“Making Space: Leeway @ 25”, group exhibition, Leeway Foundation, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA 9/20/18 -12/8/18
“Reclaiming Gurney Street”, Dedication for 9/3/18,
Spirit train, one of the five sculptures included with poetry for “Reclaiming Gurney St.” 2018
Train of thought, a solo exhibition, House Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Vertical train yard ,3’x9′ oil and enamel on aluminum
Looking In: Portraits and their Stories.
Looking In: Portraits and their Stories. Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PAMuse and her painting, Retablo for Ruhamah with Ruhamah Mail. Reunited after twenty years.Looking In: Portraits and their Stories. Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
Serie Exhibit at the Southeast Health and Wellness Center. February 16, 2018,Coronado Studio Prints.
Los Tejanos, Collection from the Cheech Marin. Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas. 1/11/18
2017- Events and Exhibitions
It has been a great 2017! Book signing and art panels on Transcendental Train yards and my other projects. I decided to try the Shop Vida to see how some of my work would transfer as wearable art. Please stop by my link on their website, it is listed on the menu bar.
Southwest Conference on Popular Conference in Albuquerque NM.
With Daniel Sonis and friend during our Poetry on Art: Mariachis and Train Yards in the Southwest, 38th Annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NMNorma with film maker Daniel Sonis at Poetry on Art: Mariachis and Train Yards in the Southwest, 38th Annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NMArtist group photo for Chicana Art & Artists in the Twenty-First Century, Symposium, Trinity University, San Antonio, TXWith Connie at Chicana Art & Artists in the Twenty-First Century, Symposium, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
2016 Events and Exhibitions
Norma E.Cantu and I have been busy with book signings for the Transcendental Train yard book. We had the prints of the suite installed in galleries such as the Ruiz Healy Gallery in San Antonio, and the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Please contact us if you would like to have us at your art center, university or literary book event through this website or Wings Press in San Antonio. Special thanks to Patricia Ruiz for hosting this event.
Book signing at Ruiz Healy Gallery, San Antonio,Texas
Book signing at Ruiz Healy GalleryTomas Ybarra Frausto at Ruiz Healy Gallery .Stella Sanchez, at Ruiz Healy Gallery
Transcendental Train Yard is a collection of color serigraphs accompanied by bilingual poems, in Spanish and English, inspired by the artwork. The art also incorporates the poetry, thus making the book a unique, reflexive form of ekphrastic creativity.Transcendental Train Yard provides the reader a glimpse of the role the railroad and the carpas (itinerant vaudeville troupes) played in the Mexican American community. Artist Marta Sánchez and poet Norma Elia Cantú collaboratively render images and words that poignantly reflect specific periods in that history. The scholarly essays by Constance Cortez and Peter Haney and the evocative preface by noted Chicano scholar Tomás Ybarra-Frausto bring an added depth. Artist and art collector Cheech Marin also contributes his memories of the train yards.
Cheech Marin’s traveling exhibition, “Chicanitas” re-enforces the idea that size does not matter.
Cheech Marin recent Traveling show “Chicanitas” is traveling throughout the United States featuring Mr. Marin’s collection of small works. This collection is being featured at art centers,and universities throughout the country. For more information on the exhibit please visit http//checchmarin.com/chicanitas/
Cheech Marin with Alice Cooper and his collection piece, “Alice Bowie”. Photo courtesy of Melissa Richardson BanksAlice Bowie, oil and enamel on tin, 2010
Transcendental Train Yard
