Rupert Garcia was a founder of the Chicano art movement and was very active in the civil rights movement and in the resistance movement against the Vietnam War. He also served in the Air Force from 1962-1966, spending his final year in Indochina. He is an internationally renowned artist, and most recently his work has been shown at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City, Alternative Museum in New York, the San Jose Museum of Art, and the Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco. Garcia has also been active in teaching Art & Design as well as Chicano Studies at universities around the Bay Area.

Both Rupert Garcia and Bay Area poet George Evans are veterans who incorporate their experience of war into their affecting works of art.

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Rupert Garcia on the Web.