(Above) Zarco Guerrero.  El Profeta is the name of this mask. Currently in exhibition at Francesca’s Art Gallery.

 

Now you can see some of Zarco’s work never seen before at Francesca’s Art Gallery thru May 8, 2015.  Click Francesca’s Art Gallery located at 4745 N Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ, to learn more about the effort.

Zarco Guerrero, Chicano Sculptor, maskmaker and performance artist has dedicated his artistic endeavors to create positive social change through the arts. He adopted Cesar Chavez ideology of art as a social service.  His art includes music, poetry and theater. He is the founder of Xicanindio Artes (now Xico, Inc.), the Cultural Coalition, Inc, and has been instrumental in the development of Latino Arts statewide.  He has exhibited and received international acclaim and many prestigious awards. In 1985 PBS broadcast a one hour documentary about his art entitled “The Mask of El Zarco”. He received the Japan Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Arizona Governors Arts Award, the Artistic Excellence Award from American Hispanics in Higher Education and the Esperanza Teacher of the Year Award among many others.

 

 

To contact Zarco directly:

551 N Alma School Rd.; Mesa, AZ 85201

Phone: 480-834-5731 – FAX: 480-834-5750

[email protected]