Heritage: Latino
Shopping
Handmade and painted folk art—masks, animals, and wildly imaginative creatures—some by local artists, others imported from Central and South America are available to fit any shopping budget. If fine art is your passion, your eyes will pop from the Pre-Conquest pieces, drawings, paintings, sculptures, and antiques for sale throughout the state's Latino galleries and museum stores. Books, tapes, toys, and musical instruments make great gifts. And for the house and garden, beautiful accessories in hand-painted Mexican tile, ceramics, glass, and wrought iron are all available, designed and produced in the authentic Latino palettes.
The shops on Olvera Street at El Pueblo de Los Angeles sell all things Mexican: colorful dresses, leather huaraches (sandals), and lots of fresh, authentic snacks like churros (fried bread topped with sugar). Mercado La Paloma is a large marketplace on S. Grand Street where local artists and craftsmen make and sell their wares on the spot. Espresso Mi Cultura Books & Coffee in Hollywood offers books, art, music, coffee and more…
Born of the social consciousness and political activism of the late 1960s, La Raza Galería Posada Bookstore in Sacramento is still a vital, robust, streetwise center and gathering place for Chicanos, Mexican-Americans, and all who care about La Causa!…
At Moctezuma Books & Gallery on 3rd Avenue in Chula Vista (San Diego) the focus is on contemporary art from the San Diego-Tijuana border area, Mexico, and the Californias. Drawings, paintings, prints, ceramics, and artists' books are all available. Back From Tomboctu, a gallery on Adams Avenue in Normal Heights (San Diego), showcases ethnic, folk, and traditional crafts of Mexico and Latin America…
San Francisco's La Casa del Libro on Valencia Street is a Spanish-language bookstore devoted to Mexican and Latin American literature, poetry, philosophy, and natural medicine. Galería de la Raza, a Chicano and Latino contemporary space in the heart of the Mission District, offers exhibitions and a store called Studio 24 that sells a variety of folk and contemporary works.
Highlights
- Los Angeles:
- Olvera Street at El Pueblo De Los Angeles (213.628.1274)
- Mercado La Paloma (213.748.1963)
- Espresso Mi Cultura Books & Coffee (323.466.0481)
- Sacramento:
- La Raza Galería Posada Bookstore (916.446.5133)
- San Diego:
- Moctezuma Books & Gallery (619.426.1283)
- Back from Tomboctu (619.282.8708)
- San Francisco:
- La Casa Del Libro (415.285.1399)
- Studio 24 at Galería De La Raza (415.826.8009)
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