Terry Ybañez: Latina Artist and Community Activist
Terry Ybañez knew at age five, as she drew and painted flowers and plants she saw in her grandmother’s garden, that she wanted to be an artist. She grew up in the deep San Antonio Westside and took middle and high school art classes. She discovered in high school that...
Robert Ojeda & The Bronze Band’s Tribute to La Música Chicana Rousing Success
From June 20, 2024 to June 21, 2025, URBAN-15 is celebrating its 50th Anniversary with a series of special performances and films. URBAN-15’s co-founders George and Catherine Cisneros are dedicating this year-long celebration to showcase the wonderful artists and...
Latino Art at New Mexico National Hispanic Cultural Center
The National Hispanic Cultural Center [NHCC] is located in Albuquerque near the banks of the Rio Grande and is adjacent to the historic Camino Real. Founded in 2000, the Center is supported by the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs and the National Hispanic...
Santa Fe’s Traditional Spanish Market And Contemporary Market Attract Thousands of Art Lovers
The 72nd annual Traditional Spanish Market opened last weekend, July 27-28, 2024 attracting an estimated 70,000 art lovers. The art festival features New Mexico’s finest artisans and is known worldwide as the largest juried Spanish Market in the United States. The...
Celeste de Luna: Latina Artist, Printmaker, and Educator
An exhibit at the Guadalupe Bookstore in San Antonio’s Westside features works by Celeste de Luna, a highly creative artist and emerging master printer. De Luna’s woodblock and linoleum prints are bold with fanciful and surreal images. In her artist statement, she...
Cristina Sosa Noriega: A Latina Artist with Vision and Creativity
Cristina Sosa Noriega is excited about working on her newly completed large public art project dedicated to the Girls Scouts of Southwest Texas’s 100th Anniversary. She arrives at 7 am every day at the Main Plaza just as the sun rises over downtown San Antonio....
Ruiz-Healy Gallery Features Latino Artist Ricky Armendariz In New York City
A new exhibit, The Gods Wait to Delight in You…C.B., featuring Texas borderland artist Ricky Armendariz opened recently at Ruiz-Healy Gallery in New York City’s Uptown Manhattan location. Known for his illuminating portrayal of the changing Western environment,...
Latino Art Enhances San Antonio’s Public Spaces
The lead article of the New York Times Business section “Graffiti Goes From Eyesore to Asset” by Isabella Kwai caught my attention on April 6, 2024. I love the Times’ art stories but seldom see an art essay in the business section. The main premise of this story is...
Graciela Iturbide’s Photographs Capture Mexico and Latinos in the U.S.
In the early 1980s Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide distinguished herself as the most prominent photographer in Mexico and Latin America. Recognition of her work with top awards in Paris and Japan over the next two decades solidified her international...
Informal Pathways to Celebrating and Promoting Chicano and Latino Art
Fifty years ago the United States witnessed a Chicano Art Renaissance, the start of a new Latino art movement that swept across the Southwest and Midwest regions of the nation. This art movement is often attributed to the soaring rise of mural paintings in some of...
