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Exhibition features Mexican/American print series lithographs
TEMPE, Ariz. - Prints from "MARS Artspace: Mexican/American Print Series
Lithographs" are on display beginning today through Dec. 29 at the Edna
Vihel Center for the Arts, 3340 S. Rural Road.
The prints, by artists Frank Ybarra, Rupert Garcia, Alfredo Arreguin, Cesar
A. Martinez, Dolores Guerrero-Cruz and Patssi Valdez, are part of the
Movimiento Artistico del Rio Salado, Inc. (MARS, founded in 1978 as an
artist-run, non-profit art space to bring before the public artworks by
Arizona and Mexican/American/Chicano visual, performing and literary
artists.
The group of prints on display were received as a gift to the city of Tempe
from Movimiento del Rio Salado, Inc., and is now a part of the city's
portable works collection.
MARS Artspace opened in 1981 in the Central Phoenix barrio with a grant from
the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Subsequently, MARS Artspace moved to a
more centrally located area, forming a bridge between the barrio and the
rest of the valley art community where it served as a resource center for
artists and residents, a cultural center for Phoenix and a vehicle for
building networks of artistic interest. MARS Artspace closed its doors in
2001, but still exists as a cyber art space at www.mars-artspace.org.
TEMPE, Ariz. - Prints from "MARS Artspace: Mexican/American Print Series
Lithographs" are on display beginning today through Dec. 29 at the Edna
Vihel Center for the Arts, 3340 S. Rural Road.
The prints, by artists Frank Ybarra, Rupert Garcia, Alfredo Arreguin, Cesar
A. Martinez, Dolores Guerrero-Cruz and Patssi Valdez, are part of the
Movimiento Artistico del Rio Salado, Inc. (MARS, founded in 1978 as an
artist-run, non-profit art space to bring before the public artworks by
Arizona and Mexican/American/Chicano visual, performing and literary
artists.
The group of prints on display were received as a gift to the city of Tempe
from Movimiento del Rio Salado, Inc., and is now a part of the city's
portable works collection.
MARS Artspace opened in 1981 in the Central Phoenix barrio with a grant from
the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Subsequently, MARS Artspace moved to a
more centrally located area, forming a bridge between the barrio and the
rest of the valley art community where it served as a resource center for
artists and residents, a cultural center for Phoenix and a vehicle for
building networks of artistic interest. MARS Artspace closed its doors in
2001, but still exists as a cyber art space at www.mars-artspace.org.
