Exhibition title: ProtestARTE: Screenprints from the Collection of Malaquias Montoya Dates: Jan. 18 through Feb. 18 Where: Memorial Union Art Gallery Second floor, Memorial Union University of California, Davis Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday Opening reception: 6 to 8 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 20 This exhibition features a selection of screenprints from the collection of Malaquias Montoya, a Chicana/Chicano studies professor at UC Davis. These works were produced by students in the Chicano Poster Workshop, established by Montoya in 1990, in which the poster is introduced as a socially engaged art form. Students produce a series of posters highlighting selected issues, which they then distribute within the community, so as to increase social awareness. Professor Montoya has maintained a collection of posters produced in the class and has selected examples representative of the breadth and depth of political issues and graphic design touched upon by students. More than 40 examples of these posters will be included in the exhibition. During the Mexican Revolution at the start of the 20th century, many artists and activists in Southern California established printing presses producing newspapers and pamphlets in support of the struggling farm workers and laborers. After the success of the revolution, the art of printmaking was used as a forum to express political ideas and encourage action and change. El Movimiento Chicano, evolving in the 1960s in the context of ongoing civil rights, again saw the use of the printed poster as a political model for reinforcing cultural identity. The exhibit is free and open to the public.