Juan de Dios Mora is a printmaker, painter, and art instructor. He is currently an Assistant Professor of art at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He has been part of solo exhibitions across Texas, as well as juried exhibitions in museums and galleries both nationally and internationally (like Mexico and Japan). His prints have been acquired by The Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Cecilia Sierra is an artist from Brownsville, Texas. She is completing her last semester at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley with a Bachelor's in Studio Art with a minor in Marketing. Sierra's art varies between themes related to south Texas ecology and nostalgia from growing up in a Hispanic household. She uses relief printmaking techniques to emphasize the patterns and textures seen in nature.
Jesse Burciaga is a Fronteno printmaker and painter from Brownsville, TX/ Matamoros, Mexico who received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Brownsville, Master of Fine Arts from University of Texas at San Antonio with a concentration in printmaking . Burciaga art is a reflection of his fronteno culture. A Fronteno is an individual who lives either side of the Mexican American border. Living in between two cities, Burciaga takes from these two sister cities and adds it to his art.
Noel Palmenez, two-dimensional artist: “When I approach a new opportunity to create I see it as an open field overgrown and colonized with all forms of life. To orchestrate this abundance is the challenge I welcome and I harmonize with relentless effort and dedication, because there is beauty and value in all forms of life. I seek out harmony and balance conceptualized with creativity welcoming identity and a cultural spirit.”
Juan de Dios Mora, Cecilia Sierra, Jesse Burciaga, and Noel Palmenez