When:
March 5, 2026 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
2026-03-05T16:00:00-08:00
2026-03-05T18:00:00-08:00
Where:
The Evergreen State College - Evergreen Art Gallery
Thursday March 5, 2026 from 4-6 p.m. in the Evergreen Art Gallery. This event will feature music by Sin Fronteras and Kurdish Drums, along with poetry and presentations by students in the academic program Migrant Archives. The exhibition is on display at the Evergreen Gallery from January 16th-March 5th and is free and open to the public – visit soon if you haven’t yet, or make a return visit!
Colectiva Cocuya and The Evergreen State College Library Archives proudly invite you to join us for an exhibition of posters and artworks by Chicanx/Latinx artists in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. This exhibition highlights materials from Evergreen’s Chicano/Latino Archive, a major artistic, research, and teaching collection originally developed in the 1980s to visibilize Chicanx/Latinx artists and communities in the region. Featuring posters, archival slides of murals, and additional materials long overdue for public exhibition, this show seeks to reactivate memory and create new sightlines between past and present. The exhibition engages images and issues with particular resonance today: cultural identity in Chicanx/Latinx movements and communities, transcontinental solidarity and anti-imperialist struggles, workers’ movements, education, and student activism.
Colectiva Cocuya, an intersectional feminist collective rooted in Latinx communities and based in Tacoma-Seattle, organized and curated this exhibition. We facilitate participatory artistic events as a means of empowering marginalized communities and highlighting the role of art in social justice struggles.
Special thanks to those making the exhibition and supporting events possible: Emeritus Faculty Librarian Pat Matheny-White, who along with Emeritus Faculty Member Sid White, gathered the original Chicano/Latino Archive materials; Grant Mandarino, Evergreen’s archivist, who facilitated access to the collection and, along with archives/photoland student workers, initiated digitization of its materials; students from the program Migrant Archives, who have been involved in processing the archive contents; the House of Welcome and Alexis Xóchihua, who provided support hosting this show at the Evergreen Gallery. Sponsors include the Evergreen Library, Evergreen’s Equity and Belonging Fund, and academic programs Migrant Archives and Community-Based Media and Social Justice.
