Carmen Lomas Garza (A Ver)

Widely known for works that celebrate the traditions of her family and her South Texas Latino community, Carmen Lomas Garza has been active as a painter, printmaker, muralist, and children’s book illustrator since the 1970s. Born in Kingsville, Texas, she experienced institutionalized racism in a segregated school system that punished Mexican American students for speaking Spanish. Through her art, which draws on her childhood memories and depicts the relationship between family and community, Garza challenges the legacy of repression while establishing the folk art idiom, as employed by nonwhite and immigrant artists, as a vital element of American modernism.
 Garza’s art illustrates how, despite racial inequities, cultural conflict, and urban pressures, the Mexican American community has sustained a rich and vital cultural identity. In this volume of the pathbreaking A Ver series, Constance Cortez explores Garza’s artwork in the context of the Chicano/a art movement, family and regional traditions, and Garza’s own political and social activism.

• In My Family/En mi familia
• Family Pictures, 15th Anniversary Edition / Cuadros de Familia, Edición Quinceañera
• Judith F. Baca (A Ver)
• Yolanda Lopez (A Ver)
• Making Magic Windows: Creating Cut-Paper Art With Carmen Lomas Garza
• Celia Alvarez Muñoz (A Ver)
• A Piece of My Heart/Pedacito De Mi Corazon: The Art of Carmen Lomas Garza
• Chicana Sexuality and Gender: Cultural Refiguring in Literature, Oral History, and Art (Latin America Otherwise)
• Transforming Educational Pathways for Chicana/o Students: A Critical Race Feminista Praxis (Multicultural Education Series)