Family Pictures, 15th Anniversary Edition / Cuadros de Familia, Edición Quinceañera by Carmen Lomas Garza

 Family Pictures, 15th Anniversary Edition / Cuadros de Familia, Edición Quinceañera 

by Carmen Lomas Garza 

About the Author: 

"Carmen Lomas Garza was born in Kingsville, Texas, in 1948. Inspired by her parent’s activism with the American G.I. Forum, Lomas Garza joined the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. She is a graduate of the Texas Arts & Industry University, Juarez-Lincoln/Antioch Graduate School, and San Francisco State University where she earned her M.A. in 1981. Lomas Garza is a recipient of numerous awards and has exhibited her work in galleries and museums across the United States." 

Book Summary:

"Family Pictures is the story of Carmen Lomas Garza's girlhood: celebrating birthdays, making tamales, finding a hammerhead shark on the beach, picking cactus, going to a fair in Mexico, and confiding to her sister her dreams of becoming an artist. These day-to-day experiences are told through fourteen vignettes of art and a descriptive narrative, each focusing on a different aspect of traditional Mexican American culture.

The English-Spanish text and vivid illustrations reflect the author's strong sense of family and community. For Mexican Americans, Carmen Lomas Garza offers a book that reflects their lives and traditions. For others, this work offers insights into a beautifully rich community." -Amazon.com

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"This is the illustrator and storyteller's bilingual memoir of growing up in Texas, fully immersed in her family's Mexican traditions. The illustrations are painted in a flat, naïve style, bringing out the details of celebrations and everyday activities from cakewalk scholarship fundraisers to visits from the curandera to eating watermelon on the porch on a hot summer evening. There is always a mix of ages and generations, emphasizing activities all members of a family enjoy in their own ways. Lomas Garza explains the paintings, supplying additional information, making this book an introduction to the artistic process as well as a family history. Reviewed by Ina Rimpau". --Parents' Choice®

Sources: 

https://www.amazon.com/Pictures-Anniversary-Cuadros-Familia-Quincea%C3%B1era/dp/089239207X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Family+Pictures%2C+15th+Anniversary+Edition+%2F+Cuadros+de+Familia%2C+Edici%C3%B3n+Quincea%C3%B1era+by+Carmen+Lomas+Garza&qid=1603574787&sr=8-1

http://carmenlomasgarza.com/