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Interviewed by Adriana Camarena and Chris Carlsson for Shaping San Francisco on September 22, 2019.

Yolanda Lopez, 1942-2021, was a remarkable artist, activist, and longtime participant in radical women's and art movements in the Mission District of San Francisco.

Yolanda Lopez memorialized in this mural on the new building at 17th and Folsom.

Photo: Chris Carlsson; Mural by Jess Sabogal

Yolanda Lopez on voting, citizenship, and engagement

Video: Adriana Camarena and Chris Carlsson, 2019

Yolanda's most iconic poster, reprinted thousands of times.

Art by Yolanda Lopez

Yolanda Lopez on self-representation, art, and the importance of artists as political actors themselves.

Video: Adriana Camarena and Chris Carlsson, 2019

Photo: from Yolanda Lopez retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 2021