Dates: August 18 - October 1, 2025
The gallery will be fully closed as we prepare for the next exhibition.
On Display: October 2, 2025 - February 22, 2026
Centro de Artes Events
Curated by: Bonnie Cisneros
Tejana curator Bonnie Ilza Cisneros explores the beauty of borderland culture and the Mexican-American tradition of “mi casa es su casa” in Madre Land, a portal into South Texas memory and the art of making home. Featuring work by 27 artists and scholars, from the emerging to the established, artworks honor domestic aesthetics, rasquache sensibility, ancestral healing, and natural world/environmental motifs. Inspired and informed by the groundwork of Dr. Amalia Mesa-Bains, Dr. Amelia Malagamba-Ansótegui, and Dr. Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, who is also a participating artist, the exhibition features altar installations, folk art, rasquache craft, casita portraits, domestic still life, mixed media collage, fiber arts, cosita arrangements, scholarly research, and photography. Exhibition design mirrors that of a family home with a layout referencing the front porch, kitchen, dining room, living room, bedroom, kids’ patio, backyard shrines, a cosmic night garden, an urban chicken run, as well as homages to historic Sunshine Bakery and La Guadalupanita Café, and selections from Siempre Verde: Art Commissions for Feeling & Healing.
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Curated by: Rebecca Gomez
In the Hispanic community, family members orally transmit and share folk tales (cuentos) to bring meaning to our past and present lives. These folk tales include el hombre, el burro, y el perro (man, burro, dog); El Santo Nino (The Holy Child); and the legends of El Cucuy, La Lechuza, and La Llorona (mythical ghost-like creature, the owl, the Weeping Woman). The exhibition draws inspiration from these stories and from the book Cuentos: Tales from the Hispanic Southwest. The five participating artists—women with a shared heritage of working in South Texas and the Southwest United States—have created works of art influenced by these cuentos. Curated by Rebecca Gomez, the exhibition features paintings, lithographs, drawings, soft-sculptures, textiles, and installations.
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