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Linda Lucia Satana
Linda Lucia Santana grew up in California, surrounded by the various aspects of a variety of cultures that the public provides. She started her education at University of California, further developing her sense of art work and connection to the degree printmaking, over time with the subjects taught at the university. After later earning her master's degree in printmaking, she went on to become the first printmaking instructor of Idyllwild Arts Academy during late 2013. During 2014 she was honored to be labelled as one of the top 13 Latino artists that would change the landscape of art, voted and pronounced by the Huffington Post. The next year, she taught printmaking workshop in Turkey, becoming the first art-in-residence of Istanbul. To this day she continues to work and teach printmaking, watercolors, drawing, and multiple other forms of art in Southern California, proceeding with her goal of changing the contemporary outlook on artwork itself (Santana, 2017).

Her Goals
As a Latino artist, her cultural background provides a very different idea than that of one who knows little of various cultures. Santana focusses on providing the inspirations of the work around her and the “fading memory of Mexican narrative ballads” (Frank, 2013). Her art, both new and old rely on people depicting it in the manner of defining her feminist approach in that all cultures and people are equally human and achieving the recognition of lost histories. The drawings and painting all complex or simple almost write the message out to the viewer in different complexities that provide definition (Santana, 2017).

Contributions
Santana’s art work labelled ‘Dos Besos’ defined the aspects of femininity and independence as an artist and as a women in today’s society to overcome the difficulties and challenges the work defines to be thrown one’s way (Frank, 2013). She expresses these traits through her artwork to help portray a different source of message to each individual, pressing for the difference of opinion and basis for that of a growing feminist public. The works labelled ‘Violin’, ‘Panes’, ‘Organo’, and a few others represent the influence she has from culture. They were inspired from travelling to Mexico over the course of many months as Santana saw the emphasis of different changes and aspects that make up the culture (Santana, 2017). She mainly focussed on drawing women, who often are shown to be distressed or struggling with the amount of work around them. She identifies the components that perspire the feminine independence ideas and beliefs of one trying to stand up for themselves and show how to strengthen the work. (Santana, 2012). Linda, in her artwork ‘Dulces y Cigarro’ represents the bigger concepts of lost history that she mainly tries to convey through her variety of work. Inspired by her journey to Mexico, she depicted the older styles of what she believed to be the representation necessary. A series of her work displays this type of idea and behavior in order to show the true nature of people and society as one entire unit (Santana, 2017).

Impressions
Linda Lucia Santana has a very complex and interesting background that makes up the inspiration for her artwork. Progressively she will become more well known as exposure across the web depicts the relations between her artwork and the identity of various cultures and mechanics of becoming independent. Her art and teaching maintains the ideas behind history and bringing to light the issues of the lost history. These basis’ are the reality of becoming one with the society placed before all and the connection to growing art recognition.

Conclusion
Art is a widely underappreciated subject throughout society for the misunderstandings of expression through work. Women are not well recognized in the field for their dedication to something that will identify the representation of the artwork presented or a deeper evaluation of expression. Linda Lucia Santana is an artist who is not well known in society, but tries to provide meaningful expressive traits of artwork through the ideas of history and culture as a Latino artist. Despite not being well known across the internet and society standpoints, she still works hard to represent the independence involved in working as an artist.