News

Summer 2022

Home

Exhibition extended till August 2022.

Chicano/a Art: Movimiento y Más en Austen Tejas 1960s to 1980s, Mexic-Arte, Austin, Texas April 8- July 30

Narrative Through Retablo/Ex-Votos, Cathedral Village, Roxbourgh, PA June 1-29

The Woodmere Annual 80^th Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA June 4-August 28

https://woodmereartmuseum.org/experience/exhibitions/the-woodmere-annual-80th-juried-exhibition

June Works: New Impressions from Philadelphia Artists, Borrelli Chestnut Hill Gallery | Philadelphia, PA June 11^th -July 4^th

https://mailchi.mp/dd91e2c0a5db/june-works-new-impressions-from-philadelphia-artists?e=4930c442bf

Grand Opening (collection) for The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, Riverside, California. June 17,2022

The Cheech Marin Center For Chicano Art & Culture

Summer 2019

-The Woodmere Annual: 78^th Juried Exhibition Eileen Neff Juror, Philadelphia, PA, https://issuu.com/woodmereartmuseum/docs/annual2019_catalogue_final/44

Hopes and Memory, Pauly Friedman Art Gallery, Misericordia University, Dallas, PA (Solo)6/13/2019 to 8/15/2019, 301 Lake Street, Dallas, PA 1861

Fall 2019

Train of Thoughts, Texas A&M University -Kingsville, Kingsville, TX (Solo) August 1-September 27, 2019, 916 W. Santa Gertrudis & Armstrong, Kingsville TX, 78363

Art Auction for make A Wish, Cherry St. Pier, Philadelphia ,9/19/19
https://e.givesmart.com/events/d3Q/i/_All/85DM/?search= art work #172

Unfolding the life of Blanca Estela, 10/15/19 -11/9/19 The Mercersburg Academy Burgin Center for the Arts, Mercersburg, PA

Unfolding the life of Blanca Estela, monotype

Voyages by Road and Sea: Philadelphia Perspectives on Walt Whitman and Herman Melville. The Free Library of Philadelphia, Fall 2019

2018 -Group and solo Exhibitions:

Post Open Studio, 10/13/18, 12-6pm.

https://www.philaopenstudios.org/post/neighborhood/northeast

“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. Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA

Muse and her painting, Retablo for Ruhamah with Ruhamah Mail. Reunited after twenty years.Looking In: Portraits and their Stories. Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA

http://www.susquehannaartmuseum.org/galleries/portraits/

Voz, Selection From The UTSA Art Collection 2/8/18-7/10/18 San Antonio, Texas

Horizon, oil and enamel painting on aluminum. 3’x9′ Collection of the University of Texas in San Antonio.

.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, NM

Artist group photo for Chicana Art & Artists in the Twenty-First Century, Symposium, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX

With 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 Gallery

Tomas Ybarra Frausto at Ruiz Healy Gallery .

Stella Sanchez, at Ruiz Healy Gallery

http://brandywineworkshop.com/icreate-lecture-series-featuring-marta-sanchez/

Events 2015

Cuentos, solo exhibition at McCormick Gallery, Midland College, Midland Texas September, 2015

Transcendental Train Yard

by Norma Elia Cantú and Marta Sánchez

Hardback, 48 pages

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.

To order a book visit Wings Press :

http://wingspress.com/book.cfm?book_ID=203

Also available on Amazon.

For schedule of book signings and reading please visit our Face book Page

https://www.facebook.com/transcendentaltrainyard/

The Philadelphia Art Alliance

https://philartalliance.wordpress.com/2015/10/30/sleepers-in-the-borderlands/

http://labloga.blogspot.com/2015/08/transcendental-train-yard-by-norma-elia.html

www.ktep.org/programs/words-wire.http://www.latinobookreview.com/norma-elia-cantu.html

“The Inaugural Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Arts”

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/

Alice Bowie-2 oil,enamel on aluminum, 12″x10″ 2012

-The Woodmere Annual: 78th Juried Exhibition Eileen Neff Juror, Philadelphia, PA, https://issuu.com/woodmereartmuseum/docs/annual2019_catalogue_final/44