Labor Art: Laborers' Flores a Finalist in Poster Contest
Thursday, April 18, 2013
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Local labor communicator Jaime Flores is one of just five finalists in the 2013
National American Latino Museum Poster
Contest. Deadline to vote is Thursday, April 25 at 11:59pm PST. "The
inspiration for this graphic poster was from my earliest memories as a child
growing up in the Caribbean,” says Flores, Director of Strategic
Communications for the Mid-Atlantic Laborers. “When I think of Latinidad
and our community, I think of my grandmother making cafe con leche and telling
me that this was the stuff that Latino dreams are made of. In this work, I
imagine the Latino museum as a 'gran café' featuring a special blend of all our
cultural beauty for the world to see. The wrestlers or 'luchadores' are out of
respect for a good friend of mine - famed fronterizo artist Francisco Delgado -
who often depicts our gente as luchadores—warriors. From the politician, to
Dolores Huerta, to Antonia Pantoja, to folks who work everyday in various
fields, as Latinos we are all luchadores."