{"id":591,"date":"2011-11-09T23:52:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T07:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelvillanueva.com\/blog\/?p=591"},"modified":"2012-01-22T23:04:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T07:04:51","slug":"angel-villanueva-an-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelvillanueva.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/09\/angel-villanueva-an-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Angel Villanueva: An Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">:: :: ::<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My dear friend and colleague Delaine Ure\u00f1o, Development Coordinator for the dA Center for the Arts, asked me to answer a short yet complex set of questions regarding my work, life, and philosophy, in relation to the Center&#8217;s yearly Chicano art exhibition, which I am currently participating in. I would like to share this with you. I hope you will enjoy the stories in this brief tour of an eccentric man\u2019s mind:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8220;<strong><strong>dA:<\/strong><\/strong><strong>\u00a0You\u2019ve expressed to me before that you don\u2019t really consider yourself to be a \u201cChicano Artist\u201d. Can you please also speak to this a little bit?<br \/>\n<\/strong>I see you wield the key to Pandora\u2019s box. This is a challenging issue to address, because both Chicano art history and my own history are complex documents in constant revision as our self-understanding matures and evolves. There are strong identifiers between my sensibilities and those of Chicano art, but also some radical divergences. My parents were illegal immigrants, farm laborers. I was born in a California barn&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can read the full interview on the dA\u2019s blog at:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thedacenterforthearts.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/07\/interview-angel-villanueva\/\">Interview: Angel Villanueva<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thedacenterforthearts.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/07\/interview-angel-villanueva\/\">http:\/\/thedacenterforthearts.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/07\/interview-angel-villanueva\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I want to extend my heartfelt thanks to Delaine and the dA Center for the Arts for the opportunity to express my views, and for highlighting my work during this show.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelvillanueva.com\/images\/AV_SimpleSig-WB.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"33\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">:: :: ::<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>:: :: :: &nbsp; My dear friend and colleague Delaine Ure\u00f1o, Development Coordinator for the dA Center for the Arts, asked me to answer a short yet complex set of questions regarding my work, life, and philosophy, in relation to the Center&#8217;s yearly Chicano art exhibition, which I am currently participating in. I would like [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,47,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelvillanueva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelvillanueva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelvillanueva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelvillanueva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelvillanueva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelvillanueva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelvillanueva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelvillanueva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelvillanueva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelvillanueva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}