{"id":49712,"date":"2021-09-11T15:50:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T22:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/?p=49712"},"modified":"2021-09-23T15:53:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T22:53:41","slug":"mother-mentor-maestra-the-mission-remembers-chicana-artist-yolanda-lopez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/mother-mentor-maestra-the-mission-remembers-chicana-artist-yolanda-lopez\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother, mentor, maestra: The Mission remembers Chicana artist Yolanda Lopez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Yolanda M. Lopez, the iconic Chicana artist and activist whose political art paved the way for so many and who called the Mission District home for more than 40 years, died of cancer in her home on the morning of Sept. 3, 2021. She was just shy of 79. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Later that day, dozens of loved ones and friends gathered at the site of her Mission District mural\u2014painted by Jess Sabogal\u2014on Folsom street, to mourn and celebrate her life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt was profound,\u201d said her son R\u00edo Ya\u00f1ez of the gathering. \u201cI regret that she wasn’t there. Because it was all of her community and chosen family. Many that were there were there helping her in the last two years of her life.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The gathering included prints of Lopez created by Sabogal, and a makeshift altar put together by community folk. \u201cIt felt like the old Mission that I grew up in,\u201d R\u00edo said. \u201cIt was the gathering of friends and family that she always dreamed of.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Friends and family of artist Yolanda M. Lopez, who passed away earlier in the day, gather on Folsom Street, within view of the mural that honored Lopez, to celebrate her life, Friday Sept. 3, 2021. Photo: Mabel Jim\u00e9nez\n<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Born in San Diego on Nov. 1, 1942, Lopez began painting Modigliani-like young women at the age of 12 using the Pelikan watercolors her hairdresser uncle had given her. A shy child, Lopez cruised the library stacks with the same excitement older teenagers cruised down boulevards. By 16, Lopez discovered the beatnik poets and hung a poster of Alfred E. Neuman on the walls of the bedroom she shared with her two younger sisters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the early 1960s, when her mother could no longer afford to support her, Lopez moved to the Bay Area. The Chicano movement was beginning to find its voice, and so was Lopez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI came out of the San Francisco State Strike, just one of the little munchkins walking the picket line,\u201d Lopez told El Tecolote in 2019. \u201cI was just one little working class Mexican girl taking art classes there.\u201d She worked at the Golden Gate Theatre to support herself through school, occasionally getting her friends in for free. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was out of the student strike at San Francisco State College, which lasted from 1968-69 and gave birth to the College of Ethnic Studies, where Lopez\u2019s path in political art began. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI very much saw myself as a revolutionary,\u201d Lopez told El Tecolote in 2019, referring to her political work at the time. \u201cWhich meant a whole different way of constructing a society and politics.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shortly after the strike, seven Central American youth from the Mission District\u2014who went on to become known as Los Siete de la Raza\u2014were accused of killing SFPD officer Joe Brodnik in May 1969. The arrests galvanized the Mission, and following the lead of Third World Liberation Front spokesperson Roger Alvarado and Los Siete organizer Donna Amador, Lopez joined the fight to free Los Siete. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI was like nobody in the San Francisco State art department. And when I went with Donna and Roger, I was an artist. I could draw. The biggest benefit that I got from Los Siete was a whole new way of looking at the world,\u201d Lopez said. \u201cI understood what I needed to do as an artist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lopez went on to create the political posters for Los Siete, the first time her work was ever published. \u201cI see it now. And I sort of cringe because it looks so primitive,\u201d Lopez laughed. \u201cBut that\u2019s what that was.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lopez also designed\u2014with help from the Black Panther Minister of Culture, Emory Douglas\u2014the radical Basta Ya! Newspaper, which served as the voice of Los Siete. And Lopez even served as a sketch artist in the courtroom. Lopez\u2019s archival collection was displayed in Acci\u00f3n Latina\u2019s 2019 exhibit, Remembering Los Siete. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lopez was part of the Chicano artist wave that gave rise to the future generations of women and Latina artists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the late 1970s, Lopez met fellow renowned Chicano artist and cofounder of Galer\u00eda de la Raza, Ren\u00e9 Ya\u00f1ez. The two had spent their senior year at the same high school in San Diego together, but met at Galer\u00eda during one of Lopez\u2019s shows. A few years later, their son R\u00edo was born in 1980. And even after splitting up, Lopez and Ya\u00f1ez lived in the same apartment building in the Mission. