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Education

• 1980: MFA (With High Distinction) California College of Arts and Crafts,Oakland, CA
• 1980: Graduate Studies, San Carlos Academy, Mexico, D.F. Director of (Graduate Studies mural, San Carlos Academy, executed at Delegacion Magdalena Contreras, Mexico, D.F.
• 1975: Chicago State University, Major Area: Painting
• 1974: University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, Major Area: Film
• 1968-71: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Major Area: Painting & Drawing
• 1966: Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico Major Area: Mural Painting

Experience

• 1983- Present: Executive Director, Creativity Explored of San Francisco
• 1994: Coca Cola USA commissioned mural for World Cup Soccer competitions, SF
• 1993: Technical Consultant on traditional and contemporary mural techniques for SFMOMA Departments of Education and Conservation
• 1993: Fine Arts Museums of SF and the San Francisco Foundation commission for two murals for the exterior of the deYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park and Galeria de la Raza, SF
• 1993: Purchase of mural boceto for the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museum of SF collection
• 1993: Coordinator and exhibitor Valeyre centre de'Animation et de Loisirs in Paris "Lights of San Francisco exhibition of murals
• 1993: SF Police Department Community Relations and SF Mayor's Office of Community Development and Housing mural commission
• 1993: City of Oakland Cultural Arts Division commission for mural
• 1992: SF Mayor's Office and Police Department mural commission at Marshall Elementary School
• 1992: SF Mayor's Office commission for Mission Family Center mural
• 1992: Mural commission Center For the Arts Complex at Yerba Buena Gardens
• 1991: Chicano Art Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985 traveling exhibition
• 1991: Coordinator "Muros" Exhibition, a collaborative exhibition series with Mission Cultural Center, Capp Street Project, and the South of Market Cultural Center, representing various aspects of murals as socio-political arts
• 1988-90: Stanford University, Stanford, CA Instructor-Lecturer, two mural works directed
• 1989: Mural commission by the state government of Nayarit, Mexico
• 1987: Mexican Government Mural Commission for La Loteria Nacional Exhibition, Mexico D.F.
• 1986: Curator, San Francisco Art Institute Mural Exhibition, Mc Bean Gallery
• 1986: Sculpto-Mural commission, 50th year commemoration of the International Longshore and Warehouseman's Union
• 1985: Dartington College of Art, Devon, England, Instructor-Lecturer, Mural completed
• 1976-79/1980-82: Instructor-Lecturer, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, five murals directed, Department of Humanities Department of Ethnic Studies
• 19875-77: Instructor-Lecturer, University of California at Berkeley, CA 4 murals directed

Speaker

• 1992: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Teacher Institute in conjunction with Stuart Davis: American Painter Exhibition
• 1991: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Teacher Institute in conjunction with the Chicano Art Resistance and Affirmation International Exhibition "Chicano Mural Art"
• 1991: San Francisco Museum of Modem Art, ' The History-Chronology of the Balmy Street Environmental Murals Project to 1991"
• 1989: Panel moderator, L.A. Weekly's "Remaking L.A." At U.C.L.A., Los Angeles, CA
• 1987: Teatro de La Loteria Nacional, Mexico, D.F., "Chicano Murals Today"
• 1987: Chicago Mexican Fine Arts Museum, "Contemporary Murals in Change"
• 1985: Chelsea School of Art, London, England, "Contemporary U.S. Murals"
• 1985: Byron Shaw School of Art, London, England, "Chicago Murals"
• 1979: The Detroit Institute of The Arts, Detroit, Michigan, "A comparative Analysis of Mexican and Chicano Murals"
• 1979: La Esmeralda Art Academy, Mexico, D.F., "The U.S. Mural Movement in Chicago"
• 1979: University of Texas at Austin, Plastica Chicana Conference, "California Murals"
• 1977: University of California at Santa Barbara, 'The Evolution of Chicano Murals"
• 1974: International Design Conference, Aspen, Colorado, "Walls With Tongues

Awards and Honors

• 1992: Award of Merit from Sonoma League For Historic Preservation
• 1989: Proclamation of artistic achievement by San Francisco Mayor & San Francisco Arts Commission
• 1989: Special Invitation to participate in individual mural, Benito Juarez High School, Chicago, Illinois
• 1987: Special invitation to participate in cooperative mural, Benito Juarez High School, Chicago, Illinois
• 1984: International Design Conference, "Special Guest", Aspen, Colorado, Mural Director of conference
• 1973: The Chicago Beautified Award, awarded for beautification of the City of Chicago and presented by the Mayor
• 1973: Delegate to The People's Republic of China, representing American Muralists on "Cultural Workers Delegation" to The People's Republic of China

Cited In

• 1992: Co-authored article on Community Murals for American Mosaic text American School Publishers
• 1992: First color cover Artweek magazine April 9 issue
• 1991: San Francisco Murals, Community Creates Its Muse 191~1990, Timothy W. Drescher, Pogo Press
• 1991: A film based on the creation of Mr. Patlan's Mural work. "Viva la Causa" Distributed as educational media for schools and art centers in the U.S.A. Kartemquin Films.

Books and Magazines Citing Work

• 1986: Arte Chicano. Tomas I. Fraustos and Shifra Goldman
• Community Murals. a Peoples' Art. Alan Barnett, Cornwall Books
• 1984: A Traves de la Frontera, CEESTEM - Instituto de Investigaciones Esteticas, La Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, D.F.
• 1983: RAL'Art Public. Jacques Damase, Direction Defrancoise Chatel, Paris, France
• 1982: Street Murals. Volker Bathelmeh, Alfreda, Knopf, Inc., New York 1982
• 1977: Toward a Peoples Art. Eva Cockcroft, James Cockcroft and John Weber, Dutton Press New York
• 1972: Youth Magazine. "A Wall Belongs to Everybody", Raymond Patlan & John Weber
• 1971: Architectural Forum. "Wall Paintings"

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