Maria Dominguez

Nuyorican & Diasporican Visual Art: A critical Anthology
Edited by Dr. Arlene Davila and Dr. Yasmin Ramirez

Although Puerto Rican artists have always been central figures in contemporary American and international art world, they have largely gone unrecognized and been excluded from art history canons. Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual art provide a critical survey of Puerto Rican art production in the United States from the 1960’s to the present. The contributors assert importance and contemporaneity of the Nuyorican art movement by tracing its emergence alongside other American vanguardist movements, highlighting its innovations and exploring it as an expression of Puerto Rican culture beyond New York to include cities such as Chicago, Philadelphia, and Orlando. They also foreground the contributions and radical aesthetics of female, Black, and queer Puerto Rican artists. Following the expansion and decentralization of the Puerto Rican diaspora and its artistic output, this volume is a call to action for scholars, curators, and artist to address the historical inequalities that have marginalized Diasporican artist and reassess the presence of Puerto Rican artists.

The Art of Survival
The Visual Art Activism of Maria Dominguez
Al Hoyos--Twomey

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El Arte de La Identidad: Aproximacion Critica al Jibarismo Puertorriqueño en La Literatura, Musica y Las Obras de Arte

Thesis by Dr. Raquel M. Ortiz-Rodriguez
Impresa Santa Rita Monachil Grandada, Spain

Sargasso 2007-08 II Urban & Community Art in Puerto Rico and Beyond

Sagrasso, a peer-reviewed journal of Literature, language, and culture edited at the University of Puerto Rico, publishes critical essays, interviews, book reviews, and some creative works. Sargasso particularly welcomes material written by/about the people of the Caribbean region and multiple diasporas.

Painted Walls: Urban,Public, and Community Art in El Pueblo Cantor
Dr. Raquel M. Ortiz-Rodriguez

Pg.55 University of Puerto Rico Press

Pioneros II Images of America/Puerto Ricans in New York City 1948-1998
Bilingual Edition

Following World War II Puerto Ricans moved to New York in record number and joined a community of compatriots who had emigrated decades before or were born in diaspora. In a series of vivid images, Pioneros II; Puerto Ricans in New York City 1948-1998 brings in life their stories and struggles, culture and values, entrepreneurship, and civic, political, and educational gains. The Puerto Rican community’s long history and achievements opened pathways for the city’s newer Latino immigrants’ communities.

By Dr. Virginia Sanchez-Karrol
Dr. Pedro Juan Hernandez

Sofi and the Magic, Musical Mural / Sofi y el mágico mural
By Raquel M. Ortiz
Illustrations by Maria Dominguez
Spanish translation by Gabriela Baeza Ventura
ISBN 978-1-55885-803-9
May 31, 2015
Hardcover
$17.95
32 pages
Ages 4-8
Published by Arte Publico Press, Piñata Books
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A young girl is transported from her inner-city neighborhood to Viejo San Juan in this bilingual picture book.

New York's Underground Art Museum
MTA Arts & Design
By Sandra Bloodworth and William Ayres
The Monacelli Press

Initiated in 1985, the MTA Arts & Design collection of public art now encompasses more than 250 projects, creating a dynamic underground museum of contemporary art that spans the entire city and its immediate environs. Since the program was founded, a diverse group of artist – including Elizabeth Murray, Faith Ringgold, Eric Fischel, Romare Bearden, Acconi Studio, and many others – has created works in mosaic, terra-cotta, bronze, and glass for the stations of the New York City Subways and Buses, Metro-North railroad, Long Island Rail Road, and Bridges and Tunnels.

An update of the highly successful Along the Way, this expanded edition features nearly 100 new works installed in stations since 2006, including Sol Lewitt’s Whirls and Twirls (MTA) at Columbus Circle, Doug and Mike Starn’s See it split it, see it change at South Ferry, and James Carpenter’s Sky Reflector- Net at Fulton Center. The book illustrates how the program has taken to heart its original mandate: that the subways be “designed, constructed, and maintained with a view to the beauth of the appearance, as well as the to their efficiency.” MTA Arts & Design is committed to preserving and restoring the original ornament of the system and to commissioning new works that exemplify the principles of vibrant public art, relating directly to the places where they are located and to the community around them.

Maria Dominguez’ work appears in page 219.

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Along the Way: MTA Arts for Transit Book
By Sandra Bloodworth and William Ayres, Foreword by Stanley Tucci
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Along the Way is a tour through New York's underground museum of contemporary art, works commissioned by MTA Arts for Transit for the subway system and commuter rail lines. Vivid murals by Roy Lichtenstein and Romare Bearden convey the energy of Times Square while Robert Wilson's Coney Island Baby captures the festive spirit of the city's playland. Among the many projects currently in development are a multi-dimensional installation by Mike and Doug Starn at the South Ferry complex and a large-scale ceramic "wall drawing" by Sol Lewitt at Columbus Circle.

Initiated in 1985, this collection of site-specific public art now encompasses more than 160 pieces in mosaic, terra-cotta, bronze, faceted glass and mixed media. Artist represented include Elizabeth Murray, Faith Ringgold, Eric Fischl, Nancy Spero, Michelle Oka Doner, Maya Lin, Mary Miss, Tom Otterness and the Acconci Studio. More than fifty projects are currently under way, making the Arts for Transit program one of the most significant public art initiatives in the world.

Maria Domínguez' work appears on page 191.

Latin American Research Review (LARR)
The Journal of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Published by the University of Texas Press

Selected “Man Sitting” from Domínguez’ MTA collection (Urban Series) For their November 2006 cover. Their journal is distributed to all the universities in the United States.

On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in NYC
Murals featured in new publication

In 2009 authors Janet Braun-Reinitz & Jane Weissman published ON THE WALL: Four Decades of Community Murals in NYC published by University Press of Mississippi. This high quality documentation, gathers a full range of photos with different community mural styles as well as a muralography with the name, dates and sponsorships of the artists who made them during the past forty years. This unique and long awaited book is pertinent to New York’s community mural history and the communities that were impacted by them. It arrived at a time when most of the murals no longer exist. Among those selected here are those made under the leadership of Maria Dominguez; Nuestro Barrio (1998), Bronx Allegory” (2007) and along with Artmakers La Lucha Continua (1998).