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XX Timeline at the Crossroads XX by Diana Molina

Exposed to a wide spectrum of diverse settings, Diana Molina’s socio-environmental portrayals touch on the deep connections linked to regional and international bonds, and ultimately personal identity. In a retrospective of journeys across boundaries, selections from her collections depict women, and, the environmental relationships to which she is rooted. Viewing the reflective surface of intimate journeys, her photography, artwork and research speak to a lived experience at the crossroads.

21/ Veintiuno by Ender Martos

Ender Martos, an award winning Texan Venezuelan artist based in Austin, plans to jumpstart the long awaited 2021 with a cultural head rush. The visual artist will debut “21 (Veintiuno)'', a virtual exhibition of his celebrated optic art, along with his personal reflections on the theme of “diversity within diversity."

Textile Poetics by Mery Godigna Collet

Textiles have been a fundamental and integral aspect of human development around the world for millennia. From the onset of their creation, our story has been woven into fabric. Through textile, cultures have expressed their philosophy, communal identity, and sensibility to the flora and fauna that abounds in their environment that nourishes them both physically and emotionally. Through printing, weaving, and assemblage, the contemporary artists of TEXTILE POETICS tell us about their restlessness, inquiry, and research into the creation of fabric art.

MULTI Curated by Coka Trevino

MULTI, curated by Coka Treviño, tries to express a few of the many dream-states that our life as Mexican and Mexican American women have internalized in and outside of contemporary colonialism, and how we're collectively trying to unlearn and find our own, authentic voices. Featuring poet and writer Ariana Brown; Photographer and Designer Patricia Carrington; Performer and Video artist Fina Ferrara; Contemporary artist and visual activist Irene Antonia Diane Reece; and experimental video and sound artist Natalia Rocafuerte provide us with different views of Mexicanidad and the Latinx experience.

FIGURALO 2020 & 2021

The Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center (ESB-MACC) in affiliation with the Smithsonian Institute are proud to present the 2020 Figúralo, Youth Exhibit. Figúralo 2020 will showcase the exploration of artistic mediums through figurines, figurative images and figurative narratives.

photos from the 2021 Figuralo Youth Exhibit in the Sam Z. Coronado Gallery

Art of the Bull by Manual Miranda

Painting the art of bulls means a different conception of the festival for me. I paint the art of a refined aesthetic where bullfighting loses its strict sense. Bulls have intelligence and sensitivity and adopted attitudes that are derived from man. In this act, bulls have transcended the limitations of ambition and desire. They have stripped themselves of the self that human beings carry. They become very inquisitive without intending to. Bulls, in their simple presence and sensitivity, have reached a state of happiness. Bulls are now part of the questioning of man. They make him look in his mirror and dictate to him a model that we may have forgotten. - Manuel Miranda

Amuletos by Luis Guerra

Luis Guillermo Guerra is a painter, sculptor, and writer who divides his time between Real de Catorce, a mountain village in San Luis Potosí, and Austin, Texas. He is a recipient of various awards, among them the Award of Excellence for Lifetime Achievement from Austin’s Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center, and the Siqueiros-Pollock Award from the Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez of Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes. Guerra’s artwork is in numerous museums, including the San Antonio Museum of Art, the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, in Washington, D.C. For two decades, he also narrated his Cuentos de la Sierra on National Public Radio’s Latino USA.

Colores De Mi Alma by Amado Castillo lll

Art Comes To Life, A Retrospective by Joe Garcia

Entropy by Mery Godigna Collet

Venezuelan artist Mery Godigna Collet uses art as a tool to confront complex social issues, which she then synthesizes into concepts for the viewers. Her works of art utilize a multitude of diverse materials and she works in different media from installations, paintings, sculptures, photography, and video. She challenges her viewers by consistently modifying and utilizing new techniques and unconventional materials so one can confront the ways humans survive, cope, and deal violence or by inviting one to deeper contemplation and self-introspection.

Sendas De Mi Vida by Blas E. Lopez

"Many, many years ago, my beloved maternal grandfather, Don Manuel Diaz, a master carpenter, and an artist in his own right, saw an innate talent in his young grandson, and set out to nurture that talent. That gentle soul wore pinstripe overalls with an overabundance of pockets. I vividly remember him fishing a pencil out of one pocket, and a small pocket knife out of another. He would tear open the brown paper sack, in which my mother had packed his lunch, flatten it, sharpen the pencil, handing it to me, and saying, “Here, son, draw that tree, dog, horse" (whatever subject that was around). " - Blas E. Lopez