In my family en mi familia by carmen lomas garza

Garza had also seen her mother painting picture cards for a game that is similar to Bingo around the time she was 8, which increased her love of art even more. Garza loved watching her mother paint, and felt like what her mother did was magic. This small community is near the Mexico-United States border. Garza was born in 1948 in Kingsville, Texas. Her work is a part of the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Museum of Mexican Art, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Mexican Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Oakland Museum of California, among other institutions.

She is well known for her paintings, ofrendas and for her papel picado work inspired by her Mexican-American heritage. Texas Arts & Industry University, Juarez-Lincoln/Antioch Graduate School,Ĭarmen Lomas Garza (born 1948) is an Chicana artist and illustrator.