The collection contains original artwork, photographic images,
periodical articles regarding both Hernandez and many of her
contemporaries, original manuscripts, audio and visual
recordings documenting interviews and political events, and
ephemera gathered from artists, performers, and political/social
activists and events. Hernandez is an artist of the first
generation of Chicano and Chicana artists who participated in
the Chicano art movement that began in the late 1960s as part of
the Chicano civil rights movement. Her collection represents
more than twenty-five years of involvement in many of the most
important historical activities of this period, including the
farmworkers' movement, the feminist movement, international
environmental movements, and the art movement itself, including
the visual, literary, and performing arts. A California Bay Area
artist, Hernandez is primarily known as a printmaker and pastel
artist. She has also created a lesser-known body of photographic
and performance work. Property