Mexican Heritage Plaza, Cultural center in Mayfair, San Jose, United States.

The Mexican Heritage Plaza – Centro Cultural de San José is a Chicano and Mexican-American cultural center in the Mayfair neighborhood of East San Jose. It holds a 500-seat theater, gardens, classrooms and meeting spaces, and houses the School of Arts and Culture. A 2004 mural, Corazón y Espíritu de Mayfair, was painted by Precita Eyes Muralists under Susan Cervantes.

The Mexican Heritage Plaza opened in 1999, fully funded by the San Jose Redevelopment Agency and partly by the Mexican Heritage Corporation, which had advocated for it since 1988. The center was conceived as a space for Chicano and recently arrived Mexican immigrants to celebrate Mexican arts and culture, following late-1960s student discontent over the lack of Chicano visibility in universities and public spaces. In 2007 its funding was reassessed amid community concerns that the center was not being used as originally intended.

The plaza's name and programming tie it to Chicano and Mexican-American culture: Teatro Visión has performed here since the 1999 opening, when it staged "Harvest Moon", and later productions included "El Vagon", "Bless Me, Ultima" and "Departera". Speakers such as Dolores Huerta have addressed the community, and mariachi, ballet folklórico and teatro campesino groups appear here.

The plaza stands in the Mayfair district of East San Jose, a historically Mexican-American neighborhood shaped by restrictive covenants in the 1920s. Its 500-seat theater, gardens, classrooms and meeting spaces host School of Arts and Culture programs, so check the center's listings before visiting to see whether a performance or class is open to the public.

The Corazón y Espíritu de Mayfair mural, painted in 2004, was planned by Susan Cervantes and executed by Precita Eyes Muralists. A separate row of mosaic tributes lines the northwestern entrance, honoring Carlos Santana, Los Tigres del Norte, Luis Valdez and Linda Ronstadt. Los Tigres del Norte began their recording career in San Jose, and Ronstadt serves as honorary chair of the San Jose Mexican Heritage Festival.