El Paso artists

LATINOPIA ART RICHARD ARMENDÁRIZ

Richard Armendáriz is a artist and print maker originally from El Paso, Texas and now residing in San Antonio. His print work melds landscapes with Texas animal life layered with song lyrics and … [Read more...]

LATINOPIA ART GASPAR ENRÍQUEZ 2

Gaspar Enríquez is a renowned Chicano artist whose airbrush portraits of barrio youth are haunting and memorable. Latinopia learned that Gaspar's inrterest in these photorealistic images arose when he … [Read more...]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 1.31.25

January 31, 2025 By wpengine

Celebrating Chicano/Latino Resourcefulness and Creativity: Rasquachismo at the San Antonio McNay Art Museum The McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas opened the Rasquachismo: 35 Years of a Chicano Sensibility exhibit in mid December 2024. McNay Latinx Art curator Mia Lopez and retired professor Tomás Ybarra-Frausto gave a tour of the exhibit in mid January. […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 1.25.25 FIRE CRISIS!

January 25, 2025 By wpengine

The Los Angeles Fires: A Major Crisis for LA Latino Artists. The Los Angeles fires are among the worst climatic disasters in American history. In the first four days of its eruption, the initial fire in Palisades had zero containment. After four days, 7,000 structures were destroyed in Altadena and 5,000 in Palisades. Palisades has […]

POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 1.25.25 WE AIN’T GOING ANYWHERE

January 25, 2025 By wpengine

We ain’t going anywhere… “Families can be deported together.” Tom Homan, Trump’s nominee to head ICE, October 2024 interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes,” re: mass deportations and families wherein parents are undocumented and the children are U.S.-born citizens. “Send them all back.” President-elect Donald Trump, saying he would deport U.S. citizens as part of mass […]

TALES OF TORRES 1.25.25 TRUMP INAUGURAL

January 25, 2025 By wpengine

TRUMP INAUGURAL By Luis Torres Trump’s Strongman Stuff is Already in Evidence and the term has just begun The steamroller of fascism in the United States has begun to roll in earnest. We are into the first week of the full-blown Trump regime. He has told us what he plans to do, and I believe […]

LATINOPIA WORD JOSÉ MONTOYA “PACHUCO PORTFOLIO”

By Tia Tenopia on June 12, 2011

José Montoya is a renowned poet, artist and activist who has been in the forefront of the Chicano art movement. One of his most celebrated poems is titled “Pachuco Portfolio” which pays homage to the iconic and enduring character of El Pachuco, the 1940s Mexican American youth who dressed in the stylish Zoot Suit.

Category: LATINOPIA WORD, Literature

LATINOPIA WORD XOCHITL JULISA BERMEJO “OUR LADY OF THE WATER GALLONS”

By Tia Tenopia on May 26, 2013

Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo is a poet and teacher from Asuza, California. She volunteered with No More Deaths, a humanitarian organization providing water bottles in the Arizona desert where immigrants crossing from Mexico often die of exposure. She read her poem, “Our Lady of the Water Gallons” at a Mental Cocido (Mental Stew) gathering of Latino authors […]

Category: LATINOPIA WORD, Literature

LATINOPIA FOOD “JALAPEÑO SODA BREAD” RECIPE

By Tia Tenopia on March 14, 2011

Jalapeño Irish Soda Bread The sweetness of traditional Irish soda bread ingredients—raisins, buttermilk, some sugar—are richly complimented by jalapeño heat. Here’s a soda bread recipe from Ireland brought to the USA from Galway by Mary Patricia Reilly Murray and later transformed with her blessing by her daughter, Bobbi Murray, who added jalapeño chile. A real […]

Category: Cooking, Food, LATINOPIA FOOD