Carmen Lomas Garza

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Carmen Lomas Garza (b. 1948) is a Mexican American artist.

[edit] Biography

Carmen Lomas Garza was born in 1948 in Kingsville, Texas. She experienced significant racism growing up, and she was not allowed to speak Spanish in school.[1] The initial roots of her artwork lay in her family, to whom she was close, and in the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.[1] Lomas Garza's parents had been involved in political organizing through the American GI Forum, and Lomas followed in their footsteps by organizing Chicanos on her college campus.[1] Lomas Garza later wrote that the Chicano Movement nourished her goal of being an artist and gave her back her voice.[2]

She says that her artistic creations helped her "heal the wounds inflicted by discrimination and racism."[2] "I felt like I had to start with my earliest recollections of my life and validate each event or incident by depicting it in a visual format."[3]

Lomas Garza currently lives in San Francisco.[4]

[edit] Works cited

  • A Piece of My Heart / Pedacito de Mi Corazon: The Art of Carmen Lomas Garcia. Laguna Gloria Art Museum: 1991. ISBN 1565841646.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Mesa-Bains, Amalia. "Chicano Chronicle and Cosmology: The Works of Carmen Lomas Garza." A Piece of My Heart, p16.
  2. ^ a b Lomaz Garcia, Carmen. "A Piece of My Heart / Pedacito de Mi Corazon." A Piece of My Heart, p12.
  3. ^ Lomaz Garcia, Carmen. "A Piece of My Heart / Pedacito de Mi Corazon." A Piece of My Heart, p13.
  4. ^ Stetson, Daniel E. "Empowering the Familiar: A Foreword." A Piece of My Heart, p8.