“Cholas don’t smile if they don’t know you and ‘mad dog’ you if they don’t like you. But they never lose their cool, they don’t scream, complain or show you weakness. That’s not their style. They’re too proud. Cholas ‘do what they gotta do’ and Lorraine has tapped into her inner Chola (‘La Lucy’) and you don’t mess with her barrio, her culture, her history , her HERstory or she will cut you up with brilliant satire and drawings that are razor sharp.”
–HERBERT SIGUENZA, ACTOR, WRITER, ARTIST AND FOUNDING MEMBER OF CULTURE CLASH
“Navigating the exhausting stream of ignorant, Colonial encounters that people of color experience all too regularly, is exhausting. Lorraine’s ability for truth telling, as she recruits the reader’s grin, reclaims while also delivering that well deserved left hook.”
–DR. ELLA MARIA DIAZ, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, ENGLISH AND LATINO STUDIES, CORNELL UNIVERSITY
–HERBERT SIGUENZA, ACTOR, WRITER, ARTIST AND FOUNDING MEMBER OF CULTURE CLASH
“Navigating the exhausting stream of ignorant, Colonial encounters that people of color experience all too regularly, is exhausting. Lorraine’s ability for truth telling, as she recruits the reader’s grin, reclaims while also delivering that well deserved left hook.”
–DR. ELLA MARIA DIAZ, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, ENGLISH AND LATINO STUDIES, CORNELL UNIVERSITY
CHOLA ENTERPRISES combines Lorraine García-Nakata's stunning illustrations and biting prose in a playful take on corporate culture, ignorance and gentrification.
Limited Edition of 150
Bound by hand
$12
Limited Edition of 150
Bound by hand
$12
Printed in Califas
Includes 10 original illustrations
5.25" x 5.25" x 0.25"
28pp
Includes 10 original illustrations
5.25" x 5.25" x 0.25"
28pp
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LORRAINE GARCÍA-NAKATA navigates between disciplines, namely visual art, music, and writing. Her visual art has been exhibited on a local, national, and international level and tends to be large in scale. In 2003, she was awarded a California Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowship in Printmaking. Since 1973, Lorraine has been a member of world-renowned Chicano artist collective, Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF). Former Mayoral appointee to the San Francisco Arts Commission and Congressional Appointee as Federal Commissioner for the National Museum of the American Latino, Lorraine currently serves as advisor to the San Francisco Latino Historical Society, on the membership committee with the San Francisco Latino Democratic Club, and other key efforts. In 1964, at the tender age of thirteen, Lorraine literally learned how to eat fire. It prepared her for what was to come: Fire, water, and expecting to fly!
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