Newsletter ~ May 2025 Dear CHAC Community, We are very excited to have two new exhibits this month, Sovereign Bodies Sacred Futures on Santa Fe and Low Brow Art at 40West! Sovereign Bodies Sacred Futures celebrates the rich and diverse history of the fight for LGBTQIA2S+ Liberation and will have a soft opening this Friday, with the celebration Friday, June 6th. Low Brow Art opens this Friday, and is sure to make you laugh as artists push the boundaries of traditional art. Inspired by the warmer weather, May 16th at 6:30pm on Santa Fe we will have a Sip and Paint workshop! This is a fun way to gather with friends and enjoy creating together. Click the poster to sign-up or the button below, space is limited!
Micah Ramirez (they/them) is an interdisciplinary Chicana artist, advocate, and community member. Their work in the community greatly informs their artistic practice which they use to bring attention to complex intersectional issues faced by their community. Issues of particular importance to them include: sexual/gender based violence, bodily autonomy and Reproductive Justice, Queer liberation, and breaking cycles of abuse. They explore these topics through a personal and spiritual lens, using their background in Critical Theory to draw connections between their own experiences and larger societal and cultural systems that affect us all. Using imagery and symbolism that has historically been used to create a shared identity and sense of cultural pride in the Chicano community, their work encourages the viewer to further cultivate an empowered community by interrogating the ways in which they may recreate/perpetuate patriarchal and colonial harm in their own lives and communities.
Notable exhibitions and projects include their solo exhibition at MSU Denver An Offering to the Cycle Breakers and their mural A Better Future is Possible for the SpaceTech Scholars program (created in partnership with CHAC artist Morgan DeVillier). Their work has been included in group shows such as Tasty at Munich Jewelry Week 2024, Collective Dreaming 2: Los Fantasmas and #Notwhite Collective at AIR Pittsburgh, Blue Bench’s annual RISE Survivor Art Show, and Alto Gallery’s Everyone’s Everything. Curatorial experiences include co-curation of CHAC's Chicano Legacy and Sovereign Bodies Sacred Futures exhibitions with Tania Maldonado and assistant curation of Los Fantasmas On the Rise at Yolia Art Space with Morgan DeVillier. Art below by Micah Ramirez "Prayer" "Pathmaker Cycle Breaker" "Wasn't I Sacred Too"
CHAC Gallery & Cultural Center was founded in 1978 by a group of visual and performing artists. The organization was established as a place where Chicano/Latino artists were provided with a venue to explore visual and performance art and promote and preserve the Chicano/Latino culture through the expression of the arts. CHAC is an inclusive community of creatives that are dedicated to preserving, showcasing, educating and reflecting the essence of Chicano/a/x, Latino/a/x and other multicultural/multiracial communities.
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CHAC Gallery & Cultural Center was founded in 1978 by a group of visual and performing artists. The organization was established as a place where Chicano/Latino artists were provided with a venue to explore visual and performance art and promote and preserve the Chicano/Latino culture through the expression of the arts. CHAC is an inclusive community of creatives that are dedicated to preserving, showcasing, educating and reflecting the essence of Chicano/a/x, Latino/a/x and other multicultural/multiracial communities.
