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News & Press Releases
October 2025: MACLA and Montalvo Arts Center Present: From Their Hands to Ours
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August 2025: MACLA Presents: Inebria me an experimental opera by San Cha
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May 2025: MACLA and San Jose Jazz Present: ¡WEPA! FEST 2025
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January 2025: MACLA Presents: Esto No Tiene Nombre Performed by Denice Frohman
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October 2024: MACLA presents Undocumented Americans: A Conversation with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, moderated by José Antonio Vargas
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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.
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May 2024: MACLA and San Jose Jazz Present: Día de San Juan Salsa Fest Celebrating Puerto Rican Culture
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March 2015: MACLA presents its 17th Latino Art Now! Exhibition
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January 2015: MACLA presents ¡Ser!, the award-winning theater performance by Karen Anzoategui, directed by Marcos Nájera.
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September 2014: Jeff Chang reads from his latest book, Who We Be: The Colorization of America, on October 23, 2014. Discussion with KQED follows.
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August 2014: Unmasked, an exhibition on real and re-imagined superheoes, opens August 27, 2014.
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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)
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Performance Archive
About Yosimar Reyes is a nationally-acclaimed Poet and Public Speaker. Born in Guerrero, Mexico, and raised in Eastside San Jose, Reyes explores the themes of
About Maribel Martínez is a Queer Chicanx of P’urhépecha heritage. She is a brainiac, storyteller, guerrera that dreams of shapeshifting. By day, she works in public policy. After hours, she
About Born and raised in Cuba, DJ Leydis combines contemporary hits with a distinct fusion of Latin flavors, R&B classics, and roots reggae blends. Involved in the
About Ivan AKA Ivan Del Acordeon – Born and Raised in ESSJ (East San Jose) started writing and performing music at the age of 13. By 19
Artist Talk and some Stand-Up Storytelling with writer, performer, and stand-up comedian, Baruch Porras-Hernandez! Baruch (@baruchporrashernandez) discussed the creation of the We Can Be Heroes
Playwright Mercedes Floresislas, who has been commissioned by MACLA, through the Gerbode Foundation, to write a new play, shared her writing process and told us
Please join MACLA for Salsa Solo Foot Work and Choreography, led by Chiquy Mejia! Practice, learn individual salsa steps, and make choreography to show off
Mónica María’s music reflects her Californian roots mixed with traditional, earthly and contemporary sounds of Latin America. A vocalist, multi instrumentalist and composer, her songs
Friends, join playwright, performer and poet Paul S. Flores for MACLA’s “Stories From La Sala,” Friday, April 3, for a live poetry reading and poetry
Noches de Baile: In Lak’ech Dance Academy Dance, watch, learn and play with In Lak’ech Dance Academy and DJ Wonway Posibul! Club MACLA hosts an evening of salsa
Visual Archive
Exhibition April 1 – May 14, 2016 View the very best in contemporary Latino art from the Bay Area and beyond. Free and open to
December 2, 2015 – March 13, 2016 Work by Carlos Rolón/Dzine, Marcos Gaitán, Sergio García, Luis Gispert, Nery Gabriel Lemus, Gilbert “Magu” Luján, Melina Ramirez,
September 2 – November 15, 2015 Work by Pilar Agüero-Esparza, Aaron De La Cruz, Rogelio Gutierrez and Patrick Martinez Curated by Joey Reyes MACLA opens its
June 5-Augus 8, 2015 Work by award-winning Bay Area artists Jaime Guerrero and Viviana Paredes. Curated by Joey Reyes MACLA closes its 2014-15 season with
April 3, 2015 – May 16, 2015 Curated by Joey Reyes This long-running and popular exhibition reflects the breadth of visual arts media for which
Dec. 5, 2014 – Mar. 14, 2015 Curated by Joey Reyes Work by Juana Alicia Araiza, Carmen Argote, Jesus Barraza, Melanie Cervantes, Adriana Garcia, Wayne
August 27 – November 15, 2014 Work by Carlos Donjuan, Hector Hernandez, Dulce Pinzón, & Rio Yañez Curated by Joey Reyes MACLA opened its 2014-15
May 2—August 2, 2014 California Premiere COSMOS CODEX was a commissioned, site-specific work by artist Vargas-Suarez UNIVERSAL. This is MACLA’s first art exhibition dedicated to
March 7—April 26, 2014 The auction included work by established contemporary artists, including Luis González-Palma, Erika Harrsch, Nereida Gárcia-Ferraz, and the de la Torre brothers. It
A contemporary art exhibition exploring the unique heritage of corn in the Americas Work by Yvonne Escalante, Yolanda Guerra, Fernando Mastrangelo, Viva Paredes, and Jorge Rojas