Salvador Roberto Torres was born on July 3,1936 and is a Chicano artist and muralist and an early exponent of the Chicano art movement.
11 Facts About Salvador Torres
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Salvador Torres was one of the creators of Chicano Park, and led the movement to create its freeway-pillar murals.
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Salvador Torres was a founder of the Centro Cultural de la Raza in San Diego, California.
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Salvador Torres was born in El Paso, Texas, but moved to San Diego with his family as a young child.
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Salvador Torres made sketches and watercolors of what such a project might look like, and in 1969 he created the Chicano Park Monumental Public Mural Program to promote his vision.
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At a community meeting to deal with the impasse, Salvador Torres publicly proposed his idea of murals on the freeway pillars as part of the park.
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Salvador Torres is described as "the architect of the dream" for his role in inspiring and launching the project.
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Salvador Torres was one of the founders of the Centro Cultural de la Raza, in San Diego.
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Salvador Torres helped form Los Toltecas en Aztlan, a Chicano artists group that was instrumental in converting a former water tank in Balboa Park into a museum and cultural center with the specific mission of promoting, preserving and creating Chicano, native Mexicano, Latin American and Indian art and culture.
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Salvador Torres produced murals for an NBC television pilot, The Fortunate Son.
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In 1993 he and his former wife, artist Gloria Robolledo Salvador Torres, completed the Kelco Historical Community Mural in Barrio Logan.