40 Facts About Barbara Carrasco

Barbara Carrasco was born on 1955 and is a Chicana artist, activist, painter and muralist.

Barbara Carrasco was the oldest girl and second oldest child of four siblings.

Barbara Carrasco recalls that they were poor and lived off food stamps.

Barbara Carrasco was encouraged by her father to broaden her horizons, go to college and perform her artwork.

Barbara Carrasco's mother admired Japanese art and decorated the house with it.

Barbara Carrasco felt that growing up with Japanese images influenced her sense of line.

Barbara Carrasco felt that her mother was a personal role model because she was a strong woman.

However, her mother was very protective of her girls, and she expected Barbara Carrasco to act as a role model of traditional femininity for her sisters.

In seventh grade, when she made her confirmation as a Catholic, Barbara Carrasco chose Saint Joan of Arc as her confirmation name because she was inspired by her leadership.

Barbara Carrasco received her BFA in art from UCLA in 1978.

Barbara Carrasco was the first person in her family to graduate from college.

Barbara Carrasco was one of the first artists to join Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers movement.

Occasionally, Chavez was able to reimburse her for art supplies, but most of the work Barbara Carrasco did was unpaid.

Barbara Carrasco helped create "monumental banners" for the United Farm Workers movement and protests.

Right after graduating from UCLA, Barbara Carrasco helped work on art for the Zoot Suit play, which later opened on Broadway.

Barbara Carrasco became involved with the Centro de Arte Publico after UCLA.

Barbara Carrasco was one of several women invited to join, reflecting a growing concern with gender equality in the art community.

Barbara Carrasco went to Nicaragua in 1986 with a UCLA program called the Chicano Delegation to Nicaragua.

Barbara Carrasco received her MFA in art from the California Institute of the Arts in 1991.

Barbara Carrasco is a founding member of the Dolores Huerta Foundation and serves as a board member.

Barbara Carrasco was recognized as a "community champion" in Los Angeles in 2014.

Barbara Carrasco is an artist, a painter and a muralist who is very involved in the community.

Barbara Carrasco's artwork reveals the real history against indigenous people in the US and how they were treated.

Barbara Carrasco uses her art to advocate change in the treatment of women.

Barbara Carrasco is a key figure in this art movement as she is an activist working closely with Cesar Chavez, trying to help bring justice into communities that had been constantly ignored due to their ethnicity.

Barbara Carrasco uses her art to bring attention to issues that would otherwise remain invisible.

Barbara Carrasco helps celebrate influential women, like in her "iconic representation" of civil rights activist Dolores Huerta.

In 1970, Barbara Carrasco at the time was a student at UCLA and created her artwork, Pregnant woman in a ball of yarn.

Barbara Carrasco was inspired to create this piece after hearing her brother telling his pregnant wife she was unable to go to school because she was pregnant.

Barbara Carrasco had attended one of Carrasco's press conferences that viewed her artwork, Pesticides, in New York in 1989 which her work was shown in Times Square.

Barbara Carrasco's work has been shown in many exhibits such as in the US, Europe, and in Latin America.

Barbara Carrasco herself has stated that because she was so political, her art hasn't been taken as seriously.

Barbara Carrasco enjoyed working with other Chicana artists in her generation, like her friend Yreina Cervantez.

Barbara Carrasco was just 19 years old when she met Cesar Chavez, leader of the United Farm Workers and decided to work with him.

Barbara Carrasco worked closely with Chavez to create flyers and banners for conventions, rallies, and supermarket demonstrations for the United Farm Workers.

Barbara Carrasco had about two weeks to complete the work and recruited a few people to help her finish it on time.

The city approved the sketches of the mural but when Barbara Carrasco began the process of painting it, the agency told her to remove fourteen images from the work that depicted incidents of discrimination directed at communities of color.

Barbara Carrasco refused to do so, resulting in the cancellation of the project.

History: A Mexican Perspective, Barbara Carrasco created the serigraph, Self-Portrait at Self-Help Graphics.

Names Can Hurt, was the first piece that Barbara Carrasco did which contained text.