STATUS? Prints from Puerto Rico to San Antonio

This publication accompanies the exhibition St@tU.S.? Prints from Puerto Rico to San Antonio, which highlights serigraphs from Puerto Rico produced from the 1950s to the present alongside contemporary prints in a variety of print media from San Antonio artists. Puerto Rico's history and culture come alive for readers as posters and prints bold in form, stylistically and technically innovative, and chromatically rich elucidate the Island's dynamic struggle for political and and cultural sovereignty. Additionally, printmakers from San Antonio, expressing social conscience while often drawing on humor and personal situation, create dialogue with their audi- ence through narrative, poetic visual statements that consider the difficult and highly relevant themes of immigration, exile, persecution, gun culture, mental health, gender expectations, intolerance, and cul- tural appropriation. Unifying these 77 prints reproduced here is the important function of text and letters, not to deliver meaning only, but as key compositional elements that visually communicate these artists' engagement with "status, broadly defined here as the current state of affairs."