Labor Art: Laborers' Flores a Finalist in Poster Contest

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Labor Art: Laborers' Flores a Finalist in Poster Contest(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."

 

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