By Juan Fuentes

Medium: linocut
Year: 2015
Image Size: 18 x 24 inches
Edition size: 20

Both of Juan Fuentes’ parents were born in Texas and migrated first to New Mexico, where he was born and then later migrated to California in 1952. He grew up in the farm labor camps of Monterey County in California, picking fruits and vegetables along with his parents and eleven brothers and sisters. Neither parent was able to attend school growing up.

Fuentes’ art and social activism stems from his strong conviction that art is needed to make social change a possibility, to help heal the injustice’s faced by people of color around the world. I have the historical experience of the Civil Rights Movement and the Chicano, Black Power Movement, Native American and Anti- War Movements of the 1960s and 70s for my inspiration.