Lilia Rocio Taboada will write a series of articles about artists in different disciplines working through rasquachismo—a working-class Chicanx sensibility of creative resourcefulness identified as such by scholar Tomás Ybarra-Frausto in 1989. Taboada will consider rasquachismo as a form of improvisation, assembly, and artistic presentation.
Lilia Rocio Taboada is an arts researcher, writer, and curator specializing in archival research and post-1945 collaborative art practices. She is an associate in Programs and Editorial at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.