Description:

Curated by Tejana writer and cultural worker Bonnie Ilza Cisneros, Madre_Land explores the beauty of borderland roots and the deep tradition of mi casa es su casa. This group exhibition is a portal into memory, inheritance, and the art of making home.

Featuring works by 27 South Texas artists and scholars—from the emerging to the established—Madre_Land celebrates domestic aesthetics, rasquache sensibility, ancestral healing practices, and motifs from the natural and environmental world.

Inspired by the foundational scholarship of Dr. Amalia Mesa-Bains and Dr. Tomás Ybarra-Frausto (who also contributes artwork), the exhibition includes altar installations, folk crafts, casita portraits, domestic still lifes, mixed media collages, fiber works, cosita arrangements, scholarly research, and photography.

The gallery itself transforms into a symbolic family home—complete with a front porch, kitchen, dining room, living room, bedroom, children’s room, backyard altars, cosmic night garden, urban chicken run, and homages to historic San Antonio sites like Sunshine Bakery and La Guadalupanita Café.

Join artist Julysa Sosa and fellow participants for the public opening night.

Free and open to all.