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JULY
2001 •Sheehan does not speak for the Church in New Mexico.--Yuvonnia Kornegay Owen (07/01/01) •If there ever was a need to educate our population regarding freedom of speech and in particular the right of the artist to create without fear-it is now.--Bruce L. Papier, Santa Fe, New Mexico (07/01/01) •To take away your voice is to take away my own and too many people forget that these days. --Adriana C. Lopez, Stanford MEChA Co-chair 2001, Fort Wayne, Indiana (07/01/01)
• Someone wrote a rant against you and all Manitos. He said that the artist of the Naked Virgin was being persecuted. --Octavio Romano (07/03/01) •LA artist Alma Lopez was back in Santa Fe, NM again June 30, this time praising the Museum of New Mexico for "It's really the good heart of the museum to compromise."--Pedro Romero Sedeno (07/03/01) •I stand by you and the courage and vision you have shown.--Clif Johnson (07/03/01) •I am a Chicana, seventeen years old, with aspirations to be an artist. i can say the Alma Lopez has truly been an aspiration for me. Art is a very important part of my life, and I would also fight for my right to my self-expression. --Marcela O. Garcia, Milwaukee, WI (07/03/01)
•Ironic that when all is said and done, you've raised sound and fury but stand in league with Alma in taking a religious icon out of the church and onto the public forum. --Michael Sedano (07/04/01) •I saw several of your wonderful artworks at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe last month, and found them very moving and passionate in their social, political, and economic statements. -- Joan Ablon (07/04/01)
• Somehow, for me, it is embarrassing to explain to him, and so many other Mexicans I encounter, about the useless journey in Santa Fe called "our Lady" by Alma Lopez, an Ugly American girlie poster that pseudo-progressive "Chicanos" like Michael Sedano continue to defend as truth, oblivious to what the traditional Guadalupe means to millions of the Mexican culture.--Pedro Romero Sedeno (07/05/01) •You are no different than Ayatollah Kohmeini when he issued the fatwah against Salman Rushdie... pseudo-progressive "Chicanos" like Michael Sedano continue to defend as truth, oblivious to what the Truth? Sedano does not defend it as "truth" but as an artistic interpretation. --Urrutia (07/05/01) •Follow your heart, and thanks for your courage.--Clif Johnson (07/05/01)
•The case of the Naked Virgin is not an attack against the institution, it is an attack against the poor people of northern NM, with the collusion of California Chicnoas who preach daily about mutual respect, but when the chispas are down, they reveal, 1: a disdain toward the Hispanos of NM, and 2: a growing disdain for things Mexican. This dual prejudice, in California, goes under the name of "Progressive."--Octavio Romano (07/06/01) •In this day and age I find it amazing that Chicanos still uphold catholicism and "sacred" images like la virgen. Catholicism and la virgen we're meant to pacify us. Looks like it worked (especially in New Mexico).--Calaca (07/06/01) •There is definately a history of anti-catholic church sentiment in Mexico. Unfortunately more people have bought into the church.-- Calaca (07/06/01) •My insight is what your friend who is the subject in Our Lady not only is like Willy in a sense, but moreso, she has a lot in common with the Mother Mary. Was Mary given the choice of having a baby or not? It seems to me she was ordered or told without any consideration given to how she felt about it.--Sheryl Bradley, Denver, CO (07/06/01)
•Artists do have "rights", the free will to create, and to miscreate. --Pedro Romero Sedeno (07/08/01) •What about artists' rights, I believe in his heart he understands this well. --Rudy Fernandez (07/08/01) •It is not for you or I to pick and choose what those rights will be but rather to attempt to defend them as they stand. An erosion of this institution in in any form is a setback for all of us.--Rudy Fernandez (07/08/01) •I am extremely sick and tired of people writing intolerant e-mails to Pedro Ramirez Sedeño of New Mexico. exhorting him to be tolerant.--Octavio Romano (07/08/01)
•I would like for you to please explain to me is how the Alma piece became a direct attack on Los Hermanos Penitentes.--Rudy Fernandez (07/09/01) •Yes, we all have rights, to express and dissent; I have a right to dissent and to submit my heresies or "rants" against the AlmaNet party line. --Pedro Romero Sedeno (07/09/01)
