LOS ANGELES POET: GLORIA ENEDINA ALVAREZ

BIOGRAPHY
Born in Mexico, Gloria Alvarez graduated from California State University, Dominguez Hills. She has worked as a writer/intermedia artist, translator, teacher, curator, producer, social worker, and consultant with Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, L.A. Music Center, L.A. County Museum of Art, Beyond Baroque Literary Center, Cornerstone Theater Company, Getty Research Institute for the History of the Arts and of the Humanities, S.P.A.R.C, U.C. Berkeley, East L.A. College, CSU Los Angeles, CSU Northridge, California Institute of the Arts, California State Summer School of the Arts, Community Arts Partnership, Armory Center for the Arts, UC Los Angeles, Artsreach Artist Residencies, Performing Tree, California Poets in the Schools, L.A. Central Public Library, L.A. Cultural Affairs Department, Barnsdall Junior Arts Center, Arroyo Seco Art in the Park, L.A. Photography Center, Mc Groarty Arts Center, Plaza De La Raza, Self Help Graphics, Mark Taper Forum Artist in Residence Program, The Woman’s Building, L.A. County Schools, L.A. Unified School District, L.A. Festival, Comision Feminil, Y.M.C.A., ChicaNica Cultural/Educational Exchange, Radio Pacifica, the HeArt Project, and others.

PUBLICATIONS
Voices From The Ancestors, Chicanx & Latinx Spiritual Expressions and Healing Practices, The University of Arizona Press
Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities, 2007, Duke University Press (Critical Anthology)
Barrio Logos: Space and Place in Urban Chicano Literature and Culture, 2000, University of Texas Press (Anthology)
Hybrid L.A., 1998, Adobe L.A. (Anthology)
Chicana Creativity and Criticism: New Frontiers in American Literature, 1996, University of New Mexico Press (Anthology)
La Excusa/The Excuse, 1991, Editorial El Juglar, (Poetry)
Espejo-Voz,1991, Editorial El Juglar, (Poetry)
La Vida Latina en L.A.: Urban Latino Cultures, 1991, Sage Press (Anthology)
Calacas Machetiras, 1990, Editorial El Juglar, Editor (Artist Book)
Invocation L.A.: Urban Multicultural Poetry, 1989, West End Press (Anthology)
El Turno Del Ofendido, 1985 Epicentro Press (Anthology)
Emerging En Un Mar de Olanes, 1985, Self-published (Poetry)
Rumbos de Expresion, 1984, Self-Help Graphics (Anthology)

PERIODICALS
Memoria De Papel, La Calavera, Excelsior, El Buho Literary Supplement, Siglos 21,
La Otra Cultura Literary Supplement, Untitled, Luvina Literary Journal, University of Guadalajara, Crossroads, Contact II, L.A. Weekly, Palabra Literary Journal,
L.A.X. Literary Journal, Americas, 2001, L.A. X-PRESS Arts Journal and others

AWARDS
2021 Indidvidual Artist Award, Eastside Arts Initiative, Plaza de Cultura y las Artes
2020 Individual Artist Award, Cultural Affairs Department, City of Los Angeles
2018 Maestro Award, Distinguished Community Service Through Art & Cultural Practice, national Latino Arts Network
2010 Literature Award, California Arts Council, Black/Brown Dialogues Literary & Performance Project
2008-2009 COLA Award in Literature, Cultural Affairs Department, City of L.A.
2002 – World Beyond Festival Literary Award, Beyond Baroque Literary Center, The World Stage Performance Gallery, Self-Help Graphics, AISERAMA/disorient Magazine
2000 – Literary/Visual Art Project, Writers On Site Residency Program, Poets & Writers, Inc.
2000 – Artists in Communications Residency Award, CAC, NEA
1998 – Bookmark Project, National Library Week Award, Metropolitan Transportation Authority
1995 – Master Fellowship, Provincetown Fine Arts Center, Lannan Foundation
1995 – Artists In Communities Residency Award, California Arts Council;National Endowment for the Arts
1994 – Multicultural Entry Grant, El Juglar Editorial/Literary Group, California/National Endowment for the Arts
1993 – Performing Arts/Spoken Word Award, Crossing L.A., L.A. Festival
1992 – Partnerships for Change Grant, VIVENCIA, Familias En Las Bibliotecas
1990 – Central Library, Los Angeles Public Library, California State Library
1989 – Individual Artist Grant, Cultural Affairs Department, City of Los Angeles
1986 – National/State/County Partnership and Multicultural Entry Grant, East Side Artistas

