Gabriela Rodriguez-Gomez

Gabriela

Rodriguez-Gomez

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Gabriela Rodriguez-Gomez is a Ph.D. candidate in Chicana/o Studies & Central American Studies at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) specializing in Chicana/o/x art and murals in the U.S. She holds a B.A. in Art and History of Art and Visual Culture from University of California Santa Cruz, an M.A. in Art History from University of California Riverside, and an M.A. in Chicana/o Studies from UCLA specializing in Chicana/o/x murals. Her dissertation is tentatively titled “Muralists Without Borders, Murals Without Walls: Womxn Artists and their Portable Murals of the Chicano Movement in the American Southwest”, and with Dr. Charlene Villaseñor Black as her dissertation chair, provides an interdisciplinary study of womxn artists creating portable murals for the Chicano art movement from the late 1960s to 2020. Gabriela is also a painter, photographer, illustrator, and digital media/graphic artist as well as co-editor and former treasurer of bozalta journal (bozalta.org).