All About
The artist Mercado
The Chicano Art Mercado has been a significant part of the Día San José Festival since its humble beginnings at the National Hispanic University Campus in East Side San José. These artists unite to provide the festival goers a unique experience where art, culture, and pride intersect. They are full-time artists who take pride in their creations and share them with you from the bottom of their corazones. They are inspired and inspiring, and we want to make sure that you have the ability to purchase their wonderful art in one place. Their art will levantar tu alma.
Pinchi Michi Art
Michi Taylor is this years Día San José Muerto-con designer.
Michi Taylor, better known to her artistic peers as Pinchi Michi is a creative artist who makes her home in San Pedro, California by way of East and South Central Los Angeles. For Michi Art has always been more than a colorful distraction or casual personal interest, instead it has continually functioned as a life line and refuge through and since the many wounds and struggles of growing up. Some of her earliest recollections are, of touring the rowdy bars of downtown L.A. with her stepfather who sought side-work painting murals and paintings on the walls of local bars and clubs. She learned early on that art was meant to reach directly to the people, and that any environment was made fuller and brighter for it.
Today Pinchi Michi Art is a thoughtful reflection surrounding this universal theme of a liberating magic through the suffering. The subjects, textures, colors and postures of Pinchi Michi Art are all related to this penetrating vision, this knowing beyond her years and beyond the purely natural.
Chris Granillo
Chris is this years Día San José Muerto-con designer. Working across California for more than twenty years, Chris Granillo is a self-taught, Chicano fine and public artist whose work centers on capturing and honoring community resilience and ways of being. His application of surreal and abstract styles reflects the beauty of everyday life in nature, cultura and interaction’s with the environment. His mediums of choice are oil and acrylic paints on canvas, relief prints, etchings and sculpture.
FRancisco Franco
Francisco Franco Studios is headed by Francisco Franco and consists of a group of artists, affiliates and students who work, create, and learn the time honored tradition of painting and mural making. We create personal, public, and private paintings and make a living by reproducing those works in the form of prints that you can find on Shopify, art galleries and art festivals across California. Most of the proceeds are used to keep the studio doors open and the lights on so that we can continue to create, inspire, and educate those with interest in the arts.
Rob O
The tradition of making sugar skulls to place on the altar exposed me to this tremendous medium that really allowed for my artistic ability to magnify in a way that I’ve never seen. The art of sugar skulls has become a passion for me. This passion has now opened the opportunity to preserve the Mexican culture as well as to enrich and educate our community about the beauty of sugar skulls and its role in celebrating and memorializing loved ones that have passed on.
Maldicion Brand
Maldición is a form of self-expression, an expression of not only myself, but also my community; those who like me have things to say and feel no one else is saying them… or at least not like this.
Maldición is that beautiful place between México and the U.S., that borderless place where we can embrace both our cultures with out having to choose. It’s as colorful as papel picado and as dark as the watching crow. It is smart and dopey, mature and immature. Maldición embraces and rejects, loves and hates. It’s a combination of colors and flavors, colors and flavors that combined create a unique expression of me, you and all those who need this voice.
John Huerta
John S. Huerta resides in Sacramento, California.
“I became really inspired by the art of Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) years ago when, unfortunately, my sister and mother passed away and for me to cope and understand what I was going through I had to find a way to deal with the grieving so I researched dia de los muertos traditon and then I realize that I could use my training in art to use vibrant colors, strong details and fun compositions in order to bring out the beauty of my rendition of the Dia de los Muertos (day of the dead) and to use anything I could to honor love ones who not only who have passed but also who have inspired, encourage and strengthen me to pursue my dream in being an working artist.
I am so greatly appreciative of the love and support of my art and I thank God every day for the ability to create art and to be humble for the joy it brings me and most of all when it bring joy to others”
arturo gonzalez
Sigue Luchando is a clothing brand by Arturo Gonzalez aimed at showcasing el cultura and lifestyle of Chicanos living all across the Bay Area. Sigue Luchando speaks to the tenacity of our people to move forward and fight no matter the odds; Arturo’s brand speaks to this truth and the brands designs revel in it.
Francisco Ramirez
A self taught artist from San Jose California. Francisco Ramirez. His work spans multiple mediums and subject matter, from pop and political art to cultural art. Ramirez art is a from of escapism, having been a comfort to him in his early and turbulent childhood. Today he is a prolific artist and muralist. Themes and motif common in his work include abstraction and surrealism. His work has been featured by Content magazine and at Día 21 and 22, where his work is featured in our event logo.
Paper Tacos
Our unique Spanish greeting cards are rooted in Latinx cultura y tradición. The Paper Tacos line includes funny greeting cards and balloons for every occasion. Although our founder is orgullosamente Mexicano, Jesús Ruvalcaba wanted to be sure each Paper Taco greeting card connects emotionally with all Latinos en la comunidad Hispana.
Ricardo Segura
Born in Guadalajara, Jalisco in November 28, 1986. Ricardo Segura move to Modesto, California in 1998 at the age of 11 years old. Segura started SeguraDesigns in 2017 inspired by a passion that began in high school when he started selling sketches to classmates. He began drawing at about 8 years old and realized he enjoyed it and pushed himself to continue creating new designs and be able to express myself. Ricardo’s current art style and interest consists of some of his favorite 80s/90s cartoons and anime but also a mix of cultures due to the drastic move of countries.
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