Artist, archivist, and author Guadalupe Rosales has dedicated her career to preserving a side of L.A history that has too often been overlooked; the life & culture East of the L.A. River. As the creator of the venerated Instagram archives Veteranas and Rucas and Map Pointz, she's collected thousands of photographs, flyers, and personal stories documenting L.A.'s Chicana culture, backyard parties, fashion, music, and youth movements of the 1980s and '90s.
Growing up in East L.A., Rosales experienced the excitement, freedom, and dangers of the city's party crew scene before personal tragedy and a move to New York ultimately helped inspire her life's work. Now an internationally acclaimed artist whose work is held in major museums, Rosales has turned the lens on herself with her deeply personal new memoir, East of the River: A Memoir of Los Angeles Girlhood.
