Casasola Museum/ Museo Casasola

                             Mexican Revolution Historical Continental Tour 2008-2010

Collective Exhibition( with more than 400 photojournalists of four generations).

Selection of 120 photos with frames and slide show with another 500 hundred images.

General archives: 100,000 images, cartoons, maps, documentaries and more.

This exhibition is composed of 100,000 images of our iconographic collections of four types:

1.- Images that are part of the Casasola Museum’s private collection

2.- Images from the special collection of the Casasola Found

3.- Images from the archives of the Mexiamerica/Casa de las Americas special private

collection.

4.- Images from the collective collection of 50 border graphic journalists

( photojournalists ) associated with the Casasola Museum/Museo Casasola.

In conjunction with the Casasola Museum/ Museo Casasola, Casasola Educational Community Center, Fondo Casasola and Mexiamérica/Casa de las Américas is pleased to announce a collective exhibition of more than four hundred thirty-two photojournalists working in the México-U.S Border. The Collective Exhibition of these artists' include the works of four genetrations of photojournalists including : Javier Aguilar, Alfredo Carrillo,Adrian Caldera, Federico Casasola, Vanesa Casasola, Enrique Castillo, Rafael Cota, Doug Duvois, Ramiro Escobar, Yuri González , Raúl Lodoza, Juan Torres, Luis Torres, Jesus Manrique, Jaime Murrieta, Hector Oaxaca, Apolinar Ochoa, Miguel Perea, Roberto Ramirez, Margarita Reyes, Juan Robles, Ernesto Rodríguez, Manuel Sáenz, Alex Sánchez, Sergio Sánchez, Aurelio Suárez, Nat Stone , Lucio Soria, Ruben Valle, Lizbeth Vásquez and Carlos Vigueras Artists which are mostly from designed to better comprehend the historical reality of Mexico’s past, present and future.

Excellent images by photojournalists, led by Víctor Agustín Casasola, who were the first auxiliary historians that participated in the Mexican Revolution of 1910, as well as the members of three later generations, will be united in this project of the Casasola Museum and exhibited directly to the international community.

This exhibit covers a century of Mexico’s graphic history, and is organized by Federico Casasola and Carlos Vigueras. The travelling exhibit will be displayed during the next two years in universities, community centers, parks and public gardens, train depots, galleries, museums, public and private schools, various institutions, and national as well as international organizations.

The Center for Mexican American Studies of the University of Houston, the Casasola Fund, Bilingual Talent/Talento Bilingüe, La Nueva Raza, Mexiamérica/ Casa de las Américas, Houston Community College, Educational Community Center, as well as other support organizations, are coming together and joining hands in order to back this travelling independent project titled Mexico 2010: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. These organizations will analyze, evaluate, review and/or present cultural, artistic and academic works about the history of Mexico and its role in the world.

We hereby invite all cultural, academic, research and artistic organizations, as well as non-profit, alternative and community agencies, to participate in the events that will emerge from their own proposals, exhibitions and presentations, according to the list of invitations that will be received during the next few months.

The exhbit will also include conferences, forums, and several types of exhibitions, including book exhibits, disc exhibits, as well as exhibits of posters, cartoons, documents, videos and much, much more.

casasolamuseum@gmail.com Carlos Vigueras, director

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