Conjunto Festival at Rosedale Park
The 40th Anniversary of the Tejano Conjunto Festival featured the very best in Conjunto music and dancing at Rosedale Park.The air was electric at Rosedale Park. Every face had a smile on it and every foot was tapping along to the beat. It was my first time attending...
Latinos in San Antonio Lead Contemporary Mural Initiative
Los Otros Murals and San Antonio Street Art Initiative [SASAI]. Photo by Ricardo Romo. The mural art at Qunicy and St. Mary’s beneath U.S. HW. I-35 adds greatly to efforts to add public art to downtown San Antonio. This cluster of highly colorful murals contributes to...
Carlos Rosales-Silva’s Abstract Imagery Captures Latino Culture
Carlos Rosales-Silva, a resident of New York City for the past decade, relies on memory, photographs, and historical accounts of his native West Texas community to create art that represents a visual narrative of nature, people, architecture, and objects of a dynamic...
Fidencio Duran: A Painter Who Captures Latino Culture and Traditions in Everyday Life
Texas artist Fidencio Duran has been climbing tall scaffolds since he won a commission to complete a mural in Brownsville, Texas thirty-seven years ago. Today, Duran’s murals are among the most visible for any Latino artist in America. On an annual basis millions see...
“Incomparable Grace: JFK in the Presidency”
It wasn't even your idea. If you'd had your druthers, in fact, you would've chosen another course of action but the decision was out of your control. The situation was picked not by you but for you and though it wasn't your idea, you'll press on. As in the new book...
Remembering a Premier Chicano Writer: Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, a long-time professor of Spanish, English, and Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Austin, passed away on April 19 in Austin, Texas. He was 93 years old. The Washington Post referred to Hinojosa-Smith as a “prizewinning Texas author...
The Gift of Art: a Special Memory of Artist Nivia Gonzalez and Dr. Ricardo Romo
In 1988 while working as a student intern at Trinity University's Tomas Rivera Center for Policy Studies (a new think tank, at that time), a striking woman entered the office. It was renowned San Antonio artist Nivia Gonzalez who had come to personally deliver some of...
Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth Features Chicano Graphics
The Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth is hosting one of the most exciting Latino exhibits of our generation. ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now includes 119 works, ranging from traditional screenprints to digital graphics of...
Chicano/a Art in Austin, Texas: A Mexic-Arte Exhibition
Mexic-Arte opened its doors on Congress Avenue in the heart of downtown Austin in 1988. Co-founded by Chicano artists, Sam Coronado and Sylvia Orozco, and, and Mexican artist, Pio Pulido, Mexic-Arte is one of the first Mexican American Art museums in the United States...
Latino Artists: Islas, Telles, and Maldonado at the Presa House Gallery
The Presa House Gallery was co-founded by interdisciplinary artist and art educator, Jenelle Esparza, and artist, designer, and independent curator, Rigoberto Luna. The Gallery hosted a two-part exhibition and artist exchange on March 28, 2022. The exhibition,...
