Carmen Lomas Garza

Carmen Lomas Garza is a Chicana artist who grew up in South Texas. Her artwork ranges from paintings to installations to children's books and much more. She was inspired by the 60s and 70s Chicano movement to make paintings that deliver a message to the public that despite racial discrimination, cultural conflict, and social prejudice, Garza’s cultural heritage in a Chicano/a community is still a rich and vital one
Lomas Garza's attention to detail translates as attention to symbolism and what meaning these small details, such as landscape. Carmen Lomas Garza’s work is such an important step in the trajectory of “art history”. 
La Tamalada is one of my favorite work she created, made in 1988, depicts a brown family, working together to make tamales. In the portrays, family members sharing the work, some members would be in charge of contributing in some way of making the tamales, and some members of the family would just keep each other company as their contribution.