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Artist Sandro Canovas holds a home-made adobe brick

Arquitectura de la Raza: Sustainability, Traditions and Cultural Identity with Sandro Canovas

Canovas is an adobero, social and environmental activist who has been a vocal opponent of the special schedule adobe property tax imposed by the Presidio County Appraisal District on traditional adobe homes in Marfa, Texas.  We are pleased to invite Canovas for an important talk on this issue and to exhibit his adobes as part of a Dia de los Muertos event.
 
  • Artist Talk: Department of Art, Design, and Art History, CA101, Sept. 20, 4 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
  • Exhibition: Oct. 3 and Nov. 1 at the Graduate Art Studios on M Street, 1419 M Street, downtown Fresno
    • ArtHop (soft opening): Thursday, Oct. 3, 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.
    • Dia de los Muertos: Friday, Nov.1, 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.
 
Free and open to the public. For questions or special accommodations contact Chris Lopez at 559.278.4100 or chris_lopez@csufresno.edu.