Elizabeth Sisco: Graphic Design Of Chicano Movement

Art is how an artist expresses their own emotion in their artwork. Artwork can express more than just emotion, it can be used as a memorial, awareness, and even art movement. Art movements are very powerful when used correctly. Art movements are created in different medium in art. Elizabeth Sisco has done a graphic design of Chicano movement. Elizabeth Sisco was born in Cheverly, Maryland in 1954, she later moved to San Diego, California (“Elizabeth Sisco.”). She made the decision to move to California to achieve her art career. Sisco has a Master of Fine Arts where she attended the University of California (Finkelpearl, 129). Sisco is very experienced on creating design in digital media. She used her degree in bring awareness on the social

West and Southwest (Carrillo). Most Mexican American wanted the same rights as white American will have. They wanted to be at the same level as the whites even to be classified. Chicano has been used as a racial slur for Mexican American, but they change the meaning as using the word for pride (Carrillo). The Chicano movement wanted change in American, as in labor rights, education, and even land. The high issues were the labor rights for the farm workers. They work in any type of weather outside, hot sunny days to temperatures up to 100, even freezing cold days with temperatures down to negative. Farmworkers go through any condition still do not get enough pay. They are the ones feeding all Americans across America. Finally, the Chicano movement has granted many reforms as they demand, having bilingual programs, improving the working conditions, even hiring Chicano teachers (Carrillo). It has helped many future Mexican Americans across America. The hate will always be there, many Mexican Americans will continue the Chicano movement so everyone across the Southwest of America still be always aware of suffrage of immigrants and their own people, Mexican

“Art Rebate” by Sisco, Hock, and Avalos performed as a street performance all throughout San Diego in 1993. Sisco, Hock, and Avalos gave 10-dollar bills to each undocumented people in San Diego, mostly near the Mexican border. Each 10-dollar had the signature of the three artists. They got the money from a National Endowment. The endowment noticed the money was used as supplies; they did not improve for it. Sisco commented about it, “The 10-dollar bills are the materials of the project. The conceptual network we have created showing the link between all taxpayers relies upon those 10-dollar bills.” (Mydans). Sisco wants everyone to be aware even undocumented workers are taxpayers too. Also, Sisco insist every American to know every undocumented worker is each dollar of the economy. They are the ones functioning America. The money came from the federal, one fourth was given away to the undocumented workers. It made the federal to not support the idea of the project. It caused a huge problem even included the director of the museum where the artists put their work for the exhibits. Director of the museum, Hugh Davies, stated he is with the artist on their project and is not making the artist ask for the money back (Mydans). Davies understand on Sisco and the artist concept of the project. The project is a movement to open more about the issues of undocumented works. To wake up the government to know