href="http://www.westernhistoryassociation.wildapricot.org/event-697690" target="_blank">http://www.westernhistoryassociation.wildapricot.org/event-697690</a>). Thanks also to PCC Cascade
photography instructor Shawn Records and his photography students for help in
selecting these photographs from Oscar R. Castillo’s body of work. Thanks to
Sandy Sampson for collaborating on the Gallery installation. </span><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></font></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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-- <br><div><div dir="ltr">Elizabeth Bilyeu<br>Director, Cascade Gallery<br>Portland Community College<br>CA TH 102<br>705 N Killingsworth<br>Portland, OR 97217 <br><a value="+19717225326">971-722-5326</a><br><a href="mailto:cascade.gallery@pcc.edu" target="_blank">cascade.gallery@pcc.edu</a><br><a href="http://www.pcc.edu/about/galleries/cascade/" target="_blank">http://www.pcc.edu/about/galleries/cascade/</a><br></div></div>
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