Carmen Lomas Garza

What was the Chicano movement?

• a movement to expand mexican american rights and emphasize the culture of mexican americans

• a movement to bring about change and the right to vote for women in Chicago

• a movement for the emancipation of slaves in the south

• a movement as a reminder of the loss of lives at the Battle of the Alamo

What images are often depicted in Carmen Lomas Garza's paintings?

• Hate crimes against mexican americans

• racism and injustice

• family and traditions

• beauty in nature

Select all of the painting titles that Carmen Lomas Garza painted.

• Tamalada (making tamales)

• Para la Cena (for dinner)

• Curandera (healer)

• Cascarones (esater eggs)

True or False? Carmen Lomas Garza also created Papel Picado as a means of demonstrating her mexican american heritage.

• True

• False

True or False? Her message was complex in order to provoke thought and feelings towards the heritage of her people.

• True

• False

True or False? Her paintings' titles were written in both Spanish and English so as to reach a wider audience.

• True

• False