Subject: Capital Punishment Exhibit by Malaquias Montoya,
Doin' Time: Through the Visiting Glass by Ashley Lucas,
and Death Penalty Panel Discussion: Life, Rights, & the State
Press Release
For Immediate Distribution
Contact: Dolores Garc=EDa
Center for Mexican American Studies
College of Liberal Arts
The University of Texas at Austin
512.475.6973 or 512-471-4557
[email protected]
RECENT WORKS BY MALAQUIAS MONTOYA
PREMEDITATED: MEDITATIONS ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Exhibition On Display:
January 5 - 30, 2005
Artist Reception and Talk by Malaquias Montoya:
January 14, 2005
6:00 - 8:00 PM
Julia C. Butridge Gallery
Dougherty Arts Center
1110 Barton Springs Road
Austin, Texas
THE EXHIBITION IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
(Austin, Texas) In the United States, more than
80% of all state-sanctioned murders since 1976
have been committed in one region, the South,
with Texas leading both the region and nation
with 329 executions including 16 just this year
alone. This cultural practice has boundless
numbers of critics and none could be more
meditative than Malaquias Montoya, a
world-renowned artist and leading figure in the
West Coast political graphic arts movement.
Montoya's latest exhibit titled PreMeditated:
Meditations on Capital Punishment consists of 23
thought-provoking works and will be on display
January 5 - 30, 2005 at the Dougherty Arts
Center, 1110 Barton Springs Road, Austin, Texas.
This exhibit is sponsored by The Center for
Mexican American Studies at The University of
Texas at Austin and will include an artist
reception and talk by Malaquias Montoya on Friday
January 14, 2005 to kick off a week of events and
speakers on capital punishment.
Artist Biography
Malaquias Montoya was born in Albuquerque, New
Mexico and raised in the San Joaquin Valley,
California. He was raised in a family of seven
children by parents who could not read or write
either Spanish or English. The three oldest
children never went beyond 7th grade education,
as the entire family had to work as farm workers
for their survival. His father and mother were
divorced when he was 10 and his mother continued
to work in the fields to support the four
children still remaining at home so they could
pursue their education.
Since 1968, Montoya has lectured and taught at
numerous universities and colleges in the San
Francisco Bay area including Stanford and the
University of California, Berkeley. He was a
Professor at the California College of Arts and
Crafts for 12 years, 5 of which he was Chair of
the Ethnic Studies Department. As Director of the
Taller de Artes Graficas in Oakland for 5 years,
he produced various prints and conducted many
community art workshops. Montoya, a visiting
Professor in the Art Department at the University
of Notre Dame in 2000, continues as a Visiting
Fellow for the Institute for Latino Studies also
in Notre Dame, Indiana.
Montoya has been a Professor at the University of
California, Davis since 1989. His classes,
through the departments of Chicana/o Studies and
Art include silk screening, poster making, mural
painting, and a focus on Chicano culture and
history. Montoya's work includes acrylic
paintings, murals, washes, and drawings but he is
primarily known for his silk screen prints which
have been exhibited nationally as well as
internationally. He is credited by historians as
one of the founders of the "social serigraphy"
movement in the San Francisco Bay Area in the
mid-1960's. His visual expressions, art of
protest, depict the struggle and strength of
humanity and the necessity to unite behind that
struggle. Montoya now resides in Elmira,
California.
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Elvira Prieto
Academic Advisor
Center for Mexican American Studies
University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station F9200
Austin, TX 78712
WMB 5.102
Phone: (512) 471-2134
Fax: (512) 471-9639
http://www.utexas.edu/depts/cmas/
