Masters Thesis

Chicana/o Art Politics: Campesina/o Visual Art of Fillmore & Ventura County, CalifAztlán

The objective of this Chicana/o Art Politics creative thesis project is to increase knowledge about the working and living conditions of campesina/os in Fillmore and Ventura County, California through visual art. Campesina/o visual art serves as an instrument for Barrio Consciousness and social activism. Through agricultural investigation and visual art production, Chicana/o Art Politics seeks to educate public discourse concerning campesina/os for access, survival, and prosperity. I conducted research by seeking out Mexican and Chicana/o visual art as a product for revolutionary education and radical social movement. Visual art is then investigated in the Greater Fillmore and Ventura County rural community to determine if campesina/o visual art exists and in what context. Additionally, I create, paint, and apply Chicana/o visual art that reflects the campesina/o living and working condition in Fillmore and Ventura County, California. Specific attention to agricultural ecology and Marxism within the theory of Barrio Consciousness is applied further elaborating campesina/o working and living conditions in Fillmore and Ventura County, California. Keywords: Chicana/o art, Campesina/o, Campesina/o visual art, Barrio Consciousness, Fillmore, Ventura County

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