Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 22:20:36 -0500
From: "Mario A. Caro" <ario-AT-uhura.cc.rochester.edu>
Subject: SPOON-ANN: Call for Participation


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The Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe is pleased to announce a major
commitment U.S. Latina/Latino art by the Hispanic Research Center (HRC)
of Arizona State University.  This letter is to inform you about our
most immediate project, a book entitled Contemporary Chicana and Chicano
Art: Artists, Works, Culture, and Education. The book represents a major
advance in the national and international understanding, appreciation,
dissemination, and explication of Chicana/Chicano art.

This book will be the most ambitious and lavishly illustrated work to
date focusing on Chicana/Chicano art.  The types of art we will review
for possible inclusion in the book are painting (including oils,
acrylic, watercolor, gouache, etc.); sculpture; works on paper
(including lithographs, serigraphs, woodcuts, linoleum cuts, etchings,
etc.); mixed media; and other categories of art.  Images of
performances, murals, and documentary-style photographs are not
eligible.  The volume will be a full-color, coffee-table-quality book,
approximately 500 pages long, will include approximately 200 artists
(subject to the criteria of the Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, and
will contain approximately 400 color images.  Artists to be included in
the book will be selected by jurors at the Bilingual Press/Editorial
Bilingüe and partner organizations based on slides submitted by the
arists.

We are inviting artists to consider submitting images of their work and
biographical information for this refereed book.  We would appreciate it
if you could help us to make sure that Chicana/Chicano artists learn
about our plans for the book and subsequent projects.  We have mailed
informational packets to more than 500 artists, but would especially
like your help contacting both established and emerging artists who
should know about the book and other projects.  In fact, we will
appreciate your help with the project in any way you can.

Please have artists e-mail us at hrcartprojects-AT-asu.edu, or fax us at
480-965-0315 to obtain more information, or request their own folder.

We look forward to working with you to bring Chicana/Chicano and
Latina/Latino art to a new level of appreciation nationally and
internationally.

Sincerely,

Gary D. Keller
Director, Hispanic Research Center