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...
16th annual Vuelo de Mariposas Spring Market
Courtesy of Centro Cultural Aztlan In addition to the 15th annual Las Mujeres de Aztlan: Persistent and Resilient exhibit, Centro Cultural Aztlan presents our 16th annual Vuelo de Mariposas Spring Market, an indoor/outdoor artisan market of fine-crafts, paintings and...
Jorge Rojo Exhibit at UNAM Highlights Mexican History and Culture
On February 15, 2024, La Universidad Autonoma de Mexico [UNAM] opened Jorge Rojo’s stimulating exhibit “Trece Años en San Antonio,” [Thirteen Years in San Antonio]. The title is a reference point for Rojo who views his 2011 arrival in San Antonio as transformational....
Latino Artists Sonia Romero and Richard Duardo in Atlanta’s Estampas de la Raza Exhibit
The art exhibit Estampas de la Raza: Contemporary Prints from the Romo Collection has now crisscrossed the nation recently traveling from New Jersey and Delaware on the East Coast to Sacramento, California on the West Coast and arriving this past December in the Deep...
Centro Cultural Aztlan 28th Annual Celebración a la Virgen de Guadalupe Exhibit
A Reunion of the Gallista Artists at Dock Space Gallery
Art reunions can be problematic. They can be especially difficult and challenging if the artists are asked to create new works. In any art reunion, timing and reliable associations are everything. Latino artists are part of a very mobile sector and are known to...
Latino Artists Display Borderland Themes at Chicano Park Museum
The Son de Allá y Son de Acá exhibit at Chicano Park Museum in San Diego opens at a moment when United States immigration policy is in turmoil. Reuters reported last week that President Joe Biden's administration would “add sections to a border wall to stave off...
