The Xicano Chronicles is a multi-year documentary and archiving project founded and led by artist Abel Alejandre. Functioning as a living history of the Los Angeles art scene, the project seeks to preserve and amplify the stories of the individuals who define Chicanx culture.

According to the project’s mission, it operates with three primary objectives:

Cultural Education: To bring awareness and understanding of Chicanx culture to the “uninitiated” or broader public.

Posterity and Archiving: To catalog the unique voices of the Los Angeles Chicanx community for future generations, ensuring their perspectives are preserved as a historical record.

Community Highlighting: To showcase the specific contributions of Chicanx artists, writers, curators, and collectors who foster dialogue and build community within the LA art ecosystem.

The core of the project consists of in-depth, artist-to-artist interviews conducted by Alejandre. These conversations move beyond superficial biographies, offering intimate insights into the creative processes, struggles, and philosophies of its subjects. Featured participants include prominent figures such as Margaret Garcia, Man One, Karla Diaz, Joe Bravo, Paul Dunlap, and Gloria Enedina Alvarez, Daniel Gonzalez and many more to come.

By leveraging film and digital media, the Xicano Chronicles serves as a vital bridge between the 1960s Chicano Movement’s legacy and the contemporary landscape of Los Angeles. It is an act of “digital curation” that ensures the Chicanx experience is not only witnessed in the present but is permanently etched into the cultural archives of the future.