Edgewood College Road trip

Van Galder bus

 

A total of 33 Edgewood College students, faculty and friends boarded the Van Galder Bus on Saturday March 23, 2007 in order to drive to Milwaukee to see the Chicano Now Exhibit at the Milwaukee Public Museum.

On the trip down to Milwaukee, the students saw the 26 minute video the "Art of Resistance" which helped provide a framework for what they were going to see and here in Milwaukee.

Milwaukee Public Museum

The invention and ingenuity of the Low Rider car

 

The Chicano Now multi-media exhibit detailed the history of the Low Rider car. How hydraulic pumps and other mechanical devices were used from other uses and then tranfered to use in cars to help them change their height and to "jump".

Simulated Low Rider vehicle

 

Culture Clash played a key role in "explaining" the Chicano Now exhibit

 

Culture Clash, a Chicano Comedy troupe since 1984, serve a media tour guides for the Chicano Now exhibit.

Chicano Now exhibit

 

Edgewood College art students appreciated learning the "process" of producing a mural

 

Mural artist Reynaldo Hernandez met the Edgewood College Group at the Milwaukee Public Museum and after viewing the Chicano Now exhibit, we crossed the 6th Street Bridge to head and see the first mural at the International Building on 6th and National.

Larger view of mural

 

Mural on the Esperanza Unida's International Building

 

Reynaldo detailing facts and insights on each mural

 

Here is another article about muralist Reynaldo Hernandez.

Pyramid shape building

 

UUC Mural done by Reynaldo Hernandez

 

UCC Midle School Architecture

 

International Building Mural

 

Reynaldo Hernandez painted this mural and timed it to the 11 seconds each driver would spend seeing it while driving on Interstate 94.

Mexico's heroes Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata

 

UCC is located at the corner fof South 9th and Washington

 

The mural looks at Milwaukee Latino history

 

The mural is made of tiles

 

United Community Center Mural

 

One of Reynaldo Hernandez's mural is at the United Community Center.

“Why did you name me Javier… Dad? ” Part 2

A couple of years ago
I wrote a poem titled
“Why did you name me Javier… Dad? ”
which looked at the meanings behind
my four children’s names
which was complicated by the fact
that they had latino names
and we lived in Madison, Wisconsin

Diego Jesus Marjil Mireles
has become Colombicano
his screen name for instant messaging
it stands for half Colombian
and half Chicano
and it stands out
in a virtual world of names
like monkeylover
peppills and whokilledkenny

Lorena Pilar Barbosa-Mireles
has become ChicanaHottie27
I can figure the Chicana part fairly easy
I am not even going to touch the “hottie” thing
the number 27 gets a little more confusing
since she is only 15 years old
but was born on the 27th of the month

Javier Oscar Barbosa-Mireles
has never been called Junior
or Oscar the second
just Javy or
Chavs by his brother Diego
his screen name is ChicanoPlaya25
which at 12 years old
is a lot to live up to

Sergio Andres Barbosa-Mireles
goes by the name of Pimpasmurff
which I think he first signed on in 6th grade
he has been too lazy to change it
or I think he only hears the pimping part
plus he forgot the smurffs are blue little creatures
from the Saturday morning cartoon scene

So as I tally up the score
three of my four children
have self-identified an unmistakeable latino name
in cyberspace
to let others know
who they are,
and where they came from

In this era
of blending in, and forgetting why
they have stepped back
reached inside
for something as simple
as a name

Cultural Chromosones

 

Here is a more detailed picture of Cultural Chromosones.

Inside the building we see another of Reynaldo's paintings

 

Lunch at La Fuente

 

More stories

 

Here is an article from the Milwaukee Journal that talks about Reynaldo Hernandez.

Edgewood students on 27th and Center

 

27th and center Mural at the Black Holocaust Museum

 

The Black Holocaust Museum mural is located on 27th and Center. We also visited the Center Street Library which housed two indoor murals by Reynaldo hernandez.