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think about her as an artist,\u201d R\u00edo said. \u201cSomeone who had to stand up and stand for the work she created.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her most well known art was also her most controversial. And that included her series \u201cPortrait of the Artist as the Virgin of Guadalupe\u201d (1978), which was a direct challenge to the colonial and patriarchal origins of the Guadalupe iconography. The three-image series features the sacrosanct Mexican icon\u2014which is holy even to non-believers\u2014but in place of the virgen<\/em>, Lopez features the thunderous body of her mother bent over a sewing machine. In the other images, she replaces the virgen<\/em> with her grandmother, and with herself in running shoes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yolanda M. Lopez art<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
R\u00edo remembers backlash: death threats, the smashed windows, the protesting outside exhibits, the men physically trying to intimidate her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cShe really had to stand up for the work that she made,\u201d R\u00edo said. \u201cAs her son, that was always really inspiring to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An artist in his own right, R\u00edo remembers the words of both his parents. \u201cBecoming an artist is taking a vow of poverty.\u201d In his home, that saying rang true. His parents lived paycheck to paycheck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey didn’t sugarcoat the realities of being an artist,\u201d he said. \u201cI saw the challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yet still, Lopez nurtured the artist in her son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy mom always encouraged me to draw. I had a really strong fascination with comic books. She would lie in bed with me and read X-Men comic books. Whatever I was interested in, she was always there to encourage me and cheer me on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lopez was also a frequent contributor to El Tecolote newspaper, illustrating various front pages of El Tecolote in the mid 80s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cShe was someone you could count on to contribute,” said Juan Gonzales, the founder of El Tecolote. “She was a very loving person who was willing to give whatever she could. She dedicated her life to giving.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a 1988 interview with El Tecolote, Lopez opened up about the challenges of being a working artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThe situation for artists is…impossible,\u201d Lopez said at the time. \u201cWhen young people ask me about being an artist, I tell them not to do it. I have no health plan, no retirement plan, no Social Security (benefits), but I know that\u2019s not going to stop them. Art is beyond logic, we\u2019re driven to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the same interview, she spoke openly about being diagnosed with the autoimmune disease, Lupus, motherhood, and her love of life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI know death is always lurking about, all I have is the here and now,\u201d Lopez told El Tecolote in 1988. The life lessons, such as the death of her beloved grandmother and that hard work doesn\u2019t guarantee success, freed her from restrictions, like the strings of a balloon being snapped. \u201cThey taught me that there\u2019s nothing to lose.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI want to feel everything,\u201d she continued. \u201cI want to touch everything, that\u2019s why I\u2019ve forced myself to introduce myself to people and become a mother. I didn\u2019t want to miss out on the experience of having a child. Curiosity drives me. The excitement has always been a big lure, it\u2019s the seductress of life. I feel I\u2019ve lived through a lot of thrilling things, through the beatnik generation, from SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) to hippies and rock music. It\u2019s been like a treat. How can I not love life?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In late 2013, R\u00edo\u2019s parents faced Ellis Act evictions from the apartments they had been living in since 1978. \u201cThey had been through so many eras of the community and neighborhood. It was an incredibly difficult time, having to be confronted with the changing face of San Francisco.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Lopez and Ya\u00f1ez resisted the eviction notices, and became illegal dwellers in their own homes. That was until the Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA) purchased their building and let them stay. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf they would have given up, that would have been the end of their foothold in San Francisco. It was something that I really deeply admired about them. They came out of the other side and were able to stay in their home.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And even now, R\u00edo is witnessing the impact his mother had on the community around her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cOne of her most important contributions to the Mission, San Francisco, the Bay Area was her mentorship to so many other artists, over the last three or four decades. She’s played a very quiet yet pivotal role in mentoring these young artists. It\u2019s amazing to see her legacy live on through that influence. How her legacy continues with so many other artists.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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