Self Help Graphics & Art

Our 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐨 𝐌𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨’s route for July! ˖°𓇼🌊⋆🐚 Join us at these public art workshops happening all over LA! 🎨🚛💨

✰  July 8, 4:00 pm-5:00 pm | Los Angeles Public Library, Vernon Branch (Vernon Branch Library): Foam Block Printing

✰  July 11, 10:00 am-4:00 pm | Los Angeles Public Library (Los Angeles Public Library), Central Library Centennial Festival: Accordion Books

✰  July 14, 1:30pm-3:30pm | East LA Community Resource Center (Community Resource Center in East LA): Handmade Accordion Books

✰  July 18, 11:00am-2:00pm | LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art): Soft Block Printing on Paper

✰  July 21, 4:00pm-5:00pm | Los Angeles Public Library, Jefferson Branch (Jefferson Branch Library): Watercolor Painting

To learn more about 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐨 𝐌𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨 (BMAS), SHG’s mobile arts education studio, visit our website: https://www.selfhelpgraphics.com/bmas

Let’s watch a soccer game and documentaries about art tonight? 👀𓍢ִ໋⚽⋆🎞️ 𖥔 ݁ ˖

Head to The Aster Hotel tonight for a special screening of filmmaker Roberto S. Oregel’s (Roberto S. Oregel) documentaries, 𝘌𝘭𝘰𝘺: 𝘛𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘛𝘸𝘰 (2010) and 𝘓𝘦𝘫𝘢𝘯í𝘢𝘴 𝘺 𝘕𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘨𝘪𝘢: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘭𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘰 𝘥𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘤 (2026)

🎥✮⋆˙ 𝘌𝘭𝘰𝘺: 𝘛𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘛𝘸𝘰 (2010) dives into the city’s mural culture through artist and musician Eloy Torrez, known for his Anthony Quinn mural on the downtown Victor Clothing Building in DTLA, among other works.

🎥✮⋆˙ 𝘓𝘦𝘫𝘢𝘯í𝘢𝘴 𝘺 𝘕𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘨𝘪𝘢: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘭𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘰 𝘥𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘤 (2026) traces Alfredo de Batuc’s artistic legacy and his remarkable recovery from Guillain-Barré Syndrome.

Plus, stick around for a live Q&A with Roberto S. Oregel, Eloy Torrez, Alfredo de Batuc, and special guests.

🗓️: TONIGHT (!!!) Tuesday, June 30, 2026
📍: The Aster Hotel
🗺: 1717 Vine St, Hollywood, CA 90028

They’ll be showing the Mexico vs. Ecuador World Cup match at 6 PM and the film program will begin right after the game, around 8 PM!

Free with RSVP: bit.ly/063026
(Submit multiple times for additional guests.)

Image captions:

✰ Film stills of both films with Eloy Torrez (top) and Alfredo de Batuc (bottom)

✰ Eloy Torrez, The Pope of Broadway, 1985. Mural on 259 W. Third Street, Los Angeles, CA

✰ Alfredo de Batuc, Dolores Del Río, 1990. Mural on 6529 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA (Cropped image)

✰ Flyer courtesy of the filmmaker. Soccer match at 6 PM, film program around 8 PM.

⚽️ 🌟 As a way to celebrate soccer’s cultural impact (rather than its commercial one 🤑), we’d like to share some Self Help Graphics’ artworks from the 2014 LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) exhibition 𝘍ú𝘵𝘣𝘰𝘭: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦. 

This exhibition featured the works of thirty international artists who examined the sport through video, photography, painting, sculpture, and large-scale installation.ᯓ⚽️

For this exhibit, LACMA commissioned a new edition of prints by Self Help Graphics, featuring prints by artists Carolyn Castano (Carolyn Castano), Nery Gabriel Lemus (Nery Gabriel Lemus), Ana Serrano (Ana Serrano), Dewey Tafoya(Dewey Tafoya), and Amitis Motevelli (Amitis Motevalli). This edition of prints addressed a range of cultural and political themes, from Olmecs symbols, highlighting one of the first major civilizations in Mesoamerica, to the 1994 death of Colombian soccer player Andres Escobar! ⚽️💥

⚽︎ 💚𝙰𝚁𝚃𝚆𝙾𝚁𝙺 𝙲𝙰𝙿𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽𝚂 💚⚽︎

Dewey Tafoya, Olmeca 1370 BCE, 2013
Serigraph, 36 × 50 in. (91.44 × 127 cm)

Amitis Motevalli, Gooooooooal!, 2013
Serigraph, 50 × 36 in. (127 × 91.44 cm)

Carolyn Castaño, Escobar 4, 2013
Serigraph, 36 × 50 in. (91.44 × 127 cm)

Ana Serrano, Narco Soccer, 2013
Serigraph, 50 × 36 in. (127 × 91.44 cm)

Nery Gabriel Lemus, Thank You for the Game, 2013
Serigraph, 36 × 50 in. (91.44 × 127 cm)

All of these artworks were printed at Self Help Graphics & Art’s Professional Printmaking Program in 2013.

Our community is resilient despite everything we face. 🤎

Recognizing that collective care in times of crises is essential, we want to uplift this by sharing a new serigraph printed at Self Help Graphics by artist Benjamin Muñoz’s (Benjamin Muñoz).✨

𝘋𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘑𝘰𝘺 is a six-layer screen print that serves as a love letter to Chicano culture and to the communities that continue to cultivate joy, togetherness, and celebration despite systems designed to marginalize them.

The work reflects on the resilience required to maintain cultural identity while navigating economic hardship, displacement, generational sacrifice, and environments that are often openly hostile toward immigrant communities, and as recent events show, disproportionately impacted by environmental racism.

At a time of ongoing ICE raids and increasingly aggressive rhetoric surrounding race and belonging in America, 𝘋𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘑𝘰𝘺 reminds us that community and joy can be acts of defiance. ✊🏾🦋☁️🎈

This release marks Muñoz’s first published edition with Self Help Graphics and is now available through SHG and Hecho a Mano Gallery (Hecho a Mano)! 🔥🔥🔥

For more information, visit our website: www.selfhelpgraphics.com/blog/defiant-joy-2026

𝙰𝚁𝚃𝚆𝙾𝚁𝙺 𝙲𝙰𝙿𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽:
Benjamin Muñoz, 𝘋𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘑𝘰𝘺, 2026 
Serigraph, Edition of 60
Image Size: 19.5 in x 25.5 in, Paper Size: 22 in x 30 in
Printed at Self Help Graphics & Art’s Professional Printmaking Program