Contemporary Art. Artes de Mexico Festival. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Beyond Baroque Literary Center. Plaza De La Raza. Mission Cultural Center, Chicano Poets & Playwrights Festival, Arroyo Books, Sisterhood Books. Conference of the National Institute of Chicana Writers Poetry Conference, Fort Mason Art Center, Long Beach Museum of Art, L.A. Photo Center, Self-Help Graphics, Voces en Barro: Southwest Chicana/Latino Poetry Festival, Aqui y Alla Exhibit, Ecos de Los Literary Series, L.A./Mexico Art Exchange, National Floricanto Chicano Poetry Festival, L.A. Perspectives Festival, Chicano Art Resistance & Affirmation Exhibit/Performance, UCLA Writer’s Program, UC Berkeley, UC Riverside, UC San Diego, UC Irvine, Women Speak on Feminismo, Cultura e Historia, Arts Dialogue International Conference, Stanford University, Whittier College, Occidental College, U.S.C., Cal State L.A., Otis, Cal Arts, Claremont Colleges, and many other universities, galleries, cafes, bookstores, community, arts, and cultural centers in California and Latin America. The above is a limited selection of past contributions which include my participation, coordination, direction, and production

BOARD OF DIRECTORS/ADVISORY BOARD/FUNDING PANELS
MTA Art, Pen West USA, Metropolitan Cooperative Library System, California State Public Library, Los Angeles Festival, City of L.A., Department of Cultural Affairs, Pasadena Arts Commission, Performing Arts Commission of L.A. County, Music Center, Southern California Latino Writers & Filmmakers and others

