Arts/Culture/Photos

Carlos Merida’s mural at HemiFair Park may well be San Antonio’s first public Mexican modern art piece [Fig. 1*]. In Mexican Modern Art, critic Fausto Ramirez linked Merida’s fascination with the indigenous fabrics of his native Guatemala to his modern creative...

Mexico and the U.S. borderlands have produced many artists; however, the number of photographers who have covered both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border is relatively small. Historically, the field is also relatively new. The rise of borderland photography dates back to...

El Departamento de Arte y Cultura de la Ciudad de San Antonio presentó recientemente “Spheres of Reflection”, un nuevo proyecto de arte público en el lado este de la ciudad en el Parque Martin Luther King. La escultura de 13 pies, que descansa sobre una base de 4 pies...

Growing up in El Paso, Texas “with Juarez, Mexico in my backyard,” Latino artist Richard Armendariz found himself “saturated with a mix of romanticism for the new and old West American cultures and the iconography of an ancestral past.” The mystique of the border...

Luis Jimenez represents one of the premier sculptors and painters of the new Latino art generation. Rudolfo Anaya, the highly acclaimed New Mexico Latino writer, saw in Jimenez’s passion a “deep search for an art that portrays the border region.” Anaya called Jimenez...

In its forty-four-year history, San Antonio’s Centro Cultural Aztlan has been led by only two executive directors. Carlos Gonzales served as founding director from 1977 to 1987. The current and longest-serving Executive Director, Malena Gonzalez-Cid, started in 1987...

On November 18, Ruiz-Healy Art opened its exhibition Ruiz-Healy Art: Quinceañera commemorating the fifteen-year anniversary of the art gallery in San Antonio, Texas. Ruiz-Healy Art is unique among art galleries in America. It is owned and managed by a Latina woman who...

Provided by Dr. Ricardo Romo & Centro Cultural Aztlan    

In 1990 Chicano muralism in San Antonio had fallen onto hard times. The more than 50 murals completed at the Cassiano Homes were beginning to fade, unable to survive the sun’s burning rays. City funding for murals in San Antonio’s Westside had also dried up. Cruz...