LA History Archive


	Online exhibits dedicated to people and events.

Durango by Max Benavidez - A multimedia project using Benavidez's poem "Durango." The poem weaves his history, as a third-generation Los Angeleno, with those of his grandmother and mother's histories which includes Durango, Mexico; Durango, New Mexico; Chavez Ravine, Los Angeles.

Sister Karen Boccalero & Self Help Graphics & Art History Project - This project is dedicated to the gathering of information on the history of Self Help Graphics & Art and Sister Karen Boccalero. It includes oral histories, a timeline and an essay authored by Jeremy Rosenberg.

Navigating LA - This collaboration with Claremont Graduate University students with reina alejandra saldivar prado explore navigating the city of Los Angeles through an online site from the 2011 exhibit, art, essays, a lesson plan and much more.

LA Women Community Quilt--A Collaborative Project highlighting LA Women over time. This project includes contributions from dozens of quilters who each submitted someone special to honor in this beautiful quilt.

A 2007 Homage to Womanhouse (1972): Womanhouse was a pioneering feminist art exhibit in LA; this site is an updated version of the idea behind the original by Judy Chicago and Mirriam Shapiro based on an installation at the Studio for Southern California History.

Altar to Karen Boccalero: This art installation is adapted to the web showing the insides of the this discarded filing cabinet-turned altar to Karen Boccalero, founder of Self-Help Graphics and popularizer of "Day of the Dead" in LA in the 1970s. This exhibit has four drawers, representing Evergreen Cemetery, Angelus Rosedale, Westwood Memorial and the Los Angeles Pet Cemetery in Calabasas.

"The Electrics" by Linda Vallejo - The newest oil paintings by artist Linda Vallejo who has been working in Southern California since the late 1960s. This is a slideshow with Vallejo's voiceover explaining the work.