Color is exploding these days from the walls of the campus’s Ethnic Studies Library, where 10 art posters by undocumented, queer “artivist” Julio Salgado are on exhibit.
A Mexican-born artist who grew up in southern California and graduated from Cal State Long Beach, Salgado is co-founder of DreamersAdrift, a creative project by and about undocumented youth. He’s also artist program manager for CultureStrike, an Oakland-based pro-immigrant arts organization, where he’s recruiting artists to illustrate letters written by immigrants held in for-profit detention centers (for more on the project and artwork, see this East Bay Express article .)
The exhibit of Salgado’s artwork — portraying “young undocumented queer people who have chose to come out of the shadows” — will be on display at the Ethnic Studies Library, 30 Stephens Hall, through September.