User:Megalibrarygirl/Celia Alvarez Muñoz

Celia Alvarez Muñoz (born 1937) is a Chicana artist. Her art is very concerned with women's rights.

Biography
Muñoz was born in El Paso. Her mother was a "strong Catholic," while her father was much more lenient. She became an activist at an early age.

She had a BA from UTEP in 1964.

MFA from North Texas State University in 1982.

Art
Muñoz's work deals with uniting differences: rich and poor, Catholicism and Protestantism, Spanish and English, Mexico and the United States.

She feels that "everything has an apposing force, and thus becomes a matter of choice."