Lauren Moya Ford

Rosales’ current exhibition follows his artist residency at the Transart Foundation for Art and Anthropology in Houston.

"There is no excuse for institutions to continue excluding these communities, because they are here and now."

"Rules are made to be broken, and borders are drawn to be crossed."

This article is published concurrently with the Spring of Latino Art and the Latino Art Now! (LAN) national biennial conference and related programming taking place in Houston during the springtime of 2019.

"I admire the reverence indigenous art forms have toward the natural world. My work explores surface design that only tries to capture the perfection that already exists in nature."

These works document the time and motion that’s passed between body and material, like a private performance or a choreography in thread. 

By bringing these images and ideas to the present, the viewer is able to engage with a time when people saw political action as a tangible thing.

Mexico City is buzzing with energy, and its creative citizens are busy taking chances and negotiating life and history. There’s something in the ether right now about making art from potted plants.

UT MFA graduate Adriana Corral talks about using her art to fight the silence surrounding acts of violence.

I wondered whether the folk traditions I remembered from my upbringing in Mexico could offer solutions to problems in technology. I was fascinated by the idea of Santeria rituals as computer code.

The tide of hateful anti-immigrant and racist rhetoric has sparked a renewed commitment by younger generation of artist-activists to speak openly on the issue.

Lauren Moya Ford talks with Assistant Curator Michael Wellen about the art of breakfast tacos, how museums build collections, and Latin American exhibitions at the MFAH.

When I was six, I saw a “chafa” (a derogative term used for soldiers in Honduras) beat up a guy so badly that he passed out. The soldier gave no thought at all to the children who were watching.

UT Art History PhD candidate Rose Salseda discusses Afro-Latin American identity and art that fuses punk rock, immigration, and post-identity politics.

In today’s installment, Houston artist Gabriel Martinez talks about trespassing, staking a claim for art, and making a scene.

The Exploring Latino Identities series examines issues in Latino/Latin American contemporary art through interviews with artists, art historians, and others. In this installment, Dr. Rex Koontz discusses the evolution of…

The Exploring Latino Identities series examines issues in Latino/Latin American contemporary art through interviews with artists, art historians, and others. In today’s installment, multimedia artist, writer, DJ, and recent Austin-NYC…

Glasstire intern and University of Houston MFA candidate Lauren Moya Ford heads back to Austin… Domy Books Austin is currently displaying Matt Lock’s “Hammer of Power”. Though the small drawings…