Arts/Culture/Photos

Interview by Clint Westwood Article by Celinda De La Fuente Dancer, singer, musician, performer, and Professor are just a few titles for this Artivist (artist + activist). Keli Rosa Cabunoc Romero is now the newest and youngest board member of the Cesar E. Chavez...

Master printer Richard Duardo was for several decades one of the most influential Latino print makers and artists in the country. Upon Duardo’s death in 2014 at age 62, David Colker of the Los Angeles Times commented: “A gregarious, prominent figure in the downtown...

Interview by Natasha Gonzales Article by Celinda De La Fuente Dancer. Instructor. Choreographer. Photographer. Entrepreneur. Mother. Wife. Sister. Daughter. Role Model. Artista Nina Padilla is an all around Renaissance Mujer. With two degrees from Texas State...

Exploring ancestral archives can be quite fascinating. For example, in the late 1580s my 10th great grandfather Juan Guerra de Reza married Ana de Arellano y Zaldívar, the granddaughter of Maria Onate Cortes Moctezuma and a prominent member of New Spain’s unofficial...

In mid-January 2021 the McNay Art Museum opened an exhibit of Latino prints featuring the works of Richard Duardo, John Valadez, Cesar Martinez, Raul Caracoza, Melanie Cervantes, Juan Miguel Ramos, John Valadez, Barbara Carrasco, and Juan Mora. We took a special...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the beginnings of the Mexican mural movement. The idea for large-scale public art can be traced to Jose Vasconcelos, the Mexican Secretary of Public Education, who in 1921 commissioned the first mural painting in the building...

Cortesía de Presa House Gallery Presa House se complace en dar la bienvenida a la exposición individual del artista Jonathon Paul Jackson, con sede en Houston, A Reminder to Breathe. La exhibición se abre el 5 de febrero de 2021 y permanecerá a la vista con cita...

Unraveling the intertwined histories of Latino radicalism and religion in urban America, this book examines how Latino activists transformed churches into staging grounds for protest against urban renewal and displacement. In the late 1960s, the American city found...

Some time ago I wrote about Alonso Romo, a soldier with the Hernan De Soto expedition [1539-43] whose service in exploring the Gulf region took him from Florida deep into Texas near Austin and the Colorado River. In Texas, the De Soto four year exploration came to an...

Last week both houses of the U.S. Congress passed legislation for a Stimulus Bill that also included the construction of a Latino Museum in Washington D.C. Latino scholars are anxious to work with the Smithsonian curators, who over the years have wcollected thousands...