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AN ARTIST, NOT A FELON: HOW TUPAC, ART, AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF YOUTH MADE OSCAR MAGALLANES THE ARTIST HE IS TODAY

Watch Oscar speak more about Tupac and hip hop as an inspiration, as well as a particular piece he made- a map showing where all the state and federal prisons are in California, as well as where UCLA is in relations to where he grew up. Oscar said he knew as a teenager where all of the prisons were, even San Quentin, way at the top of Pelican Bay in northern California, but didn’t even know UCLA was a college let alone where it was, even though it was only miles away from him and San Quentin was so much further.

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