Draft:Terry A. Ybanez

Terry A. Ybanez is a Mexican-American artist and educator from San Antonio, Texas. Specializing as a muralist, painter, teacher and illustrator, her work has been exhibited throughout numerous countries, such as the United States, Mexico, Argentina, France and Kuwait and can also be found on the walls of various buildings throughout San Antonio. She's an art educator with over 35 years of experience and is currently teaching at Brackenridge High School while simultaneously serving as president at Mission Branch Library. Further, Ms. Ybanez has illustrated three children's books; Hairs/Pelitos by Sandra Cisneros, The Christmas Tree/El Arbor de La Navidad by Alma Flor Ada and It's Not Fair/No Es Justo by Carmen Tafolla and Sheryl Teneyuca.

Terry A. Ybanez was received a grant from the Green Spaces Alliance for making an irrigations system or the Mission Library Community Garden

Civic Engagement
Terry A. Ybanez has served on a wide range of San Antonio community boards, such as the Blue Star Board between 1986-1987, the Say Is! Board between 1993-1999, President of the Board of Stonemetal Press, the City of San Antonio Cultural Arts Board between 2004-2008, President of Friends of Mission Library between 2009-current and President Mission San Jose Neighborhood Association between 2016-current.

In addition to her communal engagement, she has also protested against the development near San Antonio's Spanish colonial missions.

Mujeres de San Antonio
Being a prolific artist, Terry A. Ybanez has a wide range of works to highlight. Some of her best works include her public murals seen throughout San Antonio, which honor women of San Antonio such as the singer Rosita Fernández to the historic Emma Tenayuca. These murals are collectively titled Mujeres de San Antonio and were painted between 1995 and 1999. The Tenayuca mural was painted first, in 1995.

Corazones de la Comunidad
Corazones de la Comunidad is the title of the famous Perea Street Laundromat murals. The western wall honors three sheroes of San Antonio herstory: Bambi Cárdenas, Manuela Solis Sager, and María Antonieta Berriozábel. Images on the southern and northern walls curve around large glass windows; rebozeras engage in their art and do their laundry in a river. Witty dichos appropriate for the theme of laundry scroll around the building wall between the windows like ribbons. The one on the eastern wall, the first one painted, depicts Emma Tenayuca, a heroic figure in Tenjana history, famous for her leadership in the pecan-shellers' strikes of the 1930s; she remains in the Tejana imaginary as a powerful role model.

We Are Not a Conquered People
We Are Not a Conquered People shows the legendary hero represented in her many roles: activist, teacher, organizer, and practitioner of civil disobedience. While firmly grounded in history, the mural goes beyond as it offers an image of a feisty and determined fighter for civil rights.

Further Readings
In addition to her murals, Terry A. Ybanez has illustrated three children's books: Hairs/Pelitos by Sandra Cisneros, The Christmas Tree/El Arbor de La Navidad by Alma Flor Ada and It's Not Fair/No Es Justo by Carmen Tafolla and Sheryl Teneyuca.

Hairs/Pelitos by Sandra Cisneros
This jewel-like vignette from Sandra Cisneros's best-selling The House on Mango Street shows, through simple, intimate portraits, the diversity among us.

"A Dragonfly Book in English and Spanish."

"A Parenting Magazine Best Children's Book of the Year  "

Un excelente constructor de vocabulario, con nombres de objetos en Inglés y en Español, acompañados por ilustraciones, agrupados por tópicos como colores, juguetes, animales y herramientas.

The Christmas Tree/El Arbor de La Navidad by Alma Flor Ada
This delightful cumulative text, in both English and Spanish, radiates the joy of holiday traditions and the warmth of family love. An excellent book for emergent readers, which can easily be transformed into a simply play. Illustrated with powerful colors by Terry Ibáñez.

It's Not Fair/No Es Justo by Carmen Tafolla and Sheryl Teneyuca
A vivid depiction of the early injustices encountered by a young Mexican-American girl in San Antonio in the 1920's, this book tells the true story of Emma Tenayuca. Emma learns to care deeply about poverty and hunger during a time when many Mexican Americans were starving to death and working unreasonably long hours at slave wages in the city's pecan-shelling factories. Through astute perception, caring, and personal action, Emma begins to get involved, and eventually, at the age of 21, leads 12,000 workers in the first significant historical action in the Mexican-American struggle for justice. Emma Tenayuca's story serves as a model for young and old alike about courage, compassion, and the role everyone can play in making the world more fair.