“I wanted to have these kinds of images because other Chicano artists were doing imagery that was very political, sending messages about oppression and discrimination, honoring the great muralists in Mexico, and protesting the Vietnam war because a lot of Chicanos had been drafted into the army. There were a lot of protests against the war and the draft. I just wanted to focus on the every day life that we’re all very familiar with. We needed to re-celebrate that: the beautiful things that we have always known and grown up with…”

— Carmen Lomas Garza

On depicting everyday life for Mexican Americans in “Carmen Lomas Garza in the Artist Studio, April 2011” https://www.famsf.org/blog/carmen-lomas-garza-artist-studio-april-2011 (de Young Museum of Art)

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