2023 runway fashion by Paul Botello.

2023 runway fashion by Emilia Garcia.

2023 runway fashion by Joey Terril.

2023 runway fashion by Jacqueline “Jax” Esparza.

ROSE RAMIREZ

Rose Ramirez was the interim Executive Director of Self-Help Graphics & Art from October 2008 to July 2009, during which time she played a vital role in the national search for a permanent Executive Director. She also was vital in maintaining the operation of the organization during a period of structural repairs to the building, as well as sustaining the fundraising goals and creative activities of the center. Her extensive experience in communications was essential in navigating the communication between the public, artists, staff, board, property managers and construction crews to assure a smooth transition phase in the history of the organization.

Rose began her career in the cultural arts with ABC and KABC/KLOS radio, taking on numerous roles from administration to management, to producing radio programming. She also served for a time as an administrator with Bilingual Foundation for the Arts, working with the founding director Carmen Zapata, supporting the creative and core staff in all capacities of production, communications, publicity and marketing.

BANK OF AMERICA

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JUDITHE HERNANDEZ

During the tumultuous 1970s, Judithe Hernández first won acclaim as a member of the celebrated Chicano artist collective Los Four. The collective would become a major force in the Chicano Art Movement and the first Chicano artists to break through the mainstream museum barrier. After graduating from Otis Art Institute in 1974, she and Carlos Almaraz, also a Los Four member, earned recognition as muralists during the renowned Los Angeles mural renaissance of the 1970's.

Over her 53-year career, she has established a significant record of exhibition and acquisition of her work by major museums and private collections which include: the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art; the National Museum of Mexican Art; the Smithsonian American Art Museum; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture. She has been the recipient of the prestigious Artist-in-Residence at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, & Culture, University of Chicago; the City of Los Angeles Artist Fellowship (C.O.L.A.) and the Anonymous Was a Women Grant.

After more than 40 years, her artistic presence returned to downtown Los Angeles in 2019 when her seven-story mural “La Nueva Reina de Los Angeles” was installed at La Plaza Village one block north of El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument District.

2023 runway fashion by Arturo Urista.

2023 runway fashion by Lalo Alcaraz.

2023 runway fashion by Jose Lozano.

2023 runway fashion by Martha Carrillo.

2019 runway fashion by Carolyn Castaño.

2019 runway fashion by Rafa Haro.

2019 runway fashion by Consuelo Flores.

2019 runway fashion by Maria de Los Angeles.