Rocio Sanchez-Nolasco

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Rocio Sanchez-Nolasco is a fourth-year student pursuing a Bachelors of Arts in Art History with a minor in Digital Humanities. Currently, she is pursuing an Art History departmental honors thesis focusing on the photography of Chicana, contemporary artist Patssi Valdez produced in the 1980s. With the help and guidance of Professor Charlene Villaseñor Black, Ms. Sanchez-Nolasco strives to explore the influence of the East Los Angeles punk scene, Chicana subjectivity, personal agency, and the power of self-fashioning within Valdez’s photographic artworks. This body of works has yet to be comprehensively studied or written about. This project aims to shed light on the visual and historical complexities of this particular stage of Valdez’s career looking to assert Valdez’s artistic agency and investigate expressions of Chicana visual culture. After graduating from UCLA, Ms. Sanchez-Nolasco hopes to pursue a path in higher education.

Rocio Sanchez-Nolasco is a fourth-year student pursuing a Bachelors of Arts in Art History with a minor in Digital Humanities. Currently, she is pursuing an Art History departmental honors thesis focusing on the photography of Chicana, contemporary artist Patssi Valdez produced in the 1980s. With the help and guidance of Professor Charlene Villaseñor Black, Ms. Sanchez-Nolasco strives to explore the influence of the East Los Angeles punk scene, Chicana subjectivity, personal agency, and the power of self-fashioning within Valdez’s photographic artworks. This body of works has yet to be comprehensively studied or written about. This project aims to shed light on the visual and historical complexities of this particular stage of Valdez’s career looking to assert Valdez’s artistic agency and investigate expressions of Chicana visual culture. After graduating from UCLA, Ms. Sanchez-Nolasco hopes to pursue a path in higher education.