Linda Vallejo: About The Artist

Linda Vallejo

Linda Vallejo, born in Los Angeles in 1951. Her mother was born in Concord, California, and her father, Adam Vallejo, born in San Angelo, Texas, and graduated from UCLA in 1951. Adam Vallejo then entered the United States Air Force as a commissioned officer and the family moved to Germany. Ms. Vallejo has a brother, Tomas and a sister, Roseann. On returning to the United States the family lived in several states. Linda attended elementary school in East Los Angeles and Sacramento, middle and high school in Montgomery, Alabama, in the early 1960's, and completed high school in Madrid, Spain, in 1969. Linda received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Whittler College in 1973, completed undergraduate studies in lithography from the University of Madrid, Spain, and received a Master of Fine Arts from Cal State University, Long Beach, in 1978. Ms. Vallejo lives in Topanga Canyon, California, with her husband of twenty-nine years, Ron Dillaway. Her son, Robert, attends Georgetown Law School in Washington, D.C., and her son Paul is a junior at UC Santa Cruz.

Regional, National and International Arts Community

Selected Exhibitions include A Prayer for the Earth , Natural History Museum, Los Angeles, 2006; Tigers and Jaguars , Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2006; A Prayer for the Earth , Ave 50 Studio Gallery, 2006; Sierra Art Gallery, Reno, Nevada, 2006; Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, California, June 2005; A Prayer for the Earth , Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA 2004; A History of Conflict – A Future of Hope , Frazier Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, 2004; HOPE, In the Midst of War, Death and Destruction, Tropico Nopal, 2004; East of the River: Chicano Art Collectors Anonymous , Santa Monica Museum, CA, 2000; Los Cielos One Woman Show, SPARC, Los Angeles, 2000; Armand Hammer Museum, Laguna Art Museum, Art Museum of South Texas, Anchorage Museum of History and Art, The Bronx Museum, Museum of Modern Art New York, San Antonio Museum, Mexico City Modem Art Museum, and Galeria Las Americas.

Major Publications and Media include Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art, Bi-Lingual Press, Hispanic Research Center, Arizona State University, Los Angeles Times Artist Review, October 2000, Art Business News, Southwest Art, Saludos Hispanos, Hispanic Business Magazine, "Strong Hearts, Inspired Minds," Rowanbeny Books, Los Angeles Times, and Latin Style Magazine.

Guest Lectureships and Teaching Positions includeLos Angeles County Museum of Art (1992-1993-1994), LA; Museum of Contemporary Art (1991-1992-1993), Fresno Metropolitan Art Museum; Cal State University Long Beach Art Department; University of California, Irvine, Art Department, and Santa Monica City College.

Awards include United Who's Who of American Executives, 2006; UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, Artist Award, 1999; Quien es Quien in U.S. Commerce, National Award, 1994; National Association Chicano Studies, Distinguished Recognition, 1993; and Latinas Making History Award, Comision Feminil de Los Angeles, 1991.

Chicano Indigenous Spiritual Community

In the late 1970s and early 1980s she studied Maya and Azteca dance with Las Flores de Aztlan Troupe. During these formative years, Las Flores de Aztlan presented teachings and workshops throughout the State of California at cultural centers, universities, and in traditional Native American and Chicano ceremonies that included Fiesta de Maiz and Dia de Los Muertos in Los Angeles, Fiesta de Colores in Sacramento, and Chicano Park Day in San Diego.

Over the past twenty years, she has participated in and supported traditional Native American ceremony in South Dakota, California and Arizona. She served as a community volunteer for the Native American Religious Society, California Rehabilitation Center, Norco, for fifteen years between 1986-2001. For the past twelve years she has hosted the All Nations Women's Tea Circle, providing a social celebration focusing on indigenous values and traditions for women to become familiar with and participate in traditional ceremony and culture. The All Nations Women's Circle has created and donated giveaway baskets for the Annual Many Winters Elder's Gathering in San Pedro for the past ten years, and hosted a dinner celebration for the Annual Ancestor's Walk, feeding over 200 dancers, supporters and their families for the past eight years. Linda has also supported the Southern Door men and women's monthly Inipi circle, and has been dedicated to this circle for eight years.