Stories Your Mother Never Told You

Stories Your Mother Never Told You

May 1–Jun 16, 2002

Stories Your Mother Never Told You was curated by Benito Huerta and showcased the work of artist Celia Alvarez Muñoz. Her work has evolved into various mediums throughout her three-decade career, but she has always remained true to her Chicana perspective and personal themes of feminism, race, culture, and language/oral history. Muñoz’s work feels centered in the serendipitous nature of short stories and her photographs and writing tend to offer snatches of elusive personal moments. The exhibition was a two-part presentation which included Stories Your Mother Never Told You, a traveling 20-year retrospective of her work, giving a glimpse into the more personal side of the artist through books, assemblage, large-scale works, and traditional photographs. It was coupled with the premier of Semejantes Personajes, the result of Muñoz’s completed Blue Star residency. Digital photographs and text were used to gracefully capture current representatives at the time of San Antonio’s Latino arts community.