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Carmen Lomas Garza (born 1948) is a Mexican American artist and illustrator. She is well known for her paintings, ofrendas and for her papel picado work. Garza's paintings, especially, have achieved "widespread appeal." Her work is collected by galleries, museums around the world and also by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. A primary school in Los Angeles, the Carmen Lomas Garza Primary Center, is named in her honor. == Biography == Garza was born in 1948 in Kingsville, Texas. Garza's mother was a self-taught artist who created pen and ink drawings and painted.〔 Garza loved watching her mother paint, and felt like what her mother did was magic. Garza also helped her grandmother create embroidery patterns using paper cutouts as a young child. The influence of her mother's and grandmother's art-making was very strong and by age thirteen Garza had decided she would be an artist. Her parents encouraged her to pursue her interests in college.〔 Garza first attended Texas Arts and Industry University (now Texas A&M University, Kingsville). Her 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.〔 In 1972, she received a BS in art education and a Texas Teaching Certificate at Texas Arts and Industry.〔 During her undergraduate studies, she decided that it was important for her to create art that would be understood by people of all ages. Later, Garza received a Master of Education in 1973 at Juarez-Lincoln/Antioch Graduate School and a Master of Art in 1981 from San Francisco State University. Garza currently lives in San Francisco, California.〔Stetson, Daniel E. "Empowering the Familiar: A Foreword." In Lomas Garza, pp. 7-8.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carmen Lomas Garza」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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