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...
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...
