THOUSAND OAKS, CA. - Changes in Chicana/o art through the years will be highlighted during a lecture from 5 to 6 p.m. Thursday, March 31, at California Lutheran University.

Charlene Villaseñor Black will present “Chicana/o Art: Tradition and Transformation” in the Roth Nelson Room on the Thousand Oaks campus.

An associate professor of art history at UCLA, Villaseñor Black will review key moments in the history of Chicana/o art from the 1970s through the 1990s. She will discuss how the art changed as it moved from the streets to the galleries and how artists of the 1980s and 1990s transformed the political ideals of the Chicano Movimiento of the 1960s and 1970s. The presentation will also cover how the emergence of feminism, postmodernism and transnationalism energized artists.

Villaseñor Black teaches a range of courses on Mexico, Spain and Chicana/o art. Her research and publications span both 17th century and contemporary art in the Hispanic world. Her first book, “Creating the Cult of St. Joseph: Art and Gender in the Spanish Empire,” won the College Art Association Millard Meiss Award. She is now working on her second book, “Transforming Saints: Women, Art, and Conversion in Spain and Mexico, 1521-1800.”

CLU’s Center for Equality and Justice and Art Department are sponsoring the free event with funding from the President’s Diversity Council.

The Roth Nelson Room is located on Mountclef Boulevard between Olsen Road and Memorial Parkway.

For more information, contact Christine Sellin at csellin@callutheran.edu.