Jacalyn Lopez Garcia

Jacalyn Lopez Garcia (born 1953) is a multimedia Chicana artist and activist, whose work focuses on photography and digital art. She has worked in photography, painting, music and theater. Her art has been featured in museums, newspaper articles, universities, and in books.

Early life and education Jacalyn Lopez Garcia was born in Monrovia, California, but spent most of her childhood in Santa Ana, California. Her father was born in Colorado, and her mother immigrated from Mexico. She received her associate degree from Santa Ana Junior College, and continued on to get her bachelor's degree in Studio Art and Photography from UC Riverside in 1997. In 1999, she earned her M.F.A degree in Photography and Multimedia. In this website, the viewer is seen as a visitor, who walks around Garcia's virtual house. Each room has its own gallery of art that touches on issues of cultural sensitivity, oppression, injustice, immigration, and much more, and navigating through this house creates an intimate experience for the viewer.

Life Cycles: Reflections of Change and a New Hope for Future Generations This documentary project explores personal stories and the overall historic patterns of immigration to the United States. The California Council for Humanities funded this project, which allowed Garcia to follow seven families who worked in the farming industry. Through this documentary, viewers follow along with her and see first hand the struggles these families had to bear. Garcia felt that immigration was a neglected topic in popular media, and created this project to help shed light on what people go through to reach a new promised land of opportunity.

Accomplishments 2023 contributing writer: The Multimedia Works of Contemporary Latin American Women Writers and Artists by Dr Jane Elizabeth Lavery, Editor.

Garcia was awarded the California Council for the Humanities Grant in 2005. The following year she received the Latino Net's Artistic and Community Achievement Award, and the Senator Barbara Boxer's Leadership Award. Her work was featured in Gary Keller's books, and in several museums and universities (California Museum of Photography, Long Beach museum of art, UC Riverside, Claremont Graduate University, and the Hispanic Research Center at University at Tempe).