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Wikipedia: Artist Biography Article

Early Life and Education
Leticia Huerta (1991–2021) is a cultural artist known for her art and murals dedicated to “bringing an imagine to life for a greater cause.”

Biography (or Early Life and Education).

Leticia Huerta was born in San Antonio Texas and earned her BA in biology at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio. She chose to pursue art and received her B.F.A. in painting at the University of Texas in San Antonio, and an M.F.A. at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Leticia Huerta Studio specializes in public art. Leticia Huerta has extensive experience creating meaningful projects for spaces and their communities. Huerta has experience working on transit projects, bridges, streetscapes, parks and public buildings such as hospitals and universities. The work is inspired by the people that inhabit these spaces as well as their history and future. She utilizes materials appropriate for each project and utilizes various materials such as tile, glass, metal, concrete, terrazzo and paint. Her work has been collected by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin; San Antonio Museum of Art; McNay Art Museum, Meadows Museum, Dallas; and the Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi. Huerta has attended residencies at the McColl Center for the Arts in Charlotte, North Carolina, Coronado Studio in Austin, Texas, and Self Help Graphics in Los Angeles, California.

Art
1. Bloom 2018, In the latest in the “Bloom” sculpture series by San Antonio Artist Leticia Huerta has been “planted” at the River Walk Public Art Garden near the intersection of Market and Alamo Streets in downtown San Antonio. The City of San Antonio’s Department of Arts & Culture and its Public Art Division today revealed the two new sculptures by San Antonio Artist Leticia Huerta, which are designed to resemble native wildflowers Yellow Columbine and Lantana.

2. Padre Nuestro 1996, 2. Print and drawings. “An important aspect of my work is the sense of labor involved in creating it. I am working with construction materials that I have been interested in since childhood. My father was a carpenter. I incorporate these building materials as well as others like shell, tin, gold leaf, paper, photos, and paint. Recycling of materials is another idea taken from my father’s manner of working. The image of the cross is employed in this as well as many of my other constructions. It refers to my Mexican Catholic experience that is both Christian and pagan.”

3. Prayer - 2001, Huerta says the center image is from a photograph, a self-portrait taken some time ago. The roses are an image that she has used before, referring to womanhood. This print refers to death, grief, sickness, age, and prayers.


 * Cowboy Dreams 2019