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José Montoya (May 28, 1932 – September 25, 2013) was a poet and an artist from Sacramento, California. He was one of the most influential Chicano bilingual poets. He has published many well-known poems in anthologies and magazines, and served as Sacramento's poet laureate.
Feb 20, 2016 · When the artist, poet, activist and educator José Montoya died in 2013, he left a treasure trove of drawings in his Sacramento studio.
José Montoya. 1932–2013. Poet, artist, and activist José Montoya was born in New Mexico and grew up in California’s Central Valley during the Great Depression, the son of farm laborers. Montoya worked in the fields as child and was the first in his family to graduate from high school.
Chicano activist, poet, artist, intellectual, professor, and musician, José Montoya (1932-2013) was a veritable Renaissance man. Montoya often found inspiration in the verdant fields of the San Joaquin Valley where his family arrived from their home in New Mexico in the 1940s looking for work.
Oct 5, 2013 · Montoya, a leading figure in California Latino culture of the post-World War II era, died Sept. 25 at his Sacramento home. The former Sacramento poet laureate, who had been battling lymphoma, was...
As a painter, poet, and activist, Jos é Montoya has played a leading role in the Chicano cultural movement. He founded the Royal Chicano Air Force, a California arts collective renowned for its political murals and community projects. His poetry is widely anthologized and has promoted new interest in Chicano literature.
Nov 9, 2020 · José Montoya was a leading figure in bilingual and bicultural expression drawn from barrio life, the Chicano Movement and multiculturalism in American art. His life and work accounts for historical changes amid world wars, the counter culture and rise of the civil rights movements.
