Carmen Lomas Garza
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. 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. 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. Lomas Garza later wrote that the Chicano Movement nourished her goal of being an artist and gave her back her voice.
She says that her artistic creations helped her "heal the wounds inflicted by discrimination and racism." "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."
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