Dear Community Members and Colleagues,
We invite you to our 2013 TANA Winter Open House & Dignidad Rebelde Exhibition Opening Reception. March 15th from 5-8pm, we will be hosting our Winter Open House to welcome the community youth and families who have participated in the Winter community screenprinting workshop from January-March. The Winter Open House will coincide with the opening reception for TANA’s latest exhibition titled Dignidad Rebelde: Prints for the People, which features the artwork of Melanie Cervantes and Jesus Barraza. Dignidad Rebelde is an Oakland-based artist/ activist/ graphic arts collaboration that has been prominent in many nationwide and international civil rights struggles centered on community self-determination for historically marginalized and at-risk communities.
Please join TANA on March 15th for an evening featuring artwork from the TANA Winter Workshop and Dignidad Rebelde: Prints for the People, along with a guest lecture by Greg Morozumi of the Eastside Arts Alliance and Danza by KAPULLI TLAYOLLOTL. TANA is a community art center located in Woodland and managed by the Chicana/o Studies Department at UC Davis. This is a free event, for more information and please feel free to email: tana@ucdavis.edu or call (530) 402-1065. Please feel free to forward this information to interested youth and community members.
Sincerely,
TANA STAFF

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TANA Artist in Residence, Jaime Montiel, Legacy: Recent Paintings & Prints, Feb. 15, 5:30-7:00 pm @ Davis Community Clinic

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Posted on February 10, 2013

Dear Interested Community Members and Colleagues,

We would like to inform you that TANA Artist in Residence, Jaime Montiel, will be showing his recent paintings and prints at the Davis Community Gallery, from February 15, 2013- May 3, 2013.

We invite you to an Opening Reception for TANA Artist in Residence, Jaime Montiel, on February 15, 2013 at the Davis Community Gallery in the Davis Community Clinic, from 5:30- 7:00 pm.

Please join us for this special evening to recognize one of our own workers at TANA and his work.

Thank you for your continuous support,
TANA Staff

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Save the Date (March 15th 5-8pm): Winter Open House and New Exhibition Featuring Postermakers Melanie Cervantez and Jesus Barraza of Dignidad Rebelde

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Posted on February 9, 2013

Please save the date for TANA’s Winter Open House and Exhibition Opening Reception. The TANA Winter Exhibition will feature the poster making of Melanie Cervantez and Jesus Barraza. Cervantez and Barraza are a postermaking duo functioning under title of Dignidad Rebelde (http://dignidadrebelde.com). Cervantez and Barraza are internationally prominent postermakers from Oakland who have led visual postermaking efforts for many of the recent activism taking place nationally and internationally. On March 15th from 5-8pm TANA will host the opening reception for their exhibition and the evening will feature a display of recent posters developed by community-youth during the TANA Winter Workshop along with a program of Danza Azteca, music, and food. More information will be forthcoming.

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TANA Artist, Roque Montez, Featured in SOMArts Gallery Exhibition, Mourning and Scars: 20 Years After the War

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Posted on February 9, 2013

Roque Montez, TANA Artist-at-Large, is currently featured in the SOMArts Gallery Exhibition titled Mourning and Scars: 20 Years After the War. Roque received his B.A. from UC Davis in 2012 and is currently in the M.F.A. Printmaking Program at the Rhode Island School of Design. The exhibition is on view at SOMArts in San Francisco from February 1st through the 28th. An introduction to the exhibition is listed below:

SOMArts Cultural Center presents Mourning and Scars: 20 Years After the War, a group exhibition February 1 through 28, 2013, curated by 2012–2013 SOMArts’ Commons Curatorial Residency recipient Roxana Leiva. Works of art in a variety of media, including paintings, video, textile sculpture and large-scale multimedia installations, explore the individual experiences of reconstruction and healing in the context of El Salvador’s postwar period.

Twelve Salvadoran artists artists now living in California and New York draw upon their various experiences and family histories to create poignant works that grapple with the trauma of persecution and exile, and reveal complex personal and bi-national identities.

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TANA Studio Days: Montiel Drawing Institute

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Posted on February 8, 2013

Mondays at TANA have taken on a new life. Mondays usually function as quiet printmaking studio days for advanced printmakers and TANA Interns/Workshop leaders. But for the past month TANA has began a project to develop the drawing skills of interested community youth and residents who participate in the 4-day a week postermaking workshops. Developed and led by TANA Artist-in-Residence, Jaime Montiel, and supported by the YFRC ASSETS Program, these Monday drawing workshops have developed a faithful following and have been instrumental in developing the skills of leading postermakers at TANA. For more information on these workshops please contact TANA at tana@ucdavis.edu.