The Bancroft Library at 100: A Celebration, 1906–2006
Taller de Gráfica Popular
Reflecting the rich and multifaceted collections of UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library, The Bancroft Library at 100 includes a number of fascinating materials documenting political activism. The Bancroft’s holdings encompass the events of the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s for which Berkeley, in particular, became known, and also reach back to other times and places marked by protest, challenge, and upheaval.
In Mexico in 1937, Leopoldo Mendez, Luis Arenal, and the American-born Pablo O’Higgins founded the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Workshop for Popular Graphic Art) in response to the rise of fascism, the Depression, and the failings of revolutionary reform. The founders saw art as a means to educate the Mexican people and transform politics and society. The Bancroft Library holds one of the most comprehensive collections of TGP material outside Mexico, and continues to add to its collection of some 700 TGP prints and publications.
Jack von Euw
Curator, The Bancroft Library Pictorial Collection
The Bancroft Library at 100 is made possible with the generous support of the Wells Fargo Foundation. 
