By Telegraph staff reports – NPTelegraph.com – Photo courtesy of Sheldon Art Museum.
Growing up alongside the Chicano civil rights movement of the 1960s had a strong effect on Carmen Lomas Garza’s work from a young age. Hoping to give her fellow Mexican Americans a sense of community and to educate those unfamiliar with their culture, Garza embeds imagery of Chicano customs, communal events, and local folk heroes within a narrative of her memories and experiences in South Texas. In Una Tarde/One Summer Afternoon, Garza recalls a memory when she was about ten or eleven years old, playing at her grandmother’s while her older friend ignores her at the windowsill, engaged in conversation with the boy next door. (University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Robert E. Schweser and Fern Beardsley Schweser Acquisition Fund, through the University of Nebraska Foundation, U-5741.2012)
