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Malaquias Montoya began the Mexican and Chicano Mural Workshop at the California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC) in 1980.

Maceo Montoya – painter, writer, educator – is an artist who moves in many directions.

Maceo Montoya – painter, writer, educator – is an artist who moves in many directions.

The mural attempts to represent the organization's goals to increase awareness about nutrition and fitness.

Malaquias Montoya and the Legacies of a Printed Resistance Manetti Shrem Museum of Art Public Opening: October 1, , –5 PM On view October 1,

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The mural was commissioned in by the Office of Student Affairs and the Campus Art in Public Places Work Group to portray UC Davis' transition to a campus.

Already a prolific muralist in the California Bay Area, Montoya sought to create a curriculum where students could participate in the creation of community art that both challenged and empowered its viewers. Greatly influenced by Mexican Muralism and Los Tres Grandes (Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros), Chicano Muralists sought to tell the stories of their community on the walls of their neighborhoods.

In this tradition, Montoya’s classes painted murals on schools, community centers, drug prevention centers, food co-ops, and storefronts throughout the East Bay, addressing issues as wide-ranging as education, health, and the numbing effects of mass media, to wars in Central America.

 

In 1989, Montoya left CCAC for the Chicana/o Studies Department at the University of California, Davis, where the mural workshop, along with t