My work at AFL-CIO Headquarters in Washington DC

 

My art work is included in an awesome show currently on display at the AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, D.C., from now through May 31, 2009. The show is titled, "Chicana Art and Experience: Mujeres con Garbo," andincludes more than 30 prints, posters, paintings and photographs by some of my favorite Chicana Artists, including Yreina Cervantez, Barbara Carrasco, and Yolanda López. You can see some great images from the show by visiting this site!

The exhibition was organized by Rex Weil, an artist, independent curator, writer and educator living and working in Washington, D.C. Mr. Weil teaches art theory and criticism at the University of Maryland, College Park, and is a contributing editor at ARTnews. In his Curatorial statement he writes, "...Chicana art emphasizes traditional modes of public art: murals, agit-prop posters and prints and other modes of mass communication, including inexpensive publications and websites. These public methods are chosen with the aim of reaching a wider audience than typical fine arts galleries and underscore the populist roots of Chicana art. "

In regards to my own work, he writes, "Favianna Rodriquez has produced an impressive array of political posters often in connection with specific organizing campaigns. She freely appropriates motifs from vintage posters and magazine covers and assimilates those sources into a style all her own."

This is a show not be missed for all art fans in Washington DC!!!