Join the California History Section and guest speaker Juan Manuel Carrillo on April 4, 2024 at 4PM!

Join us as Royal Chicano Air Force Founding Member Juan Manuel Carrillo talks about his mother’s life and how he uses the art of screen printing to tell her story. The suite of silk screen prints, which Carrillo will share during the talk, show the life of his mother, María del Carmen Carrillo Guerrero, born in Sinaloa in 1912. Using historical photos and his mother’s own words, the prints portray the life of an immigrant woman and her determination to overcome life’s obstacles. 

The suite of eight silk screen prints was created between 2012 and 2014 at TANA Art Center, Woodland. The donated suite adds to the collection of Royal Chicano Air Force prints in the State Library's collection.

Juan Manuel Carrillo is a retired Deputy Director of the California Arts Council and former faculty member of Cosumnes River College. He is a founding member of the Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF), an artist collective. He is a historian, writer, poet, and visual artist. He was born in Mexico, raised in San Francisco, and has lived in Sacramento for over 50 years. His drawings, prints and paintings have been exhibited in various galleries and exhibition spaces in solo and group shows with the RCAF.