LAIS Program and Art History and Visual Culture Program Present
Santa Barraza: Chicana Artist of the Borderlands
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Santa Barraza is “a nationally important Tejana artist” who “paints bold represenations of Nepantla, the Land Between. Her work depicts the historical, emotional, and spiritual land between Mexico and Texas, between present reality and the mythic world of the ancient Aztecs and Mayas. Over the last twenty-five years of her career as a visual artist, Barraza has explored what it is to be a Chicana and a mestiza in this country. Utilizing a variety of media, she has embarked on an artistic journey full of family portraits, watercolor dream scenes, mixed media artist books, and murals that harken back to a pre-Columbian past. By tapping into pre-conquest symbols, personal memories, and traditional sacred art forms such as the retablo and the Codices, she incorporates the value of Mexican artistic traditions and their power to nurture and sustain cultural identity on this side of the border” (from Santa Barraza: Artist of the Borderlands [2001], edited by María Herrera-Sobek).6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
For more information, call 845-758-7158, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Campus Center, Weis Cinema