Join us at UCSB for a conversation with Ozzie Juarez, as he will discuss his work, heritage, and community-building as an LA-based artist. His piece, Paradise, is featured in Public Texts: A Californian Visual Language, currently exhibited in the AD&A Museum. Juarez will be conversing with Dr. Verónica Castillo-Muñoz, an Associate Professor in the Department of History. Embracing a non-traditional format, the conversation will be happening in Dr. Castillo-Muñoz’s History of Mexico class. The conversation is free and open to the public!

Ozzie Juarez is a multidisciplinary artist who uses the realms of painting and sculpture to honor and revitalize ancient and recent cultural artifacts, languages, and histories. Juarez is a pillar of the local arts community and in 2020 he founded TLALOC Studios, an artist-run community gallery and studio building in the South Central neighborhood of Los Angeles. Inspired by the techniques, collaborations, ambitions, and ephemeral qualities of unsanctioned public art, Juarez incorporates excerpts of paintings he observes across the LA landscape into his own work. [bio source: Ozzie Juarez — Charlie James Gallery]

Verónica Castillo-Muñoz is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is an interdisciplinary scholar in Gender history, Latin America, U.S. history, and public history. She has written widely on the intersections between gender, family migration, and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Recently, she collaborated and co-curated the binational exhibit, “Se Busca a Pancho Villa,” at the National Museum of the Mexican Revolution in Mexico City. [bio source: Verónica Castillo-Muñoz – Department of History, UC Santa Barbara]

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