>> From the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. [ Music ] >> Katherine Blood: I wonder if you wouldn't mind jumping over to some of the pieces that are from a part of the world that you're very directly engaged with in your history. So from La Raza Graphics, we have a couple of things over here. >> Juan Felipe Herrera: From La Raza Graphic Center. >> Katherine Blood: Yeah. >> Juan Felipe Herrera: Right? From La Raza Graphic-- >> Katherine Blood: Screen Print Center, exactly. >> Juan Felipe Herrera: La Raza Graphic Center, Printing Center. So this particular-- >> Katherine Blood: You were there. >> Juan Felipe Herrera: I was there. >> Katherine Blood: This is your neighborhood. >> Juan Felipe Herrera: I was there in the neighborhood. So the poster we have over here, it's a bit of a place I remember that was on 16th and Mission. And this is a 1982 poster from La Raza Graphic Center. And it says right there they do typesetting, silkscreen, illustration, logo design, cartoons, and on. And I remember going to La Raza Graphics just to get some flyers done or to just say hello Herbert Siguenza, Malaquias Montoya, and was it Linda Lucero? >> Katherine Blood: Linda Lucero, Juan Fuentes. And they're pictured in this image in this studio. And so you've been to this place and you know these artists. And they printed the poster that we've put along with the scene from the studio. And this is very personal, something that you helped to build. >> Juan Felipe Herrera: Yes. >> Katherine Blood: El Tecolote, bilingual newspaper. And you did something specific. >> Juan Felipe Herrera: Yeah. So this El Tecolote [inaudible]. So this El Tecolote, beautiful poster that was done at La Raza Graphics. And it's celebrating the El Tecolote 8th Anniversary. >> Katherine Blood: So 1978. >> Juan Felipe Herrera: 1978. >> Katherine Blood: 1978. >> Juan Felipe Herrera: 1978. And I was there in 19-- I kind of got into the Mission District. This is what takes place in San Francisco, in the Bay Area. And with Francisco Rincon. And I kind of teamed up with many good friends in the Mission District, Victor Martinez and La Handra Muhia [phonetic], Roberto Valdez [phonetic], and we're many good friends [foreign phrase]. And we, Francisco I believe, put together the event to propose that we form Tecolote [foreign phrase], kind of like a literary insert. Tecolote means paper [inaudible], so really open arms and invited us to do so. And then we began to call on poets from the Bay Area and throughout California United States and Latin America to send us poetry and art. And we did that for a number of years. And Francisco Rincon has always been at the heart of it. Also Horgeta [phonetic]. And Susan Martinez from San Jose did a lot of the art. And many more good people. So these are very-- I'm very close to these posters. So these are very-- I'm very close to these posters. I'm so glad you have them here. >> Katherine Blood: It's part of an amazing collection. Mission Graphic [inaudible] collection is more than 1,000 prints and posters. We were talking about how it's many different art forms and many different artists. So the posters are reflecting activism, but they're also reflecting-- it's a whole universe. So they're reflecting the community. They're reflecting this party that's in celebration of the 8th anniversary of the newspaper. Dance, music, poetry readings, there's a poster for a poetry reading that you participated in in this collection. So this is just very rich. >> Juan Felipe Herrera: Many of the people, you know, sometimes people talk about an art movement or a poetry movement or a social movement. Well, this is what it is, you know? It's people working out of a cultural center or out of a small storefront like La Raza Graphics, or have a smaller space like El Tecolote [foreign phrase] El Tecolote Community Newspaper, bilingual newspaper, Spanish and English, and putting out some beautiful posters and doing readings and doing art and activism, newspaper, stories, journalism, and doing a little business for the people by creating silkscreens of beautiful events. So so many beautiful things. And so I'm so happy. And look at this right here. >> Katherine Blood: This is-- this was an amazing experience. I was invited to the print-making studio/class that's in Quentin, which I hadn't known this existed. And this would have been around 2008. And the instructor, Katia [phonetic] Macoa [phonetic] invited me. And I sat and watched the artists making linocut prints, and I talked with them, and you've selected a few things to show from this portfolio, San Quentin Art's portfolio, and by a particular artist featuring this artist Ronnie Goodman. >> Juan Felipe Herrera: Ronnie Goodman. >> Katherine Blood: He continues to-- so these were prisoner artists at the time. Ronnie Goodman is now working in California and exhibiting and, you know, working actively as an artist still. But he's very, very talented. It's very compelling work, in my opinion. >> Juan Felipe Herrera: That's beautiful. You know, I noticed that Ronnie Goodman does a portrait or includes an image of Frida Kahlo in one of these prints. >> Katherine Blood: Do you want to share it? >> Juan Felipe Herrera: Oh, sure. Let's share it. And there's a figure with kind of an angelic figure right here with the big wings and he's kind of sitting down facing down. >> Katherine Blood: And this is the artist. It's a self-portrait. >> Juan Felipe Herrera: And this is the artist, a self-portrait, Ronnie Goodman. And this takes place in a prison location, a prison space, place of containment without keys at the moment. But there is the key of art. And above-- >> Katherine Blood: A way of being free. >> Juan Felipe Herrera: And here's Frida Kahlo, an image of Frida Kahlo. And I haven't seen this kind of image of Frida Kahlo to this very moment. >> Katherine Blood: It's unique. >> Juan Felipe Herrera: It's very unique, very unique. And it's the night stars and the black and white. And very moving. African-American artist. >> Katherine Blood: That's right. He's holding his paintbrushes. >> Juan Felipe Herrera: Holding his paintbrushes. So I'm really moved by-- >> Katherine Blood: That's the key. >> Juan Felipe Herrera: That's the key. That's the key. Beautiful. And that's the key that we're inviting all of you to use because you already have that key to express yourselves, to write, to view these beautiful materials from [foreign name], our prints and photographs, the vision here at the Library of Congress that we want to bring out to you. And La Casa de Colores' annual long-year project. And I just can't believe it, all these good materials, and Ronnie Goodman. And right here in front of us-- >> Katherine Blood: Elizabeth Catlett. So one of the great-- and I'm going to show this so you can sort of look at it too. >> Juan Felipe Herrera: Okay. >> Katherine Blood: Elizabeth Catlett is one of our great canonical American artists. And so she was-- I want to say she was in her 80s when she made this in 2005. And it's very cool because all of the color is digital and all of the blocks for the framework is lithography. So she's sort of straddling the old and the new. It's called Gossip. This piece is called Gossip. And this is just this beautiful little intimate scene. And she's known often for portraying women, strong women, and this is a very contemporary expression of that. >> Juan Felipe Herrera: And they look like they're having a serious exchange, something that has taken place. I can't believe it. I love it. >> Katherine Blood: I love it too. >> This has been a presentation of the Library of Congress. Visit us at loc.gov.