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Mexic-Arte Museum 25th Anniversary
Permanent Collection Exhibition: A Legacy of Change
 ¡Bienvenidos! Mexic-Arte Museum welcomes you to the 25th Anniversary Permanent Collection Exhibition entitled A Legacy of Change. The exhibition is organized around five central themes that introduce you to a significant selection of the Museum’s Permanent Collection. The themes are: Mestizaje/Connections, Conflict/Struggle, Identity/Consciousness, Death/Rebirth, and History/Memory. Collectively, these themes provide a lens with which to organize and examine artwork that has been gathered and collected over 25 years creating the first Official Mexican and Mexican American Fine Art Museum of Texas, as designated by the 78th Legislature of the State of Texas.
Legacy of Change expresses the perseverance, complexity, and impact of Mexican Art, and Latina/o Art in the United States, through the presentation of artworks and material culture. These selected works and documents focus on specific issues such as the transformation of Mesoamerican cultures through Spanish Conquest and colonization, the rise of Mexican Nationalism, the Chicana/o Movement and more. Artists in the exhibition include the renowned artists José Guadalupe Posada, Jean Charlot, Arturo Estrada, Angelina Beloff, Luis Jimenez, Adolfo Mexiac, Joaquin Clausell, Santa Barraza, Arturo Garcia Bustos, Pablo O'Higgins, and Regina Vater amongst many others.
Legacy of Change is also as much a story about the Museum’s foundation and growth as it is about the artworks found in the collection. Mexic-Arte Museum began in the early 1980s when three young Latina/o artists, with a vision for cultural and social change, began to build a collection, museum, and unprecedented opportunities for the Latino community in Austin.
The material in the permanent collection can be categorized in an infinite number of ways and we encourage you to explore your own relationship to the works with the interactive resources that we provide. On behalf of our partners in the Austin community, Texas, the United States, and Mexico, we welcome you to enjoy and continue to be a part of our Legacy of Change.
All Sundays during the exhibition are FREE to the public.
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Saturday, May 2, 2009, 2:00 PM
A Legacy of Change: Symposium on the State of Latino Art Museums
- Eduardo Diaz - Smithsonian Latino Center, Washington, D.C.
- Henry Muñoz - Museo Alameda, San Antonio, TX
- Sylvia Orozco - Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX
- Carlos Tortolero - National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago IL
Sunday, May 3, 1:00-4:00 PM
Free Family Day
Mexic-Arte Museum welcomes art lovers of all ages to be among the first to explore A Legacy of Change. This Family Sunday will feature:
- 1:30 PM: Live dance performance by the children of Ballet Folklorico Mexikayotl
- 3:30 PM: Family-friendly tour
- Hands-on art activities
- Interactive scavenger hunt
Saturday, May 16, 2:00 PM
Regina Vater, "The Artist as Curator."
Austin based Brazilian artist, curator of the exhibition Brazilian Visual Poetry at Mexic-Arte Museum in 2002, will talk about her experiences.
Saturday, June 13, 2:00 PM
Jesse Herrera, "Celebration of the Patron Saint of San Miguel Tzinacapan, Puebla."
Austin photographer will speak on his travels to Puebla, Mexico, over a period of eight years, to document San Miguel Tzinacapan's celebration of their patron saint.
Saturday, July 11, 2:00 PM
Sam Coronado, "Claiming Space, Creating Opportunity: The Serie Project and Mexic-Arte Museum's Promotion of Latino Artists."
Talk will be about Sam's role in founding Mexic-Arte Museum, the development of the Serie Project, and the special relationship between the print center and the museum.
Saturday, July 18, 2:00 PM
Sylvia Orozco, "History of Mexic-Arte Museum."
Founder and Executive Director, Sylvia Orozco, will talk about the beginning of Mexic-Arte Museum and highlights of twenty-five years.
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 Features artwork and a collective portfolio by members of Consejo Gráfico, an independent network of Latino printmaking centers. Through these unique exhibitions, Mexic-Arte Museum gives the Austin community the opportunity to learn about the history of Latino printmaking in the United States, and the impact it has made on Latino and American cultures.
Opening reception on Saturday, November 22, 2009, was part of a series of events, lectures, and discussions taking place during the 7th Annual Consejo Gráfico Conference in Austin and San Antonio from November 20-22.
In the main gallery, Creando Fuerza: Cambio, y Permanencia (Creating Strength: Change and Permanence) focuses on the print centers’ diverse origins and dimensions, as well as their cultural resonance within a broader national community of printmaking. Consejo Gráfico’s member print workshops formed a network to advance the legacy and viability of Latino printmaking in the United States. The print centers exhibited at Mexic-Arte Museum come from various parts of the country including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and New York.
