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...
Latino Artist Carlos Rosales-Silva Creates Gateway Museum Mural
The San Antonio Museum of Art [SAMA] has a new bright mural in its spacious Great Hall that serves as the main entrance to the museum. The SAMA mural, Pase Usted by Texas-New York artist Carlos Rosales-Silva, features “two vibrantly colored forms that evoke...
Latino Artists Featured in San Antonio’s FotoSeptiembre Festival
Michael Mehl, the founder and director of the photography festival FOTOSEPTIEMBRE-SAFOTO, describes himself as a composer, musician, photographer, digital artist, and writer. For the past two decades, Mehl has been producing, curating, and promoting many artists,...
EXIT Hosts Texas Death Metal, Other Extreme Music and Multimedia Art at Brick at Blue Star
By LPT Staff Photos by Zoe Parra Alejandro Diaz Death to Content On the last day of August, the inaugural EXIT event took over Brick at Blue Star. Produced by Cataclysm. Online and Death to Content, the multimedia experience blended a diverse lineup of contemporary...