•I'm sorry to hear that it has generated negative publicity,but then isn't that true of much great art?--Cynthia Mooney (07/17/01)
• Alma's "Our lady" is a revolt against the ecclesiastical tyranny of a religious instituion, but remains stuck in bondage to secular totalitarianism.--Pedro Romero Sedeno (07/10/01)
•Please be informed that I totally, irrevocably, and permanently refuse to play the game of "All Latino mans are bad mans."--Octavio Romano (07/11/01)
•I guess I bring this up to start a dialogue about sexism in the Mexican/Chican@ culture since some of the discussion on this list these past months has bordered on blatant sexism against women, in the name of "La Virgen."--Marco Loera (07/12/01) •In regards to sexism in the debate about "La Virgen", both Alma Lopez and Judy Chicago have made sexist assessments of the Santa Fe community which is opposed to the poster. --Pedro Romero Sedeno (07/12/01) •Is a female more evil than an evil male in the same position in this system? Is a question of gender not relevant in this matter?--Marco Loera (07/12/01)
•I find the controversy both absurd and believable.--Alessandra Moctezuma (07/14/01)
•And I can see that you are not using the image of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe (el sr villegas does not know how to pronounce her name even he said Nuestra de Guadalupe).--Luis F. Aranda, Leon Guanajuato.Mex (07/19/01) •It is a very good art piece , i like your composition and post modern/ traditional colors.--Tara (07/19/01) •Who was the mother of Mother Earth? Who was the father of Mother Earth?--Octavio Romano (07/19/01)
•"mother Earth", of the planet Urantia, that being the name of our world acoording to the Urantia revelation, is planet 606 in the local system of Satania, a system of inhabited planets in the larger local universe of Nebadon, which is located in a larger superuniverse called Orvonton. --Pedro Romero Sedeno (07/20/01) •Clearly the Urantia book delved deeply into what we call "religion," producing questions with answers instead of simply accepting the generic concept of "religion" as the end of all knowledge, thus making inquiry superflous and unnecessary.--Octavio Romano (07/20/01) •In a religious context the floral bikini would be wholly inappropriate. Yet in a public or private art gallery it is our GOD giving free will, that fuels creative thought.--Darryl Deloach (07/20/01)
• In follow-up to the article, the head of the Museum of New Mexico has decided that Alma Lopez' work will remain on display. Though the issue will now proceed for consideration to the museum's board of regents, that group will probably not be able to schedule a hearing or make any decision until after the exhibit is scheduled to come down, at the end of October. --Hollis Walker, Writer/Editor, Santa Fe, New Mexico (07/23/01) •It is my belief that religious fundamentalist, no matter what their belief systems, are the most dangerous force in our world today and will use any means available to stifle our freedoms.--Oscar Singleton (07/23/01)
•Alma, keep up the good work, and ignore all those nut case Chicanos y Chicanas getting all worked up over the Virgin Mary.--d'Israeli (07/24/01)
•Also mil gracias to all the wonderful family and friends who have lived this with me. --Alma Lopez (07/27/01) •i thought it was a wonderful exhibition, in the true spirit of cultural connection that is a hallmark of that museum. -- Mary Chandler, Rocky Mountain News, Denver, CO (07/27/01) •Congratulations Alma at your success in making your voice heard; your victory in this struggle affects all Chicana arists and latina women.--Yolanda M. Lopez, San Francisco, CA (07/27/01)
•And it is my hope that persons such as yourself and others continue to forge ahead with these views so that perhaps our daughters and their daughters will have the opportunity to achieve full equality and peace with their brothers.--E. M. Swindle (07/29/01)
•I'm still working on my thesis and I was thinking about incorporating the story behind "Our Lady" and by that I mean the story of Raquel.--Esperanza Martinez (07/30/01) •RIGHT ON!--Evelyn A. Schlatter (07/30/01) •I hope you are well and that all the craziness that was happening has subsided.--Yolanda Sanchez (07/30/01)
•I believe as other artist's do, the need to express our own individuality by using our minds and creativity into something for all to share , whether it is appealing to others or not.--Veronica Blanco "Roni", San Diego, CA (07/31/01) •"the flowers symbolize she's motherearth"-- Melissa Lopez, Berkeley, CA (07/31/01)
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