The Centro Cultural de la Raza is largely an all volunteer nonprofit, who relies on your generosity to keep our doors open to execute our mission to create, preserve, promote Chican@, Mexican@, Latin@ and Indigenous art and culture. 

In 2019, we collaborated with Art & Interior Design students of San Diego State University who proposed a series of interdisciplinary proposals, which imagined a number of possible renovations to the space, including a lounge, cafe, artist workshop spaces, store and mezzanine amongst other ideas. This was with the idea in mind of revitalizing the Centro for our then fast-approaching 50th Anniversary. Through the money raised in 2019, we were able to build a La Tiendita, an artisan market inside the Centro Cultural de la Raza. The video on the right captures that initial effort and the spirit of those who make Centro what it is today. We invite you to see its results as well as those of the subsequent Raza Visions II campaign.