Upcoming Serie XVII artist Maria Almeida Natividad is featured in a new publication from the Texas Tech University Press.
The book, Art of West Texas Women: A Celebration, will be released on April 15, 2010 and features 20 female artists from western Texas. Past Serie alum Tina Fuentes is also slated to be featured in the book, which hopes to serve as a sampler of creative expression in the region.
From the university press website:
Without attempting to serve as a comprehensive catalog—impossible considering the breadth of activity in a huge region—the book is a sampler of creative expression. The painters, photographers, installation artists, sculptors, fiber artists, and printmakers in these pages are as distinctive and independent as the solitary place that nurtures them. But they also share common threads: all of these artists came of age during the feminist movement of the 1970s and find the expansiveness and relative isolation of their landscapes an elemental influence.
As with Georgia O’Keeffe, herself an early interpreter of the West Texas Plains, the women featured here find that this land of wind and sky has liberated them and engendered a sense of expressive freedom and artistic strength.
Book launch and artist gallery at the 32nd Annual Lubbock Arts Festival, April 15-18, 2010. Mark your calendars!
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