MEDIA
2019 Between Epiphanies, Poetry Spoken Word/Music CD limited edition
2017-El Niño, Libretto, Film Collaboration, Opera, LA Phil, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
2016-2015 Casa del Hijo del Ahuizote, Art Action, Performance, Exhibit, Publication, Mexico City, SPARC, Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles
2015-Properties of Silence, Performance, Pasadena Playhouse, Pasadena
2014-Colores y Cantos: Los Angeles Art, Music, Spoken Word Festival, Los Angeles
2014-Sometimes I Think I Can Hear You, Play, Radar International Theater Festival,Redcat Theater at the Disney. Los Angeles
2013-World Stage Performance & Art Gallery, Performance Poetry, Leimert Park
2012- Poetrypalooza Festival, Poetry Performance, Tribal Cafe & Gallery, Los Angeles
2012- Me Recuerdo de Ella, Poetry Performance, Tia Chucha’s Cultural Center, Sylmar
2011 – Panel, Performance, Beyond Borders Conference, Beyond Baroque Literary Center, 2011 – She Writes Herself into Existence Performance, Mujeres de Maiz E.L.A. College
2010 – Black/ Brown Dialogues Performance Series, Ave 50 Art Gallery
2009 – Tierracenro Performance, Grand Performances Series, California Plaza, Los Angeles
2007 – Transitory Publico/Public Transitorio: The Political Equator 8 Day Public Moving Event. Panel/Conference/Performance. UCLA Labor Center. Los Angeles – Tijuana.
2007 – Chicano Moratorium Commemoration. Poetry Performance, Proyecto Jardin. Los Angeles
2007 – Night Visions, Poetry Performance. Museum of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles
2007 – Touched. Performance/Video/Art Exhibit. Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena
2007 – Por Este Dia: A Dialogue Between Memory and Place, Performance, Ave. 50 Gallery, Los Angeles
2004 – Centerground Poetry Anthology. Limited edition CD release, Tropico de Nopal Art Gallery, Los Angeles
2002 – World Beyond Poetry Festival, Poetry Performance, JACCC. Little Tokyo
2002 – The Road to Aztlan: Art From A Mythic Homeland. Art Exhibit, Performance, Film. Collaboration with Yreina Cervantez and Frances Salome Espana, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2001 – Writers In Focus. Poetry Series, Los Angeles County Art Museum
2002 – 2001 – Espiral: Passages and Exposures. Hear What I See Series A. Literary Look at the Getty Collection. performance. Harold M. Williams Auditorium J. Paul Getty Museum
2000-2003 – El Niño, The Nativity. libretto, film, artwork. Consultaion/Collaboration with Peter Sellars, John Adams, Yreina Cervantez. Chatelet Theatre, Paris, France. San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco, L.A. Philharmonic. Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Los Angeles
1999 – Esto Es Pane De Mi Vida, Poetry Performance, Teatro Indio, Rome Italy. Teatro Madrid. Spain
1998 – Esto Es Pane De Mi Vida, Performance. Ex-Convento De Santa Teresa Performing Arts Center. National Association of Chicano/a Studies, Centro de Estudios Chicanos, UNAM, Mexico City
1998 – Reedoos. Art Performance. Collaboration with Harry Gamboa. U.C. Berkeley Art Museum
1998-99 – Cuento De Un Soldado/Story Of A Soldier, libretto, opera directed by Peter Sellars, conducted by Esa Pekka Salonen. L.A. Philharmonic Orchestra. Produced at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, L.A. Music Center, Teatro Indio, Rome, Palermo, ItaIy. Teatro Madrid, Spain. Wiener Festwochen, Sofiensale. Grosser Saal, Vienna, Austria. MC 93 Bobigny Theatre, Paris France
1997 – XICA-NA: Myth, Translations, an exercise in shiftiness, post nepantla, coyotas,
MEDIA, continued
xicanicity. Collaborative Art Exhibit. Performance, Installation, Panel. Galeria Otra Vez, Self Help Graphics
1997 – Los Biombos/The Screens, adaptation of Jean Genet directed by Peter Sellars produced by Cornerstone Theater.
1996 – Solas y Acompañadas/ Alone and Accompanied,Art Exhibit, Performance, Installation. Armory Center
1996 – In Harmony: African American & Mexican Women Artists Exhibition, WCLAC Gallery, Watts
1995 – Que Esconde La Esperanza, Literary Project and Mural Collaboration with Women Muralist Workshop. S.P.A.RC.
1995 – Spitfire. Video Collaboration with Frances Salome Espana
1994 – La Historia de Adentro y Afuera, Mural Collaboration with Yreina Cervantez and Alma Lopez.
1992 – Street Vendors: The Criminalization of Latinos, Film Collaboration with Olivia Olea
1992 – In the Works: Arts In L.A., Reading/Interview for Television Series
1991 – Fire Medicine, Video Collaboration with Harry Gamboa
1990 – Black and Tan Club: L.A. Poetry /Spoken Word Anthology, Compact Disc
1990 – Hecho en Aztlan: The Chicano Aesthetic, Video Collaboration
1990 – Mexico a traves de Ios Siglos. Bilingual Radio Program
1989 – Anima, Video Collaboration with Frances Salome Espana
1989 – Siempre Viva. Video
1989 – Espejo-Voz. Bilingual Radio Program
1989 – La Ofrenda. Mural Collaboration with Yreina Cervantez, SPARC
1988 – Alba de La Palabra. Bilingual Radio Program
1987 – La Milpa en Flor/Blooming Maize: Latina Writers. Bilingual Radio Program, Radio Bilingue
1987 – Alerta. Multimedia Art Exhibit. Performance/Installations, Self Help Graphics
1986 – Enfoque Latino: Poetry Conference/Reading/Interview. Spanish Language Radio
1986 – Inn Keeping Hope, Performance. Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. Barnsdall Theater
1986 – Adios Frida. Performance/Installation. Plaza de la Raza
1985 – Posada: Maria. Jose & Baby Jesus (Refugees in the U.S.). Nativity/Altar/ Installation Collaboration with Yreina Cervantez

READINGS/PERFORMANCES/EXHIBITS/CONFERENCE/PANELS 1982 to 2021
NAACS Mexico City, Women’s Voices Literary Project, Crossing L.A., Los Angeles Festival, California Plaza, Museum of