San Antonio’s Guadalupe Book Store exhibit, “Refusing to Forget,” features Cris Escobar’s paintings and historical panels with photographs that chronicle segregation and discrimination against Mexicans and Mexican Americans in Texas. The exhibit ends this week after a successful opening in November 2023.
Fabulous photos. They capture some of the substance of harsh times, a flicker of the hardship of unequal treatment, and a recognition of discrimination much of which was then, but some of which has traveled to today.
I have several of his art pieces and cherish each!! He’s an amazing Chicano artist, father, teacher and friend!
Fabulous photos. They capture some of the substance of harsh times, a flicker of the hardship of unequal treatment, and a recognition of discrimination much of which was then, but some of which has traveled to today.
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