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The Hidalgo de la Riva family in their Hayward home in the late 1980s. This photo shows the range of skin tones within the family. Lola's children don't all share the same father, but most were raised by the man in the red shirt named Luis Hidalgo who fathered Liz (in the pink shirt, bottom left). Tim (one of the twins) has his arms around Luis and Lola, and Osa in a red shirt at the bottom right. |
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This pillowcase was illustrated by Lola de la Riva, who loves pillows. She was taking a Japanese watercolor class and made this for Osa as a gift. Lola made this around the turn of the Millennium in the year 2000, for Osa as it is reminiscent of the animal she identifies with and relationship with the forest and mountains, as a long-time Santa Cruz resident. Though this piece is particularly precious for Osa and she has tried her best to preserve the work, there is some water damage around the t |
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Nancy "Rusty" Barcelo one of the co-founders of MALCS (Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social), Lili de la Riva, and Josie Mendez-Negrete a feminist proffessor and key member of the NACCS (National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies). Photo was taken during the 2019 NACCS conference in Alburqurque NM (Rusty is holding a conference program). |
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A young Anna Nietogomez outside, looking directly at the camera |
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A digital photograph of an image on a computer screen of a printed poster by Aunt Sally. Osa visited Aunt Sally in Morelia Michoacan in Mexico where she had this poster framed that Osa then photographed. This image is a photo that Osa took using her cell phone of that original photograph on her computer screen. There is a physical poster in Osa's collection that will be imaged once it is uncovered. The poster was made by Aunt Sally when she took a silkscreen printing class taught by Malaquias |
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Post-meal photo of a portion of the de la Riva family celebrating the visit of Lola's first grandchild, Trent Marley Cuahtémoc de la Riva, at an IHOP near Pacific Coast Manor. Trent is the first son of Tim de la Riva, one of the twins. Included here are all the de la Riva women who currently live in Santa Cruz. From left to right: Lily de la Riva, Liz de la Riva, Lola de la Riva, Trent de la Riva, Laura dela Riva, Osa Hidalgo de la Riva. |
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Three de la Riva siblings at their house in Santa Cruz, California on Branciforte Street. This group was particularly keen on travel so this is a rare moment when they were in the same house together. The red curtains in the background were made by Lola's children, including Osa. From left to right: Aunt Sally, Ben Valverde, Aunt Lucy, Lola de la Riva. |
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Poster advertising an event put on by the U.S.C. Latin@ Cinema Society, a group Osa helped start while completing her PhD at USC. Osa designed the poster which features her Chicana corazon and four direction sun motifs against a black background, a film reel listing event details in the foreground, and additional information at the bottom decorated with rainbow border design. Text reads: "Raza Cinema c/s; U.S.C. Latin@ Cinema Society proudly presents Film Festivel Fiesta III; free /film/food/fun |
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Osa's contribution to the Madre Tierra Press publication lead by Linda Vallejo within the Women's Building in Los Angeles. Osa decided to use the space afforded to you to highlight the owmen in the de la Riva family. The page title reads: "Las Mujeres de Familia 'de la Riva'" From left to right, top to bottom the page includes: a photo of Osa in a hat, poem by Osa titled "Friday the Thirteenth, 1980", excerpt from Liz's poem "Primitive and Pro |
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Digital photograph of a printed photograph showing Liz riding a horse she befriended named Slim while serving as a ranger at King's Canyon National Park. Liz was an expert horserider, learning tricks, and how to fight fires during the three summers she worked as a ranger. |
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Aboriginal Australian professor Kathryn Donna Gilbey from University of Southern Queensland visited California on a Fulbright scholarship to work with indigenous women and discuss creative and artistic practices. They were trying to create an anthology summarizing their experiences and findings and made this poster in anticipating of publishing and to advertise speaking engagement.The poster features the University of Southern Queensland logo at top and Fulbright logo at bottom. Text at center r |
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Lola de la Riva painted this acrylic on canvas in the mid-1960s. She visited the "skid-row" area of downtown Stockton where buses would pick up farm labor presumably to work in fields. The figure wearing a rebozo is Dolores Huerta. She was organizing with this group of workers (not sure if this was within the UFW establishment) and Lola happened to be there and made this portrait of that moment. Huerta was friends with Lola's older sister (Aunt Lucy) so Lola knew her before. The reflection on he |
