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Ernesto Yerena Montejano
born El Centro, California 1987
Roxana Dueñas
born Los Angeles, California 1984
Stand with LA Teachers!
2019
screenprint on paper
Museum purchase through the Patricia Tobacco Forrester Endowment, 2020.50.1
When the United Teachers of Los Angeles union went on strike in early 2019, they commissioned Montejano to create an image in support of their demands for better pay and working conditions. The artist chose to depict educator Roxana Dueñas, whom he felt represented the ethnic and racial demographics of teachers and students in Los Angeles. When asked to pose for the image, Dueñas donned a flannel shirt stating, "that's [what I] look like in the classroom." Her portrait appeared on billboards, on screenprints distributed for free, and in the pages of the Los Angeles Times. |