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Title: Tomas Benitez Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1979-2006
Collection number: 68
Creator: Benitez, Tomas ca.
1955 -
Extent:
4 linear feet
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA
Los Angeles, California 90095-1490
Abstract: This collection of magazines, posters,
gallery cards and show/gallery invitations comprises Tomas Benitez's
personal collection of ephemera, memorabilia and realia relating to his
experience and participation in the world of Los Angeles arts.
Researchers who would like to indicate errors of fact or omissions in
this finding aid can contact the research center at
www.chicano.ucla.edu
Physical location: Currently held at the UCLA Library
Archive, Haines Hall. In the future the collection will be stored at the
UCLA Southern Regional Library Facility
Language of Material: Collection materials in English
, Spanish
Collection is open for research. To view the collection or any part
of it, please contact the CSRC at http://www.chicano.ucla.edu/
For students and faculty researchers of UCLA, all others by
permission only. Copyright has not been assigned to the Chicano Studies
Research Center. All requests for permission to publish or quote from
manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Archivist and/or the
Librarian at the Chicano Studies Research Center Library. Permission for
publication is given on behalf of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research
Center as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include
or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be
obtained.
[Identification of item], Tomas Benitez Collection, 68, Chicano
Studies Research Center, UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles.
This collection was donated to the UCLA Chicano Studies Library and
Archive by Tomas Benitez. Deed of gift on file at the UCLA CSRC Archive
office.
Tomas Benitez was born and raised in front of a television set in
East L.A. Since then, he has been a cultural worker for the past thirty
years, working with numerous non-profit community arts groups including
his current post, Director of Development at Plaza de la Raza. He is
former Executive Director of Self Help Graphics & Art, has worked
with the Bilingual Foundation for the Arts, Teatro de la Esperanza, and
with the late C. Bernard "Jack" Jackson at the Inner City Cultural
Center. He is a founding member of the Latino Arts Network.
Tomas is the Architect of Folly to the Ministry of Culture, a collective of artists dedicated to using ridicule as a form of non-violent resistance to social injustice and the "stupiditiness of governmenticalism". Current projects include Pinatas for Peace, which sends virtual pinatas to world leaders who demonstrate a tendency for violent behavior, the Great Wall of Chinga, a project designed to deconstruct the proposed U.S./Mexican border fence before it gets constructed, and We Say No, a video project designed to capture Americans Just Saying "No" --- to the wall, the war, and anything else.
Tomas is also a member of the County of Los Angeles Arts Commission (past president), has lectured on Chicano Art and Culture across the United States, Africa and Europe, and is an active member of the Baseball Reliquary, a group of artists who love baseball despite the professional game. Tomas would rather play second base for the Samurai Bears, but he never could hit a curveball to save his life. Tomas lives and writes in Monterey Park, CA. Biography courtesy of Tomas Benitez
Tomas is the Architect of Folly to the Ministry of Culture, a collective of artists dedicated to using ridicule as a form of non-violent resistance to social injustice and the "stupiditiness of governmenticalism". Current projects include Pinatas for Peace, which sends virtual pinatas to world leaders who demonstrate a tendency for violent behavior, the Great Wall of Chinga, a project designed to deconstruct the proposed U.S./Mexican border fence before it gets constructed, and We Say No, a video project designed to capture Americans Just Saying "No" --- to the wall, the war, and anything else.
Tomas is also a member of the County of Los Angeles Arts Commission (past president), has lectured on Chicano Art and Culture across the United States, Africa and Europe, and is an active member of the Baseball Reliquary, a group of artists who love baseball despite the professional game. Tomas would rather play second base for the Samurai Bears, but he never could hit a curveball to save his life. Tomas lives and writes in Monterey Park, CA. Biography courtesy of Tomas Benitez
This collection of four linear feet of magazines, posters, gallery
cards and show/gallery invitations comprises Tomas Benitez's personal
collection of ephemera, memorabilia and realia relating to his
experience and participation in the world of Los Angeles arts.
Please see the UCLA Research Center Library and Archive Self Help
Graphics Research Collection and the Plaza de la Raza Archive
The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Tomas Benitez
Chicano Art
Self Help Graphics
Show Cards