Press Room
Click on the archives below for past programs, (including press releases), and/or contact us at info@maclaarte.org for additional information.
News & Press Releases
October 2025: MACLA and Montalvo Arts Center Present: From Their Hands to Ours
Press Release >>
August 2025: MACLA Presents: Inebria me an experimental opera by San Cha
Press Release >> | Press Photos >>
May 2025: MACLA and San Jose Jazz Present: ¡WEPA! FEST 2025
Press release>>
January 2025: MACLA Presents: Esto No Tiene Nombre Performed by Denice Frohman
Press Release >> | Press Photos >>
Previous Press:
October 2024: MACLA presents Undocumented Americans: A Conversation with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, moderated by José Antonio Vargas
Press Release >>
August 2024: MACLA presents Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind, stories and songs from the epic novel Their Dogs Came with Them by Helena María Viramontes. Performance created by Martha Gonzalez and Virginia Grise, Directed by Kendra Ware.
Press Release >> | Press Photos >>
May 2024: MACLA and San Jose Jazz Present: Día de San Juan Salsa Fest Celebrating Puerto Rican Culture
Press release>>
March 2015: MACLA presents its 17th Latino Art Now! Exhibition
Press release>>
January 2015: MACLA presents ¡Ser!, the award-winning theater performance by Karen Anzoategui, directed by Marcos Nájera.
Press release >>
September 2014: Jeff Chang reads from his latest book, Who We Be: The Colorization of America, on October 23, 2014. Discussion with KQED follows.
Press release>>
August 2014: Unmasked, an exhibition on real and re-imagined superheoes, opens August 27, 2014.
Press release>>
May 2014: Cosmos Codex, commissioned work by Vargas-Suarez UNIVERSAL, opens May 2, 2014.
April 2014: Community Supported Art (CSA) Program launches April 7, 2014.
March 2014: MACLA co-initiating “What’s your Stance on Arts and Culture in San Jose?”
Latino Art Now! 16th Annual Auction + Exhibition, opens March 7, 2014.
February 2014: MACLA is co-sponsoring this February’s Center for Literary Arts lecture, featuring novelist Cristina García in conversation with Andrew Sean Greer. Ms. García has published six highly-acclaimed novels, including Dreaming in Cuban, a finalist for the National Book Award. A reading and book signing is on February 5, followed by the lecture on February 6 at 1:00 pm. This event is organized by The Center for Literary Arts in San José and the Department of World Languages and Literatures at San José State University. Visit litart.org for details.
January 2014: Our Senior Curator, Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, participates in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ ConVerge event, an evening of performance and conversation that explores cross-disciplinary collaboration and generative platforms in art-making today. www.ybca.org/converge
Video Archive
VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS
2013 PEAPOD ADOBE YOUTH VOICES ACADEMY
Film: Rhythm of a Refugee (2013 Adobe Aspire Awards, 1st Place Best Collaboration Project)
Film: Be the One
Music Video: Polaroids & Films (2013 Adobe Aspire Awards, Best Music Video)
Film: Make the Call (2013 Adobe Youth Voices 2013 Film Camp. Best Production Award)
What We're Posting on Instagram...
Buy a Ticket on Eventbrite...
Go to MACLA's eventbrite page to get tickets to our next event.
Performance Archive
with opening performance by Diana Gameros October 2 – 4, 2015 Castellano Playhouse Las Cafeteras seamlessly fuse traditional Afro-Mexican music from Veracruz, Mexico with modern
with opening performance by Cado April 10-12, 2015 An exclusive Bay Area performance, not to be missed! With a fresh and thrilling new album, Por
A Theater Performance Written and performed by Karen Anzoategui and directed by Marcos Nájera January 23-25, 2015 ¡Ser! is a riveting and hilarious personal narrative
a book reading by Jeff Chang with a panel moderated by Siouxsie Oki (KQED), and guests Yahaira Carillo, Edward “Scape” Martinez, and Julio Salgado October
written and directed by Robert Karimi with special guests John Castro, Leticia Hernandez-Linares, Tomas Riley, Jessica Lopez Lyman and more February 14- 16, 2014 Love, Food,
by Teo Castellanos D-Projects November 15-17, 2013 To have and have not: Fat Boy is a compelling multi-disciplinary performance that explores global themes of scarcity,
By Desmar Guevara, featuring Nelson Ojeda on piano and the Classical Revolution String Quartet April 26–28, 2013 Grados Inefables (Ineffable Degrees) is a daring new
A play by Paul S. Flores, developed with & directed by Michael John Garcés Starring Ricardo Salinas of Culture Clash October 5—14, 2012 Placas is
An original concept and composition by Guillermo Galindo, performed by Quinteto Latino March 16–18, 2012 World Premiere Voces del Desierto is a multi-disciplinary musical composition
FIRST WOMAN ON THE MOON: AN INVESTIGATION OF SPACE AND MOVEMENT By Elia Arce November 18—19, 2011 In First Woman, Elia Arce leads the audience
Visual Archive
Presents: Ghostly Labor by Vanessa Sanchez and La Mezcla at The Castellano Playhouse PLAYBILL GHOSTLY LABOR About Ghostly Labor, by Vanessa Sanchez and La Mezcla delves into
About Patty Botello was born in Los Ángeles, California. At the age of three, she learned how Piñatas were created from her next-door neighbor and
About Dignidad Rebelde is a creative collaborative space organized by artists Jesus Barraza and Melanie Cervantes who are based in Halchis, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Jalquin Chochenyo Ohlone,
About Anna Lisa Escobedo, She/Her/Ella/Ellas. She is a visual artist, muralist, cultural worker, networker, and event & program producer. At YBCA, she helps design and implements
@j.duh took over our Instagram @macla_sanjose to share more about his work, live painting, and answered questions about his art and inspiration. Visit @MaclaSanjose
Artist Pilar Agüero-Esparza (IG: pilar.aguero.esparza) took over our Instagram page and shared her creative space from home and showed us a few paintings she’s been
Join us this Wednesday, April 22nd on Instagram Live for a drawing tutorial lead by artist Carlos Rodriguez! (IG @carlosrmk). Find the supply list below! Time: 30 minutes
We had the pleasure of having artist Arleene Correa Valencia (www.correavalencia.com) take over our IG Live and shared about her process and inspiration behind her
Join us this Wednesday, April 15th on Instagram Live for your chance to make you very own pineapple pinata alongside artist Patty Botello (IG @pbotelloart)! Find
Artist Cruzita Mendoza Fonseca took over our Instagram Live on April 1st, 2020, for another installment of Stories from La Sala and walked us through