What was an invitation to paint a protest instead became the first Chicano Guernica manifestation by a Chicano artist. Fernando Barragan’s master piece “No Somos Animales” (We Are Not Animals, 2013, 7ft x13ft) is a daring raw canvas mural depicting violence, pain and anger in Chican@/Latin@ Communities. During the opening of Squaring off with Brushstrokes More

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