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Artist in Residence Program offered by ACME and Transportation and Public Works (TPW) Artist: Claudia Zapata Memorias Project •An immersive art experience based on Austin’s Mexican American communities. AN EXPERIENCE IN THREE MOVEMENTS • Movement One • Images and footage reference Austin’s early Mexican population that resided, worked, and formed cultural communities in downtown’s Republic Square, known as Austin’s Mexico. • Mexican and Mexican American residents began Diez y Seis celebrations (Mexico’s Independence Day), and many worked at the Walker’s Aus-Tex Chili factory. • Eventually, the 1928 City Plan displaced Black and Mexican American communities to East Austin Front Cover of the 1928 City Plan. AN EXPERIENCE IN THREE MOVEMENTS • Movement Two • Austin’s Mexican American communities flourish with community centers, public murals, and restaurants. • Since 1942, the Pan American Recreation Center has been serving East Austin, and the later Hillside Theater, with its Chicano murals, highlights Mexican American histories. • For over sixty years, Joe’s Bakery, Cisco’s Restaurant and Bakery, and La Perla have served as staples of Tejano and Tex-Mex food and drink on the east side. PICA 35906, Alfonso Ramos Band plays for a wedding reception at the San Jose Community Center, 1970. Austin History Center AN EXPERIENCE IN THREE MOVEMENTS • Movement Three • Chicano activists, including the militant group the Brown Berets, contest Austin’s annual Aqua Fest and boat races. • Damage, trash, and noise pollution led to demonstrations and protests. • Other Chicano protests and demonstrations occurred throughout Austin against gentrification, police brutality, and in solidarity with the farmworkers’ movement. • Activist figures like Pablo Hernandez and Joanne Salas are memorialized in murals and photos The Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Project and Archive 1401_0011NDLSR_111014_082 Nancy de los Santos Brown Beret Joanne Salas on Capital steps, Austin Texas The Audience Experience Research Austin History Center The Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Project and Archive Preservation Austin 5th Street Mexican American Heritage Corridor and District Mexic-Arte Museum/Sylvia Orozco AR. 2002.008-012 Gloria and Mel Pennington, Austin History Center Artist Website: https://www.claudiaelisazapata.com/ Project Site: https://memoriasproject.com/ Instagram: @claudiaezapata