How to Altar the World:
Amalia Mesa-Bains's Art Shifts the Way We See Art History
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Induction into the National Academy of Design Oct. 22, 2024
National Academy of Design
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Amalia Mesa-Bains Wins 2024 Religion and the Arts Award
American Academy of Religion November 24, 2024
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Artist Amalia Mesa-Bains: ‘I had to be almost 80 years old for this moment to happen’
Financial Times, Gabriella Angeleti, April 27, 2024
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‘Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory’ on View at El Museo del Barrio
GothamTo Go Arts & Culture, afinelyne April. 12, 2024
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How Chicana and Native artists are preserving cultural memory
Los Angeles Times, by Carolina A Miranda Aug. 3, 2023
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Creative couple continues to collaborate after 56 years
Amalia Mesa-Bains’ career retrospective honors her unique room-size ofrendas
SF Chronicle / SF Gate Senior Living Feature. June 23, 2023 updated July 7, 2023 by Marcus Crowder -
In a Long-Overdue Retrospective, Amalia Mesa-Bains Holds Space for the Chicanx Community
ARTnews, June 9, 2023 by Maximiliano Duron
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Ode to Chicana rasquachismo: a half century of Amalia Mesa-Baines
Her work bustling with everyday objects and memories, the artist's BAMPFA retrospective offers welcome, folkloric departure. By Natalia Robyns-Kresich April 4, 2023
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The personal, path-making art of Amalia Mesa-Bains
SF Chronicle DATEBOOK, By Letha Ch'ien March 15, 2023
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Renny Pritikin on Amalia Mesa-Bains
SquareCylinder.com - Northern California Art, March 4, 2023 by Renny Pritikin
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Step Into the Shimmering World of Amalia Mesa-Bains at BAMPFA
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Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory
ART in America - Must see museum shows in February February 1, 2023
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BAMPFA presents five decades of work by Chicana artist Amalia Mesa-Bains
The Bay Area artist’s installations, shown in major museums, have taken home altars and roadside shrines in new directions. Berkeleyside January 31, 202
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A Conversation with Amalia Mesa-Bains Episode 34
Cerebral Women Art Talks Podcast September 23 2020
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Altar/Installations by Amalia Mesa-Bains in a Feminist Context
City University of New York , CUNY Academic Works, Carmen del Valle Hermo Hunter College Thesis Spring - May, 6th, 2019
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Amalia Mesa-Bains’s Art Shifts the Way We See Art History
Art News, March - 2018
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Home Is an Intimate Space: Amalia Mesa-Bains & “Transparent Migrations”
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston December, 1st 2017
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Topologies of Knowing: The Libraries and Laboratories of Amalia Mesa-Bains
Museo Eduardo Carillo, November 4, 2015
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“Art, Identity, and the Changing Narrative about Latinos”
Oakland, California, - March, 2015
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Asco: Elite of the Obscure, A Retrospective, 1972–1987
Williams College Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles July, 6th, 2012
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An Ofrenda for Dolores del Rio 1984
Smithsonian American Art Museum, May, 1, 2012
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Amalia Mesa-Bains Subject: Day of the Dead: Traditions Educators Guide
Sparked In Education, Story -2009
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Essay by Amalia Mesa-Bains
San Francisco, California - January, 1995
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Diversity in the classroom : a casebook for teachers and teacher educators
Hillsdale, New Jersey, 1993
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Points of View— Looking at Five Contemporary Female Artists of Color: Amalia Mesa-Bains, Howardena Pindell, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, and Pablita Velarde
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute, April, 11, 1993
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Domesticana: The Sensibility of Chicana Rasquache
University of California Los Angeles, Course, Issues in Latina/Latino Poverty (M121)