Symposium on Mexican American Art
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The Symposium on Mexican American Art was a two-day event put on by Jacinto Quirarte, the Dean of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at San Antonio. The event was held at Trinity University because the campus of UTSA was still on the process of being built. Aside from space considerations, Quirarte had connections with faculty at Trinity, specifically Virginia Mounce, Trinity's archivist and Latin American Studies librarian. This likely made this partnership possible.
Ruth Taylor Theater and Laurie Auditorium provided the backdrop for, according to Quirarte, the first national symposium ever of its kind that focused on the Mexican American Chicano art and social movement.
In his oral history, Quirarte states, "...it was really quite extraordinary. That was the first time that these issues were discussed by people in different parts of the country that had been explored up to a point in my book. But artists were able to expand on some of these observations."
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Oral History with Jacinto Quirarte
https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-jacinto-quirarte-13553
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AAA-AAA_casamel_3153847,
AAA-AAA_casamel_3153848,
AAA-AAA_casamel_3153849,
AAA-Casas-MxAmSymposium