Works by Malaquias Montoya

A collection of silkscreens, paintings, and mixed media that feature issues of social justice will run through Dec. 18, 2005, open during all library hours. Opening reception and lecture with Malaquias Montoya at the Kellogg Library Terrace, September 12, 2005, 5:30 pm.

Montoya was raised in the San Joaquin Valley of California in a large family of farm workers. Since 1989, he has taught both Art and Chicana/o Studies at UC Davis. His works include acrylic paintings, murals, washes, and drawings, but he is primarily known for his silkscreen prints, which have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Montoya is credited by historians as one of the founders of the social serigraphy movement in the San Francisco Bay Area in the mid-1960s. His is an art of protest, depicting the resistance and strength of humanity in the face of injustice and the necessity to unite behind that struggle.

For more information about Montoya's work, please visit his website.

This exhibit is part of the Context: Library Series in collaboration with the National Latino Research Center.