As part of Creando Fuerza, Mexic-Arte Museum will also present work from the collection of Ernesto de Soto, the first Mexican American to become a master printer. The de Soto Collection, which is part of the Mexic-Arte Museum Permanent Collection, consists of contemporary Latin American and American lithographs, fine prints, and etchings by renowned artists.
This project is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art. This program is also made possible in part by a grant from Humanities Texas, the state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Our season media sponsors are Univision TV, KXAN, La Que Buena 104.3, Hitz 107.7, and Austin American-Statesman.
For more information or additional press images, please contact Public Relations Director, Alexandra M. Landeros at pr@mexic-artemuseum.org or (512) 480-9373.
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In conjunction with Creando Fuerza: Cambio y Permanencia, Mexic-Arte Museum presents The Serie Project Quinceañera, celebrating this Austin-based studio’s 15th annual series of silk-screen prints. Mexic-Arte Museum is the official archive of over 200 prints from The Serie Project whose mission is to produce, promote, and exhibit serigraph (silk-screen) prints created by established and emerging artists. Quinceañera will highlight the unveiling of the “Coming of Age,” a mixed media installation dress by Sandra Fernández.
Quinceañera artists:
- René Arceo
- Candace Briceño
- Rolando Briseño
- Sam Coronado
- Gaspar Enriquez
- Sandra Fernández
- Quintin Gonzalez
- Ester Hernández
- Sandria Hu
- Benito Huerta
- Alma López
- Delilah Montoya
- Maceo Montoya
- Celia Muñoz
- Angel Rodríguez-Diaz
- Liliana Wilson
 Celia Muñoz, Quince, 2008 |
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Each autumn Mexic-Arte Museum invites individuals and organizations in the Austin community to participate in the creation of their own altars in remembrance of relatives, friends, and heroes. Traditionally, the altars are adorned with offerings including flowers, candles, photographs, pan de muerto, images of calaveras, and the loved one's favorite items and foods. The exhibition also featured innovative contemporary altars. This year's altars included tributes to artists, family members, political activists, and musicians.
Traditional Altar from Guanajuato, Mexico
The main altar in the exhibition, created by Mexic-Arte Museum, is created each year in the style of a different region of Mexico. The 2008 Día de Los Muertos Museum altar was a homage to the panaderos (bread makers) of Guanajuato. Bread was first introduced to Mexico by the Spaniards who brought it over in the form of wheat. The Spaniards, wheat was a staple and religious necessity, as it was the only grain recognized by the Catholic Church as being suitable for the Eucharist wafer. By 1525, wheat was abundant in Mexico and wheat mills were being opened. In the 1800’s the influence from French bakeries became evident in Mexican pastries, particularly in the crispy and sweet varieties that were sold.
The bread corpses symbolize the mummies of Guanajuato, which are displayed laying down on shelves or standing up. Also typical of Guanajuato altars, seeds are used as 'Alimiento de la Tierra', which means food of the earth. Seeds from fruits and vegetables that grow underground are arranged on the ground to make pre-Hispanic symbols.
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Young Latino Artists is noted as Mexic-Arte Museum's most exciting and energetic exhibition of the season, drawing audiences from all over Texas. This exhibition features and challenges young Latino artists under the age of 35 to create and present their vision in a reexamination of social and aesthetic norms with new and experimental mediums.
Curated by Leslie Moody Castro, the 13th Annual Young Latino Artists exhibition, Everything’s Going to be Okay, is an affirmation that it is not the tough exterior that makes us strong, but rather our own moments of vulnerability. The exhibition illustrates how our moments of weakness can turn into our greatest strengths, and that ultimately, everything will in fact be okay. The artists in this exhibition are not defined by the blood running through their veins, or their ancestral history, but rather the personal histories that they have worked through.
YLA 13 artists are Luis David Contreras II (Mission, TX), Adriana Garcia (San Antonio, TX), Cardee Garcia (San Antonio, TX), Gerardo Garcia (San Antonio, TX), Christina Garza-Mitchell (Corinth, TX), Ivan R. Lozano (Austin, TX), Nathan Orosco (Odessa, TX), Carlos Rosales-Silva (Austin, TX), Xochi Solis (Austin, TX), Lupita Murillo Tinnen (Plano, TX), Felix Anthony Trejo (Brownsville, TX), and David "Shek" Vega (San Antonio, TX).
YLA 13 is sponsored by the City of Austin Cultural Division, Texas Commission on the Arts, Austin American-Statesman, KXAN-TV, Univision 62 KAKW-TV, The Ladies Room with Lolis, Talk Radio 1370 AM, La Que Buena 104.3 FM, and Hitz 107.7 FM. Opening reception food and drink courtesy of Real Ale Brewing Company and Local Creative Edibles.
For more information or press images, please contact Mexic-Arte Museum’s Public Relations Director, Alexandra M. Landeros at 512-480-9373 x25 or pr@mexic-artemuseum.org.
Luis Contreras, untitled, 2005, serigraph, 18"x25"
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