Carmen Lomas Garza

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

Biography

Carmen Lomas Garza was born 1948 in Kingsville, Texas. The initial roots of her artwork lay in her family, to whom she is close, and in the Chicano Movement.[1] Garza's parents had been involved in political organizing through the American GI Forum, and Garza followed in their footsteps by organizing Chicanos on her college campus.[1] 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]

Garza currently lives in San Francisco, Ca.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Mesa-Bains, Amalia. "Chicano Chronicle and Cosmology: The Works of Carmen Lomas Garza." A Piece of My Heart, p16.
  2. ^ a b Lomas Garza, Carmen. "A Piece of My Heart / Pedacito de Mi Corazon." A Piece of My Heart, p12.
  3. ^ Lomas Garza, 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.

Interview conducted by Paul Karlstrom for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, 1997.

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