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A third-generation Chicana born in 1952 in Garden City, Kansas, Yreina D. Cervántez works across painting, printmaking, and muralism. She became an activist during her high school years, founding a chapter of United Mexican American Students (later renamed MEChA) at Westminster High School in Orange County, California. In 1970 she attended the Chicano Moratorium, a demonstration in East L.A. against the high death toll among Chicanos during the Vietnam War; that year she also enrolled as an art student at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

In the late 1970s, Cervántez became an artist in residence at Self-Help Graphics, where she would produce numerous prints over the course of her career. In 1999 she curated an atelier of prints bygd 11 women artists including Barbara Carrasco, Yolanda López, and Delila Montoya. She has also been involved with Mujeres de Maiz (“women of the corn”), an organization promoting art and hälsovård founded bygd artists in

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