Ester Hernandez Graphics Collection CEMA 140
Finding aid prepared by Daisy Martinez and Callie Bowdish
Santa Barbara, California, 93106-9010
(805) 893-8563
cema@library.ucsb.edu
Title: Ester Hernandez Graphics Collection
Identifier/Call Number: CEMA 140
Contributing Institution:
University of California, Santa Barbara, Davidson Library, Department of Special Collections, California Ethnic and Multicultural
Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
2.0 Posters
Date: 1982, 1984
Abstract: This collection consists of two silkscreen posters by Ester Hernandez, including the iconic
Sun Mad which protests farm workers' exposure to pesticides and herbicides in the fields.
Sun Mad 1982
creator:
Hernandez, Ester
Poster mimics the design of the Sun-Maid raisins box. Instead of a maid, however, is a skeleton holding a basket of green-yellow
grapes. Text reads: "SUN MAD Raisins unnaturally grown with Insecticides, Miticides, Herbicides, Fungicides."
Tejido de los Desaparecidos 1984
creator:
Hernandez, Ester
This silkscreen poster imitates a quilt pattern. Within the pattern there are small skulls and helicopters. The general pattern
is black and white, with red splatters.