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LAN! IS COMING TO TEXAS
Latino Art Now! (LAN!) is coming to Texas–at last! This week the first of 70 planned exhibitions opened. LAN! has been in Chicago, New York, Los...
FRANK ROMERO
Frank Romero is considered one of the leading pioneers of Chicano and Latino art. Romero grew up in Boyle Heights, a large Latino neighborhood in...
THE POLITICS OF A BORDER WALL
Over the past three years, Donald Trump has been persistent about building a wall along the two thousand mile border between the United States and...
San Antonio: Jobs, Income and Poverty
Cities have long been the place for good jobs. In San Antonio and other Southwestern cities, workers generally found work in a multiple of...
Ana Fernandez
Ana Fernandez paints about everyday life and the experiences of her neighbors in San Antonio. She is well known for her oil paintings of modest...
Civil Rights in Texas
On October 14, 1964, the Nobel Committee in Norway awarded Dr. Mar- tin Luther King the Nobel Peace Prize. At age 35, Dr. King was the youngest...
Armando Sanchez
Armando Sanchez, a native of South San Antonio, grew up drawing and sketching and recalls that as a child in elementary school his teach- ers would...
Miraflores: A Garden for the Ages
The heavy rainfall over the fall months of 2018 delayed conservation work on Miraflores, one of San Antonio’s most fabled gardens. The rain showers...
Dr. Aureliano Urrutia
Arriving in San Antonio, Texas in 1914, Dr. Aureliano Urrutia rapidly established himself as one of finest medical physicians in the city. His...
Dionicio Rodriguez
Throughout my life I have enjoyed two passions: art and running. At an early age when I started going to Brackenridge Park it never occured to me...