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Xochitl Nevel Guerrero (born 1954) is a Chicana visual and public artist. She is known for her murals, masks and tile art. [1]
Nevel Guerrero was born in 1954 in Berkeley, California, but was raised in Oakland. [2] She was the youngest child in her family of six children. [2] Her father, Raymundo “Zala” Nevel, came to the United States from Mexico City as part of the Bracero Program and settled in West Oakland, where he met Nevel Guerrero’s mother. [2] [3] He was also a muralist, and it is because of him that Nevel Guerrero became fascinated by art. [2]
Nevel-Guerrero joined baile folklórico and learned to play the flute because of her parents' love for music and dancing. [2] Since her father was active in the social movements of the time, she became involved as well. [2] She joined a theater group called El Teatro Triste, where she performed skits that had political or social critiques. [2]
At Laney College, she joined a theater group called El Teatro Calcetin, where she continued to represent and be involved in the community while making statements about current events. [2] [4] Nevel Guerrero became part of the Mujeres Muralistas where she connected culture, environment, and gender into her art. [2]
After Laney College, she transferred to the University of California, Berkeley, dropping out after a year. [4] She took a gap year and enrolled at Cal State East Bay (formerly known as CSU Hayward), where she earned a bachelor's degree. [2] [4]
Latino America was a mural project coordinated by the Mujeres Muralistas in 1974. [2] Together with artists Ester Hernández and others, Nevel Guerrero completed this mural on the Mission Model Cities building in San Francisco, California. [2] She painted much of the maize. Her dreams of a corn goddess inspire her to include corn in many of her works. [2]
In 1977, Nevel Guerrero and her father painted this mural at the Clínica de la Raza in East Oakland, California. [3] [5] It depicts indigenous peoples and symbols as well as Mexican cultural elements, such as the Virgin of Guadalupe and a curandera healing a man laying face down. [5]
This mural was painted by Xochitl Nevel Guerrero and Crystal Nevel, along with the PLACA group, in 1984. [2] A young man is holding the world in his arms with others around him. [2] Those surrounding him are expressing themselves creatively through painting, breakdancing, and more. [2]
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