“Carmen Lomas Garza,” Texas Tech professor Constance Cortez’s biography of a Chicana artist with Texas ties, was a first place winner in the category of Best Arts Book (English) at the 2011 International Latino Book Awards.Cortez, an associate professor in Tech’s School of Art, wrote the book as part of the “A Ver: Revisioning Art History” series conducted by UCLA’s Chicano Art Research Center.
Cortez has written and edited four books. She is writing an encyclopedia entry that looks at the interface between Chicano/Chicana literature and art, and an article for a Mexican journal on Chicana muralists.
Cortez also has taught courses in Colonial Art of Mexico and Peru, 19th and 20th century Mexican Art and Contemporary Chicana Art.
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