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● Title: Maestros: Arturo Negrete Cuellar and Chicano artist Jose Esquivel putting the last color on Jose's print "Labor Dav Celebration."
Link: https://fb.watch/i4nXofXEEo/?mibextid=NnVzG8

● Title: Celebration of Life Tribute: Central Cultural Aztlan, January 2023
Link: https://fb.watch/i4o472t0Gn/?mibextid=NnVzG8

Title: Celebration of Life Tribute, 2nd video from Center Cultural Aztlan by Gloria Sanchez Hart.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/1435006259/videos/574490174522823/

Article Links:

● Title: José Esquivel (1935-2022), Pioneering Chicano Artist, Part 1: The Con Safo Group Years

by Ruben Cordova, February 17, 2023

Link: https://glasstire.com/2023/02/17/jose-esquivel-1935-2022-pioneering-chicano-artist-part-1-the-con-safo-group-years/

● Title: José Esquivel, Pioneering Chicano Artist, Part 2: The Return to Chicano Art, 1991-2022

by Ruben Cordova, April 16, 2023

Link: https://glasstire.com/2023/04/16/jose-esquivel-pioneering-chicano-artist-part-2-the-return-to-chicano-art-1991-2022/

● Title: Called by God': Beloved San Antonio Chicano artist, activist dies.

by Steven Santana, Dec. 16, 2022

Link: https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/san-antonio-artist-jose-esquivel-death-17658878.php

● Title: Jose Esquivels Collection (Dreamers poster print sale)
Link: https://laprinteria.org/collections/jose-esquivel

● Title: Trailblazing Con Safo artist José Esquivel has died at age 87 - San Antonio Report

by Nicholas Frank December 19, 2022
Link: https://sanantonioreport.org/jose-esquivel-con-safo-san-antonio-artist-obituary/?amp

 

● Title: José Esquivel - Wikipedia
Link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Esquivel


● Title: Jose Esquivel: Chicano Art Pioneer and Barrio Visual Interpreter - La Prensa Texas

by Dr. Ricardo Romo, Jul 8, 2022
Link: https://laprensatexas.com/jose-esquivel-chicano-art-pioneer-and-barrio-visual-interpreter/

● Title: Jose Esquivel - La Prensa Texas

by Dr. Roberto Haro, Jul 8, 2022
Link: https://laprensatexas.com/jose-esquivel/

● Title: Ayala: José Esquivel, one of the earliest members of the Con Safo art collective ...

by Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News Commentary, Dec. 16, 2022
Link: https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Ayala-Jose-Esquivel-one-of-the-earliest-17657272.php

● Title: Beloved San Antonio Chicano artist, activist José Esquivel dies at 87 - Chron.

by Steven Santana, Dec. 16, 2022
Link: https://www.chron.com/news/local/article/san-antonio-artist-jose-esquivel-death-17658878.php

 

● Title: Jose Esquivel Obituary (1935 - 2022) - San Antonio, TX - Legacy.com

San Antonio Express-News
Link: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sanantonio/name/jose-esquivel-obituary?id=38497647
 

● Title: José Esquivel — Open Plaza And the Barrio Did Not Devour Me
HTI Open Plaza – The Hispanic Theological Initiative, May 2, 2022

Link: https://www.htiopenplaza.org/content/and-the-barrio-did-not-devour-me
Link: https://www.htiopenplaza.org/contributors/jose-esquivel

● Title: the McNay
Link: https://collection.mcnayart.org/persons/1036/jose-esquivel-american-b1935-d2022

● Title: Jose Esquivel

Link: https://xicanxart.com/artists/jose-esquivel/

● Title: Elenita Cruz's World (El mundo de Elenita Cruz)
Link: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/elenita-cruz-s-world-el-mundo-de-elenita-cruz-jose-esquivel/BAHmEZHdOuqsgg

● Title: Taller en Vida - Jose Esquivel
Link: https://events.getcreativesanantonio.com/event/taller-en-vida-jose-esquivel/

● Title: RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 7.09.22 JOSÉ ESQUIVEL ART PIONEER
Link: http://latinopia.com/blogs/ricardo-romos-tejano-report-7-09-22-jose-esquivel-art-pioneer/

 

● Title: Artpace Teen Council: Jose Esquivel: Perpetuating the Chicano Legacy
by Ernesto Gomez, February 8, 2021
Link: https://artpace.org/artpace-teen-council-jose-esquivel-perpetuating-the-chicano-legacy-by-ernesto-gomez/

● Title: Collision: The Contemporary Art Scene in Houston, 1972–1985

by Pete Gershon
Link: https://books.google.com/books?id=91JtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA176&lpg=PA176&dq=jose+esquivel&source=bl&ots=flowxjZqdn&sig=ACfU3U1_ei0OuPBm1JW-UggdPDCBzaZ3qQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj6jYH4lsv8AhUDm2oFHY-iD544bhDoAXoECAcQAg#v=onepage&q=jose%20esquivel&f=false

YouTube Videos:
● Title: Jose Esquivel The Great Chain of Being
Link: https://youtu.be/XAYTWgo3KEc


● Title: Interview with Roland De Leon
Link: https://youtu.be/_4motfG1TtA

● Title: Jose Esquivel: San Antonio, Texas
Chicano Artist Interview by Ann Marie Leimer, PhD
Link: https://youtu.be/hSPZtPajD6M

● Title: Video of summer art exhibit in 2007 at the Centro Cultural Aztlan, featuring latino artist from San Antonio Texas. This video is of work by Jose Esquivel. This video was on the Perspective Prisms Show hosted by Roberto Canedo.
Link: https://youtu.be/TQavRrhpybQ

● Title: 7 Questions
Link: https://youtu.be/i8m8NhSD0pM

Publications:

● Title: Con Safo: The Chicano Art Group and the Politics of South Texas

by Ruben Charles Cordova • 2009

Link: https://www.amazon.com/Safo-Chicano-Group-Politics-South/dp/0895511215

● Title: A Companion to Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latina/o Art

by  Alejandro Anreus (Editor), Robin Adèle Greeley (Editor), Megan A. Sullivan (Editor), Dana Arnold (Series Editor) • 1st edition (November 9, 2021)

Link: https://www.amazon.com/Companion-Contemporary-American-Blackwell-Companions

● Title: Collision: The Contemporary Art Scene in Houston, 1972–1985

by Pete Gershon • September 13, 2018

Link: https://www.amazon.com/Collision-Contemporary-Houston-1972-1985

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