Amalia Mesa-Bains

San Francisco resident Amalia Mesa-Bains is an artist, scholar, curator, and writer who has been involved in the Chicano artist movement since the 1960s.

Dr. Mesa-Bains is a leading altar installation artist, incorporating Chicano culture and folk traditions into her work. She was the curator for the traveling Ceremony of Memory exhibit and the regional committee chair (Northern California) for the exhibition Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985 (CARA).

She also has written extensively on Chicano art and culture. Among her many awards is a 1992 Distinguished MacArthur Fellowship. She has served as a consultant for the Texas State Council on the Arts and the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and is a former Commissioner of Arts for the City of San Francisco.

She holds a BA in painting from San Jose State University, an MA in interdisciplinary education from San Francisco State University, and an MA and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the School of Clinical Psychology, Wright Institute in Berkeley.

Dr. Mesa-Bains is also the author of: Ceremony of Spirit: Nature and Memory in Contemporary Latino Art. San Francisco: TheMexican Museum, 1993.

"Mi Alma, Mi Tierra, Mi, Gente: Contemporary Chicana Art." opens October 6, 2000 and run to November 3, 2000 in the Little Theatre Gallery--Moreau Hall.

The group exhibition was planned in conjunction with this year's academic theme; "Chicana 2000: Emerging Voices." The exhibition, curated by a committee of Saint Mary's students and faculty will consider the political, domestic and spiritual themes of five celebrated Chicana Artists.

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