Episode 112: Remembering Ed Fuentes

Latinos Who Lunch

Society & Culture, Visual Arts, Arts, History, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 14 February 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This week we are honoring a dear compadre que se nos fue. Ed Fuentes was a cultural journalist and one of the biggest Latinos Who Lunch supporters. Fuentes was a writer and an advocate for Latinx artists on the West Coast and his absence will be felt for a long long time… Rest in power amigo. Our friend and colleague Ed Fuentes talked to us about his career as an advocate for Chicanx arts. Through his blog, Paint this Desert, he was able to highlight the artistic diversity of our communities in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Ed also discusses the perils of being the only Chicano MFA student in a department dominated by white male artists, and the importance that public murals have in the fight for resistance against oppression and gentrification. #podin #supportbrownpodcasts #supportlatinxpodcasts #lwlpod

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0:00.0	Hello, hey, how's it going? It's going, how are you? I'm alright. So this week, we are taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming because I have really sad
0:17.1	news.
0:17.7	Our dear friend and he was a guest on Latinos who lunch, The artist and journalist Ed Fuentes passed away this past week.
0:26.6	And it's been of shock just because he was such a he was such an advocate for the arts here in
0:38.4	Vegas and in LA and I'm just I'm just really happy that we got a chance to talk to Ed on on Latinos who lunch.
0:49.2	So I'm thinking today we should we should re-air his his interview with us right when we had
0:57.5	at Fuentes we we had the opportunity to talk about our monuments to talk about murals and that's what he
1:07.5	did best.
1:09.4	He always recorded the history of muralism, of Chik Chicken X muralism in LA and when he moved to Las Vegas
1:16.1	he decided to continue and do the same work. If you are a chicken X artist in. You probably heard of him or you met him because he was in every single opening
1:27.8	He was always there to support no matter what he was the first person to write about Latinos who launched, the very, very first person in the beginning.
1:36.0	He believed in us without asking any questions and he was always, always, always promoting.
1:42.0	So he was a promoter, a cultural promoter for
1:45.0	chicken X artist both in LA and Las Vegas and he's going to be greatly
1:50.3	greatly missed. Yeah and he used to write for K-C-E-T if you guys are familiar with that
1:56.0	site and one of his good friends James wrote about him and Babylito put it in the links to this episode.
2:03.4	It's in remembrance of arts journalist and advocate Ed Fuentes.
2:08.1	If you want to look up that article to learn more about him
2:11.2	and see everything that he wrote for KCT.
2:14.1	I just want to read a quick excerpt, is how you say it,
2:17.6	from the article that was just written in his honor.
2:23.0	It said, Ed's ability to have a presence
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