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  No Nos Queda Nada Que Perder Mas Que Nuestra Miseria

  title No Nos Queda Nada Que Perder Mas Que Nuestra Miseria 

  description Serigraph on paper, 23 in. x 17.5 in. La Raza Graphic Center, San Francisco, CA. Cover of "La Raza Graphic Center's 1983 Political Art Calendar." Two men behind bars. "No Nos Queda Nada Que Perder Mas Que Nuestra Miseria" is written above them. One of the best-known artist-activists of the Chicano Movement (El Movimiento), Malaquías Montoya was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1938. He was raised by a single mother in a family of migrant workers who worked in the fields of central California. He joined the U.S. Marine Corps and attended the University of California at Berkeley, through the G.I. Bill. Montoya has taught at a number of universities, and he has held a professorship at The University of California, Davis, since 1989. Montoya teaches both in the Department of Art, and the Department of Chicanx Studies. A painter and prolific silk screen artist, Montoya is famous for making artworks to support the United Farm Workers (UFW) and the struggle for labor rights to protect migrant farm workers. In 1968, Montoya founded the Mexican American Liberation Art Front in Sacramento. Later, in the early 1970s, he joined his brother José and other artists to form the Royal Chicano Air Force. Members painted murals addressing social justice, made banners and props for UFW marches, led poetry circles, and operated a bookstore. Montoya combined political protest with Chicano art, developing a program of cultural resistance and political consciousness in the Chicano pueblo. Through his art, activism, and teaching, Montoya has inspired Chicanx people to demand equal opportunity in education and employment and to resist societal discrimination by embracing their unique ethnic identity. 

  artist/creator Montoya, Malaquías 

  subject Politics in art  Borderlands  Frontera  Activism  Misery  Screen prints  Prints  Calendar art  Life and Experiences in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands (exhibition) 

  contributor Mexic-Arte Museum (MAM)